28/01/2024
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ON NON-TRADITIONAL ASTROLOGICAL ELEMENTS AND RULERSHIPS⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This post was born as a rather long answer I made to a post discussing generationals like Neptune as rulers of signs, here it is for your reading pleasure:
Yeah, I'm one of the few tradition sympathisers that is like "nope, I felt many transits of the generationals, and you're an idiot if you think they don't work: they fu***ng do, lol, and they steamroll your sorry ass at times".
Some hybrid traditionalists like Mychal A. Bryan iirc consider the generationals very much like asteroids: no rulership, very little orbs.
And it's exactly the rulerships that I'm concerned about: rulerships are already established since antiquity and pretty much tried, tested and confirmed as working.
Now I was thinking that maybe the workaround for rulerships would be to abandon the dogma of only one planet ruling signs, and take the zodiacal signs as universal gates of manifestation that then whatever congenial astrological element disposes of.
Meaning for example that when Gemini is active in any way, like being on angles, then not only Mercury, but ALL planets are called to do geminian activities at that moment, but only the ones that are of a geminian nature will manage to manifest those things (and of course according to their angularity, aspects, blah blah blah).
(This presupposes that every astrological element is active in its way and interconnected to everything at each moment of reality through the law of correspondence)
So another example: if Gemini is rising, you look at all astrological elements that have a geminian affinity: Mercury surely does geminian things, Pallas Athena too, the Sun in a partial way, the Moon (since she's very similar to a terrestrial Mercury, while Mercury is similar to a solar Moon, and she rules memory, short travel, perception kind of like the Sun, etc.), Jupiter for its intellectual part and not its spiritual/big-picture side (and remember Jupiter has triplicity in air signs), and also the third house, the air signs (which coincidentally and correspondingly will trine the gemini ascendant, signaling activity), the arabic lots that have an intellectual affinity, etc.
Think about it: if geminian things are happening at that moment, since Gemini is given the rudder of the chart by being on the ASC, then since ALL the astrological elements are always active (again, based on angularity), then all those that manifest intellectual, geminian things in all parts of the chart can theoretically dispose of what's happening and manifest each a part of it, and the more angular they are, the better, and if they aspect the ascendant closely they can too (like a trine from the 9th which is cadent, but of the same element, or a s*xtile from the cadent 3rd or succedent 11th, which is still of the same polarity).
So if Mercury were in Pisces and cadent, then the world loses a lot of intellectual manifestation power, since Mercury is the main one that does those things, but what about Athena, the Moon, the Sun, Jupiter, Uranus? What are they doing in the chart?
If the Sun rises in Gemini, then it could give good intellectual perception anyway, if the Moon rises, then varying changing emotions and thoughts and ideas, if Athena rises, then capacity of planning and strategy, if the Moon is in the 4th in Libra then it can give deep relationship thoughts and emotions, oriented toward family relationships and home.
All this is partly similar to what we're looking for in a Mercury in Gemini talisman due to the similarities, but not exactly 100% of what we're looking for, since the life environment in which it will manifests and the way in which it will are different, but similar and in harmony in varying quantity and quality degrees.
In this way, the simplistic approach of just looking at the "dispositor" is just the most visible, immediate tip of the iceberg on top of the actual complexity of reality here on this sublunary world, and it may very well be the reason behind the successes that people who don't know s**t about astrology report consistently, leaving astrological magicians baffled, uncredulous, mocking and scornful.
"How DARE they have success if they don't follow 100% of what's written in canonical ancient astrological texts? Plebs"
Meanwhile various magicians from all around the world "just do the magic, man" without knowing anything about astrology, and they have success after success, even though they sometimes screw up big time (and it's because they run out of luck, and chance gets at them, because you occasionally encounter s**tty astrological weather like Moon opp Saturn: if they include safety indications for the spirit [like "and do no harm, etc."], then if there are negative astrological conditions at worst nothing happens, because the spirit cannot execute the orders respecting the conditions, and at best the spirit delivers anyway "overpowering the currents" and minimising side effects as much as it can).
Anyway, to recap:
Maybe there are no actual "rulerships", but just affinities between the various links in the chain of manifestation: the signs are 9th sphere, pretty high up in the golden chain, and therefore what we called "rulerships" until now are actually correspondences dictated by affinity (the logic behind triplicities and the mysterious exaltations are also a big clue that point the finger at this being actual reality).
This means that the newly discovered asteroids, planets and dwarf planets may actually each have a hand in what we called faultily until now "dispositorship/rulership" for the manifestation of all things signified by whatever sign is on the angles at that moment...
.. according, of course, to their archetypal affinity, visibility of light, color, dimensions, position in the chart and in the solar system and in the sky, etc.
SO
In a horary, if Gemini is rising, you would be symbolised by both Mercury AND all other analogous things said previously, each allotted their own percentage based on affinity and all the other factors (magnitude, dimensions, position, color, etc.).
The fact that the 7 traditional planets have been considered the main dispositors of the signs (mainly due to technological reasons, since we didn't have ways to see asteroids and generationals) due to their big influence in manifesting those themes in reality, doesn't mean that there aren't other astrological elements that have been, or have to be, discovered that can have equal, higher or slightly lower validity in "dispositorship".
The Saturn petition I just made the other day for knowledge is on a wheelie, and this Moon in Virgo trine Mars and Mercury while Jupiter is culminating surely has been very interesting.
And now, back to The Ivory Tower! 🗼
