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Logical Foundations of Rulerships

Astral Matrix II
by Patrice Guinard

6. Planetary regents : Dignities and Debilities

7. Zodiacal distribution of planetary operators
8. Semantical justification of the domiciles

Equipotence and Harmony of Structures (Astral Matrix I)

Matrix Geometry (Astral Matrix III)

This text covers the chapters 50 and 51 of my PhD thesis (1993), largely reworked. Like the Manifesto and the Dominion, it is a heavier and older
stone which I am throwing in the water of astrologers. Taking into account the conformist predisposition of the field in general, I only expect hostile
responses, and I prepare myself to them - with indifference.

6. PLANETARY REGENTS : DIGNITIES AND DEBILITIES

"Saturn gets Capricorn - cold and dry - but what has he to do with Aquarius - warm and moist ? What has Venus to do with him who likewise has
to deal with such a pair ?
Poor Jupiter must guard fire and water, Sagittarius and Pisces, so that he gets well-tempered. But what is well-tempered about Mars, who also rules
such a pair ?
If the signs are ascribed to the planets to which one attributes them, then they have these qualities ; if they have these qualities, then they certainly
must have other rulers, or none at all..."
(Kepler, Response to the Discourse of Dr. Röslin, 1609 ; tr. Ken Negus, 1987 ; CURA, 2001)

I think like Kepler : the so-called classical theory is wobbly, illogical and absurd. Either we build a model of Harmony, or we forget about the
whole thing (that is the choice of the rossards). I have always been concerned, even obsessed by the matter of the "Rulers", i.e. the adequacy of
the planetary and zodiacal frames of reference, since I came across astrology, and I haven't stopped scribbling entire notebooks of
correspondences between signs and planets, not only inspired by the supposed meanings of these various cyclical operators throughout
accumulated literature, and by their formal, geometrical, even aesthetic relationships, but also by the distribution of mythological and religious
values and invariants in the main cultural areas (of the past) and by their geographical distribution. But it was by meditating on Dumézil on the
Indo-European gods, the orientalists, and the historians of the decimated South-American civilisations, that I acquired the certainty about the
distribution of planets on the first zodiacal quarts : in the (solar) spring the Indo-Europeans Mars Uranus Jupiter; in the summer the planetary
equivalents of the American gods, the Sun, the Moon, and Venus; in the autumnal quart, protean India and the most distant planets; in the
winter quart, China and the Far East and Mercury and Saturn (see below, astral Geoculturology). A first model of my theory was published in
1985 in the journal Astralis (Lyon), and was badly received by the conditionalist rossards, and a second model was published in 1993 in my
Sorbonne thesis.

What is Mars? What is Aries? Wat are their relationships? The matter of the "Rulers" is nothing else than the issue of the harmony of spheres
which Kepler has constantly dealt with. Because astrology is about potentiation of states of comprehension of reality, totalisation of perspectives
and perceptions, whichever the nature of reality may be. And the zodiac forms a whole which can chart it, as well as the set of planets which I
call Planetary. How can these two sets, planetary signs, signals, or symbols on the one hand, zodiacal signs, signals, or symbols on the other
hand, each having the purpose of totalising, delineating, closing the sum of possibilities in all their variations, how can these two sets exist
together and which are their relationships? In this issue of Rulers, the idea of a Matrix arises: a single Matrix for two structures, the Zodiac being
a relatively stable model of one structure, and the Planetary a very unstable one (since the discovery of Uranus) of the other structure. And of
course there are as many approaches of 'the' Zodiac and of 'the' Planetary, as there are competent and original astrologers. Each has his
model(s), narrowly defined, of each structure. And their adequacy, their harmonisation, their equinumerosity, is the subject of the Rulers, and the
resolution of what I called the astral Matrix.

Because there is only a single astral Matrix, broadened to two other structures, and therefore composed of at least four frames of reference
being the Zodiac, the Planetary, the Dominion which is related to the Houses (the Octotope with eight equal houses of which four are centred
on the orthogonal angles, is the technical correlate which I have recommended since several years) and the Aspects, Figures and planetary
Transits. For each of these frames of reference, many competing models exist.

Three rules of balance define the attribution of planets to the zodiac signs and the equinumerosity of planetary and zodiacal structures, in other
words the distribution of the "Dignities" (Domiciles and Exaltations) and "Debilities" (Detriments and Falls). I keep these figurative and somewhat
archaic terms to name what are simply zones or moments of intensification.

7. ZODIACAL DISTRIBUTION OF PLANETARY OPERATORS

Some preliminary definitions and postulates :

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"Positive" signs, traditionally "masculine" (excitation) : Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, Aquarius.
"Negative" signs, traditionally "feminine" (inhibition) : Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, Pisces.

Reminder : the spring quart (including Taurus) is overall masculine, the summer quart (including Leo) is overall feminine, the autumn quart
overall androgynous or hermaphrodite, and the winter quart overall asexual (cf. my Avatars of the Astrological Zodiac , CURA, 2003). The
feminine and androgynous are attracted to each other, as are the masculine and the asexual!

Active, "positive" planets : every second planet (following the order of their distance from the Sun) after the Sun Mercury pair : Mars, Jupiter,
Chiron, Neptune.
Passive, "negative" planets : every second planet (following the order of their distance from the Sun) after the Venus Moon pair : Ceres, Saturn,
Uranus, Pluto.
Note that this distribution does not exactly correspond with the common representation for Uranus and Neptune (see my previous article :
Equipotence and Harmony of Structures, CURA, 2015).

Symmetrical signs (according to the axis of the equinoxes) : Aries Pisces, Taurus Aquarius, Gemini Capricorn, Cancer Sagittarius, Leo Scorpio,
Virgo Libra.
Symmetrical planets : SUN (identification) PLUTO (over-differentiation), MERCURY (dispersion) URANUS (unification), MARS (confrontation)
CERES (potentiation), JUPITER (simplification) SATURN (complexification), NEPTUNE (association) VENUS (dissociation), CHIRON (integration)
MOON (indifferentiation). Regarding these symmetries, see Equipotence and Harmony of Structures, CURA, 2015.

POSTULATE 1. A planet linked to excitation ("masculine", "active", "extravert", "positive") is in Domicile and Exaltation in the signs linked to
excitation, in Detriment and Fall in signs linked to inhibition. A planet linked to inhibition ("feminine", "passive", "introvert", "negative") is in
Domicile and Exaltation in the signs linked to inhibition, in Detriment and Fall in signs linked to excitation. To my knowledge the only
distributions respecting this postulate, before the modern model of Domiciles was drowned into a soft normative consensus (without reflexion
or interrogation), are those of Burgoyne 1892, Merton 1899 and Rigg 1959 (see below).

POSTULATE 2. A planet in Domicile (or in Exaltation) in a given zodiac sign, admits its symmetrical planet in Detriment (or in Fall) in the same
sign.
For instance the Moon, in Domicile in Cancer, implies the Detriment of Chiron in Cancer, and being in Exaltation in Taurus implies the Fall of
Chiron in Taurus.

POSTULATE 3. A planet in Domicile (and in Detriment, Exaltation, Fall) in a zodiac sign admits its symmetrical planet in Domicile (and in
Detriment, Exaltation, Fall) in its symmetrical sign. For instance Saturn in Domicile in Capricorn implies Jupiter in Domicile in Gemini, and the Sun
in Exaltation in Aries implies Pluto in Exaltation in Pisces. This postulate results from zodiacal pairs and from the adequacy of zodiacal and
planetary symmetries.

In the following table, the 12 pink attributions depend on the 12 white attributions (according to postulate 2) and the 24 purple attributions
depend on the 24 white and pink attributions (according to postulate 3). In other words, with the twelve white attributions one can unveil the
entire system.

Sign Domicile Exaltation Detriment Fall

Aries MAR SUN CER PLU

Taurus URA MOO MER CHI

Gemini JUP MER SAT URA

Cancer MOO VEN CHI NEP

Leo SUN JUP PLU SAT

Virgo VEN CER NEP MAR

Libra NEP MAR VEN CER

Scorpio PLU SAT SUN JUP

Sagittarius CHI NEP MOO VEN

Capricorn SAT URA JUP MER

Aquarius MER CHI URA MOO

Pisces CER PLU MAR SUN

The planets in detriment are opposite to the planets in domicile according to the axis of the equinoxes, which I chose to orient vertically
(contrary to the usual representation). The North is related to spring-winter, rather masculine and rational, Yang. The South is related to the
winter-fall, rather feminine, less rational. This archetype is abvious to me.

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The planets in fall are opposite to the planets in exaltation along the same axis of the equinoxes. And a planet in Exaltation is in sextile or in trine
to its position in Domicile, except for the Mars-Ceres pair situated on either side of the axis of the equinoxes, time of zodiacal inversion.

Sign Domicile E

Aries ♂

Taurus ♅

Gemini ♃

Cancer ☽

Leo ☼

Virgo ♀

Libra ♆

Scorpio ♇

Sagittarius ⚷

Capricorn ♄

Aquarius ☿

Pisces ⚳

The distribution of the planets in exaltation follows the order of the zodiac according to their period (starting with the Sun, then the Moon, and
the planets ordered according to their sidereal period), with two inversions Leo Libra and Sagittarius Aquarius:

The inconsistencies of the classic Rulers doctrine has been criticised by a few astrologers, especially during the first half of the 20th Century, until
most astrologers (who use the Rulers) returned to the consensual practice. Return to the 'tradition', regression, abdication of the research spirit,
or abandonment of all critical mind? The current conformist and normalised mush rules... for a few retarded petosirisians ! (see my CURA's
Charts and CurAstro4 Analysis, CURA, 2016). At the end of the 19th Century, astronomers are looking for the planet (pre-baptised Pluto) which
would explain the irregularities of Neptune's orbit. After them, the theosophist Thomas Burgoyne (1855-1894), secretary of the Hermetic
Brotherhood of Luxor and dissident of Helena Blavatsky, confirms, as of 1895, the existence of a 'missing planet' in addition to the nine existing
ones, completing a series of ten in analogical correspondence with the ten Sephiroth of the Kabbalah (in The Light of Egypt, London, George
Redway, 1889 ; La lumière d'Égypte, trad. fr. René Philipon, Paris, Chamuel, 1895 ; Chacornac, 1899, p.219).

In France, abbot Paul Lacuria (1806-1890) and astrologer Charles Nicoullaud alias Fomalhaut (1854-1925) introduce Pluto into the planetary
pantheon, and in 1911 the Scottish Isabelle Pagan (1867-1960) states that Pluto must rule over Scorpio (From Pioneer To Poet, or the Twelve

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Great Gates, London, Theosophical Society, 1911, p.208 et p.245). Various attempts of reorganisation of the planetary rulers have been analysed
by Geoffrey Dean (and. al.) in the compilation Recent Advances in Natal Astrology (Perth, Subiaco (Australia), Analogic, 1977, p.208-212) : Alfred
Witte in Germany, Theodor Ram in The Netherlands, Lorne Edward Johndro in the United States, J. Halbronn, etc. Not very convincing! Especially
as many other, more interesting ones, exist, but which the team of compilers (like the Anglo-American astrologers who do not know their own
literature) does not mention, such as, among many others:

- Thomas Henry Burgoyne, The Language of the Stars, Denver, The Astro-Philosophical Publishing Co., 1892 ; trad. fr. Julevno, Le langage des
étoiles, in Le Voile d'Isis, 1912
- Fomalhaut, Manuel d'astrologie sphérique et judiciaire, Paris, Vigot, 1897 ; 2e éd, 1933, p.316-317
- Holmes Merton (Yarmo Vedra), Heliocentric astrology, or Essentials of Astronomy and Solar Mentality, Philadelphia, David McKay, 1899, p.38-41
- Jean Mavéric, La réforme des bases de l'Astrologie traditionnelle, Paris, Alfred Leclerc, 1912
- Don Néroman, Traité d'astrologie rationnelle, Paris, Sous le Ciel, 1943
- Winifred Pace Rigg, Astrology of the Mysteries, London, Theosophical Publishing House, 1959, p.141
- Jacques Vanaise, Traité d'anthropocosmologie, Bruxelles, 1978

The attributions of Burgoyne (in the chapter about the strength and weakness of the planets according to the author's experience, p 169), of
Merton, and especially of Rigg, are the only ones relatively close to my distribution. The following table groups my Domiciles and Exaltations,
those of the inconsistent Hellenistic model, the intuitions of Burgoyne, and only for the domiciles the models of Merton, Rigg, and the
normalised current distribution. In white, the least agreed on distributions; in red, those which contradict my postulate.

Sign Dom. PG Exa. PG Dom. Greeks Exa. Greeks Burgoyne Merton Rigg xxx

Aries MAR SUN MAR SUN SUN NEP SUN MAR

Taurus URA LUN VEN LUN LUN, SAT LUN CER ?

Gemini JUP MER MER MER JUP MER

Cancer LUN VEN LUN JUP VEN URA LUN

Leo SUN JUP SUN JUP, MAR, MER SUN MER SUN

Virgo VEN CER MER MER VEN, SAT URA VEN CHI ?

Libra NEP MAR VEN SAT JUP NEP VEN

Scorpio PLU SAT MAR CER SAT PLU

Sagittarius CHI NEP JUP SUN, MAR MAR MAR JUP

Capricorn SAT URA SAT MAR SAT SAT

Aquarius MER CHI SAT MER URA

Pisces CER PLU JUP VEN LUN, VEN LUN NEP

As mentioned in the beginning of this paper, my inspiration about the zodiacal distribution of the planets (domiciles) originates from a reflexion
on the mentalities and the organisation of myths in the various cultural areas, and the succession of domiciles from Mars to Pluto has been
certain for me since 1984-1985. The following tables group the evolution of my understanding on this matter : clear on the Domiciles, more
erratic on the Exaltations.

PG DOMICILES (1985-2015)

Sign Domiciles Domiciles Domiciles Domiciles Domiciles

1985 1992-93 1996 2009 2015

Aries MAR MAR MAR MAR MAR

Taurus URA URA URA URA URA

Gemini JUP JUP JUP JUP JUP

Cancer MOO MOO MOO MOO MOO

Leo SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN

Virgo VEN VEN VEN VEN VEN

Libra NEP NEP NEP NEP NEP

Scorpio PLU PLU PLU PLU PLU

Sagittarius MAR MAR MAR X CHI

Capricorn SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT

Aquarius MER MER MER MER MER

Pisces MOO MOO MOO CER CER

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PG EXALTATIONS (1985-2015)

Sign Exaltations Exaltations Exaltations Exaltations Exaltations

1985 1992-93 1996 2009 2015

Aries JUP, NEP NEP SUN SUN SUN

Taurus PLU VEN VEN MOO MOO

Gemini MER MER MER MER MER

Cancer VEN, SAT SAT VEN VEN VEN

Leo MER JUP JUP MAR JUP

Virgo PLU PLU SAT SAT CER

Libra SUN SUN JUP JUP MAR

Scorpio URA SAT SAT CER SAT

Sagittarius NEP, JUP JUP NEP NEP NEP

Capricorn URA URA URA URA URA

Aquarius SUN NEP NEP X CHI

Pisces VEN, SAT VEN PLU PLU PLU

8. SEMANTICAL JUSTIFICATION OF THE DOMICILES

"In each of the four triads composing the twelve upper workshops, we create a ring. (...) Then the four rings are put together, and their assembly
forms a firm and rigid frame. We then make a falcon like you prisoner, and drop unto you this coat of mail." (Sohravardî, L'archange empourpré,
éd.-trad. Henry Corbin, Paris, Fayard, 1976, p.210)

The Rulers are the source of the hermeneutic tradition of zodiac signs, and in this sense they pre-exist the zodiac. For the Mesopotamian
astrologers, the constellations were merely points of reference for the localisation of planets, before figuring as amplification or attenuation
modes of the planetary powers. Even so, for Ptolemaeus, it is not a matter of specific zodiacal determination, or of influence of the zodiac signs
independently from the planetary forces. The limited descriptions of the Signs are about their meteorological dimension (Tetrabiblos, II 12).
Kepler shows no interest in the zodiac and only relies on the planets. Even so Daniel Verney states in his work in 1987 : due to the dichotomy
between "symbols related to the beings of the astronomical world : Sun, Moon, planets" and the " symbols related to the forms of astronomical
space-time : the zodiac system and its derived or associated symbols ("houses", "aspects"), in other words due to the assimilation of the three
conditional media (space, time, structure) under a same mode (the structural "forms" of space-time), he finally keeps in his theorised corpus only
the planets (the energetic frame of reference), through an extreme reduction comparable to a return to origins, to the time when the
Mesopotamians evaluated the influence of the mere errant heavenly bodies on the destinies in the city (in L'astrologie et la science future du
psychisme, Monaco, Le Rocher, 1987, p.162).

But since the planetary attributions to the Signs were put in place, only very few astrologers have really comprehended the nature of a zodiac
sign without its planetary partner. Not even Jean-Pierre Nicola who denies the reality of the Rulers (see his polemic with A. Volguine regarding
the attribution of Pluto to Scorpio, in Cahiers Astrologiques, 57, Nice, 1955), - in this way relinquishing any possibility to unify the various
structures of the astral matrix - and stating the autonomy of the Zodiac on a so-called "photo-periodical" and "reflexological" basis,
paradoxically describes the zodiac signs while thinking of the planets : "Saturn, according to the Tradition, governs Capricorn (...) Uranus, ruler of
the sign [of Aquarius] ... the caduceus, symbol of Mercury (...) rules Gemini and Virgo" (in La condition solaire, Paris, éd. Traditionnelles, 1965,
pp.181, 196, 105, etc.). In other words, one gets rid of the Rulers, and reintroduces them implicitly in the zodiac portraits. The often enlightening
intuitions of his descriptions, which are broadly inspired from those of the Psychologie zodiacale of Robert Dax (Vichy, imprimerie Wallon, 1950),
are altered by the intrusion of "unmastered" correlations - and partly obsolete : about Gemini, and in the conditionalist jargon one has to
assimilate : "the natural totalisation (...) resorbs the duality in a single sum" - which would correspond to Jupiter, defined as the "passage from 2 to 1
= simplification", but certainly not to Mercury, defined by the "passage from 1 to 4" and "loss of the dominating unity through dispersion in the
multiple." (Nicola, ibid., pp.105, 254, 255).

The theory of the Rulers implies an isomorphy between the Zodiac and the Planetary and the assimilation of the zodiac sign to its planetary
regents : firstly the domiciled planet which expresses the essential tendencies of the Sign, then the exalted planet which expresses its
complementary tendencies. Each astrologer is a judge of his sudden feelings and of his inner impressions and experience. No exteriority is
defining, imperious or judicatory in relation to one or the other value of the astral corpus : neither the explanation by astronomical reality, nor
the interpretation through mythology, nor the subordination to some idolum (specus, tribus, fori, and especially theatri) of Francis Bacon. Every
theory builds a more or less operative model of the astral matrix, and precisely more or less, according to the resources, the experience, the
intellectual probity, the spiritual level and finally the viewpoint and the intelligence of the astrologer. Because neither the understanding of astral
matters nor any activity of the spirit can escape subjectivity.

If a relative agreement exists between astrologers on the planetary semantics, what we propose here is a reinterpretation of the zodiac signs
(namely Taurus, Gemini, Virgo, Libra, Sagittarius, Aquarius and Pisces), taking into account the proposed house system. The Venusian
interpretation of Taurus (passive quietness, carnal enjoyment, taste for pleasures) conceals the individuation and domination will of the most
ambitious sign of the zodiac. One only needs to think of these 'masters' and keepers of conscience, all Taurus through the sun (Leonardo,
Machiavel, Kant, Marx, Freud) in the artistic and thinking fields, or of these 'tyrants' in the field of action (Cromwell, Catherine II, Robespierre,
Lenin, Hitler, Saddam Hussein). The Mercurian interpretation of Gemini, joker, juggler or showman, confuses the mask (persona) with the person
: behind his apparent joviality, a manipulator of consciences aspiring to all honours and gratifications is hiding.
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Often astrologers interpret Leo as an ambitious predator, a voluntary individualist. This is a 'western' interpretation (biased by western
idiosyncrasy) of his need to seduce, to amuse, to be taken into account, and finally to exist through other people's eyes. In the Buddhist spiritual
zodiac, Leo figures as an empty house or sometimes as the 'mask that an actor wears to represent a character above him (according to Volguine,
L'Ésotérisme de l'astrologie, Dangles, 1953, p.27 ; CURA, 2003).

Virgo, twice mercurised (Domicile and Exaltation), is represented as a sterile analyst, a mediocre formalist, a narrow conceptualist, a neurotic
person remaining at the 'anal stage' (Barbault using Freudian jargon) or moving in a 'Lilliputian paranoia' (Nicola) - symptom shared by a
modernity which understands neither femininity (which is intellectualised) nor virility (which is infantilised to Aries). Virgo, symbol of fecundity,
appears in the Buddhist zodiac as an 'embracing couple' (Volguine, op. cité, p.140 ; CURA, 2003). Virgo is the divine courtesan of the
Babylonians. The Ishtar (Venus) goddess was represented as a virgin. One reads in chapter 105 of the Akkadian presage collection iqqur îpuš
(which contains one of the first models of the 'Rulers' and which is approximately 1000 years older than the Greek one) : "the month Elul
[August-September] is the month of Ištar, lady of the countries." (in René Labat, Un calendrier babylonien des travaux, des signes et des mois, Paris,
Champion, 1965, p.105).

The Jupiterian interpretation of Sagittarius is a mistake about the meaning of 'morality' which is an ethical requirement before becoming a social
code and institution. One had to wait until 1977 for Sagittarius to find its pilot, the minuscule Chiro, drawn by astrologers as a healer, shaman,
clairvoyant or prophet, in other words an intermediary between humans and natural law, a medium likely to glimpse the necessity of reality.

A series of superficial analogies is the source of the factitious attribution of Uranus to Aquarius, which are opposed in many ways. The fortuitous
discovery of Uranus at the eve of the French revolution transformed Aquarius into a revolutionary liberator. In this way, although he is altruist
and sceptical, he ended up taking up the Uranian egocentrism and becoming the carrier of the most extravagant hopes (see the alleged 'Age of
Aquarius').

The astrologers often consider Pisces as a dreamer, a lover or a mystic : occasional masks of integral negation, of radical scepticism. Assimilating
Neptune to Pisces due to trivial mythological analogies only complicates matters and causes misunderstanding of this Sign. Capricorn is still
attached to a purist rationalisation of the Universe, but nothing escapes the absolute relativism of Pisces. If the world can dissolve, it means that
it is finished. Pisces is implicitly the Egg of the World, but it precedes the Big Bang (in Aries)!

The table below groups my texts on the zodiac signs and the planets, established independently from each other (see 1 et 2). The comparison of
the zodiac and planetary processes throws light on their respective virtual meaning.

ARIES MARS
I want (I will) Confrontation
Natural excitement permanence of the dual
Spending of energy implication of the strong level and
Immediate and polarised reactivity vital dynamism
The Shock (opposition energy) acting, combating, undertaking, re

Aries shows off brute strength without mediation. He propulses himself into existence, armed against any potential The evidence of existence presses
misfortune, and reacts to 'anything which moves'. He is only conscious of his deeds at the moment of action. Reflex resistance to consciousness. Spont
action, instantaneous reaction to stimulation, spontaneous and impulsive action, spurt in self-affirmation and in up in all its apparent power, in its n
voluntary definition. He seeks to master the existential situation and takes a determined antagonising viewpoint takes on the form of matter, but th
against any potential source of conflict. The use of available force and realisation occur immediately. His practical brings together internal and extern
intelligence adapts to the slightest energy variation. Aries lives 'one day at a time'. He commands an undifferentiated telescoping, violent shocks, shouti
energy potential, without preliminary objective, always available and renewed (pugnacity, optimism, innocence, sense Little matter what comes of it as a
of sacrifice, enthusiasm, eternal youth...)

TAURUS URANUS
I found Unification
Natural inhibition transformation of the multiple into
Concentrated excitement a drastic rise of excitability (and de
Conservation and stability individualized emergence
The Bomb (assimilation energy) centering, orienting, discovering, b

The possessive power results from an accumulation of forces, from an exclusive reorientation of energy, from a strict The real appears as an ensemble o
regulation of needs, from a specialisation of activity. Taurus organises himself efficiently and utilises his environment phenomenal diversity is organized
for the purpose of a specific objective which matches his interest. This demanding and perseverant worker masters totality and reduced to its lines of
the existential contingencies and overcomes resistance and obstacles (firmness, single-mindedness, carefulness, imperative of unification. Forces co
control, discipline...). Thus all source of energy dwindles with time : existence is a 'shagreen' with limited resources, an objective or a project that subsu
which he can manage sparingly and give away parsimoniously. of its potentialities in a unilateral o
knows how to recognize and cultiv
Legitimate power belongs to the o
arise from the tendencies of the w

GEMINI JUPITER
I can Simplification
Natural excitement transformation of the dual into the
Conditional spending a raise in the average level of excit
Thoughtful activity practical efficacy
The Flow (generalisation energy) spreading forth, observing, schema

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Gemini shows off a diffuse, overflowing energy in all directions, in purpose of a varied, broad, intentional and The real presents itself in a mediat
pragmatic activity. The preliminary acceptance of collective norms and social conventions conditions the efficient verbal efficacity and performance s
integration and the plastic adaptation to fluctuations in the environment (availability, improvisation, persuasion, to codify the concrete. Existence d
diplomacy, intuition...). Gemini evolves within a rather vast normalised field which allows the development of his are analyzed, situations are reduce
tactical plans. He can make compromises and can seize the opportunities of a situation, making good use of his activity that inscribes itself on the r
alliances and aides by persuading them to go by his views. It is in the general interest to follow the way in which he toward diversified objectives that n
engages his responsibility, which often feeds of other's. and the enjoyment of the things o
between human beings, of their pr
which the road leads to mistrust, je

CANCER MOON
I imagine Undifferentiation
Protective inhibition permanence of the unique in the e
Plastic adaptation implication of the average and ma
Diffuse receptivity informal gestation
The Earth (sedimentation space) limiting, enfolding, confusing, brin

Cancer acquires his balance by symbiosis with an environment which he assumes to be built to his measure and The real, perceived in a diffused m
which he shapes according to his wishes. He patiently weaves his net around him, by juxtaposition of successive Entities are confused one with the
layers and by concretion of external contributions, in a personal and protected space. Maintaining his vital balance balance is established through the
requires a mainly vegetative existence, developing away from any competition, sheltered in a world where the is exterior, through the interpenetr
imaginary often takes precedence over reality, in a universe to his measure, which can invigorate him and give him tenors, through the ambivalence a
confidence (passivity, dependence, daily routine, memory, affectivity..). Inducements extend into himself. He lingers in intermingled and dissipated throug
reviving the past, to the extent that he feeds of his own matter and is moved by his own emotions. The progressive manifestations, in permanent gesta
impregnation of disparate reality shapes his punctual, vague, varying affective ties. He finds his balance in this virtualities, for it carries this world
apparent weakness. A little of everything as it comes.

LEO SUN
I create Identification
Trace excitement permanence of the unique
Concentrated protection maintenance of a strong state of e
Spatial radiation radiating imagination
The Temple (fusion space) outward radiating, vitalizing, exalti

The concentration of inhibition creates a hollow centre in consciousness, a space which is open to the presence of The real is limpid and transparent.
sacred, and favours the origination of faith. The reason why Leo attempts to distinguish himself is that he needs to evidence of appearance. Things are
free himself from the evidence of this vacuum. Relatively insensitive to the fluctuation of the psyche, immune for realize them, or to demonstrate th
reconsidering himself, he masters his behaviour and his emotions. Mundane life, passions and multiple existential The Solar adheres to customs, con
intrigues fill his desire without satisfying it. He feigns authority more than he wants to seize it (integrity, loyalty, values, and also through an affecti
generosity, magnanimity...). Leo is a king who does not seek power, but who redistributes his powers. He multiplies agent within a community and end
the masks of his personality and takes on successive and varying roles according to the hazard of his encounters, anything on anyone that would be
because he only knows how to exist through the recognition by others of the ideal image he has of himself. He can human nature.
change himself, become actor of himself, because he has surmounted otherness, because he his other while being
himself.

VIRGO VENUS
I choose Dissociation
Protective inhibition transformation of the unique into t
Defensive limitation reduction of the strong level of exc
Selective receptivity affective preference
The Mirror (reciprocity space) loving (and hating), desiring (and f
sharing.
Virgo sharply perceives his latent affinities and hostilities, as well as the limits of his capability. His affective space
narrows around a chosen focus. The slightest detail related to it draws his interest because it is the encouraging The unique doubles itself; the appa
indication of the proximity of the desired being. Werther. Virgo is sentimental, susceptible for the most passionate the object of desire, which agrees w
attachments, although 'cold', indifferent and apparently critical (self-restraint, discretion, reserve, devotion, fidelity...) less conspicuous, bright or dark, lu
The exchange materialises through affective, almost permanent ties. Virgo is the only one who is capable of loving desire implies affective estimation
and giving everything without condition. His receptivity to others is so strong that he picks up his words, gestures, Attachment is exclusive, visceral. T
states and desires through some kind of unconscious mimicry. of its complement, be it tangible, i
gives of itself because it knows how

LIBRA NEPTUNE
I feel Association
Temporal excitement transformation of the multiple into
Intensive association rise in the weak level of excitability
Careful coordination contemplative participation
The Come-Back (time of balance) communing, fusing, gathering tog
pacifying.
The psychic plasticity and the acute attention to fluctuations of the living imply supple and fluctuating relationships
with the environment. A deed increases in weight with the consideration of all the potential, and is only accomplished The real is a field of correspondanc
with regret for everything which it leaves aside. The difficulty for taking a stand results from a heightened sensitivity sympathetically. Sensibility results

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for the diversity of consciences. Indecision results from receptivity to various solicitations and from respect for the is barely perceptible is felt, what flu
integrity of beings and of their successive states (authenticity, delicacy, subtlety, refinement, tolerance, charm...) Libra that goes beyond the immediate d
does not have fixed, polarised or definitive feelings or habits : his attachments are undefined, variable, ethereal, interrelates the most dissimilar rea
vivified by the presence of what can potentially animate them. The indefinite presence of the wor
without limit.

SCORPIO PLUTO
I live Over-differentiation
Differential inhibition permanence of the multiple
Concentrated attention maintenance of a weak state of exc
Selective distinction intuitive irreducibility
The Moment (time of dosing) destabilizing, decompiling, demyst

The sharp discernment allows the apprehension for the appropriate object, for the favourable location, for the The extremes of complexity are ma
sensitive point, for the crucial moment, for the eternal moment (perspicacity, critical sense, demystification, unfathomable, impenetrable. It ma
marginality...) Scorpio singles himself out by underlining his differences. He only has relative certainties. The essential never really identifiable, pressing a
part of his being, his vital core, cannot be determined or rationalised, because the 'power' is hidden in the elusive. reversability of its states of conscio
Impervious to any illusion, refractory to established values, rebel against any enrolment, irreducible for any disorderly flux of inextricable realit
identification, but sensitive for the rejected, despised, cast-off, he evolves towards dispossession and self- beyond appearances or trivialities.
regeneration. infinite variability of Being and bei
always possible.

SAGITTARIUS CHIRON
I see Integration
Temporal excitement permanence of the multiple and th
Extensive association implication of the average level an
Evolution moral necessity
The Spiral (time of harmonisation) intervening, engaging, cooperating

Openness to universality results from the anxiousness to take into account all points of view and to assemble them in The real resists consciousness by re
a synthetic inspired vision. Sagittarius only takes into account the least egocentric aspirations (solidarity, fairness, with a view to its transformation. T
cooperation, fraternization, compassion...). No matter the decorum : no one else has such a fervour to go beyond the benefit of the agent ("Springtime"
limits, to contend for the limits, to fight against alienations, to fight against unfairness and vulgarity in all their forms, of accomplishing what is just, equi
even to dare utopia and to challenge it beyond measure. Force obeys duty. Wisdom forms through reality's hardship. becomes the obligatory support of
No matter the lack of comfort and the annoyance for someone who simultaneously possesses the courage to live and forms.
to act.

CAPRICORN SATURN
I think Complexification
Extinctive Inhibition transformation of the dual into the
Active and generalised systematisation reduction of the average level of e
The Cristal (structure of crystallisation) abstract investigation
objectifying, purifying, detaching t
Capricorn rids himself of the insufficient, of the superfluous, of the artificial, of the random, of the futile which covers theorizing.
each phenomenon in its manifestation, to retain only the strictly necessary (detachment, exactingness, sobriety,
austerity, exactness, probity....). He aspires to perfection. His anxiousness for objectivity and his search for the 'truth', The real, of an extreme complexity
the absolute, imply the definition of invariant, of constant properties and permanent elements, beyond the existential the postulates one has always inte
circumstantial conditioning factors. The reasoned construction of the natural and social environment is the design of the circumstantial and of structurin
an uninterested intelligence, serving an abstract ideal without concession. One needs to be serious about the emerges in its outlines a skeleton,
necessary, beyond illusory appearances, and order it in accordance with the purest principles. articulated within a network of con
Investigation leads to greater and
octave below the indefinite comple

AQUARIUS MERCURY
I know (French : 'je connais') Dispersion
Re-creative excitement transformation of the unique into t
Concentrated extinction drastic reduction of excitability (an
The Code (structure of conciliation) intellectual mobility
transmitting, communicating, trans
Aquarius is open to everything that gets lost and disappears; he rehabilitates abandoned ideas and updates forgotten
values. No prejudice commands this restoration of the past, this assembly of renovated elements (independence, The real manifests itself through th
curiosity, cleverness, originality...). The organism no longer has a centre of gravity : he transforms himself according to effects, interpretation of data, dive
the solicitations of the moment. Every reality is indirectly in keeping with the environment. Beyond the old and the with one another: combination of s
new, the essential and the incidental, the deep and the superficial, transcending fashions and routines, Aquarius takes language, multiplication of relation
pleasure in the abstract exchange without a priori, in the suspension of ego. Nothing is unbecoming, because only transposition. Everything brings inf
the fluctuations of the context of the intellectual game are relevant. the mind plays with itself. The inte
consciousness as it has burst forth

PISCES CERES
I know (French : 'je sais') Potentiation
Extinctive inhibition permanence of the unicity and mu
Global structuring implication of the weak level and m

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The Matrix (structure of neutrality) logical formalization
preserving, ordering, systematizing
Most incitements are rejected, relativized, disintegrated. Pisces escapes any control and any subservience because he
only reacts to essential signals. Warned in advance and notified against the unforeseen, he creeps, navigates and lives The real is perceived globally, but
through situations and environments while blending with them. His mental plasticity protects him against fluctuations while preserving their latent possib
of the moment and keeps him at a distance from the variables conditioning factors which he neutralises of the "summertime" Moon are no
(disengagement, relinquishment, asceticism, placidity...). He seems all the more impersonal, indifferent, dissolved, pre-established structure that cont
'extinguished' since he does not assimilate anything, does not identify with anything, does not hold to anything. His elements. The skeleton no longer n
'contradictions' are explained by the ease with which he constantly changes his reference point. is an "innate" consciousness, witho
existing formal organization. Variat
"wintertime" Lunar has no need of
process of mastery.

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