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Transcript passage · Unknown · 4:27

Wind, Forms, The Aether, Anamnesis, and th Heptagram Within

Relevant chapter: Astrological Charts, Horizons, and Golden Dawn Orientation

not familiar with astrology, the sign middle left, it's called the ascendant. And then the sign middle right, directly across from it, 180 degrees across from that, is called the descendant. Okay? And that is that axis of first and seventh house draws a horizontal line. That horizontal line is the horizon. Okay. So the sun um rises in the east. Okay. And that's the left that's the left that's the left side of the chart. Okay. Um, that's actually why when you look at like a lot of Golden

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 5:16

Wind, Forms, The Aether, Anamnesis, and th Heptagram Within

Relevant chapter: Astrological Charts, Horizons, and Golden Dawn Orientation

Dawnbased ritual floor plans like before you're about to um a lot of times the east will be in the left like to the left in a not in all but in a lot. It's like, oh go, why is the east in the left on the left of this? It's because it's it it's, you know, it's modeled after this, the astrological chart where the eastern horizon is the ascendant on the the middle left. Okay. Um, that's also why in the Golden Dawn when we trace figures, let's say the spirit wheel is a great

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Transcript passage · Unknown · 5:55

Wind, Forms, The Aether, Anamnesis, and th Heptagram Within

Relevant chapter: Astrological Charts, Horizons, and Golden Dawn Orientation

example, you start middle left and then move around clockwise with the sun. So anyway, we've got the theme of Mundi who it's whole sign. We've established our ascendant, descendant, first 7th house axis and our horizon line. So this is the birth of the world, right? The birth of the universe. So on the ascendant we actually have um whole sign cancer, right? So the zodiacal sign of cancer is in the ascendant. And then as we go around counterclockwise, which is what we do in an astrological chart, right, with the

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, Three Books of Occult Philosophy