{"id":57541,"date":"2013-08-26T21:36:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T21:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theinnerwheel.com\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2013-08-26T21:36:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T21:36:18","slug":"strange-bedfellows-secondary-rulers-an-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=57541","title":{"rendered":"Strange Bedfellows: Secondary Rulers, An Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A number of you have had questions recently regarding secondary rulers–are they valid, do I use them, what do they mean in terms of interpreting a chart?\u00a0 The answers are yes, absolutely and, ‘I’d better post a few articles on that.’<\/p>\n

I have to admit that in my early days I was a firm believer in ‘out with the old, in with the new.’\u00a0 Blame my Moon\/Uranus conjunction.\u00a0 Why would you use Mars, Jupiter or Saturn when you had such titans as Uranus, Neptune and Pluto to guide you?\u00a0 Didn’t they come into this world with perfect timing, reflecting the state of the universe as it was?\u00a0 Uranus heralded a time of rebellion and emphasis on radical equality.\u00a0 Neptune brought us the height of the Romantic movement.\u00a0 Pluto, the Great Depression (remember that the 8th house is the house of finance) and\u00a0 the dark cloud of the Third Reich.<\/p>\n

Our old friends the personal planets [or personal and social (Jupiter, Saturn), depending on your point of view] have been around so long they have no ‘events’ associated with their discovery.\u00a0 They are observable by the naked eye.\u00a0 We have intimate knowledge of them, their patterns, their behaviours as astral bodies.\u00a0 It may seem as if the outer planets have been around forever, but the truth is that they are recent blips in the time line of history.\u00a0 We can get excited about them.\u00a0 They are still a bit of a mystery, still associated with something dark, dangerous and unfathomable. The late Howard Sassportas named them, “The Gods of Change” and we ignore them at our peril.\u00a0\u00a0 They seem bigger, larger, greater than life–and therein lies the problem.<\/p>\n

We know that they are asking something important of us–but sometimes we’re hard pressed to know exactly what that is.\u00a0 Even when we have an outer planet on an angle, and we feel its power instinctively and intimately, we may have little to no clue what it has in mind for us.\u00a0 We can only cooperate, jump the big waves as they race to the shore and hope we don’t get drowned in the process.\u00a0 It is often only later, much later, that we can make even remote sense of the period of crisis when they were active.<\/p>\n

The outer planets ARE powerful and mysterious, and effect us in enormous and confusing ways.\u00a0 They are life-changers.\u00a0 They represent an unseen world beyond the definitions of the ego, a place where only the soul knows the direction and the answer.\u00a0 And it’s because they give us a sense of the divine nature of the soul that they often cause us to go to extremes, trembling in our boots all the way.\u00a0\u00a0 We throw ourselves over the precipice, expecting nothing, only to wake up in a place where we no longer know ourselves and the rules as we knew them no longer apply.\u00a0 And yet we wanted to get here; we knew this was a place we had to be.<\/p>\n

It was my work with progressions that caused me to have new-found respect for the so-called ‘secondary rulers’ of the signs and houses.\u00a0 I say so-called because there is nothing secondary about them.\u00a0 In progressions, the outer planets move hardly at all.\u00a0 In fact, many will tell you to ignore them, and focus on the movement of the inner planets. ( Ha–just wait until an outer planet aspect, like a quincunx between Saturn and Neptune, comes exact by progression.\u00a0 They won’t know what hit them.)\u00a0 But in my work with progressions, it started becoming very clear to me that both rulers were highly active.\u00a0 When Scorpio becomes the rising sign by progression, the movement and condition of progressed Mars will tell you a lot more about the current situation than Pluto will.\u00a0 It was the same for Pisces\/Jupiter and Saturn\/Aquarius.\u00a0 It worked for all the angles and all the progressed aspects.<\/p>\n

It was as if the older ruler was the more human face of the higher and more mysterious energies of the new rulers.\u00a0 The old rulerships represented reality; they showed what was required in real-life terms.\u00a0 Often, they instigated issues that were directly related to the dictates of the newer rulers.\u00a0 If Pluto was conjunct an angle by progression, Mars had much to say about the matter, especially regarding the house that Scorpio ruled.\u00a0 I have often called Mars Pluto’s henchman–Pluto calls the shots and Mars does the dirty work.\u00a0 This is an especially potent partnership, because Mars is the lower expression of Pluto–as Venus is to Neptune and Mercury is to Uranus.\u00a0 (Stay with me here, I’m shifting gears a little.)\u00a0 But co-rulerships have also turned out to be vitally important in interpreting both natal charts and the movement of transits and progressions.\u00a0 The condition of Jupiter will tell you as much about the house Pisces rules as Neptune does.\u00a0 And Saturn is intimately tied to Aquarius.\u00a0 Both provide a ‘real’ outlet for what can be very unreal energies.<\/p>\n

This now elevates the position and influence of the last personal planets–Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will influence two houses in the chart.\u00a0 Now think about it. Venus already rules two houses–Taurus and Libra.\u00a0 And Mercury rules Gemini and Virgo.\u00a0 There is a beautiful symmetry in it, isn’t there?\u00a0 This leaves only the lights ruling one house–Cancer with the Moon and Leo with the Sun.\u00a0 How appropriate.\u00a0 How astrologically poetic.\u00a0 The number 2 in Pythagorean numbers philosophy represents the duality of material reality.\u00a0 The universe consists of Self and Other, me in here versus you out there, the inner and outer expression of things.\u00a0 We need a mirror to confirm that we exist, and the number 2 is that mirror.\u00a0 The inner planets represent the way we deal with the real world, how we think, how we love, how we fight, how we grow and how we create and make things manifest.\u00a0 Our inner planets represent the way we work in the world.<\/p>\n

In this series, we are going to explore the way Mars and Pluto, Jupiter and Neptune, and Saturn and Uranus work together.\u00a0 Each pair representing two sides to a very magical coin.<\/p>\n

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  A number of you have had questions recently regarding secondary rulers–are they valid, do I use them, what do they mean in terms of interpreting a chart?\u00a0 The answers are yes, absolutely and, ‘I’d better post a few articles on that.’ I have to admit that in my early days I was a firm […]<\/p>\n

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