Badhakasthana:

This literally means the 'house of obstruction'. These are bad houses. For Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn rising signs, the eleventh house is the badhakasthana. For the rising signs of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, it is the ninth house. For Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, it is the seventh house.

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Evangelists, Four The evangelists to whom are ascribed the four Gospels in the New Testament -- Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John -- associated in the symbolism of the Roman Catholic Church with the four sacred animals found in so many ancient mythologies: the man, bull, lion, and eagle; Aquarius, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio; the four Maharajas, etc.

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Hayyoth Haq-Qadosh (Hebrew) (from hayyah a living being + haq definite article + qadosh holy)

Holy living creatures; Qabbalistic term for the four creatures of Ezekiel's vision, generally referred to as the cherubim. These holy living creatures are the four symbolic beasts which in the zodiac are called Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius.

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Hay-yoth ha Qadosh (Hebrew, Jewish) The holy living creatures of Ezekiel’s vision of the Merkabah, or vehicle, or chariot. These are the four symbolical beasts, the cherubim of Ezekiel, and in the Zodiac Taurus, Leo, Scorpio (or the Eagle), and Aquarius, the man.

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ANTIPATHY - Disharmony between two planets that rule or are exalted in opposite signs in astrology. (NAD)For example, the Sun which rules Leo has an antipathy for Saturn which rules the opposite sign Aquarius

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AEON

The personification of an age. New aeons are referred to as "Equinoxes of the Gods." Power exradiating from Divinity, sharing in the creation and government of the universe. Most founders of religions or fully initiated magicians attempt to inaugurate their own personal aeon or "age" (see AGE OF AQUARIUS).

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HEMETHTERITH

The fifteenth sentinel of the Qliphotic Tree. She is the mother or wet-nurse. Her magickal gift is astrology. Grant says she was raped by a variant of the Holy Ghost and, whilst fleeing from him, fell over backwards, whereupon her breasts became the two streams of Aquarius. Corresponds to the Empress.

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TRANSSATURNIAN

Astrologically "heavy" eras of the world. They can chiefly be attributed to Pluto as the ages of the "four horsemen of the Apocalypse" the tetramorph: 1937-1956 Leo or "Fire"; 1956-1971, Virgo or "Earth"; 1971-1983, Libra or "Air"; 1983-1995, Scorpio or "Water." Pluto's exit from Scorpio in 1995 is the "release of death." As Uranus enters Aquarius in 1996, the Aquarian Age may be said to have functionally begun and when Neptune also enters Aquarius, 1999 recedes into the infinite as the Aeon ends.

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Astraea (Greek) (from astr star)

Star maiden; daughter of Astraeus and Eos, or of Zeus and Themis. Themis, born of Uranus and Gaia (heaven and earth), signifies law, order, equity, as does her daughter Astraea, who lived among men in the Golden Age as the goddess of justice. But when wickedness prevailed in the bronze age, she was the last of the gods to withdraw, with her sister Aidos (modesty), and is found among the stars of Virgo.

Another myth says that Zeus, when he carried off Ganymedes, the personified object of lust, threw Astraea back on earth again, where she fell on her head. Ganymedes is Aquarius, and the astronomical meaning refers to an inversion of the poles, which brings Aquarius into the northern celestial hemisphere and places Virgo upside down in the southern half (SD 2:785).

The return of Astraea also means the return of the Golden Age (the beginning of a new root-race). Astraea, in another sense, is Venus-Lucifer, and Zeus the personification of the cyclic law which arrests the downward course of root-races.

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Hayyoth Haq-Qadosh (Hebrew) (from hayyah a living being + haq definite article + qadosh holy)

Holy living creatures; Qabbalistic term for the four creatures of Ezekiel's vision, generally referred to as the cherubim. These holy living creatures are the four symbolic beasts which in the zodiac are called Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius.

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Kumbha:

Literally means water-pot or jug, referring to the eleventh sign of the zodiac known in the west as Aquarius. It is interesting to note that the largest gathering of humans on earth is the Kumbha-Mela festival in Northern India, which occurs every twelve years when Jupiter transits the sign of Kumbha in the sky. This festival takes place at the confluence of three holy rivers known as Tri-Veni in Northern India, where nectar once fell from the sky.

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Ganymede (from Greek and Latin Ganymedes)

The fairest youth among mortals, abducted by Zeus. One interpretation is that when Ganymede, standing for objects of low desire, is seized by the World Lord of a darker cycle, Astraea, goddess of justice and purity, is cast out, and the Golden Age is then over (SD 2:785); astronomically, it stands for an inversion of the earth's poles, which casts down Virgo (Astraea) and brings up Aquarius (Ganymedes).

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ARACHNE

The Spider. 13th month of the proposed "Newtime" calendar to begin at the winter solstice of 2000 A.D. From a possible corruption of the early pagan or Druidic "Aranea". 13th zodiacal sign, Auriga, the Charioteer. That there were originally 13 signs in the zodiac goes back, among other possible source, to Osiris' body being dismembered into 13 parts. Or rather, the other way, around: this myth, amongst others, should perhaps be seen as celestial in origin. References should be made to James Vogh's "Arachne Rising", wherein he points out that Auriga (or Arachne), lying as it does midway between Taurus and Gemini, is the logical place for the 13th sign and appears to have been so designated by the Druids.

There are others who cite Ophiuchus, the Serpent Holder, as the more logical 13th month. Ophiuchus (between Scorpio and Sagittarius) is even cited by some as the Age we are now inhabiting, rather than Pisces or Aquarius, and that it began in the early 1940's. (See AQUARIUS).

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Ophanim (Hebrew, Jewish). More correctly written Auphanim. The "wheels" seen by Ezekiel and by John in the Revelation - world.spheres (Secret Doctrine I., 92.) The symbol of the Cherubs or Karoubs (the Assyrian Sphinxes). As these beings are represented in the Zodiac by Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, or the Bull, the Lion, the Eagle and Man, the occult meaning of these creatures being placed in company of the four Evangelists becomes evident. In the Kabbalah they are a group of beings allotted to the Sephira Chokmah, Wisdom.

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SATURN

The planetary ruler of Capricorn and Aquarius, as well as the exaltation of Libra. When the burden of responsibilities becomes too heavy and the ship of life is in danger of sinking, something must be cast aside. Saturn, as the center of gravity, is the source of that burden and weight, as well as the instinct for the necessary casting aside. Saturn's pressure is inexorable, resulting eventually in the necessary acceptance of practical self-discipline.

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Airplane

1. Escape from the mundane exigencies of the lower world.

2. Freedom.

3. The search for higher consciousness. Travel into the higher realms.

Astrological parallels: Sagittarius or Aquarius.

Tarot parallel: The World.

Source: Astrocenter, http://astrocenter.astrology.msn.com/msn/DreamDictionary.aspx

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NEPTUNE

In extremity comes Neptune, the northernmost of all our arts, to help us overcome the forces of darkness that would enslave us. Neptune confers insight into the heart of the mystic powers. This knowledge, however, can be squeezed out only with great pain, only by the heaviest of pressure of affliction and torment.

The planet was discovered in 1864, in the sign of Aries. It has been assigned the rulership of Pisces. Neptune entered Capricorn in 1984, there to remain until 1998, the year of its entry into Aquarius. It will enter Pisces in 2013.

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Aries The ram; the first sign of zodiac, in astrology a masculine, cardinal, fiery sign which governs the eastern quarter and, in the human frame, the head. It is the positive house of Mars and the exaltation of the sun.

In Sanskrit it is called Mesha, presided over or dedicated to the Vedic divinity Varuna, one of the interpretations of the latter being the primeval ocean of galactic space. The twelve great gods of the ancients were equivalent to the celestial regents presiding over the twelve signs of the zodiac. Equating the sons of Jacob with the signs of the zodiac, Aries falls to Gad.

If we take 1897-8 as date of the approximate entry of the sun into Aquarius, the Aries cycle would then have begun about 2400 BC ((originally given as 2443 BC, Blavatsky gives 2410 BC in BCW 8:174n)) and closed around 263 BC when the Pisces cycle began. This agrees very well with other calculations based on the 25,920 years of the precessional cycle, and with very early Babylonian zodiacal records, making due allowance for the uncertainties inherent in the problem.

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Vohu-Mano, Vohu-Mana (Avestan) Vahman (Pahlavi) Bahman (Persian) [from Avestan vohu goodness from the verbal root vah to love cf Sanskrit verbal root vas + the verbal root man to think, be aware]

In the Gathas, Vangaheush Manangho, Vohu-Manangha. Good thoughts, good state of being, which is pure consciousness and the most exalted state of existence. It is only through Vohuman, as said in the Gathas, that the laws of life are fulfilled and ever renewed. In Mazdean literature, white is the color of Vohu-Mano. In later mystic Persian literature, it has been regarded as the first intellect, homogeneously in harmony with the totality of life.

Bahman is the name of the 11th month of the Iranian calendar (Aquarius) and the ancient feast of Sadeh (fire celebration) is held on the 10th of this month.

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THOTH

Tehuti (Djehuti, Theutys), the Egyptian equivalent of Hermes. God of the Age after Aquarius, (Age of Capricorn, 2000 years hence). He is the "Keeper of knowledge," stable sage and arbiter of the gods, their constant advisor, and wizard. It was his magical formulae that the dead need to know in order to pass through the underworld unscathed.

The Book of Thoth (which Crowley calls the Tarot), is supposedly the source of all wisdom. Thoth is far more than the God of language. It is in the invention of language that both the phenomenological and the material worlds are born. But language is the connection we make with the millions of things in the universe and, similarly, Thoth is the connection or Fohat of the Gods to their creative acts. He is the neter of the neteru.

In Egyptian mythology, Thoth is the product of a homosexual union between Seth and Horus.

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SEKHMET

Supreme female deity of Egypt in whose care we are nourished and protected. When her wrath is stirred she is without mercy. "The Powerful One," her head was a lioness, an attribute of Ra, i.e., his enraged "Eye," which cannibalized his enemies. She was a ruthless goddess of bloodthirsty slaughter. All the same, being so bloody she was also capable of fiercely driving sickness away and hence was also a healing goddess. A "priest of Sekhmet" was a doctor who could rout evil spirits. It is said (Gods of Aquarius) that she has returned in our time and occupies a collective unconscious realm somewhere between being and potential summoning. We do well to place her in the forefront of our pantheon because she is essential to our health and protection. She is an excellent demon-slayer.

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