Min's Planetary Awareness Technique Chapter 6
Dr. Min
MERCURY'S RETURNING PHASE IS the intellectual ensign of
Virgo, the archetypal High Priestess whose is the court
of the knight of pentacles, the waxing phase of Mercury.
The waning malefic phase of Mercury is Gemini, which is
the archetypal Lovers and court of the knight of swords.
While the Moon is to feel, and the Sun is to see, it is
Mercury's to communicate, and to think logically, analy-
tically, mathematically. At an average distance of 0.39
AU, Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun thus has a
sidereal year of just 87.97 solar days or less than one-
quarter of a mean tropical year. As a result Mercury is
frequently in retrograde, which usually lasts for about
22 solar days, and occurs within each 115.9-day synodic
interval centered approximately on inferior conjunction.
Mercury is visible only near heliacal rising or setting
when Mercury is near maximum elongation never exceeding
about 28 degrees longitude. The brief interval when Mer-
cury can be seen just aloft the eastern horizon, occurs
within a fortnight past inferior conjunction or between
10 - 17 days past superior conjunction for about a week.
Mercury must be a minimum 18 degrees from the Sun to be
observable. As the main physical properties and orbital
characteristics of Mercury and other planets is covered
in my "Tarot Manual" (available on my website), here we
are concerned with the psychological characteristics of
the planets, as actualized in thoughts, words and deeds.
The psychologically archetypal qualities of the planets
and signs are succinctly reflected in the 22 characters
of the ancient alphabet ergo the 22 trumps of the major
arcana. The temporal manifestations of these archetypes
are mirrored in the 12 courts, 40 pips & 4 pages of the
minor arcana. Since the four page cards are really just
a composite of the three court cards of each triplicity,
there are really only 52 cards in the minor arcana. The
22 cards of the major arcana are simply the ten planets
and their twelve signs according to their ideal quality.
That's why a common deck of playing cards is sufficient
to cast tarot spreads--in the hands of a gifted psychic.
Mercury is the consummate astrologer, magician, mathema-
tician, wizard, shaman, scientist, alchemist, and witch.
Mathematics is the universal language and the universal
archetype of Mercury, logical, methodical, quick-witted.
The mercurial mind is calculating, cunning, shrewd to a
fault. By playing the Locrian scale from B-to-B, up and
down the white keys of a piano keyboard, you can listen
to Kaliope "singing" in her fickle theoretical modality,
favoring no one tone apart from her own. And so Mercury
doesn't hesitate to steal from the other Gods, speaking
for the other Gods, to belie and deceive the other Gods.
But of course the other Gods are not so easily deceived,
unless they've taken a back seat to the analytical mind.
While the intellect of Virgo is the powerful servant of
logic and science, Mercury alone is incapable of reason,
lacking gnosis, opposing the mystical wisdom of Neptune.
The caelestial lights provide the exaltation of Mercury,
the naming, numbering and divisions of light, the mathe-
matics of astronomy, the intellectual pursuit of enligh-
tenment thru study of every subject matter in existence.
Attunement with Mercury is to awaken the intellect, and
to communicate in the universal language of mathematics.
The virtue of Mercury is the waxing phase which is pure
of mind. The mind for mind's sake. The value of thought
alone without blemish. 2 + 2 = 4. E = MC^2. The applica-
tion of mind to differentiating, factoring out and redu-
cing every equation of life to its elemental components.
This is the superior, yin-phase of Mercury, to quantify
and qualify data, to interpolate and extrapolate, to in-
duce and deduce, to theorize and test, to calibrate and
refine, to name and number. This is the feminine aspect
of Mercury. Exalted of mind. Innocence of the intellect.
Purity of mind is lost to the temporal waning aspect of
Mercury, which is the archetypal Lovers of the major ar-
cana, the masculine or "yang" phase of Mercury receding,
the mutability of consciousness--on the augmented fifth
of Libra--ergo the Gemini twins, one mortal, and one im-
mortal as Castor & Pollux signify communication between
mortals and immortals as "twins" created in their image.
The very division of signs, seasons, days, and years is
numbered first by the evening and morning, innocent and
guilty, superior and inferior, immortal and mortal. The
"twin" duality of life, as the Sun and Moon & Stars are
twins complementary one of the other. These are the two
great luminaries, as the erudite Hebrew-Egyptian priest
Moses wrote in Genesis "which give light upon the earth,
and rule over day and over night, and make a separation
between the light and the darkness". Counting the hours
of night then day at the autumnal then vernal equinoxes,
then counting the days between them from fall to spring,
then from spring to fall. Then counting the days in the
year, then over multiples of years, decades & centuries.
Then counting the days and years of the superior and in-
ferior phases of the planets, then the days of heliacal
and acronycal phases to fixed stars, then the multiples
of the planets' sidereal-synodic-tropical periodicities
over longer then longer intervals, reaching great years
of tropical precession, to the seven multiples of those
ending December 21 2012. Such is our mercurial twinship,
intellect and communication for the evening and morning.
When considering the synodic aspects of the planets, it
is the position of the planets to Earth relative to the
Sun which determines which sign the planet is making to
the Earth, i.e. whether it is waxing superior or waning
inferior by its radial velocity. This isn't the same as
the apparent phase of the bright limb to the Earth, but
is the apparent motion of that planet either towards or
away from Earth at the time. The bright limb of planets
appears to wax and wane by its relative position to the
Sun's light. Being so near in orbit to the Sun, Mercury
can be spotted only when near first or third quarter or
about half-lit. Mercury begins to close the distance to
Earth when coming around the far side of the Sun, hence
Mercury's bright limb begins to wane as Mercury's phase
of Virgo begins to wax. Near inferior conjunction, with
Virgo completed, Mercury's bright limb begins to wax as
Mercury's phase of Gemini also begins to wax as Mercury
begins receding from the Earth. Around a fortnight into
this second phase--that of Gemini--Mercury becomes visi-
ble at heliacal rising, against the background of stars:
*stars
/
~
*Sun ~
| /
| *Mercury
| /
| /
-->|------/<--minimum elongation 18 degrees
| / maximum elongation 28 degrees
| /
| /
| /
| /
|/
*Earth
Because Mercury repeats its synodic phase approximately
every 116 solar Earth-days, the background stars appear
to shift behind Mercury by about 115.9 / 365.26 days or
about 114 sidereal degrees...almost four constellations
east of Mercury's previous heliacal rising by long-term
averages. Not only did this prove to prehistoric humans
and other fairly intelligent hominids that Mercury does
in fact orbit the Sun, but also that Mercury is nearest
to the Sun of all the planets, and has a sidereal orbit
averaging about 88 days, give or take a few days due to
the steep inclination of Mercury's ecliptic, around 7.0
degrees to Earth's ecliptic, and eccentric orbit 0.2056
or over a fifth difference between major and minor axis.
As a result, Mercury has for millions of years appeared
to Earth-bound observers to average ~85 synodic periods
every 27 tropical years, making ~191 sidereal orbits of
Mercury every 145 synodic periods and 46 tropical years
on average. Of course over such a long time as millions
of sidereal Earth-years, the orbital motions of planets,
and the length of days & years, has dynamically evolved
with the solar system. But the fundamental principle of
astronomical observations and counting the days, months
and years between observations has remained intact, and
proves that prehistoric man knew that the planets orbit
the Sun, and that ancient & antediluvian men have known
that the planets orbit the Sun ever since. This in turn
proves that the much-lauded "Copernican Revolution" was
no more than an exercise in frivolous subterfuge & self-
aggrandizement on the part of ignorant & arrogant fools
who it seems never bothered to look up at the night sky.
Such is the self-deceiving aspect of Mercury, impure of
mind, guilty of thought, beguiler of self and of others
caught off guard "and it came to pass that Cain rose up
against Abel his brother.... am I my brother's keeper?".
So it is important to differentiate between self-taught
knowledge, that acquired through first-hand experiences
or logically deduced through rational thought processes,
and ineptitudes perpetuated by men who've been deceived
by others into accepting glaring distortions of informa-
tion and unwarranted misinterpretations, misconceptions
and misunderstandings compounding aforesaid distortions
as such lies are parroted from generation to generation.
Generally, the more convenient a lie is then the easier
it is for that lie or deliberate omission of fact to be
held true and misrepresented among peer groups as truth
or fact when it is neither true nor factual. The myriad
examples of such widely-propagated lies and fairy tales
run the gamut from science and religion to politics and
philosophy and everything that happens around the world.
Some lies are barely lies at all, but only slightly mis-
stated or misrepresented facts. While other lies are so
blatant or pernicious as to contradict all that is true.
Among the biggest lies in the history of man would have
to include the lie that says that ancients only thought
of the planets as "wanderers" implying that they didn't
know that the planets orbit the Sun, neither were aware
of the length of each planet's sidereal year relative to
the Sun and distant stars or their synodic periods with
respect to the Earth. Clearly, as with Mercury, all the
planets visible to the naked eye can be viewed from the
Earth to orbit the Sun simply by watching the night sky
over a period of decades. Consider the motions of Venus:
*stars
/
~
*Sun ~
| /
| /
| /
| /
| /
| *Venus
| /
-->|---/<--minimum elongation 7. degrees
| / maximum elongation 47 degrees
| /
|/
*Earth
The sidereal year of Venus is about 224.70 solar days, or
around 0.615 tropical years. Because Venus orbits the Sun
faster than Earth does, a synodic year for Venus is about
583.9 solar days. Hence, approximately every 1.6 tropical
years, Venus is first seen to rise heliacally just barely
visible about 4 days after inferior conjunction, becoming
progressively more prominent as the "bright morning star".
Venus is retrograde on average about 42 days, centered on
inferior conjunction. It is apparent that Venus' sidereal
orbit is significantly closer to the Sun than that of the
Earth since the maximum elongation of Venus never exceeds
more than about 47 degrees. By contrast, planets orbiting
the Sun beyond Earth's orbit clearly encompass all of the
closer planets, as they visibly circuit the Sun over time
to solar opposition or that planet's inferior conjunction.
The further away each planet's orbit is from the Sun then
the longer that planet's sidereal orbit takes to complete.
This is made apparent to observers watching the night sky
over decades and centuries of observation and bookkeeping.
It's easy to see that Earth's own sidereal orbit with the
Sun takes about 365.26 days, as the heliacal stars attest.
This is visibly faster than Mars, and visibly slower than
Venus, hence the ancients numbered Venus third heaven and
Mars fifth heaven, with the Sun properly numbering fourth.
Not far from the Sun, Venus advances against the backdrop
of our caelestial firmament with each heliacal rising, or
each maximum elongation, either superior or inferior, and
times of entering or leaving retrograde motion, etc, each
point in Venus' repetitive synodic motion is consistently
584 days apart on average. As Venus epicyclically follows
the sidereal orbit of the Sun as viewed from Earth, there
can be no doubt that Venus sidereally orbits the Sun, and
at a rate nearly twice that of Earth approximately 585.14
degrees sidereal longitude per tropical year--again, when
you account for the minus 0.014 degrees annual precession.
*stars
/
/
~
~
*Sun /
| /
| /
| /
-->|---/<--minimum arc of stellar vision
| /
| /
|/
*Earth
The heliacal risings of stars throughout Earth's tropical
year demonstrate her precession over years of observation,
averaging one arcdegree every 26000 solar days or 71.1856
mean tropical years, which boils down to -0.13846 seconds
precession per day, -0.0000016 seconds per second of time.
*stars
/
/
*Mars
/
~
~
*Sun /
| /
| /
| /
-->|---/<--elongation
| /
| /
|/
*Earth
It takes Mars about 1.88 mean tropical years to orbit the
Sun, which is about 687 solar days. The synodic period of
Mars is about 780 days or 2.1 tropical years, longer than
for any other planet in our solar system. Mars appears to
progress through the caelestial zodiac 191.38 degrees per
tropical year on average. With each heliacal rising, Mars
is seen to have progressed about 408.73 degrees longitude,
thus advancing almost 49 degrees with each synodic period.
Mars turns retrograde for about 73 solar days centered on
inferior conjunction. As the Red Planet's synodic periods
progress against the caelestial firmament, accounting for
Earth's precession, the observer sees that Mars' sidereal
year is about 1.881 mean tropical years as already stated.
*stars
/
/
*Jupiter
/
~
~
*Sun /
| /
| /
| /
-->|---/<--elongation
| /
| /
|/
*Earth
Jupiter orbits the Sun in about 11.86 tropical years. The
synodic period for Jupiter is about 400 solar days. Every
year that goes by, Jupiter rises heliacally about 35 days
later than it did before. On the average, Jupiter is seen
to progress through the caelestial zodiac at around 30.34
degrees longitude per tropical year accounting for -0.014
degrees per year of precession. Hence, with each heliacal
rising, Jupiter appears to progress on the average 33.22*.
Jupiter retrogrades about 121 solar days as approximately
centered on inferior conjunction that is solar opposition.
Year after year, these synodic intervals progress against
the stellar backdrop, which when compensating for Earth's
precession proves to the observer that Jupiter's sidereal
year is about 11.86 mean tropical years as already stated.
*stars
/
/
*Saturn
/
~
~
*Sun /
| /
| /
| /
-->|---/<--elongation
| /
| /
|/
*Earth
Consider the golden-yellow planet Saturn, the Scythe, who
has the longest sidereal period of the five double-ensign
planets, at an average of about 29.45 mean tropical years.
With each passing year, Saturn is seen to rise heliacally
on average about every 378.1 solar days, or about 13 days
longer than Earth's tropical year; hence Saturn's synodic
period is about 378 days. The slow precession of Earth on
her rotational axis causes distant stars to appear rising
heliacally progressively later in the year to the tune of
approximately 25626.83 mean tropical years per great year.
Thus Earth's precession is relatively quite slow compared
to Saturn's progress who "zooms" around the Sun at a rate
of about 12.22 degrees longitude per tropical year. We'll
add the approximately -0.014 degrees per tropical year of
precession to Saturn's progress, and you have about 12.21
degrees per year that Saturn progresses against the stars
as viewed from Earth. By watching Saturn at times when he
is approaching inferior conjunction/opposition to the Sun,
you'll see Saturn enter retrograde motion ~138 solar days
on average approximately centered on inferior conjunction.
At these times Saturn appears to "stand still" in the sky
as he turns retrograde, then 4 1/2 months later returning
to normal motion. Each of these points in time repeat for
the long-term average synodic period of ~378.1 solar days.
Year after year, these synodic intervals progress against
the stellar backdrop, which when compensating for Earth's
precession, proves to the observer that Saturn's sidereal
year is about 29.45 mean tropical years as already stated.
Reiterating, each planet can be observed over decades and
yield its sidereal and synodic periodicities. Orthodoxy's
claim that the ancients failed to notice and deduce these
obvious principles of orbital motion as solunars, eclipse
cycles & nodes, tropical, sidereal, anomalistic, draconic,
synodic, eclipse season, solar totality, planet-planet or
planet-star conjunctions and occultation series etc, such
ludicrous claims are invalidated by the observable lights
on the Earth's celestial sphere and by plain common sense
-never mind the fact that the ancient records explicitly
list the ten planets in their sidereal order, just as the
ancient zodiac charts the planets in exactly the same way.
Even the seven planets naming successive days of the week
are explicitly raised by the order of the sidereal fifths.
This could not be more obvious, yet the orthodoxy who are
quick to denounce astrology even though they've never stu-
died it are just as quick to run and hide when confronted
with the evidence that proves that the ancients knew that
the planets orbit the Sun simply by watching their motion
in the night sky and counting over days, months and years
to keep track of their orbit. Notice also how the asinine
orthodox scientists routinely ignore these evidences, and
continue to cling to their hopelessly-defunct "Copernican
Revolution" even though it's been proven to be groundless
and grossly misinterpreted by brutish orthodox historians.
There are many other examples of Mercury's malefic aspect,
such as the orthodox scientists' lie that there's no life
after death, or that there is no aether or quintessential
element in the Universe, or their claim that the Bible is
just a collection of religious fables that never happened,
or their raging vitriol and contempt against supernatural
or paranormal forces of any kind--and against those of us
who have in fact experienced or have understanding of the
same. The orthodoxy have gone so far as to reject the one-
ness and interconnectivity of all things, of all subjects
and topics. They don't want you to realize that astronomy
and astrology share much in common and share common roots
in ancient religion and mythology. They don't want you to
recognize the importance of your place in the universe or
the spiritual and indestructible nature of your God-given
soul. What a dull, dismal and unenlightened existence the
orthodoxy must lead to deny the spiritual reality of life.
"...a huge land plateau with clear images
of what appears to be manmade large-size
architectural designs partly covered by
sand. From above, the shapes resemble
pyramids, roads and buildings."
--verbatim quote Paulina Zelitzky, ADC
"They are working on inscriptions that
they have detected on these stones..."
--verbatim quote Paul Weinzweig, ADC
As recently as the summer of 2000, a Soviet-born Canadian
ocean engineer named Paulina Zelitsky, along with husband
Paul Weinzweig and son Ernesto Tapanes, all working for a
Havana Cuba-based company Advanced Digital Communications
(ADC) using side-scan sonar equipment discovered the site
of a vast underwater city, complete with roads, buildings,
and pyramids, many of which bear symbols and inscriptions
all remarkably similar in appearance to ancient Mayan and
Aztec architecture...at almost half a mile below sealevel
off the westernmost coast of Cuba! As word quickly spread
of this fabulous discovery, the debunkers were already in
high-gear trying to defuse this archaeological bomb shell
using their usual tactics of character assassinations and
disavowals of the discovery in their desperate attempt to
discredit Zelitsky & Co.'s otherwise excellent reputation
in hopes of distracting the public attention from this ad-
vanced antediluvian civilization which is dated 28,000 BC
and older by Edgar Cayce, and flourished around the world.
This antediluvian culture is known as "Atlantis", and the
extant evidence for its existence has brought disgrace to
orthodox archaeologists who'd long-since condemned ad hoc
anyone who understands that intelligent humans & hominids
date back many millions of years before the present epoch,
and the highest civilization of Atlantis is dated 200,000
tropical years BPE (Cayce, 364-4). So you see, the global
ocean levels have risen since Noah's flood cir. 28,000 BC
by at least 2200 feet well-after the flood waters receded
worldwide. This explains why surviving maps of Antarctica
show the once-inhabited continent at mild latitudes, with-
out ice, some depicting coastlines at pre-flood sealevels.
You can view some of these maps on the following web URLs
(if link shows "error", delete "temporary files" and copy
& paste complete map URL in address field and it'll work):
Piri Reis Map c. 1513:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/6683/map-piri-reis-big.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/6683/map-piri-reis-redraw.jpg
Oronteus Finaeus Map c. 1531:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/6683/map-o-f.jpg
Mercator Map c. 1569:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/6683/map-mercator.jpg
Buache Map c. 1737*:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/6683/map-buache.jpg
Now compare the ancient maps shown above with modern maps
shown at: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/2minsurface/.
Regions shown as cyan-green are where dry land used to be
before circa 28,000 BC (land masses have changed somewhat
too). As in this example, view this image (549,952 bytes)
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/2minsurface/1350/45N090W.jpg
pertaining to the greater region where this giant, thirty-
thousand year old city was discovered. Clearly, there was
plenty more land above sealevel before the flood, and the
Bimini wall/road ~500 miles to the north-east is not that
far away, and was once dry land, just as Edgar Cayce said
would appear "in '68 and '69 not so far away"[ref. 958-3],
ergo "among the first portions of Atlantis to rise again".
Clearly, ADC's discovery in 2000 is part of these regions.
The great mystery isn't mans divine and extremely ancient
origins, but is the question: Why do the orthodox science-
worshipers tell so many absurd lies about so many things?
You see, the whole basis of knowledge and higher learning
was predicated on mans ability to learn from his mistakes.
That is until lately, since indoctrination has supplanted
knowledge and pseudo-academic dogmas have replaced normal
learning processes. Today's secular-religious types would
rather roast in hell than admit to centuries of deception.
So at once Mercury is malefic aspect in the psyche of men
who promote deception, which is the separation or rushing
forth of intellect which is quickly getting away from the
logical mind--fleeing rational thought processes in haste.
The High Priestess is pure of thought, high-minded, ready
to think things through clearly with logic and efficiency.
She is untainted by the distortions of disinformation and
boldfaced lies of those who've let quick Mercury get away
from them, i.e. those who've conveniently abandoned logic
in exchange for foolish pride and rapidly fleeting vanity.
The benefic aspect of Mercury is like Roddenberry's Surak,
who was the father of pure Vulcan logic known as Kolinahr,
and the Vulcan priests who, through much discipline, have
attained such lucid, logical thought devoid of distortion
which the Vulcan equates with emotional aberration--human
frailties in other words. But Spock who is half human and
half Vulcan fails to achieve Kolinahr, since his emotions
are too human, too evolved in his psyche or "katra" to be
denied equal footing with his tremendous Vulcan intellect.
There are fully ten planets in our collective psyche here
in our solar system. The divine spheres are universal, as
part of the collective soul of the Milky Way galaxy, then
the super-collective soul of clusters of galaxies, and so
on, to the universal collective soul approaching infinity.
Hence, the ten spheres of heaven are universal yet unique
to each solar system's development from Alpha to Omega as
the universal "I AM" testifies in the Greek New Testament.
The heavenly sphere of Mercury is often called the mental
plane or fifth dimension, the "binah" in the tree of life
of traditional kabalah (see Chap. 2 Compleat Tarot Manual)
which is the divine vessel of Hermes the God of intellect,
the second heaven of the "ten ineffable sephiroth" as the
Sepher Yetzirah aptly describes it or doesn't describe it,
rather the number ten is definite while the sephiroth are
described as having "ten vast regions bound to them bound-
less in origin and having no ending, an abyss of good and
of evil...measureless in height and measureless in depth".
Essentially, this is the tree of life in the midst of the
Garden of Eden, "to eat thereof is to know good and evil".
The Sepher Yetzirah continues "ten are the ineffable seph-
iroth...if thy mind escape from thee bring it back to thy
control...'running and returning', hence was the covenant
made" [ref. Wm. Wynn Westcott's Third Edition, pub. 1887].
Remember, these are the ten planets and twelve signs they
exert from their synodic positions to the Earth, relative
to the Sun. When planets are superior to the Sun they are
closing the distance by radial velocity, ergo "returning",
hence are the superior and benefic ensigns of the planets.
Thereafter, when planets are inferior they begin "running"
away from the Earth by radial velocity hence the inferior
and malefic signs of the very same planets. The "covenant"
is the law of the iris (bow) set in heaven, the chromatic
eye of the sky. Seven diatonic modes transposing by their
reign over the twelve chromatic court-yards of the zodiac
that they empower from their positions to the Earth. See?
The "eye" of the iris is our psychic eye at the center of
the Earth which sees in all directions, our ephemeris eye,
which psychically knows where the planets are psychically,
and mathematically knows where planets are mathematically.
The lights on Earth's caelestial sphere are demonstrative
of where planets and stars are located, relative to Earth,
at any given time of observation. Edgar Cayce proved that
mans psychic consciousness of the heavens is corroborated
by mans physical & mathematically-conceptual observations
of the same. The mercurial intellect is mans purely mathe-
matical and logical concept of all that he or she surveys.
Hence Mercury is the Magus, the mathematician of the Gods,
the one learned in numbers, letters, symbols of all kinds,
since mathematics is the universal language of the cosmos.
Mercury translates the signs and signals of the Gods into
the one universal language that is common to all. Mercury
is the God of communication. Truly, messenger of the Gods.
End Chapter 6. See Chapter 7 For Continuation...
Daniel Joseph Min
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