The

Bride
Hello beautiful
planet ...

... and here are some Greeks wondering what she is

made of. Empedocles, the mediator, came up with the
final decision: She is, he said, made of Earth and Air
and Fire and Water .

(Metaphysics. 983
b20),

Thale
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Anaxime
nes 585-525

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450

433

LOOK! Here is David

Bowman, a modern
scientist, agreeing!
.. the Greeks had it right with
their classification of fire, air,
earth, and water

The World on Fire

( New Scientist, Oct 10,
2009)

By Shakespeares
era the idea of The
Four Elements had
blossomed into a
descriptive
language.
Shakespeare is using
this language to
write these
spectacular sonnets.
In sonnets 44 and 45 he

equates fesh with

Earth and Water, Air
with thought, and
Edition printed in London in 1609.
Fire with desire.

You can see that the idea of the Four Elements

had developed to symbolises functions of
consciousness that supply our brains with the
information we need to construct and respond to
our world.
We connect to Earth, the matter upon which
life is based, through our SENSES. Water
supplies us with FEELINGS. The blood pumping
around the body responds to pleasure and pain.
Through our ears we feel sound waves and
respond to them emotionally. BANG ... If I make
a sudden loud noise behind you, you will jump,
this is a feeling called surprise. These two make
up Shakespeares fesh. Oh heavy tears! Fire
defines our ability to acquire information from
light. Light waves project pictures into our brains
through our eyes; we soon acquire an archive of

Jung was seriously

interested in symbolic
languages.
He called the symbols
archetypes.
In his book Aion he
published this ancient
diagram in which each
of the four quarters of the circle represent
one of the four elements.

It is called
The Anima Mundi.
Anima is female
meaning soul; Mundi
means world.

In her book Relating, Liz, a

Jungian, has reworked the
Anima Mundi to include the
result of mixing two elements
together. I need to boil some
water to make a cup of tea. Oh
yes ... I need hot water. Hot
water is intuitive feeling.

r
Ai

Earth

Fir
e

Water

Liz is also an astrologer. Astrological symbolism

draws deeply on the idea of the four elements.
Aries, Leo and Sag
express the qualities of
Fire. They are intuitive,
passionate and
impulsive.

Gemini, Libra and

Aquarius, the Air
signs, are rational
and intellectual.

_ c g
Taurus, Virgo and
Capricorn are
practical and down
to Earth.

Air
Eart
h

Fir
e

^ b

Water

a e

Cancer, Scorpio and

Pisces, the Water
signs, feel their way
through life.

The female Anima Mundi arranges the

elements in the same way gravity
arranges them on planet Earth.

UP

Air

Earth

Down

In her book,
Relating, Liz
writes about the
three Air signs,
the three Water
signs, the three
Fire signs and
the three Earth
signs.
But LOOK ...
There are three
very different
expressions of

2
3

1
2

3
2

I had often wondered

why Pisces was
described as intuitivefeeling when Pisces is a
water sign and intuition
Air
is fire.
Is this a good position
Earth
for Intuitive
Pisces?
Feelin

Air

Water
Earth
Fire

Wat
... I thought
er
it was so I
put Pisces
here.

Fire

?
What about
sensory
feeling?

Eart
Wate
h
r

Air

Sensor
yFire
Feeling

ii

Taurus is famous
for sensual
feeling.
Air
Here was a good
place for Taurus.

Wat
er

Fire

Empiric
Thinking

g
_

Air

Earth

Fire

How could I put dry,

Wathighly structured,
business-like Capricorn
anywhere but
er
here, in Empiric Thinking. Here this
serious, responsible energy can use
the thinking apparatus to work out
what it needs in order to achieve a

That left
famously
practical Virgo
for pure Earth:
Perfect.

Air
Fire

Wat
Eart
er
h

c
_

Leo, ruled by
our very own
cosmic
furnace, is
Air was
Fire. This
sort of
Earth
obvious.

Fire b

Wat
er

Intuitive

thinking

What about thisAir

position?
Well Aries Earth
rules
the head where
thinking takesWat
er
place ...

c
_

^
Fire

Air

c
_

Fire
Earth
... and what

happens when
Wat
you add oxygen
er
to fire.
Ah! Does this
look like Aries
ruling planet
Mars.

^
Intuitive

Air

Feeling

Earth

That left watery fire

to Sag.
that fitted.
Sentimental Sag
not feeling exactly,
but intuition
coloured by feeling.
Walt Disney was a

Fire
Water

Thinkin
g

Air

g
Here is Gemini the
^

Air

cjournalist - not b
particularly
_imaginative so notfup
against fire - on the
i
other hand wouldnt
Earth

Fire

Wat
er

like the earthy facts

to get in the way of a
good story.

Empiric

Thinkin
g
^
Fixed Air
the empiricEarth
Fire
thinking scientist
turning his
Wat
attention to
er
studying the
physical world.
This was
certainly
Aquarius.

c
_

Air

Intuitive

thinking

d^

Ai
g Fire
r
Earth
c back at the end of
It was way
b the 80s, I

was at an Oxford Summer School explaining

this model to a friend. She didnt like
this position of Libra. Later that day
Fiona Griffiths - a Libran - gave a talk on
Venus. We think of Libra as cool she
said, because she is an air sign, but
what is love without a little fire.

` d

^
I made an error I Air
gave
pure Water to Scorpio
because of theEarth
depth of Fire
Scorpio passion ....

c
_

Wate

` d

That left Cancer,

somewhat muddy, up
against Earth. Air

c
_

Hmm

Fire

Earth

ae

Water

Then I needed way of testing this model

and I decided to join up the signs according
to how the Sun goes around the Zodiac.
Why did I think this was important ? When
you have familiarised yourself with this
information and have seen my chart you
will, perhaps, understand why ...
00
ARIES

TEST

Here we go,
beginning with
Aries, the spring
equinox.

c
_

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Air
Fire
Water

a e i

c
_

` d
Air
Earth
Water

a e i

Fire

c
_

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Air
Earth
Water

a e i

Fire

c
_

` d
Air
Earth

a e i

Fire

c
_

` d
Air
Earth
Water

a e i

Fire

c
_

` d
Air
Earth
Water

a e i

Fire

c
_

` d
Air
Earth
Water

a e i

Fire

c
_

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Air
Earth
Water

a e i

Fire

c
_

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Air
Earth
Water

a e i

Fire

c
_

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Air
Earth

a e i

Fire

c
_

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Air
Earth
Water

a e i

Fire

c
_

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Air
Earth
Water

a e i

Fire

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a
t
er

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a
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t
h

X
That didnt work
did it?

d
Fire

Then I heard a news

broadcast it was about a
sex murder Scorpio - I
thought. WHY HAD A PUT
Air
SEXY SCORPIO IN PURE
Earth
WATER?

c
_

Sensory
feeling
is SEXY,
isnt it?

` d
Fire

?
a i
Water

So I
moved
Scorpio.

c
_
Ph

Se
ns
ys
ic
ua
l S al
ex
ua
l

` d

b
f

Now Mooni
a ruled Cancer
had water all
to herself.
That made

g
So here we go
again.

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Air

Earth
Water

Fire

e a i

c
_

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Air
Earth

Fire

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c
_

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Air
Earth
Water

Fire

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Earth
Water

Fire

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Air
Earth
Water

Fire

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Air
Earth
Water

Fire

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_

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Air
Earth
Water

Fire

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Earth
Water

Fire

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Air
Earth
Water

Fire

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c
_

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Air
Earth
Water

Fire

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c
_

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Air
Earth
Water

Fire

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c
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Air
Earth
Water

Fire

e a i

Yes, yes, yes! This

looks great.

r
Fi
e

ir

th
er
at
W

r
Ea

_
e

d
^

And look again ...

Mother Moon and Father Sun have

lined up as a pair. Do the others show
any rational grouping?

a
Mother

b
Father

sensin
g

They
do!!!!!!!

thinkin
g

c
_
e

feeling

intuition

sensin
g

thinkin
g

c
_

feeling

intuition

thinkin
g

sensin
g

i
feeling

intuition

sensin
g

i
feeling

thinkin
g

intuition

thinkin
g

sensin
g

feeling

intuition

Six lines = I Ching

I am an I Ching master. How can I

fail to notice the six lines of an I
CHING hexagram???

c
_
e

d
^

The Receptive
Earth
SIX NEGATIVE/YIN
THIS SIDE

The Creative
Heaven
SIX POSITIVE/YANG
THIS SIDE

I Ching hexagrams are read from the

bottom up.
A hexagram grows like a fower.

If this is the same for this new model

what have we got going on at the roots .
What do we need if we want to create an
embodied LIFE?

th

er
at
W

Mum
my

r
Ea

_
e

Life

b Dadd
y

What
about
warm,
womb
?
What
do awe
need wet,
to make
a baby?
In astrology Pisces the 12th sign
signifies the 12th house the house that
means womb.

g
c

A
r
Fi

Life
Life

ir

th

er
at
W

Wet

r
Ea

12th
HOUSE

_
e

d
^

Warm

Jupiter is 9th house. The 9th house philosopher

and 12th house mystic. Philosophers look for
patterns. DNA is a pattern? I gave this
pair the title SOURCE.

A
ir

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e

th

g
c
r
Ea

12
Mystic
th

d
^

f
iSource

Wet

Warm

9th
Philosopher

Out of the Source comes

Life.
Yes ... It does.

g
c

r
Ea

ir

th

_
e

d
^

ai f b
Source
Life

Source

Wet

Warm

The minute a child is born into LIFE it

is confronted with the constant
changes we call Time.

8th

ir

Time

r
Fi

Life

i f

th

r
Ea

Death

Source

1st
Birth

This is the Minkowski space-time diagram

between the past and the future is The
Present. On the Anima Mundi this is a
very important position. We call this NOW.

FUTURE
time

NOW
PAST

space

And NOW we are confronted with FORM,

both physical and theoretical.

Physical
2nd

r
FFoorm
Time
m
A

Form

ir

th

r
Fi

g
r
Ea

Theoretical
7th

Life
Life

f
iSource

Source

d
^

Great! We have something we can

WORK on

ir

Time
r
Fi

Life

ii ff

th

6th
Practical

_
e

Wor
Form
orm
Fk

r
Ea

Source

d
^

rd
3
b
Intellectual

Dry

Cold

Wealt
h

g
c

Time

ir

Form
A

10
Business
th

_
e

Wor
k
Form

Life

11th
Science

f
i
f
i
WORK creates our
. Not just wealth
Source
WEALTH

Source
in the form of money,
but also as
identity, our position in the group.

Wealt
h
g

ethink of Saturn as
^ the
You can
hard disk upon which we store
a but information
b
information,
needs editing.
Uranus is a powerful disruptive
force.
Just what we

Heres what two great astrologers have

to say.
Howard
Haydn
Sasporta
Paul
s The
Revolution
Gods of
ary Spirit.
As
Chronos castrated
The astrological Uranus
Change.
Ouranus, so
astrologically does
Saturn cut off the
creative impulse and
potency of Ouranus. This
image encapsulates the
basic war in all our
psyches.

is perceived as being
perpetually engaged in a
struggle with Saturn
Kronos, aiming to break
restricting barriers.
This battle of the gods is
an innate living pattern in
all our psyches

(The I Ching calls the top lines, fighting

dragons.)

Chronos eats his children and returns

them to the Source.

Is this what they

call ...

The River of

I called these pairs

THE COMPLEMENTARY CONNECTIONS.
Six negative YIN (physical/material) on
the left and six positive YANG
(creative/mental) on the right.
11
10
WEALTH

c
_
e

WORK

FORM

TIME

LIFE

12

SOURCE

d
f

And look again ... all the middle numbers

add up to 9, and if you add up the outer
positions they add up to 42.
11
10
It took DEEP
21
THOUGHT
3
6
millennia to work
9
this out.
2
7
......
9
Oh! Perhaps
8
1
we shouldnt be
9
5
4
too cocky Um 9
12
9
How long has it
taken us?
21

21 + 21 = 42 !!!!

Discovery
GC chart
date
18 Dec
1984

I thought
astrologers might
be interested in
this.
The Sun is conjunct

And this is my own chart

showing
theon that
transits
fateful day.

Moon Opp Moon

Sun Tri
Sun 055'
Mer Tri
Mer 405
Ven
SSx
Ven

Mar Tri
Mar 047'
Jup
Qnx
Jup
Sat
Opp
Sat 35
Nep
Sqr
Nep
Plu
Chir
365

Sqr
Sqr

Plu
Chir

HELP!
I NEED A
MATE

Its OK lovely
planet:
We have found your

Presentation
Two,
The Groom,
will introduce
The Creative
Heaven.
The Creative
Heaven is The
Receptive Earths,
(The Brides),
magnificent
cosmic partner.
Together they
give birth to