THE SABIAN SYMBOLS [Symbols of the Degrees of the Zodiac]
I have seen that the interest in zodiac degrees has increased in the tumblr community so i thought it will be a good idea to introduce you to this topic that some astrologers use as a tool when reading a chart and show the different ways in which the degrees can be interpreted.
★I apologize for any misspelling★
THE SYMBOLIC DEGREES (x)
✨The symbolic images associated with each of the 360 degrees of the zodiac, also called "monomeric".
✨They come from various sources, the most ancient one being the Thebaic calendar.
✨It is believed that monomers date back to a millennium BC, but some authors believe that they were already known in the time of Ramses II.
✨In addition to these Thebaic degrees of Egyptian origins, there are also Hindu degrees
which Sepharial passed down to us with his translation of the Volasfera
✨Both degrees, Thebaic and Hindu, belong to the traditional astrology.
✨In the 20th century, much more modern symbolic degrees appeared: the Marc Edmund Jones degrees, also called Sabian Symbols degrees (Saba symbols in reference to the queen of Saba).
✨Its origin is the result of a cooperation with the psychic Elsie Wheeler. He picked up a set of 360 blank cards where they wrote a note and a degree on the back.
✨Neither she nor Marc Edmund Jones knew the degree involved during the lectures. they only took into account what the seer was experiencing.
✨Marc Edmund Jones discovered the structure that emerges from the 360 symbols, and their relationship.
✨Rudhyar, upon discovering Jones's book, gains a great interest in the subject.
✨He asked Jones for permission to include a version in his book "The Astrology of Personality," published in 1936. This publication introduces Jones's Sabian symbols to a wider audience.
More than a dozen astrologers have, through their own musings or with help of intutitives, come up with lists of zodiacal symbols worthy of consideration, the most well-known are:
La Volasfera - Antonio Borelli, translated by Sepharial pseudonym of Walter E. Gorn Old
The Symbolic degrees of Charubel pseudonym of John Thomas [Welsh astrologer, clairvoyant and healer]
Symbols of Isidore Kozminsky [esoteric author and occultist]
The Sabian Symbols - Elsie May Wheeler [psychic-medium] and Marc Edmund Jones [astrologer]
HOW TO READ THEM:
📝To understand the meaning of the symbolic degrees in any given chart, please read the description first.
📝With the symbol in front of them, the reader can practice their own interpretations
📝 Symbolic degrees must never be taken literally.❗❗❗
📝The images describe certain details of an individual in small dashes which could be likened to impressionist painting.
📝Each word used in the description of an image has its own value.
📝Let yourself be soaked with the words and the actions described, and that you abandon yourself to their inspiration and dynamism. This is how you can grasp people's motivations and environment.
📝The meaning of an image taken as a whole may not necessarily apply.
📝When dealing with several descriptions, it is the sum of similar words and the recurrence of analogous bits of sentence which indicate the nature of the prevailing influence.
📝Try to infer the main energies from the text and identify repeated or converging trends.
📝Attention should be paid to repeated words, and that synonyms or similar meanings, and even similar sounds ought to be put together.
📝Do the sum of the analogies found and, if the total is significant, you can draw the conclusion that its influence is active.
📝In order of importance: [but you can do as you please lol
1- Sun-Moon
2- AS MC DS IM be cautious about their accurateness may not be reliable, since a four minute gap in the time of birth moves the angles by one degree.
3- Mercury, Venus and Mars
4- Jupiter and Saturn
5-Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
⚠️ A very important disclaimer: ⚠️
❗symbolic degrees belong to a branch of fatalistic astrology.
❗Their interpretation must be regarded with the utmost caution
❗especially given the fact that different authors give different meanings to symbolic degrees.
from time to time we receive new infomation about the symbolization of the zodiacal degrees, wondering if "they are reliable"
It is impossible to affirm that they all are, since we don't have a knowledge of 360 different people, each born under a different degree.
so...HERE IS AN EXAMPLE!
🌼 18-19 VIRGO 🌼
LA VOLASFERA :
« A husbandman or cattle-dealer holding a stock -whip in his hand »
SEPHARIAL : [who claimed his symbol set was a translation of La Volasfera, by Antonio Borelli.]
“It indicates a rough and rustic nature, with a taste for excitement of the chase, or for the breeding of cattle. The nature is rugged, but genuine; lacking in suavity; critical, but invested with unequivocal sincerity, which will cause him to be respected.” The native will prefer country life and its freedom to the more varied but less thorough liberties of the town.. It is a degree of ROBUSTNESS.
CHARUBEL :
Symbol: A strong farmer’s cart, and a horse to match. The cart is loaded with farmyard manure.
Meaning: Denotes a frugal, industrious person. An agriculturist, and one who studies that branch scientifically.
KOZMINSKY :
Symbol: A rough fire mountain, from several parts of which smoke is rising. On one of the slopes laborers are working.
Meaning: Denotes one who exercises patience and persistence in his life’s work, and whose position is often attended with much worry and personal danger. His soul is full of enterprise. He is magnetic,psychic, and extremely active. It is a symbol of Endeavor.
WHEELER :
Symbol: A OUIJA BOARD.
KEYNOTE: The ability to contact deeper recesses of the unconscious psyche and sensitiveness to psychic intimations and omens.
Meaning: The ouija board is to be considered here a modern device similar to many ancient instruments used for divination and prophecy. Certain states of threshold consciousness are stimulated by such a use, and what the experience produces may vary greatly in quality and in origin. The release of unconscious material has lost the explosive force pictorialized in the preceding symbol, yet at this stage there is still no conscious and willful control over what reaches the ego-consciousness.
This is the third stage of the thirty-fourth sequence of symbolic phases in the life process. It is at best a stage of transition which stresses a passive openness to the unknown. The glamour of it may subtly pervert the mind of the aspirant; but in some cases, this can be the first manifestation of INNER GUIDANCE. The difficulty is to correctly evaluate what or who does the guiding
It is important to read into the description based on the nature of the planet in question
For example, let's take the case of a moon in the 3° of scorpio:
🌙 LA VOLASFERA:
«A lyre, upon the arm of which there hangs a wreath of laurels»
🌙 SEPHARIAL:
–So you can say that this person will choose to express in a creative way the depth of their emotions that the moon in scorpio gives.
This is indicative of a nature almost wholly given to the pursuit and cultivation of the fine arts. The mind is harmonious, generous and peaceable. The life will be free from disquieting and distressful elements, and the inherent harmony and refinement of this character will be reflected in all his works. He will strive by the use of the gentle arts as well as by the more liberal, to illustrate and interpret the finer emotions of the soul. In art or the drama he will meet with great distinction.
