URANUS,
MONEY, MANIFESTATION AND THE MYSTERIES
Isn’t
it interesting how life conspires to reveal the obvious.
And sometimes it takes so long to see it. At this Aquarian full Moon I was
looking forward to closing my door to delve into the ‘hidden Mysteries’. But
instead it seems I have had to spend most of the time trying to get right order
into the office accounts, which I recently have somewhat reluctantly taken on.
So finally today I got to close my door. And then I realized that I had been
dealing with Uranian matters all along. Or at least I could have been, had I approached
it in the right way. Otherwise you might say, it was all Saturn and I was just
working through my karma. In the Greek
myth Saturn did castrate Uranus, and now I understand why. : )
Yes of
course Uranus is about money:
“Uranus is the
esoteric ruler and is of supreme importance in this sign for the seventh ray
works through this planet and is the embodiment of the principle of concretion
and the materialising of that which is in need of objective manifestation,
through the bringing together of spirit and matter. It is here that the whole
mystery of money lies hid...” (EA, p.246)
Money
is value in manifestation. From the seed of Uranus, Venus was born. Uranus is
concerned with bringing Spirit into Matter. It “brings together electric fire and fire by friction,
thus producing manifestation.” (EA 100) Money is one kind of manifestation. Uranus is the god of Electric
Fire and money is concretized energy. But the question is, do we really treat money
as a sacred charge? The court of the money changers is the last to be cleared. (RAI,
p.190). We often forget that the sacred is present within the most
mundane.
In
the Aquarian Age it seems there must be a pretty good chance of coming to terms
with our money issues, because not only does Uranus conceal the mystery of
money, but Jupiter also has a good track record with coinage: Competing for the
attentions of Danae, the daughter of the King of Argos who had been locked in a
tower, Jupiter cursed Midas with the ‘golden touch’ and then appeared to Danae
in her tower room as a shower of gold.
But
getting back to Uranus: Uranus is one of the planets able to extend its
influence into this Earth sphere through its capacity to be veiled by the Moon
and the Sun. The Leo – Aquarius arm of the Fixed Cross is its main axis: The
Sun as hierarchical ruler of Leo veils Uranus, as does the Moon as hierarchical
ruler of Aquarius. So Life flows through the highest and the lowest subplanes
of the Cosmic Physical plane.
Uranus,
planet of the 7th Ray, is able to weave its violet thread through
the planes of existence, bringing the high vibrational energies of Spirit into
matter. On cosmic levels “Uranus
is the planet through which zodiacal energy flows, in connection with the
Creative Hierarchies upon our planet, from one of the stars in the Great Bear.”
(EA p.98) As a reflection of the Logoic mental permanent Atom, Uranus brings
into manifestation the energies of these five “Mind-born Sons of Brahma”. (EA,
p.98 & TCF p.336) And the thread is woven ‘from the highest to the lowest’.
In this fourth
chain of this fourth round, in relation to the fourth kingdom of humanity, the
7th Ray works closely with the 4th Ray – Uranus works
intimately with Mercury, weaving through the planes of the buddhic and the
etheric:
“Uranus embodies
the energy of the seventh ray and its work is analogous to that of Mercury, for
the seventh ray is the ray which relates spirit and matter and brings together
electric fire and fire by friction, thus producing manifestation.” (EA 100)
“The buddhic plane
is peculiarly the plane of violet, even though all the colours find their place
there; the Lord of the Ray of Ceremonial Magic, Who embodies the violet ray or
hierarchy, has a special relationship to the buddhic plane.” (TCF, p.328)
COSMIC ASTRAL
PLANE
Ray Sign Planet
IV Aries Uranus Buddhic
subplane. (Planetary
Logos is polarised here)
VII Cancer Neptune Physical-etheric
subplane. (On verge of
liberation)
COSMIC PHYSICAL
PLANE
I Leo Sun
Logoic
plane. (Sun veils Uranus?)
IV Scorpio Mercury Buddhic plane. (Uranus
exalted in Scorpio)
VII Aquarius Moon Physical-etheric
subplane (Moon veils Uranus?)
The lowest
subplane of the Cosmic Physical plane - the Aquarius hierarchy - itself has seven subplanes. The fourth or central subplane
or the “fourth ether” is the lowest plane upon which the lower chakras of humanity
are found: the base, sacral and solar plexus. And also the
spleen. The fourth ether “is the ether which the violet ray uses as a
medium”. (TCF, p.326) It is the realm of the violet devas, which are concerned
with the physical evolution of humanity. So the 7th Ray necessarily
has its effects right down at the cellular (or perhaps even quantum?) level. Evolution
is the rarefication of this dense matter. (TCF, p.322)
You
might say that the 7th Ray works at the edge of the visible: At the
cellular level, as well as the cosmic. The too-small-to-see
and the too-big-to-see. It is at the edge of the visible in another way
as well: Violet light has the shortest wavelength of the visible spectrum - 380-420
nm. Beyond 420 nm is ultraviolet light, which is invisible to the human eye. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_E-7_m)
Is
ultraviolet part of the spectrum of the 7th Ray? Interestingly in
relation to the theme of money, on every Visa card the image of a bird appears
when it is held under ultraviolet light. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet)
A security feature. But how wonderful to have money
with wings, a reminder of the deva kingdom!
Uranus
is one of the transpersonal planets, outside the orbit of Saturn. Uranus rules
the 11th house of group work, the house of Aquarius. And yet Uranus
is truly ‘up close and personal’ in that it requires embodiment. It requires
‘the restoration of the Mysteries’ right here and now through the personal
vehicles. Uranus is the ‘awakener’. (EA, p.447) It brings Electric Fire right
through into the dense matter of the human physical-etheric. It aligns us with
the highest Will. It awakens us to Life.
Recently
I saw an exhibition about ancient
Uranus
is “"the planet of the violet force," and its graduates wield the
power of cosmic etheric prana.” (TCF, pp.1177-8)
The
communion of the Aquarian Age is perhaps not bread and wine (the ‘body’ and the
‘blood’), but something even more basic:
Prana, the breath of Life that we all share. The splenic chakra in its
lowest position on the fourth subplane of the seventh plane of the Cosmic
Physical Plane circulates prana throughout the human system. We utilise
pranayama to maintain the flow of the breath of Life.
The 7th
Ray is the ray of Ceremonial Order and Magic. ‘Magic’ is: “an art employing
some occult force of nature”. (www.dictionary.com) Magic disrupts our expectations. It fools our
senses. It may create glamour or illusion. It may make visible the normally
invisible. The truest White Magic brings into form the divine essence, the Spirit, that lies behind appearances. The Magus brings into
being the hidden Order.
“Uranus
is the planet of occultism for it veils "that which is essential; it hides
that which must be discovered and, at the right moment, it transmits knowledge
of the hidden mystery."” (EA, p.438)
The 7th
Ray makes the esoteric exoteric. It reveals the hidden Mystery. And what is it
that is hidden from us? The truth of our own divinity.
Our true conscious recognition and embodiment of the divine Self would put an
end to the duality and separation that characterizes our existence on this
Earth plane.
BAM
Aquarius
full Moon
02.02.07