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The wedge, the T square and the hammer emit vital flows towards specific areas on the birth chart. How to deduce them?
The article continues Feared patterns in Astrology, published on medium.com, and includes esoteric bases to understand each one of the flows and the ways to assimilate them in the experience.
Finding areas and flows
Some years ago, in The comet effect (one of the articles in the series Unmissable notes), I mentioned the polarized effects derived from an unbalanced energy area, which emits vital flows by following the lesser resistance paths. For instance, from certain exalted area towards the opposite point, the energy may take the paths of trines and sextiles in both zodiacal orientations. The circulation they create provides free energy to the configuration.
The same principle of etheric circulation is applied on the hammer pattern, specifically when considering the planet on which all of the strength of the pattern falls upon. Whereas the principle of symmetry is applied on the wedge and T square. Each of the three patterns has its own specificities, which indicate the principles to be applied if looking for redistributing vital energy.
In a wedge, the semi-sextile is the only fluent way, and the vitality of the aspect can be easily replicated in the symmetric area of the pattern (by following the contrary orientation).
In a T square, there are no fluent aspects although the principle of symmetry can be applied too, since the very square is a developmental turn if considering birth conditions. An angle of 90 arch degrees is the maximum separation between a vital point and the next one. Here, the chart’s circularity is not considered as the usual temporary developmental path where a first quadrant is transited, and then a second one, etc. Here, the pattern is read as a static moment and, in any static consideration, the maximum development is a turn of maximum tension, which is 90º. So this is how symmetry is applied on a T square, a configuration that means yet a development state on a chart, since it includes a focal point.
The same point will be more inclined to be related to one planet of the opposition or the other, depending on the translation speed of the planets involved (applicative or separative aspects). And the same goes for the ruler of the empty space. All of these characteristics have to be considered at the time of reading this tense pattern.
The hammer includes no fluent relation, and the symmetry principle cannot be applied on it. The hammer, as the name suggests so well, is a closing pattern, so it's contrary to development. At the point on which energy falls upon, motion is not allowed and energy remains trapped. That’s the reason why there’s no flow in symmetrical correspondence, since symmetry is a characteristic of life, displayed along with developmental motion. In vital terms, it cannot establish a correspondence and, instead, only what was mentioned in Feared patterns…, two “escapes” without a form that follow the lesser resistance paths, as two flows not fitting in, contrary to what happens in the excitement rectangle (starting from the wedge) or the great cosmic cross (starting from the T square). Even the emerging kind of a kite is just a seeming pattern, since the cause doesn’t function as such to sextiles areas (the emission comes from the fixated planet, not from the “tail” of a kite). Those escapes are the ones turning the hammer into a compatible pattern with the rest of the chart, with vital development itself.
Symmetries in the wedge and T square are part of “secondary” patterns, whereas in the hammer there are dispersions without a form, with no path, chaotic. Dispersions will flow towards one orientation or the other (clockwise, counterclockwise) in a higher or lesser degree depending on the circumstances of the person, birth tendencies and the intentional concentration of energy, so the hammer’s effects may vary and be highly unbalancing. On the contrary, the other two patterns follow the homeostatic principle, by which intensities and concentrations in certain area produce correspondences in some other one.
What to do with areas and flows
When considering effects, the first two patterns are more related to a reduced circuit, and allow motion only inside of it. Whereas the third one, the hardest and most difficult at birth, derives into a clear opening move. So, comparing the three figures makes them relative over time.
However, being born with any of the secondary patterns is not like counting on them as a chance to a birth wedge or T square. In the latter ones, the aspect has to be constructed to create an excitement rectangle or a great cross. So the reading must consider the sign of the area, the planet ruling the area and, finally based on all that, connect the area with the planet to be associated with, so the new figure is “closed”. (Considering the ruling planet is not including the emplacement on the chart but just be clear about those attributes as being the sign’s ruler).
Closing the vital flow in a pattern requires a person to be willing to do a psychic work, with an adequate inner disposition as well as promoting and developing situations or events related to the new pattern. The person may even consider the etheric center associated to the planet that closes the new figure.
The personal work of constructing a secondary pattern becomes easier if, in a synastry, a planet of the other person is conjuncted to the area. In those situations, the other person holds within those qualities and attributes, and later the relationship itself makes the connection, so the secondary pattern is created. The other person only offers the necessary resources, although staying receptive is what makes the pattern be formed or not. Meanwhile, the person may focus on the own personal work of constructing it based on the relationship itself, so the pattern becomes present no matter the partner’s conjunctions.
In a synastry, receptiveness and openness are the most important conditions, no matter affinity, physical distance, inner distance or the interest poured on it. Without receptiveness and openness, there’s no relationship and no combining. Whereas when unequal intensities or psychic intention make one person influence another one, it’s just about to stay open to it, block it or give it back, as preferred.
The same goes for the hammer pattern, to which a synastry may indicate a moulding characteristic although not a constructive activity. In out-of-forms energy, like escaping flows, it can only be added a form but not a structure, since their very bases are life in chaos. Besides, the cause of the pattern doesn’t function as an emitting point inside of an eventual kite, simply because there’s no ending point. Even the “head” of the kite distils energy (as sextiles), so connecting those points after the emission wouldn’t create a head beyond the effects of the cause.
A practical reading
The following chart includes the three patterns mentioned above. There are several of them but three of them will be particularly described. Strokes with empty spaces in graphs below indicate symmetric and escaping flows.
Wedge
Birth pattern. Of quite reduced orbs, there are discontinous awakenings of karmic memories, which are quite related to physical and sensorial experiences. Of a self-pleased stability finding comfort in the own circumstances, those memories are raised by pleasant and creative experiences that make use of physical magnetism. The pattern takes those memories out of the person, more precisely to be expressed in the social XI house.
Cause: Uranus at 9º Sco V House. Sudden and erratic changes. Renewals involving physical sexuality and magnetism.
Mean: Jupiter at 9º Gem XII House. Big contrasts and growth. High hidden activity.
Effect: Moon at 8º Tau XI House. Physical and emotional stability are altered. Changes related to nutritional processes or incorporation. Instability in resources and reserves.
Symmetric area: 9º Sag VI House. Pattern to be constructed: excitement rectangle.
Closing the pattern in a rectangle takes back the extent of the flow towards the very cause (Jupiter is the mean at birth, becomes the cause in the closing pattern, and also rules the symmetric area).
Daily matters, systematic routines and the logical order of the VI house become means or instruments to decrease the wedge’s dynamics.
The new pattern doesn’t add different qualities to the birth pattern, and Jupiter (life provider, cardiac center) to Uranus (creativity on the given conditions, laryngeal center) is both a mean (in the wedge) and a demanding point (in the rectangle), especially when magnetic peaks tend to overflow straight paths, lose order or flow without a purpose.
Generally, the work of continously constructing a pattern over time may create great solidity in the closing areas. Later, the same solidity may connect those areas to other points on the chart, whether be other patterns or simply planets. But, again, taking the flow towards those points will require a connection work.
The cause of the wedge remains as such even when is altered later, when the excitement rectangle becomes active: since this is about a closed pattern, both functions can be activated at the same time. Even the mean of the wedge starts to function as the cause at the closing.
T Square
Birth pattern. Of reduced orbs, the entire pattern itself is quite intense and gets accentuated over time. Formal ways, orders and restrictions coming from the II House restrain both karma’s expression and current developments. Time only increases differences: incorporating – regulating, adjusting – letting go. The comfortable karmic legacy finds even more comfort in latency (Moon – Saturn applicative square). Leaving restrictions behind on the path is also an increased tendency, as well as a disonant one (applicative opposition).
Polarity: Uranus at 9º Sco V House – Moon 8º Tau XI House.
Focal point: Saturn at 11º Leo II House.
Empty space: at 11º Aqu VIII House.
Solution: Uranus. Being part of the pattern, the solution intensifies tensions and the poor productivity of opposite areas and subjects (private – social, creativity – birth conditions, development - latency).
Symmetric area: empty space. Pattern to be constructed: great cosmic cross.
The opposition to Saturn that closes the pattern and turns it into a great cross decreases the tension it requires to restrain karma and development. As it is contrary to that effort, the intensity of birth squares diminishes.
The new squares formed by the secondary pattern will make the opposition more productive. The sign of the empty space adds circulation, dispersion and diverse forms (Aquarius). Among them, some will be more in tune with lunar karma (Taurus), whereas other ones will be more in tune with the singular scale changes that impulse developmental processes from depths (Uranus).
Karma – development is a birth opposition and also a basic opposition (states – processes), so when lunar tendencies are restrained, the Uranian ones find more space for themselves, and vice-versa. The variance provided by the sign of the empty space, characterized by a wide psychic resonance to perceive right echoes (VIII House), are basic characteristics for the opposition to work in a less restrictive way, more intense and counting on wider space to oscilate.
Hammer
In karmic Astrology, lunar nodes are considered as planets. However, they’re not associated to etheric centers or specific vital functions, such as planets in esoteric Astrology are. On the chart, the reading of the pattern starts from the magnetic axis, so the cause and the effect are beyond mundane experience. More about it can be found by considering the nodes’ rulers, and then the reading continous as any other reading, as if the pattern involves any other of the planets.
Cause: Moon’s North node at 24º Lib IV House. Developments during past times, karma of the future. Karmic projections related to balance and measurement, relations and exchanges, alternating positions and multiple perspectives. Venus, the planet of integration and harmonization (solar plexus).
Mean: Jupiter at 9º Gem XII House. Life beating, the planet of the opportunity (cardiac center). Big contrasts and growth. High hidden activity.
Effect: Moon’s South node at 24º Ari X House. Vital breath, beign born into the world, reincarnation. Karmic causes related to beginnings and impulses, desire and individuality, searching and conquests. Mars, the planet of desire and the will to live (basal center).
Birth pattern. Since this is about lunar nodes, the reading refers to esoteric subjects, and clearly points to vital situations: a birth conditioned by the future, hapenning inside of quite difficult circumstances in physical terms, and at the same time counting on a great impulse to fixate vital energy into the world.
Flows as “escapes”: at 24º Aqu VIII House and at 24º Gem XII House.
Being the pattern itself a cause, the effects are chaotic activity in those areas.
The hammer doesn’t offer a closing pattern because the escapes are formless, with no structure or solidity.
If including any other of the patterns’ planets in other constructive works, the new functionality must not be contrary to the one set at birth. If it is, the work trying to construct the pattern won’t be effective.
An overview
The chart considered here includes more patterns, which have not been mentioned for making it easier to start a basic study on them. But a global overview on the composition may change the way to consider them.
Moon – Uranus opposition is part of two wedges: the mentioned above, and another one with Pluto as being the mean.
The trine connecting the means Jupiter – Pluto and the opposition are part of another pattern called the stage, theoretically between a springer and a simple opposition (the name has been given by Huber and others in the book Astrología de la figura de aspectos, API Ed. España, S.L., 2003, or Aspect pattern Astrology). On the stage, each pole is stimulated, so the improductive restriction generated by the focal point in the T square decreases (but not the general tension).
From an esoteric perspective, each pole is even more expressed: life impulses latency (Jupiter – Moon), and energy free from karma impulses development (Pluto – Uranus). Besides, Saturn’s constant activity (T square) tends to increase even more that of Uranus (harmonic resonance between sacral and laryngeal centers). As a result, the opposition becomes even more polarized, displaying very clear and differentiated processes.
Another key pattern on the chart is a kite pointing to Jupiter. From there, more energy falls again upon the Moon’s South node (hammer). The kite’s cause is Neptune, the planet of will, very important during the intrauterine period. Chart’s aspects are always considered after reading the axis of karma, so the will behind life beating (Jupiter) always renews the hammer’s effect over time (even beyond Saturn’s first return).
By combining patterns, then Neptune becomes definitory to the axis of karma, both before and after birth, and should be included as a central planet in a reading of that kind.
The planet impulses a kite that also involves the karmic rulers and Saturn, which increase the strength of motion towards the Earth, making the person to stay grounded on it. A counterweight to all of that is another kite on the chart, with Pluto as the head, the planet of the other side tending to free vital energy from material development, which in the configuration is a process impulsed by karmic causes too (both Venus – Mars rule the lunar axis and are the kite’s causes). So then, the strength of the hammer comes along with three important areas of vitality: Aries (kite’s tail), Aquarius and Gemini (areas where the energy “escapes”).
In few words, the stage pattern turns the T square’s opposition into a more productive tension. Although tensions don’t decrease (in fact, they tend to increase), constructing the excitement rectangle has been only a way to display the reading logics rather than a special convenience, although the resonance connecting etheric centers should be also considered, since sacral activity (Saturn) increases the laryngeal one (Uranus), so the latter becomes a quite disturbing point to restrictions (Saturn) and comfort (Moon). Whereas the hammer’s escapes and the kite pointing to Pluto are counterweights to the densification produced at birth and still produced by vital development itself (Neptune).
Comment
This is an article about principles of distribution, and allows to easily understand birth charts’ dynamics, as well as something very important inside of a vital perspective in Astrology: the chances at hand to transform the mentioned patterns at will, which were conditionings at birth.
Constructing on a wedge or T square patterns is a developmental activity based on the usage of psychic energy. As such, it’s not different from the usage of psychic signs and vital points mentioned by esoteric Astrology in Tres Mancias. The difference is that constructing on patterns may be an evolutional activity in a higher or lesser degree, whereas flows and vital points indicated by the 5-pointed stars clearly lead to be free from karma, lose density and focus on goals by exclusively using psychic energy.
Links of interest
Astrology and fusions. The three Zodiacs. A book of esoteric Astrology, to quickly find the vital relevance of each planet on a birth chart (among other things). The book is freely distributed and two of the chapters are specially related to this article: chapters 5 (Elaborations) and 7 (Vital principles), where keywords are assigned to planets and related etheric centers.
Synthesis of zodiacal poles. It’s the second article of the series Astrology & Development, published on medium.com. Specially recommending the first graph, which explains and summarizes the book’s contents related to etheric centers, their functions of astrological interest, harmonic resonances and esoteric planetary functions.
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