Esoteric Astrology – Vol. 2: Esoteric Astrology, #2

By Douglas M. Baker

Esoteric Astrology – Vol. 2

Houses Seven, Eight and Nine

The Theory, Interpretation and Practice.

This publication takes a new and revitalised look at astrology. It is simple to understand, yet remains a powerful          

tool, capable of providing a solid foundation for the comprehension of this broad and magnificent subject.

This textbook, like most of Dr. Baker's printed books, eBooks and DVDs, enhances your studies via many charts, lists, tables and images (over 100 in this one). This major work is a very comprehensive introduction for those who want to study this subject in earnest, and for the more advanced student it will serve as an essential reference manual.

In today's computer-based world it is no longer necessary to spend hours calculating a horoscope when the most modest PCs can do it in seconds, and with 100% accuracy! Consequently, the needless paraphernalia, usually associated with learning astrology, has been stripped away. Emphasis is placed on the application of astrology to the unique problems of the modern world, its use as a method of revealing purpose and meaning in life, and ultimately as a key to the psychosynthesis of personality.

The horoscope is described in comprehensive detail, with special attention given to the esoteric ruling planets of the zodiac signs, which are more relevant than orthodox rulers in the charts of spiritually-minded people. The new rulers also accommodate the immense changes in external conditions and inner consciousness that have occurred in the last hundred years and are related to a new range of experience which the brain registers as the externa of the modern world. The significance of karma is represented for it gives dramatic effect to our daily actions, and the third factor of esoteric psychology, lying beyond our understanding of heredity and environment, is given full prominence.

This integrative and enriching work can be read alone, as a fascinating introduction and foundation to the New Astrology, or can be followed up with the author's extensive range of astrological books and video tapes, audio lectures and the all-embracing Dictionary of Astrology for the 21st Century. Together they provide a complete system for the professional and novice alike, containing efficient and extraordinary techniques of interpretation which have never been used before and which halve the time required to assimilate and practise astrology.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Baker eBooks Publishing
• Release date: Apr 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9781625691484

Douglas M. Baker

Dr. Douglas M. Baker. English born and raised in South Africa has done extensive scientific research into those hinterlands of the mind which one might call psi-semantics. He graduated in the Arts & Humanities in South Africa and qualified in medicine at Sheffield University (UK) in 1964. Having taught in the East End schools of London for 10 years, he began his tour of the Western world giving lectures and seminars in Esoteric Healing, Esoteric Anatomy, Esoteric Astrology, Esoteric Psychology, Esoteric Science and Metaphysics. He, more than any other, set in motion the trends towards alternative methods of medicine which have transformed that field in Britain today. As medical advisor to the De la Warr laboratories in Oxford, he undertook research into Biomagnetism and quantum physics their effects on the human aura and dark matter, producing the book by the same name in conjunction with George de la Warr. Through the years he has given more than 15,000 lectures and attracted people from all over the world to his Esoteric Science Festivals and International Summer Schools staged in America, Canada, England, Switzerland, Italy, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. His transformative experiences during the Second World War, when twice severely wounded, set the pattern for his life long investigations into the Powers Latent in Man. His extensive esoteric writings are said to be the largest collection in the world produced by a living author. He has written over 100 books, many of which have been translated into the 9 European languages at https://www.douglasbaker.com, and his list of downloadable MP3 audio lectures available at www.douglasbaker.org, include 500 live lectures given around the world and on a vast range of subjects. He has led the field in esoteric astrology, producing with a team, his magnum opus, a Dictionary of Astrology for the 21st Century in three volumes. This is in addition to the already existing 11 volume set of books on the same subject.

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Table of Contents

Esoteric Astrology - Vol. 2

INTRODUCTION

FOREWORD

LIST OF ASTROLOGICAL SYMBOLS USED IN THIS BOOK

Planetary Rulers

HOUSE SEVEN - SIGN OF LIBRA

The Morphology of the Seventh

Structures with laminations.

SEVENTH HOUSE - NEW PARTNERSHIPS - NEW SYMBOLS

PARTNERSHIPS EXPRESSED BY LAMINATION

Rays and the Seventh House

The Seventh House is where:-

Literature: Libra and the Seventh House

PLUTO IN THE SEVENTH

Politics

PLUTO AND FINANCE

OCCUPATIONS

PERSONALITY PROBLEMS

MEDICAL FEATURES

The Economy of the Democracies

POLITICAL and SOCIAL UPHEAVALS

Topographical Astrology

Chivalry

CHILDREN and CHIVALRY

Horoscope of H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

HOUSE EIGHT - SIGN OF SCORPIO

The Morphology of the Eighth

Keywords for Scorpio - Out of the Dark

Sexual Matters of the Eighth House

NATAL BIRTH CHART of Dr. Douglas M. Baker

Emmeline Pankhurst

John F. Kennedy

Winston Churchill and the Eighth

King Charles I

Churchill and Chivalry

The Ultimate Particle of Matter

DESCRIPTION OF THE ANU

The Permanent Atoms

The Lungs

NATAL BIRTH CHART of Dr. Douglas M. Baker

Noel Coward’s Horoscope

THE CHART OF PRESIDENT TRUMAN.

The Atomic Bombing

ANALYSIS OF THE U.S. FLAG

The Hydrogen Bomb

HOUSE NINE - SIGN OF SAGITTARIUS

THE NINTH HOUSE

EARTH, SAGITTARIUS and the NINTH HOUSE

Centaurs

Planet Earth — Keywords

EXAMPLES OF NINTH HOUSE FEATURES FROM VARIOUS CHARTS

CHARLlE CHAPLIN

Structural Images

WlNSTON CHURCHlLL

Abraham Lincoln

President Truman

WHERE THE SOUL'S PURPOSE IS RELATED TO THE NINTH HOUSE.

INTERPRETATIONS

Howard Hughes

OTHER INTERPRETATIONS

Interpretations for Subject P.R.

Thomas Hardy

Interpretation for the chart of Thomas Hardy:

Thomas Carlyle, Ecclefechan, Scotland

APPENDIX 1, BIOGRAPHIES

Harry S. Truman

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

Charlie Chaplin

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

APPENDIX 2, CORRELATIONS

CORRELATIONS between ASTROLOGICAL and PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMBOLS

ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY - VOL. 2

The Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Houses

by

Dr. Douglas M. Baker

B.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.

Printed Edition: 1978

Printed Version ISBN 9780906006122

Little Elephant,

High Road, Essendon,

Herts, AL9 6HR, England.

Copyright© 1978 D. M. Baker

This is the only authorized eBook of the printed edition.

© Copyright Dr. Douglas M. Baker 2014

ISBN 9781625691484

Published by Baker eBooks Publishing

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The Ashram of the English Master

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INTRODUCTION

Certain individuals, it is clear, act as archetypal focal points for the energies of their nation, and they generally have horoscopes with strong points in them that correspond to similar points in the horoscope of the nation. We have noted that with both Smuts and Churchill, Mars on the ascendant or in the first house gives them this national identity so that events in their own lives are welded in great measure to those of the nation. In the charts of many presidents and national leaders, this alignment or coincidence of features may go so far as the coincidence of a grand trine in each.

We understand better now the remark of Louis XIV, L’Etat? C’est moi! - The State? That’s me! - which is basically an astrological premise. I think that this point has never been made quite so clearly as in the horoscope of Winston Churchill. The matter gives one pause to think - for instance, how important it is to identify your own chart with a corporation or company you wish to join, or a country you want to emigrate to, and, of course, the special forte of mundane astrology, the one you wish to marry. This is no more than an attempt to work with the forces of nature rather than against them.

The matter does not end there. This is only the beginning. Ultimately, it is for the personality to attempt the same spiritual empathy - to reorientate yourself to the Soul, to seat yourself with the Master, to act in the world in accord with the needs and dictates of the Soul. To ascertain those needs, many go into lifelong retreat; others meditate regularly and, in increasing numbers, more are combining both and adding the investigation of the Soul’s purpose in astrology.

By recognising esoteric rulers and using them in the horoscope, we begin the task of reorientation to the Soul - the solar, immortal and gulliverian Being that uses a personality on planet Earth to achieve some cosmic end. The process is called Self-identification. But the Self will not alter direction, change standards, adopt new ethics and codes of conduct to suit the personality, but rather it is the opposite that holds. The personality must adapt - must first integrate and then orientate. True Esoteric Astrology, fashioned by Those Who have already trod the same way, gives us Their knowledge about this most abstruse matter.

The alphabet of the unconscious, both in its cthonic and spiritual implications, is the symbol. The Soul is not greatly concerned with the language of words that the personality speaks - i.e., Polynesian, English, American, Hindi or Latin - but is concerned with the symbols which these words stand for, and with the symbols which lie in the unconscious but in close contact with the personality,

flooding its consciousness constantly with meaning, quality and energy. The symbols are numerological, physiological, astrological, mathematical, etc., etc., and will feed their numinosum and meaning into any vehicle or kosha, lower triad or personality that will accept them.

Acceptance implies a receptivity to them, e.g., memory of dreams, ability to meditate or at least to sit in silence, or halt the input of senses, or focus the awareness. The overpopulated dominant half of the brain is no reception area for the subjective structures of symbols, but the other half of the brain and its etheric counterpart, with its gigantic memory banks, is receptive. When the neophyte learns to practice intuitive or esoteric astrology, he has not only to lead the meditative way of life to become proficient at it, but must fashion the link between the immense worlds of the unconscious and the finite world of his own hemispheres. That link lies in symbols which must be unravelled.

Pluto is but a word: most people have never even seen the planet live. Yet, there are a thousand symbols pressing in for expression in our consciousness of those energy units of the unconscious which we group under the name of Pluto. Those who are born at certain times are more receptive to the archetypal pressure of plutonic symbols than others. Working their way into consciousness, they will influence, to varying degrees, the manner in which he thinks, acts and feels.

The practice of Esoteric Astrology must become a way of life because it calls for many hours of quiet contemplation, brooding, pondering and meditation. Its results will improve for the practitioner as he becomes more en rapport with his higher Self, to whom he submits the more difficult aspects either for an initial interpretation or for confirmation. And yet, Esoteric Astrology is capable of supplying great detail and rich background to all interpretations, far more than is available from an analysis in mundane astrology.

The author has been in contact with the astrological world for twenty-five years or more and has never been very impressed with the standard of interpretation of even those astrologers who proclaim astrology to be an exact science. Machines may be exact, but man - with all his unexpressed potential, with the huge incursions of energy and intelligence that comes from his unconscious as this reflects the collective unconscious - cannot be measured by any science which does not take into account his subjective nature.

The material presented here represents a tiny fraction of that transmitted into the consciousness of the author over a period of not more than forty days. Much of it may seem strange, and the gauge stick is the reader’s own consciousness. Most people are sick to death of astrology as it exists today and the unreal terminology in which it is dressed. It is very, very, very rare that I meet anybody in my lecture tours who has been satisfied with an interpretation of his birth chart through mundane methods.

Many of the techniques employed here are new, and the use of basic symbols may be even frightening in its simplicity. The author has set out to offer a method of making available to every man the gigantic reserves of cognition that exist unexpressed in those regions of the brain and his higher equipment which science cares to call the silent areas of the brain. Only the esoteric rulers of the Signs of the Zodiac have been used in this work. Time will prove the validity of the techniques taught.

I chose the above depicted painting, which is Diana and Endymion, because of the esoteric implications of their relationship. Endymion was a shepherd, a son of AEthlius and Calyce, and it is said that he required of Jupiter that he always be kept young and to sleep as long as he wished. Hence came the proverb of Endymionis somnum dormire which means to express a long sleep. Diana saw him naked as he slept on Mount Latmos and was so struck with his beauty that she came down from heaven every night to enjoy his company.

The fable of these amours arises from Endymion’s knowledge of astronomy. It was to the shepherds that we owed our original knowledge of the position of the stars, their movement and astrological portents, for it was they who watched the sheep through the long nights and had the time to observe in the clear, middle-east skies the glory of the heavens. Their records gave us the first intimations of the celestial influences.

Endymion with his love of astrology and his great desire to spend much time in the sleep state is symbolic of esoteric astrology. The visitations of the Moon goddess, Diana, to him are symbolic of the enriching images which enter man’s consciousness when he makes himself subjective and from which origins this whole work of esoteric astrology is drawn. The picture illustrates the dynamic energies, which we call the numinosa, which are associated with every single image that streams into our consciousness from the unconscious.

For a generation the esoteric world has waited for the detail of esoteric astrology which was promised by Alice Bailey. That detail, beyond anybody’s wildest dreams, is being given in these succeeding volumes.

I should insert an interesting footnote here. While I was working on the horoscope of Charlie Chaplin, the English Master indicated that an event of worldwide importance would occur with regard to Chaplin’s life in February/March, I presumed that this was his death as he was very old, but no. R.B. indicated that it was a matter somehow related to his resurrection. And, again, I presumed wrongly that there was some feature of initiation scheduled for that time which would explain the resurrection aspect, it turns out that in the first days of March, Chaplin’s grave was desecrated, and his coffin and contents removed. This is an exact feature of the Scorpio qualities which I described right through the interpretation of his horoscope ... out of the dark, out of the unknown, etc., etc. R.B. was right, in a macabre way, symbolic of resurrection, that I could never have envisaged. Whether this is regarded as an aspect of Black Magic, which is the usual way in which the public views grave desecration, or body-kidnapping, it is still scorpionic and eighth house.

In the end, astrology is comprised of what man projects of himself spiritually, mentally, emotionally and in etheric radiations. This has been so since the formation of the planet five billion years ago, and does not in any way contradict the same assessment of astrology which applies to a Heavenly Man (a planetary Logos) and the Grand Man of the Heavens, a Solar Logos Himself, I entirely agree with Jung that: -

Astrology, as any study of the real zodiac would show, had nothing to do with real astronomy. The stars and planets were used only as mirrors to reflect inner psychological patterns. He could not follow it alas, very far, because of the absence of empirical evidence to support its observations, but he emphatically thought, as he would put it to me with his love of slang, that it was ‘on to something’. *

The main function of Esoteric Astrology, as I see it, is to regenerate the symbols of man’s consciousness and unconsciousness, and the reader will find that the techniques given in this work will provide him with a bridgehead to reach astrological meaning as it is embodied in symbols in the collective and personal unconscious.

ENGLAND, February 1978

DOUGLAS M. BAKER

Little Elephant

Essendon, Herts

England.

* Jung And The Story Of Our Time, by Laurens van der Post, The Hogarth Press, London.

FOREWORD

In Esoteric Astrology the relation between the qualities of a house and the sign which usually occupies it is a matter of vibration. Whatever octave the note of the house is sounded on, the higher octave of it will denote the corresponding sign. This in itself denotes sublimation.

The sublimation of energy from chakras below the diaphragm to those above the diaphragm is a natural phenomenon in the development of human consciousness, both in the current life or over a series of lives. My various works have dealt with the control of this process in great detail. Thus, the energy of Muladara Chakra is led to Sahasrara, etc.: -

Base of Spine (Muladara) to the Head (Sahasrara)

Sacral Chakra to the Throat Chakra

Solar Plexus Chakra to the Heart Chakra

Heart Chakra to the Brow Chakra etc.

I have also correlated the chakras to the planets and to the Signs of the Zodiac in a chart shown later.

Not only is energy transported from lower centres to higher ones, or from the lower to its alter ego (the higher chakra), but there is equally an affinity between bodies or vehicles. Thus, every physico-etheric chakra has its astral and mental counterparts which, in terms of vibration are on octaves higher than the note of the etheric chakra.

Remember that man’s etheric body is part of that of the Earth’s or what is known as the anima mundi. The houses, in Esoteric Astrology really are a division of the etheric body of the planet and, seen in this light, are extremely important in Esoteric Astrology though of a lower psychic octave than the signs and planets themselves.

Alan Leo, a forerunner of our sacred science, was already aware of some of these matters, writing 70 years ago:-

The relationship between signs and houses, as has been repeatedly stated, is that of ‘correspondence,’ or analogy, being similar to the relationship of one octave to another on the pianoforte - each house corresponds to each sign only because it is, in a kind of way, ‘the same thing only different’ — that is, the noumenon behind each is identical, and only the plane of manifestation varies. That being so it is easy to see that one influence can be exalted or degraded to the other; just as personal interests may be expanded so as to serve the community, or public needs may be sacrificed to benefit an individual — these things we see around us in daily life. Consequently, it depends very much upon the individual how the influence will work out; thus, Saturn in Taurus may operate in one case exactly as would Saturn in the second house; and, vice versa, Saturn in the second house may in some cases act just as would Saturn in Taurus with the majority of people’.*

* How to Judge A Nativity, by Alan Leo, Fowler & Co., London'.

As we would expect, the close relationship of the houses to the anima mundi or etheric body of the planet implies that houses are more responsive to form, just as the human etheric body is an integral