Mountains Tremble With Moon Square Mars

י' תמוז התשס"ח
Faunus 12

In follow-up to my previous entry (When All Else Falls, A Claddagh Remains), a few interesting features of my sidereal whole natal chart:

5 Stellia:

Stellium with Sun: 24Sag26 and Mer: 26Sag22 and Jup: 21Sag47
Stellium with Sun: 24Sag26 and Mer: 26Sag22 and Sat: 26Sag21
Stellium with Sun: 24Sag26 and Jup: 21Sag47 and Sat: 26Sag21
Stellium with Mer: 26Sag22 and Jup: 21Sag47 and Sat: 26Sag21
Stellium with Plu: 13Leo42 and Nod: 14Leo43 and Asc: 15Leo44

Grand Trine:

Grand Trine with Ven: 10Aqu16 and Mar: 10Gem54 and Nep: 16Lib49

Cradle of Creativity:

Cradle from Mar: 10Gem54 to Plu: 13Leo42 to Nep: 16Lib49 to Jup: 21Sag47

T-Square:

T-Square from Mid: 12Tau27 to Ven: 10Aqu16 and Plu: 13Leo42

Moon Square Mars:

Moon (Vir) Squ [Gem] Mars - orb: +1:47' - power: 10.88

8 astrological points in zodiac houses associated with elemental fire signs.

In A Good Heart, Find Good Peace

י'ו באדר ב' תשס"ח
Raven 17

In my natal chart, Neptune is found in Libra which itself is in the third House of Communication where the future is brought together and molded.

In Torah Temimah it was shown that Neptune corresponds to tov (טוב) meaning good.

Libra corresponds to the Hebrew letter lamed (ל). Lamed is mystically associated with the heart of Chavah, in which rests a protected place for peace to unfold. What kind of peace? Good peace, like the good heart (Neptune in Libra) which brings it together, molds and gives birth to it.

True Witnesses

י'ו באדר ב' תשס"ח
Raven 17

Experience (Heart, Soul)

I became a living experiencing acting intelligence (חוה Chavah, 19),

Space (Teli, Universe)

brought down through the ninth astrological sign of the zodiac (Sagittarius), into being

Time (Cycle, Year)

with ten, during the tenth month of the Hebrew calendar (Tevet).

A proof of this,
true witnesses in the Universe, Year, Soul
and a rule of twelve (בי), and seven and three:
set in the Teli, the Cycle, and the Heart.

Sefer Yetzirah 6:1

Perfectly And Abundantly Made

י'ו באדר ב' תשס"ח
Raven 17

Ten Sefirot of Nothingness, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven
Understand with Wisdom, be Wise with Understanding ...

עשר ספירות בלימה, עשר ולא תשע, עשר ולא אחת-עשרה
הבן בחכמה וחכם בבינה

Sefer Yetzirah 1:4

The moon (ב) is in Virgo (י) in the second House of Acquisition of the zodiac in my sidereal natal chart. What does this בי mean? It literally means "with ten". With ten what, exactly? There is "nothing" to tell me what "ten" בי is referring to. Wait, I understand now! I remember the words "ten sefirot of nothingness, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven" that I am made with.

The word for "ten" in the above excerpt from Sefer Yetzirah is עשר. The shoresh עשר means "enriching", "being abundant", and "complete unit".

The word for "nine" in the above excerpt is תשע. The shoresh תשע means "decrease" and "less than a complete unit".

The word for "eleven" in the above excerpt is אחת-עשרה. Here is where the vessels may become shattered. אחת is the feminine form of "one" unit (as אחד is the masculine form of "one" unit). One complete unit holds the feminine and masculine forces it contains in equal balance. In the Hebrew word for eleven (אחת-עשרה), the feminine unit force (אחת) emerges unilaterally increased (עשרה), which would ultimately result in an uncontainable and destructive imbalance among the polarities, and thereby shatter the vessels.

Thus, "with ten" Understanding and Wisdom are bestowed abundantly and in perfect balance so as not to shatter the vessels.

With "nine", Understanding and Wisdom lack fullness and wither.

With "eleven", there is too much Understanding and not enough Wisdom. Understanding is a powerful force of restrictive differentiation. Without an equal balancing Wisdom force of expansive integration to meet Understanding's movements, the vessels implode and shatter.

Taken together, I wisely have come to understand that I have been perfectly and abundantly made "with ten" in complete harmony.

There are seven Hebrew words in the portion of the excerpt "ten and not nine, ten and not eleven" (עשר ולא תשע, עשר ולא אחת-עשרה).

There are ten Hebrew words in the excerpt "ten sefirot of Nothingness, ten and not nine, ten and not eleven" (עשר ספירות בלימה, עשר ולא תשע, עשר ולא אחת-עשרה).

Thus, I manifestly acquired בי at birth.

Cheshbon HaNefesh & The Secrets Of Time

י'ה באדר ב' תשס"ח
Raven 16

At the cusp of the tenth zodiac house, the House of National Soul, rests the zenith of the natal chart known as Midheaven (Medium Coeli, MC). Midheaven, situated above the place of birth, is the superconscious point connecting the incarnating life-force to it's mission goals for the particular lifetime into which it is evolving. In my sidereal natal chart, Midheaven is set in Taurus (Shor).

The mazal of Taurus (corresponding to the power of the letter vav) contains the pristine and rectified spiritual origin of the nefesh soul and brings out into purposeful revelation:

radiance and light
the powers of contemplation, introspection and calculation
natural healing
mastering the secrets of time
the power to connect and interrelate all elements within creation

Thus, the "national" origin of my nefesh is represented by the Hebrew letter vav and my introspective Torah is a radiant, light-filled, healing, masterful, connectively creative vav-Torah.

Eishet Chayil Of The House Of Zayin

י'ה באדר ב' תשס"ח
Raven 16

There are two astrologically significant points in the seventh House of Zayin in my sidereal natal chart. They are, like Betzalel and Ohaliov, artistic talent in partnership with the Divine:

Venus - kaf (כ), the power to actualize potential and manifest rectified Will.

Chiron - כירן, artistic molder, from the shoresh כור meaning to purify, repair and correct; the ability to rectify Will; from which is derived the word כיר, meaning to be molded, to mold - in other words "chiron" brings down the ability to mold (purify and form) and be molded into (actualize) one's messianic spark, represented by nun-sofit.

The House of Zayin in my natal chart is in Aquarius (Dlee, צ), which brings out the ability to draw Divinity into manifest revelation.

The configuration of the seventh house offers insight into the Divine "I" as a helpmate to the personal "self" as described in the first house of the zodiac.

Stones Of Memory

י'ה באדר ב' תשס"ח
Raven 16

My astrological sun sign using the tropical zodiac is Capricorn. However, the more accurate sidereal zodiac used by astronomers is the zodiac I have been using to interpret my natal birth chart. Using the sidereal zodiac, my astrological sun sign is Sagittarius.

In my sidereal natal chart, there are 4 planets under the encircling embrace of Sagittarius (ס), the sidereal sun sign of my birth. They are, in order:

Jupiter - tav (ת)
Sun - dalet (ד)
Saturn - reish (ר)
Mercury - pei (פ)

The inner two planets, the Sun and Saturn (dweller, דר), are surrounded by Jupiter and Mercury (middle ear, תף). Significantly, the inner stone (dar, דר) called dweller establishes Malchut, and the satellite stone (socharet, תף) called middle ear establishes Binah. Together, they form the stones of memory.

Unblemished Mitzvah

ח' באדר ב' תשס"ח
Raven 9

In Treasure From The Hidden World, in analysis of my natal birth chart, I wrote that the "water" flowing through my soul is an unblemished flowing treasure of the hidden world; that is, Consciousness flows through me as it existed before the shattering of the vessels which occurred in the world of Beriyah, the first world of nature "distinct" or apparently "separate" from the Divine. In other words, the heavens and the earth declare and testify my individuality to be a clear conduit for Divine Awareness, a realized tzelem of the Divine Above Nature, a צלילות of flawlessly lucid clarity.

In kabbalah, the unblemished hidden world is known as the world of nothing (ein, אין), as opposed to the revealed world of something (meumah, מאומה). The Torah story of the akeidah (binding of Yitzchak) informs us that "meumah" is the source of spiritual blemish (a mum).

Meumah has a gematria of 92. Interestingly, there are 92 naturally occurring elements in nature, the world of something.

In contradistinction to meumah, 92 is also the gematria of tzav (צב) which means "command" and "mobilize". Tzav describes Pure Action of immaterial Consciousness, before it enclothes Itself in the natural world of 92 elements - as discussed in my entry, Mitzvah Written In The Stars (Go! and Remember!), and described in Truth And Diligence, Candle In The Womb. Tzav is that which speaks forth the ability to do.

To be clear, pristine meumah is not "blemished". In the process of taking on the materiality of "something" (meumah), Consciousness is vulnerable to becoming blemished via the shattering of the vessels. Consequently, I suggest that vulnerability of meumah to blemish is neutralized by the presence of tzav.

In support of this idea, the combined gematria of meumah and tzav is 184, the gematria of pakod (פקד), meaning remember.

Throne Of Shechinah

א' באדר ב' תשס"ח
Raven 2
Rosh Chodesh Adar II

There are five stellia (Yods, each with a gematria of 10, for a total of 50) in my natal chart.

Stellium with Sun: 24Sag26 and Mer: 26Sag22 and Jup: 21Sag47
Stellium with Sun: 24Sag26 and Mer: 26Sag22 and Sat: 26Sag21
Stellium with Sun: 24Sag26 and Jup: 21Sag47 and Sat: 26Sag21
Stellium with Mer: 26Sag22 and Jup: 21Sag47 and Sat: 26Sag21
Stellium with Plu: 13Leo42 and Nod: 14Leo43 and Asc: 15Leo44

Related entry - Shechinah & The Mystery Of Zero

The Thirty-Seventh Tzadi

א' באדר ב' תשס"ח
Raven 2
Rosh Chodesh Adar II

Grand Trine with Ven: 10Aqu16 and Mar: 10Gem54 and Nep: 16Lib49

A Grand Trine aspect configuration is found in the Air signs (Aquarius, Gemini and Libra) of my natal chart. A Grand Trine is where:

Three planets in Trine aspect (120 degrees) to each other, form a triangle around the circle of the chart. Looks like an "equilateral triangle." The planets are typically in signs that have the same element. Generally, an easy-flowing energy, often indicating natural talent in the element involved.

Libra - ל, with a gematria of 30
Gemini - ז, with a gematria of 7
Aquarius - צ, with a gematria of 90

The total gematria of the Hebrew letters representing my Grand Trine is 127, the number of years in the life of Sarah and represents a very special lamedvavnik.

Air Sign Grand Trine strengths - psychic, symbolic, ideas, visionary

Echad, The Cradle Of Creativity

א' באדר ב' תשס"ח
Raven 2
Rosh Chodesh Adar II

Cradle from Mar: 10Gem54 to Plu: 13Leo42 to Nep: 16Lib49 to Jup: 21Sag47

In my natal chart, there is an astrological aspect called a Cradle. A Cradle is:

An aspect configuration consisting of two planets in an opposition aspect. There are two more planets, each forming a trine aspect to one side of the opposition and a sextile to the other.

In effect, there are two Wedge configurations. In a Wedge, the apex planet (that trines and sextiles the opposed planets) provides a release or relief point for the stress of the opposition. The apex planet can be a source of great creativity.

Specifically in my natal chart, the apical planets are Pluto/Geut and Neptune:

Pluto/Malchut - Geut (גאות), with a gematria of 410, digit sum 5

Neptune, 17 times the mass of Earth - Yesod, tov (טוב), gematria 17, digit sum 8

The sum of the digit sums which describe the source of the creativity springing forth from my Cradle is 13, Echad (אחד).

Manifest Harmony Of Opposites

א' באדר ב' תשס"ח
Raven 2
Rosh Chodesh Adar II

T-Square from Mid: 12Tau27 to Ven: 10Aqu16 and Plu: 13Leo42

The opposites on the T-Square in my natal chart are:

Venus (Aqu) Opp [Leo] Pluto - app 3:26' - power: 11.46

In other words, the energy of Venus in Aquarius is a helpmate to the energy of Retrograde Pluto/Geut in Leo.

On Venus in Aquarius and 7th House: This person's creativity, tendencies for affection and calmness, and relationship needs is progressive, erratic, revolutionary, idealistic, humanitarian, inventive, and desires individuality.

On Retrograde Pluto in Leo and 1st House: This person's destiny, and capacity to transform the self and the outer world is proud, gregarious, dramatic, dignified, and desires self expression. Most often this manifests in an independent, backward, introverted manner, and in the area of life dealing with establishment of personal identity.

The "opposing" energies of Venus in Aquarius and Retrograde Pluto/Geut in Leo are clearly in manifest harmony in my life as demonstrated throughout my creatively progressive, revolutionary, transformative self expressions - Walking On Fire, Craftwork Of A Jewitch and my poetry in motion.

There is no discord at all between the Jewish kabbalist and the Celtic witch in that which I am. Both exist in perfect and complete harmony, as two entwining streams of a united consciousness.

T-Square & The Time Of Mashiach

א' באדר ב' תשס"ח
Raven 2
Rosh Chodesh Adar II

T-Square from Mid: 12Tau27 to Ven: 10Aqu16 and Plu: 13Leo42

The above code describes the T-Square found within my natal chart. On the T-Square phenomenon of astrology, holistic health consultant Dr. Loretta Standley writes:

A T-Square or T-Cross is when two planets are in opposition aspect to each other (180 degrees) and both making a square aspect of (90 degrees) to a third planet. It's an isosceles triangle!

Both square and opposition aspects are supposed to be stressful aspects, which can panic the neophytes in astrology when they see they have a T-Square in their natal chart. This is a frequent chart aspect in most successful people. Most successful people can tell you that their success has had its ups and downs, yet they keep moving toward their intended goal. T-Squares give a person experience, wisdom and character.

Therefore, you will more than likely see T-Square's in the natal charts of CEO's, leaders, famous or creative people because there is nothing that would stop them from attaining their goal. And because of the challenges they experienced, this makes them all the more successful since the focus was brought about by the T-Square.

Look to the planet that is at the 90 degree angle (of the T-Square) and then look directly across to the other side of the chart and THAT is the point focus. What planet is there and what sign is it in? If there is no planet there, then look at that particular house to see what the house focus is.

In my natal chart, there is no planet or aspect directly opposite Midheaven (the point at the right angle of the T-Square, joining heaven and earth) in the fourth house of home, family and ancestry in Scorpio/Cheshvan. Of the house of Scorpio/Cheshvan, with no astrological points in my natal chart, R. Yitzchak Ginsburgh teaches:

Cheshvan is the only month which has no holidays or special mitzvot.We are taught that it is "reserved" for the time of Mashiach, who will inaugurate the third Temple in Cheshvan.

This is another interesting link of my natal statistics to messianic consciousness and the messianic temple.

Dr. Standley further writes on the T-Square:

Having a T-Square is like driving a car with 3 wheels. It's obvious you're only driving with 3 wheels so identifying and fixing the problem is fairly easy. If you drove a car with three wheels, you'd have a fairly Good idea what to do in order to fix the car and make it driveable.

The "problem" to be overcome in my case, that is, the focus of the T-Square, is easily identified as "the problem" of having no special holidays or mitzvot during Cheshvan, the house of Scorpio. I've overcome that in the singularly special mitzvah I was given as I was incarnating - Mitzvah Written In The Stars.

Temple In Time

א' באדר ב' תשס"ח
Raven 2
Rosh Chodesh Adar II

I was born at the 8th hour, fifty and six minutes of the night as it is commonly reckoned in time (8:56 PM).

Related writings:
A Mystery Of The Pardes
Shechinah & The Mystery Of Zero
Holy Serpent & Creating The Future
Epiphany

Tides Of Rectified Awareness

א' באדר ב' תשס"ח
Raven 2
Rosh Chodesh Adar II

In Holy Serpent & Creating The Future, I gave Pluto the Hebrew name Geut. Following that, I wrote, regarding the astrological point in the first house of my natal chart, that the North Node participates in the process of attaining messianic consciousness:

North Node - Rosh Ha-Teli (ראש התלי), head of the serpent, with a total gematria of 946, a reduced gematria of 19 (Chavah, חוה), and a final digit sum of 1 (echad אחד). Thus, the Chavah archetype mediates transformation of serpent consciousness into the consciousness of Echad.

We can understand then the importance of the rectification of Chavah consciousness. In my own life, my Hebrew name Elishaba, reflects this tikkun (allowing tiding movement between the created awareness of Chavah and the Divine awareness of Elishaba). Chavah corresponds to low tide (shiflut). Elishaba corresponds to high tide (geut).

On my Hebrew name Elishaba, from Walking On Fire, Poetry In Motion

Elishaba, Dark Brilliance

dark and tiding
surging, pulling back to ponder
some faculty without description
some inmost desire riding shadows divine
eternal flames of destiny in one endless light
gathering some peaceful brilliance
some celestial magnificance
standing in the gap, as quantum time
spreads out, yet collapses into being
earthy, riveting, relentless, vital
the lingering taste reverberating in the wake
of the night wind watering my world
with love
made from nothing at all

The Holy Serpent & Creating The Future

א' באדר ב' תשס"ח
Raven 2
Rosh Chodesh Adar II

In follow-up to Soul Of Shomer Shabbat, the final 4 of the 8 Elemental Fire astrological points in my natal chart concentrate in the first zodiac house (the house of personality/purpose). The 4 points are:

Uranus/Hod - Tam (תם), with a gematria of 440, digit sum 8
Pluto/Malchut - Geut (גאות), with a gematria of 410, digit sum 5

According to the Gra configuration of the Tree of Life, the channel connecting Hod/Uranus and Malchut/Pluto is kuf (ק), the letter of kedushah (holiness). With a gematria of 100 (digit sum 1), it connects together 8 + 5 = 13. This is a holy 13, the hand (yad, 13 + 1) of holiness.

North Node - Rosh Ha-Teli (ראש התלי), head of the serpent, with a total gematria of 946, a reduced gematria of 19 (Chavah, חוה), and a final digit sum of 1 (echad אחד). Thus, the Chavah archetype mediates transformation of serpent consciousness into the consciousness of Echad.

Ascendant/Leo - Tet (ט), with a gematria of 9, the vessel of peace.

All of these numbers are very feminine essences - Hod of Binah (8), Malchut of Malchut (5), Chavah (19) and Tet (feminine Yesod, the ninth sefirah).

The digit sums taken together and brought down as one into Malchut through the holy (ק) gates of understanding are:

8 + 5 + 1 + 1 + 9 = 24 = 2 + 4 = 6, one pillar creating the future, the redemptive vav

Related writing (background music - Keeper Of The Stars):
Impulse, Chasdai David Hane'emanim & The Keeper Of The Stars

Torah Temimah

ל' באדר א' תשס"ח
Raven 1

More on my natal birth chart.

There are 4 astrological points in the zodiac houses corresponding to the element of Air. They are:

Neptune, 17 times the mass of Earth - yesod, tov (טוב), gematria 17

Venus - kaf (כ), gematria 20

Chiron, meaning "the healing hand" - yad (יד), gematria 14

Mars - gimel (ג), gematria 3

The total gematria of the one Air element is 54, the gematria of Dan, and the number of parashiyot in the entire Torah. I was born in a city named Danville during the month of Tevet.

Mitzvah Written In The Stars

כ'ט באדר א' תשס"ח
Keolwulf 30

As noted in an earlier post, HaLeviah On The Boundaries Of The Universe, in my natal chart, there are two astrological points in the zodiac houses corresponding to the astrological element of Earth. The two points are:

Moon - beit (ב), corresponding to Sunday, the day leading into the night of my birth (Sunday, January 8, 1961 at 8:56 pm)

Midheaven - aleph (א), the atmosphere between heaven and earth

בא means "Go!"

My first mitzvah "Go!" of incarnating life, as described in Truth & Diligence, Candle In The Womb, is even written in the stars.

And the Divine said unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh' ... Shemot 10:1

The Difference Between Treasure & Tamei

כ'ח באדר א' תשס"ח
Keolwulf 29

In my previous entry, Treasure From The Hidden World, in further analysis of my natal chart, I brought down the idea that the "water" flowing through my soul is "water" originating from the hidden (טמן) world of Atzilut (which is whole) as opposed to from the impure (טמא) world of Beriyah (which is blemished by the shattering of the vessels). The Hebrew word for "hidden" comes from a shoresh (טמן) which also means "treasure" (Mishlei 2:4).

Interestingly, in Hebrew, the difference between "treasure" (טמן) and "impure" (tamei, טמא) rests with the identity of the third letter. In the Hebrew word for treasure, the third letter is a nun-sofit (ן). Nun-sofit is the letter which describes the archetypal pattern imprinting my Beriyatic soul in Shechinah & The Mystery Of Zero. In the Hebrew word for impure, the third letter is an aleph (א).

Nun-sofit corresponds to an extension of the Infinite Ein Sof into being. Consequently, "tamei" (ritual impurity) refers to that which "blocks" this extension via the letter aleph.

Treasure From The Hidden World

כ'ז באדר א' תשס"ח
Keolwulf 28

In Shechinah & The Mystery Of Zero, I noted that my astrological natal chart contains zero points in the zodiac houses associated with the element of Water (corresponding to the world of Beriyah, the world from which the mythological fall initiated). In A Mystery Of The Pardes, I noted the Divine Presence of two letters yod (stellia) in the zodiac houses associated with the element of Fire (corresponding to the world of Atzilut, the hidden world).

These two entries together suggest that the "water" flowing through my soul is water originating from the hidden (טמן) world of Atzilut (which is whole) as opposed to from the impure (טמא) world of Beriyah (which is blemished by the shattering of the vessels). This idea is further supported by the the facts that:

1. the shoresh טמן, in addition to meaning hidden, also means treasure [Mishlei 2:1-6]

If you recieve my words, and lay up my teachings with you,
So that your ear attends to wisdom, and your heart inclines to discerment,
If you call for understanding, and lift up your voice for discernment,
If you seek her as silver, and search for her as hidden treasure,
Then you shall understand Divine Awe, and find Divine Knowledge,
For the Divine gives Wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and discernment.

2. mem, the Hebrew letter corresponding to water, in at'bash gematria transforms to the Hebrew letter yod, where two letters yod are the Atzilutic stellia found significantly in my natal chart.

Thus, the water flowing through my soul is a treasure flowing unblemished from the hidden world.