Many people see these glyphs very superficially, simply associating them with pictorial elements related to the sign in topic, while they represent much more than that. Referring to glyphs, even meditating on them, we can have the revelation that makes the difference between reading about energy and using a mantra to get in touch with it. There is a difference between knowledge and understanding.
The glyphs used in astrology, are symbols that represent the archetypal energy of any sign or planet, they are those designs through which we can deeply resonate with the occult aspects of the energies with which we operate and use to help people know themselves better.
This is why I decided to share the story about this profound symbolism, story that I myself learned from those who initiated me in the secrets of astrology, and through my practical experience I have widened my views about it..
The Aries glyph represents the beginning of spiritual evolution for a human being. It's the moment of birth when the energy of the beginning is at its maximum, the moment in which from the transcendence (represented by the spot in the middle, from the base of the glyph), duality and the manifestation are born (the two curved lines towards the right and the left of the middle point). It is the place where the water of life springs out, it is the strain of the plant that has just emerged from the ground and is ready for a new life. The person that has just been born and begins to take action, to learn what it means to manifest energies and desires, he learns about good and evil.
The archetypal energy of the Aries brings into the world and carries this energy of the beginning. Precisely from this energy endless enthusiasm springs, the aspiration to maintain a present state in which all things are a never-ending beginning. The power to throw itself, fearlessly, full of boldness and courage, also comes from this attitude of being in the present, beyond good and evil, as a divine child that plays with existence.
After we begin to take action, to experiment, we realize that our actions have results. These results are symbolized by the core circle from the Taurus's glyph, circle, that depending on the type of actions that we have focused predominantly on, can be a circle of attachments, of karmic chaining, or the circle of wealth, of earthly wealth. The only way in which we can get rid of these karmic chains is if at a certain moment we realize it's necessary for us not to close in these circles of desires and attachments, leaving them open facing up, towards God, giving him the fruits of our actions. Also, the base circle is the symbol of vitality, without which there can not be any spiritual evolution.
The archetypal energy of the Taurus brings us abundance, the stability of the earth; the Taurus who can obtain through perseverance and hard work any kind of riches, perfectly controlling the material aspects of the manifestation, a control that comes from his state of gratitude towards God. From this state comes a self satisfaction, reconciliation, a state of emotional richness and overwhelming sensuality that are specific to this sign.
After leaving the circle open at Taurus, we're getting at a evolutionary moment in which the mind appears, and so, the duality between feelings and reasoning comes up. The mind creates this type of duality that separates the two semi-circles (from the bottom and top), dividing the human and divine spheres, in which the reasoning tends to dominate and to repress some emotional aspects. There still are connections between the divine and humanity but this connection is subject to the mind's duality. The human being has the tendency to pay greater importance to wealth and the manifested sphere, then to God, this creating a separation between the personal will and the will of God. Though the two spheres are distinct, they are connected through the two vertical lines, the human being that still has access to the divine sphere, divine grace still pours permanently upon him.
The archetypal energy of the Gemini will be defined especially by the action of thinking, of understanding and of communicating. The adolescent openness and curiosity defines this sign, and the need to communicate (especially verbal), the need to read, to transmit and receive ideas, becomes an art form through which interpersonal relationships take on a different level.
In the Cancer glyph we find the two spheres completely separated. Because of the mistakes and prevalence of the mind, the divine sphere separates completely from the human sphere, they remain close but they don't touch each other. The nostalgia of the past, that is related to the unity between the two spheres marks this stage of evolution and the tendency to remain lost in this nostalgia is its trap. This energy - maternal through definition - feeds and sustains with energy a new entity that was born through the rupture from the divine sphere. It is like a rebirth of the man in manifestation without a direct relationship with God, only the memory and nostalgia of that union remains. If for the Aries, we are talking about a birth from transcendence (symbolized by the central point of the glyph), for the Cancer we are talking about a birth from a physical mother (symbolized by the Cancer's glyph that can represent the breasts of a woman), which is part of our forgetfulness about our divine origins.
The archetypal energy of the Cancer is the energy of the mother, energy that feeds, sustains and protects the child that she has born. It is also the sign that remembers the far away past, the union with God and brings into the present through emotions, the intimacy from the Edenic period. This Edenic intimacy is lived within a family and a home, in which they live, where they manage to create the feeling of emotional security that brings us to a state of complete and perfect protection given by God.
Once with the awakening to the Leo sign, we are in a new cycle, where the person ruptured from the divine condition, starts forming his personality, here only existing one sphere, the individual sphere, from the two spheres of the Cancer. From this sphere of human individuality, the human being decides to rely only on his own will. Thus, seized by the social and material accomplishments, from his need of power, he climbs using his own strength (the line upwardly curved), exhausting his powers eventually and falling lower than he was before, until the point in which he finds out the essential lesson of this sign - humbleness - and that the only way is through the divine will, the point where he starts climbing again (marked by the lowest point of the glyph).
The archetypal energy of the lion brings the brilliance that imposes itself as leader, the energy of the king, that, full of humbleness leads his people toward God. He is the father figure that generously provides all the needs to all, sustains them and guides them by subjecting his own will, to the divine will.
After the ascension from the end of the Leo's glyph, the human being realizes that he has its fate in his own hands, that everything depends on the decisions he takes. In order not to make the same mistakes he will analyze again and again the decisions, the three lines from the glyph that take the same road again. The symbolism of the three lines is related to the in-depth analysis in the three planes of manifestation (physical, astral, causal), the three states of consciousness (subconscious, conscious, super conscious). This kind of aspiration towards perfection brings the human being strength to work, the critical eye, but also the simplicity and modesty through the comparison with the perfection to which it aspires. The analysis takes place repeatedly until the human being realizes that if he is only considering horizontally, based mainly on earthy values, he will have the tendency to repeat the same mistakes. The loop that goes back to the beginning of the glyph, symbolizes the revelation that through a state of humbleness and modesty, through recognizing our own mistakes we can get closer to the divine perfection.
The archetypal energy of the Virgo resonates with everything that is simple, modest and pure. She is the souls aspiration to everything that is perfect in a divine perspective, she is that search that puts herself in the service of God to serve any divine purpose for which she is called for.
In the Virgo sign man has analyzed and studied many aspects of existence, through this gaining the experience of a more complex understanding of things. However, this understanding is only lived at the mind level, horizontally, symbolized by the horizontal line from the base of the Libra's glyph. Man realizes that without feelings he loses its purpose for coming into existence - living directly through God. The upper line, interrupted by the semicircle symbolizes rising above reason through feeling, the realization that the feeling will always be superior to reason and the balance between the two permits the harmony that leads us to the profound knowing of God. It is permanently seeking the balance symbolized by the glyph, the scales tend to move seeking harmony between the interior and exterior, day and night, mind and heart The Libra glyph also suggests the image of the setting sun in the horizon, it's the moment when nature starts its retreat into the inner world, as opposed to the Aries where it has just woken up to manifestation.
The archetypal energy of the Libra awakens harmony, it is the sign for which the harmony of the manifestation is an essential condition for existing. That is why art is so easily brought into this world through this energy, naturally manifesting beauty, sensuality, and the harmony of this world.
The glyph of the Scorpio resembles that of the Virgo. But here, the three times passage through the same experiences, complemented by the curve that goes down and then goes upwards in the shape of an arrow, brings a completely different meaning. The road repeated by the Scorpio is in fact a continuous struggle with is own nature. It has the tendency to negate and self destruct repeatedly and be born again and again, but it will be able to overcome this phase only by accepting its own nature and descending in the profoundness of the being’s poisons symbolized by the needle of the Scorpio at the end of the glyph. It is the necessity to confront with their own misery, to descend into the dark depths of the subconscious, to alchemize the misery, to find God in all the three plains of manifestation, that through this awareness to climb again toward Him. The climb toward the divine, passes through the poisons of this world, and their alchymization is a definitory lesson for the Scorpio sign. By the awareness of God even in death, man has the chance to transcend the sufferings of this world.
The archetypal energy of the Scorpio is that transformational force that can alchemize even the most deadly poison exactly by accepting it and recognizing its divine nature. The hidden magic, filled with the mystery of the profoundness of this sign, can lead us to places in our being where normally we don't have the courage to enter in, giving us at the same time the power to let death "clean up" to be reborn as divine beings. Eros and death are energies that are closely related with the mystical feelings, and the Scorpio sign brings them both to life in the most sublime and transformative ways.
The glyph of the Sagittarius, is continuation from the Scorpio's needle, it shows us the aspiration of the man that has experienced many tests and spiritual trials. It is constructed of an arrow inclined at 45 degrees, symbolizing the searches of the man in the divine plain (the straight up direction, on the vertical), and the searches related to the material, human plain (horizontally), the search for balance between spiritual and material. The glyph is an arrow shot upwardly to draw the attention of the higher beings, that man got to the stage in which he seeks guidance, a master.At the same time, the line that intersects the glyph of the Sagittarius sign, represents the dangers of this phase. The desire to know the divine truth leads to spreading into useless philosophies, in unapplied theories and in the egotic need to convert others to the ultimate truth that we think we hold. Man has to remember, that every genuine knowledge comes from God and that the truth that one has access to at a certain moment in time is conditioned by the level of consciousness and by his aspiration.
The archetypal energy of the Sagittarius brings us to the fight for the divine truths, a permanent need to learn and to teach others about it. It is the energy of the disciple that has complete obedience for his master and seeking his path, it is the energy of the master that teaches with generosity from his own experience.
It is the moment when man, after having access to the divine truths, to the guidance of a master, has to learn to give up on all his habits, all his attachments from the past, and become another man, in order to reach perfection. These are all possible only if we start from the beginning, like a rebirth, symbolized by a the Aries sign glyph from the beginning of the capricorn glyph. After this, we need to confront with all the attachments, to descend in all those limitations that we maintained until now (the circle that continues the descending line), after which, through long efforts, asceticism and renunciation, we can return to the divine beginnings. The curve that is heading left, looks like it want to take the whole glyph in its arms, symbolizing the revelation of the total self acceptance through recognition of the whole, getting into an eternal present, unifying with the beginnings.
The archetypal energy of the Capricorn sign is defined by the state of maturity, patience and ambition to achieve the goals we have set. By the efficient organization, by the perfect control of time, by giving up everything that is not useful and helpful, the Capricorn teaches us what real ascetion means, giving up their own limitations to achieve perfection.
The Aquarius glyph is composed by two polygons with five lines each, symbolizing the five elements that compose manifestation.The Capricorn stage hardened man, it took him to all his limits, that he successfully overcame, getting to be prepared for sharing the knowledge gained from hard work, with others. It is the stage when through life experience man has reached the mastery stage, at the Aquarius level he already controls perfectly all of the five elements, control gained through the control of their own being. Using the principle "know thyself first, and thou shalt know the universe", man got to a perfect self-knowledge and self control in the Capricorn stage and through this, a perfect control of the manifested reality; qualities that the Aquarius uses to serve others.The water of knowledge with which the glyph can be associated with, is now given as a gift altruistically and detached to others.
The archetypal energy of the Aquarius gives us the inspiration and the superior knowledge to which it has access to, a connection with divine spontaneity. The interior freedom that it manifests is an example of detachment for everybody who wants to know God. The altruistic and friendly openness helps him understand others and to be able to help them also detach from the limits with whichthey are confronted, through his own freedom and connection to the energy of universal spontaneity.
At the Pisces stage, man is prepared to make the great consciousness leap in which the divine and the human spheres get to be interconnected again. Through a state of devotion to the divine ideal, trough sustained sacrifices towards the knowing of God, in the Pisces sign we get to unite the two spheres, and even more than that, they get to be at the same level, symbolizing reaching the state unity with God. t the same time, from the two spheres we can only see part of the circle, the rest remaining unseen, this symbolizing that there is always a visible and an occult side in the human sphere as well as in the divine sphere.any search of the human being to find God again will reach perfection only in the moment when the two spheres merge, fully uniting the human being with God.
The archetypal energy of the Pisces is characterized by superior compassion and sensitivity, that came from living the divine necessities. They bring us to an ideal, divine world, where they are capable to soak in anything that enters their sphere of influence. The sacrifices that they make are meant to get them, as well as others, closer to the knowledge of God, they being guided forever by a superior inspiration, way beyond human understanding.
This story about the zodiac glyphs is meant to help us understand the specific of each energy of the zodiac in depth, not to classify the signs as consciousness levels.
People's evolution occurs in a spiral, meaning that a person born in the Aries sign on a superior spire can be more elevated than someone born in Pisces on an inferior spire. It is important to understand the way these energies manifest in our being, especially because, we all manifest to one degree or another, in one field or another all these kinds of energies. If we understand which are their features, it will be much easier for us to understand our own way of emotional, mental and psychological "functioning" and so to pass beyond them, to recognize our divine nature. The natal chart, is a mixture of planetary, zodiacal energies, influenced by mathematical points which in order to be deciphered requires much more than some labels that we put on others as being one sign or another.
Labeling is easy, it is a tool that helps us simplify the exterior world in order for us to manage it more efficiently, but the deep understanding is the only one that allows us to truly know ourselves and the different aspects of this manifested reality.
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