The fourth card of the Tarot is associated with Aries. This is the structure action takes, authority and leadership. It’s idea manifested into form. It could represent an employer, a parental or political figure. It might also be natural law/physics. It’s a strongly masculine energy, linked with fire. It might suggest drive, agency and power, or could be a feeling of subordination to a person or system. It’s a need for desire, clarity, firmness and dedication to a goal. Be confident and act, but strategically, with economy. There’s a foundation to build upon and the resources required to do so are present. The fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Daleth, can mean movement or enter.
Wild Lettuce is a symbol of tenacity. It’s linked to Saturn (cool + dry/joints, bones, skin, gallbladder). It can provide pain relief from migraines and menstrual cramps, has sedative properties, relaxes the body, treats insomnia and anxiety, counters asthma and bronchitis.
Dane Rudhyar, born Daniel Chennevière (March 23, 1895 – September 13, 1985), was a French-born American author, modernist composer, transcendental painter, and humanistic astrologer. He was a pioneer of modern transpersonal astrology.
Most of Rudhyar’s more than forty books and hundreds of articles concern astrology and spirituality. The book that established his reputation in the astrological field was his first on the subject, The Astrology of Personality (1936). Arguing that astrology is not essentially predictive but rather productive of intuitive insights, The Astrology of Personality was one of the most influential tracts of “free-will” astrology, despite being written in the dense, circuitous style that characterizes much of Rudhyar’s writing. Rudhyar’s astrological works were influential in the New Age movement of the 1960s and 1970s, especially among the hippies of San Francisco, where he lived and gave frequent lectures. Rudhyar regarded the ‘true early hippies’ as potential harbingers of a New Age. In 1967 the scene reached its peak in the Summer of Love in San Francisco. Most notably, Dane Rudhyar predicted in 1972 that the Age of Aquarius would begin in 2062.
