Min's Planetary Awareness Technique Chapter 5
Dr. Min
THE POWER OF Leo is made by the Sun's position to Earth
in the context of the other planets and their positions
to Earth at the time. It's one Sun and one solar system,
astrologically composed of ten planets, no more no less.
The majestic Sun appears from Earth to be the same size
as the Moon as it's four hundred-times more distant and
is four-hundred times greater in diameter than the Moon.
The Sun's initial yin-phase is the soft reflected light
from the planets, and the ambient light of Earth's atmo-
sphere. The second or morning solar phase is the direct
light and sharply contrasting shadows in broad daylight.
This angle of sunlight cycles with the tropical seasons,
from the tropic of capricorn up to the tropic of cancer
for southerly and northerly vertical rays, respectively.
By the Sun we number the days, weeks, seasons and years.
We live by the hours of each solar day, evening-morning.
The Sun is the furnace that powers our solar system and
is the only planet herein to emit light rather than ref-
lect it. This gigantic nuclear power plant is literally
the sustaining force of self-preservation, the queen of
wands in tarot, the sustenance of self who sustains the
strong nuclear force in our solar system. At nearly 865
thousand miles in diameter the Sun actually orbits with
the planets, primarily massive Jupiter, about the solar
system barycenter in response to the mutual gravitation
between the Sun and the Jovian Giant, with more distant
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune exerting somewhat less force
on the Sun. Add the miniscule masses of smaller planets
and moons, asteroids, comets, etc., then the Sun orbits
anywhere from about [-0.021] and 2.228 solar radii from
the system's center of mass over a long-term average of
1.19 solar radii, with a standard deviation of 0.47 s.r,
J2000 avg. Jup 1.068sr, Sat 0.586, Ura 0.180, Nep 0.335
[ref LS 13-14 January 1997 http://www.sunspot.noao.edu].
It is good to know this, because it emphasizes the fact
that the solar system functions as an integral unit, as
each planet's orbital motion testifies. Each planet has
its own sun-planet barycenter, which when combined with
the other planets makes the center of solar system mass.
It's fascinating to consider the spiral motion for each
planet as the solar system orbits the Milky Way's galac-
tic barycenter \sgrab, helping us to understand the com-
pounding of orbits over time, and how these are related
in the galaxy among many myriads of other solar systems.
As you see, the Sun essentially "corkscrews" toward the
solar apex (HerA* 7Sag20'52.9" +53:26'01" J2000) in its
galactic orbit along with the planets' spacious helices.
The Moon and other planets' phases of waxing and waning,
returning and rushing forth, is sunlight reflected from
bright limbs contrasting to dark--in the softened sense.
It's the liturgy of the Sun, i.e. lesser light of night
albeit the Moon, and even Venus can be seen in daylight
as the Sun radiates his light, warmth and splendor into
the world. So it is said Apollo vanquishes the darkness,
as he scatters the bolts of Jupiter upon all mortal men.
Yet the fiery, more asperated light of the Sun scorches
the Earth, sending his unremitting power needed for the
three brothers Zeus, Poseidon & Hades to bring droughts
and floods on the Earth, hurricanes, tornados, hail and
lightning with all extremes of weather around the globe.
The Sun powers the hidden fires far beneath the surface,
which in turn feeds massive volcanos and earthquakes as
the Sun inflames such plague-stricken regions with fire
and famines. Apollo's muse Melpomene is that of Tragedy
not without cause (play the Dorian scale from D-to-D up
and down, then pick out some melodies to hear Melpomene
sing in the melodic minor of her "tragic" Dorian scale).
The Sun's Dorian muse sings in a melodic minor modality,
having the natural-sixth compared to the Moon's Aeolian
flatted-sixth of Klio's natural minor. Both sing in the
minor mode and are distinguishable by a semitone on the
sixth of each diatonic scale. Twins, yes, Identical, no.
We live by and bask in the warming solar light, whereas
the burning light of the Sun humans can barely tolerate
as a species, depending on the abundance or scarcity of
potable water more than anything else. Just as the Moon
& Stars of night channel the superconscious through the
subconscious while we're asleep, the daytime Sun is the
part of mans days to be physically active and conscious
so that what we've learned in our sleep can be revealed
or applied to our conscious life amid physical activity.
Of course not all people sleep at night, but most of us
do, as has always been the case since prehistoric times.
This is because daylight makes it far easier to see and
to stay warm. The cold darkness of night draws man into
the safety of his abode. Notably, those active at night
who sleep in the day for years on end, they will suffer
from more health ailments and have a significantly shor-
ter lifespan than their average daylight-active counter-
parts. Physiological "circadian" rhythm associated with
daily regulation of the body's metabolism, sleeping and
glandular cycles, is the diurnal clock of Earth's solar
day. Daily rhythms are inherent to all living organisms,
which in the case of man, helps him to sleep nights and
be active during the daytime, since that's how the body
of a human being is best designed to survive and thrive.
There are circumstances when humans must maintain vigil
at nights, but the circadian clock of Earth's solar day
is as fixed and sure as the Sun will rise every morning.
Our chronic nightowls eventually pay the physical price
for their nocturnal pursuits as the world keeps turning.
The twinship of the Sun & Moon, made apparent by nearly
equal synodical size during totality of a solar eclipse,
includes their yin-yang quality relative to evening and
morning, with both Sun & Moon "yin" at night and "yang"
in daylight, differentiating between feminine/masculine
sidereal principles of planets and their synodic aspect
to the Earth. The Moon is innately feminine, the Sun is
masculine, yet both exert yin & yang power to the Earth
in reference to their respective solar-day rule: by the
phases of the Sun, evening and morning of the solar-day,
and phases of the Moon, evening and morning of waxing &
waning. The Moon's bright limb increases in the evening
with each new moon, then decreases in the morning, with
each full moon. Hence the morning of the Moon begins at
sunset with each full moon preceding the morning of the
Sun. As the Moon wanes, she moves closer to sunrise and
shares more of the daylight hours with her twin brother,
until the old crone is consumed under the splendid rays
of the Sun with the assurance of being born anew to the
Earth's evening skies. These relationships of the Sun &
Moon to the Earth are unique, the Sun sidereal to Earth,
and the Moon both sidereal and synodic to Earth with re-
spect to the Sun--the genesis of the day of the Sun and
the day of the Moon relative to Earth. Ancient creation
accounts from around the world break it down pristinely,
recognizing that all of the planets and their moons are
perpetually half-sunlit, and half in the shadows of the
Sun in stark contrast to the constant solar illuminance,
hence the division of evening & morning for the planets.
- From this sidereal division comes the synodic phases of
the planets to Earth, or evening & morning with respect
to the geocentric observer under that sphere of control,
i.e. moving with the Earth in real-time while all other
planets are moving to the Earth in their synodic aspect.
These are temporal aspects of the planets, drawing upon
the eternal light of the Sun with parts of that eternal
light reflected in all directions away from the planets.
And because planets are roughly spherical in shape, the
unabsorbed or reflected rays of sunlight radiate in all
directions from the sunlit hemispheres of those heavens.
As Earth orbits the Sun, that whole sunlit disc of each
planet is fully visible only at solar opposition, which
for Mercury & Venus is impossible to see from the Earth,
but as with every planet, is forever in view of the Sun.
The slight orbital inclinations of the planets Mars and
beyond, although Pluto's ecliptic is about 17.1 degrees
inclined to Earth's ecliptic, this makes it possible to
see almost but not completely all of the sunlit side of
any of the planets from Earth, unless the opposition is
coincident with crossing the momentary plane of Earth's
ecliptic as "witnessed" at the geocenter of observation.
The clear concurrence between the light we see with our
physical eyes and the light we see with our psychic eye
(i.e. having eyes all around), this is the assurance of
planetary motion, the certainty of ephemeris prediction
based long ages of practical experience with astronomic
observation of the planets via their synodic motions to
Earth compounding over about two hundred thousand years
since the variations began. Our ephemeris is that light
eternally visible at the center of the Earth. While the
Sun functions as central conductor of the planetary sym-
phony, the compositions which the orchestra performs is
the function of the central sphere of activity which is
the Earth for all human beings and all animal lifeforms
herein our solar system. Psyche knows where each planet
is psychically, and the mind knows where each planet is
mentally. The lights that we see with our physical eyes
complete the integrated circuit of our human experience,
just as the light we see in our spiritual eye completes
soul's awareness from souljourns in the heavenly realms
beyond the Earth and in the body of this heavenly realm
called Earth, the tenth heaven of soul-body experiences.
Throughout this contiguous experience of soul with body
under the synodic phases and astrological influences of
the planets then soul without the body beyond the Earth
to the eternal realm of the heavens, this cycle of life
and death has been building under the Sun from the fall,
since soul is eternal but the body is temporal. In this
temporal experience under the Sun, the harsh aspects of
the sering solar rays have indelibly scarred our memory
with harmful solar radiation or else not enough to keep
us warm, the extremes of sunlight malignantly affecting
the fallen man's experiences through seven ages of ages
(Fri 22 Apr 177,376 BC Gregorian to Fri 21 Dec 2012 AD),
although not fully corrected until by or before 2331 AD
for all those hoping to see the "Second Advent" by 2012.
I reiterate, that's the seven diatonic modes transposed
across the twelve chromatic tones, in this case, of the
tropical or seasonal variations under the Sun--as Cayce
called "reasons or seasons of thought"[ref. 398-2], the
benefic or adverse aspects of seasons, as fall & winter
is followed by spring & summer, dying off and returning
via a new incarnation. This is elementary to the causes
by which we observe tropical years & ages of precession,
as 780,000 solar days is 2135.57 tropical years per age.
Consider the Sun's exalting aspect at the first of Mars,
the tropical month of Aries, in which days begin to get
longer than the nights and new life begins springing up.
The year is divided first at the equinoxes, then at the
solstices. Life is born on the winter solstice. Life is
budding at the vernal equinox. Life is at its vertex on
the summer solstice. Life then dies at the fall equinox.
At this death of life hope begins, hope of life eternal.
Of course the transitions between these cardinal points
of the year are fluid and dynamic, but man has numbered
the ages of precession from his fall, the beginnings of
death, from the autumnal equinox, which begins the hope
of Venus and exaltation of Saturn at the month of Libra.
In the superior or evening seasonal aspect of life, the
debilitate Sun takes its days wearied, lower in the sky,
falling, dried out leaves and wilted plants, the nights
are getting longer than daylight as the Sun heads south
for the winter. But the departed soul is in the heavens,
temporarily beyond the grasp of mortal human experience,
beyond the need for sunlight to sustain its mortal body
as the Sun holds the planets in their respective orbits.
- From heaven soul is cast down at birth, or within hours
thereafter on the ascendant, for the exaltation of Mars
in the month of Capricorn under Saturn's superior reign:
Apollo begins his ascent from the long shadow of winter.
With the vernal equinox, adolescence begins to flourish.
Once again, Mars rules in inferior aspect, that of self-
indulgence. The summer solstice sustains the archetypal
human, the ideal condition of immortal life. Mature but
not old, fully-grown but not aging, the month of Cancer
when the Moon rules and Jupiter is exalted favoring the
waning moon visible in the expanse of the warm daylight,
the portent of autumn, towards which the Sun is already
begun to fall. Just as the seasons of the tropical year
are divided under the Sun, so are the precessional ages
of life divided, under the Sun and by the tropical year,
for the cause of the one is also the cause of the other.
Since the seven modes of the planets are interdependent,
meaning it takes all seven tones to compose each of the
seven modalities, so the planetary modes are transposed
through the ages, every mode in each of the twelve ages,
making eighty-four unique key signatures per great year.
Each age of precession, or each twelfth of Earth's slow
gyration against her caelestial sphere, begins with the
Sun at the vernal equinox ingressing the last degree of
the zodiacal constellation for which that age was named.
The present Piscean age, that of tropical ecclesiasticy,
began at the vernal equinox 220 AD with the Sun 29Pis59.
The Aquarian age would theoretically begin 2370 AD were
it not for the manifesting correction to the variations.
But we'll speak of the tropical year as it has been for
some 200,000 years, and the variations affecting us all,
the cycles of life and death which tried us in the fire.
The ecclesiastical calendar of the tropical year begins
at the month of Aries, in which the Sun is exalted. The
four cardinal directions refer to their exalted planets,
East-Sun, West-Saturn, South-Mars and North-Jupiter. As
the Sun rises in the East, it's easy to see why the Sun
exalts in Aries, with Leo the sustaining major third of
the cardinal self Aries. Hence the Sun is happy, joyful,
felicitous, most exalted in sustaining the self of Mars.
The spring-to-spring calendar is masculine, the morning-
to-morning calendar of the tropical year. Preceding the
ecclesiastical Aries-to-Aries calendar, is the feminine
Libra-to-Libra, evening-to-evening, liturgical calendar,
as our superconscious awareness precedes self-awareness.
Remember, death is the beginning cycle of life, not the
end. The second death is the beginning of our incarnate
life on Earth, the temporal experience of soul and body.
Death is superconsciousness while life is consciousness.
The superconscious is evening. The conscious is morning.
The "conscious" is self, self as a physical human being.
In heaven is soul's "superconscious", while life hereon
the Earth is mostly mundane-consciousness compared with
the unfiltered, ecstatic vision which is ours in heaven.
So that's the better part of life's challenge, to adapt
to the conditions presented in the body, mind, and soul,
then yoke them together in accordance with ones purpose
under the exclusive purview of providence--by free will.
Easier said than done, but that's the challenge of life.
As the Sun sustains self, the innumerable stars sustain
others. As the Sun is one star among infinite stars, so
the self is one among billions of other selves on Earth.
Self-actualization is the birthright of posterity or as
the saying goes, we see ourselves in our children, that
inherent DNA "spark" of self passed on to our offspring.
The relationship of self to others is the difference of
day and night. One is to be self-aware, while the other
is to be aware of others in the context of another self.
Self is personality and others are soul's individuation.
The "inner child" is the Arian-archetype of self, which
is the collective superconscious exemplar of ideal-self.
The golden rule "love thy neighbor" is inherent in soul,
the ability to step outside of oneself as the chromatic
tone 'C' of Aries is consonant with the diatonic 'C' of
Pluto or geocentric observer at the center of the Earth.
So the Sun rises and sets every day, and by the Sun man
predominantly lives out his conscious days on the Earth.
The tropical angle of sunlight to the latitude of human
habitation determines generally cyclic weather patterns
for that part of the world and the seasons of each year,
hence what life is like for the people of that latitude,
from the perpetually warm torrid zone to the icy arctic
or antarctic regions where human beings seldom set foot.
Soul's return to the blue planet that has been rotating
some twenty-three degrees inclined from its once stable
and firm rotational axis for about two hundred thousand
tropical years (i.e. since tropical years began), human
beings and all soul-bodies on the Earth who must endure
the tropical variations and its consequential hardships
are understandably reluctant to incarnate again & again
to live within such an inherently dangerous environment.
But the Sun shines eternally, holding hope for tomorrow,
empowering & sustaining the destiny of our solar system.
End Chapter 5. See Chapter 6 For Continuation...
Daniel Joseph Min
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