#ebertin

Ebertin’s Progressed New Moon Graphs are a great way to showcase an individual’s peak/important events in their life. The Progressed New Moon is represented by a parabola-like blue curve that goes up and down, crossing lines representing other planets along the way such as the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, etc. and points like the AC and MC.

  Sazvežđe Leonis, nalazi se na 21° 38’ Djevice. Plava zvijezda u Lavljem repu. Dolazi od A-Danabul-Asad, tj. „Lavlji rep“, ili prema Balinžeru, znači Sudija ili „Gospod koji će doći“. Često se skraćuje na Deneb, pa se u tom obliku i sreće u većini astroloških djela, ali taj naziv zapravo pripada drugoj zvijezdi.

Uticaj: Prema Ptolomeju, ima prirodu Saturna i Venere, Vilson i Pirs navode Saturn,…

Aldebaran – Čuvar Istoka

(Dekl: 16°N31’; Magnituda: 0.85; Priroda: Mars) Sazvežđe: Taurus (Bik). Lijevo (južno) oko Bika. Vodeća zvijezda zvijezdi. Naziva se sljedbenikom Plejada. 

Ime joj je izvedeno od reči Al-Dabaran, ili Sljedbenik. Bila je jedna od četiri carske zvijezde ili Čuvara Neba kod Persijanaca oko 3000. godine prije Hrista, kada je kao Čuvar Istoka obilježavala proljećnu ravnodnevicu, dok su ostale tri…

Mistika i Astrologija Plejada

MIT I MISTIKA PLEJADA

Fiksna zvijezda Alkion je glavna zvijezda u čuvenom zvjezdanom jatu Plejada. Plejade se nalaze u ramenu Bika, pozicionirane na 00°00′ Blizanaca. Različite kulture kroz vjekove imale su mitologiju vezanu za njih, jer ovaj klaster jako blješti na nebu. Zvijezde Plejade su takođe poznate i kao sedam sestara. U grčkom mitu, kada su njihove posestrime Hijade umrle od tuge za…

Recently the significance of the Venus/ASC midpoint in synastry began to become clearer to me and set me to wondering about how it might play out for others. In the most general or abstract sense, this midpoint represents beauty (Venus) in the personal environment (ASC), whether that's in terms of beautiful people or general surroundings, or merely a general harmonious setting, depends on the other factors involved. (Poorly dignified or badly placed aspects to it can instead indicate disharmony and unpleasant surroundings or people.)

But in COSI, Ebertin wrote that the sociological correspondence of this position can indicate women in the environment, and he suggested it could be particularly representative of the wife or female partner in a relationship. That gave me the idea to see what, if any, aspects were made to this point in my chart in synastry with past relationships. To my surprise, fifteen of the eighteen relationship charts I have all showed strong contacts to that point, and the remaining three would have aspects if I extended the orb from only 2 to 3°.

What perhaps held my attention most, however, is just how many contacts there were with one particular relationship. This one has stood out to me in numerous ways as distinct from all others in how different so much about it was, and it seems it is no different here:

In the first image, using the traditional 360° wheel, we can see my natal chart with my planets in black and hers plotted in a lighter color. The Venus/ASC midpoint is indicated by the + on the diagonal of the Leo/Aquarius axis, while the other lines radiating around the circle represent the conjunction, semisquare, square, sesquisquare and opposition aspects to that point. The second is the 90° dial more suitable for and typical of midpoint analysis: the inner wheel shows my natal planets, the middle wheel shows hers. You can see the Venus/ASC midpoint at the very top where it falls naturally. You can see at a glance that her Mars, Vertex, Saturn and Uranus is on the midpoint and Pluto opposes; if you look to the 360° wheel you can also see more clearly that the Sun is on the square and that her MC (the self, in Uranian astrology and cosmobiology) is on the opposing square. VE/AS = Sun speaks of a love affair; V/A = Mars, ditto but also a sudden or impulsive start; V/A = Uranus, again, with further emphasis on the sudden and/or surprising/unexpected start; V/A = Pluto, again but emphasizing the intensity of the experience and relationship; V/A = MC is again an indication of a love relationship. If you look at the horizontal bar I placed on the dial, you can see that the Venus/ASC midpoint is itself on the midpoint of her Mercury/Jupiter. That's an indication of a happy, successful union, of being in love and enraptured with someone.

In the opposite direction, we have my own Jupiter and MC (Pholus too, but its meaning remains murky) opp. her Venus/ASC midpoint; my Neptune and Node squaring it, and my Saturn at semisquare. Jupiter, the Node and MC further emphasize all the same points already made, but the Neptune indicates disappointment (given it's my Neptune, likely my own) in the situation. The killer lurks in that Saturn. Her Saturn at my VE/AS (and my own Saturn at her VE/AS) represents difficulties, estrangements and the ending of a relationship; and her own natal ME/JU = Saturn indicates an inherent difficulty in making choices, uncertainty, saying goodbye, breaking off, departing and withdrawing from people.

I can't find that Saturn = VE/AS configuration in any of the other relationship charts I have, which could be significant in that none of my other relationships ended in the way that one did, so I would be quite curious to hear about any other relationships that have had one partner's Saturn at the other's Venus/ASC midpoint and how they turned out.

Earlier, I saw Basil Fearrington had posted a link to a two part article on "The Symbols of Success & Prominence in a Horoscope" (parts one and two) and decided to have a look. As I've recently been examining career and success associated elements in my own chart, the topic took my interest.

I must confess I'm not entirely sure how to take his presentation, however. His focus is on the application of midpoints and planetary pictures, particularly the Jupiter/Pluto midpoint, and he claims his basis was the work of Reinhold Ebertin:

"I ran across a book by Reinhold Ebertin. I no longer own it and cannot remember its title. But I do remember that the cover had the words, 'I am successful.' Alongside those words were the planetary symbols for Jupiter, Pluto, and I believe the Sun and Midheaven were also included." (ibid., pt. 1)

Clearly, he is referring to this book:

However, the focus of that book is not natal midpoints but the use of transits, progressions, solar arcs and directions to make quick analysis of current or future life trends, and the pattern on the cover concerning success isn't showing a static meaning of a midpoint but addressing the potential when the directed MC conjuncts the natal Sun which is on the midpoint of Jupiter/Pluto, which is quite another thing than simply the Jupiter/Pluto midpoint. Ebertin's core book presenting his view on and work with midpoints is The Combination of Stellar Influences (COSI), the English translation of the original Kombination der Gestimeinfluße, itself based on Alfred Witte's Rules For Planetary Pictures / Regelwerk für Planetenbilder. But his presentation of Jupiter/Pluto does not in itself match that which Mr. Fearrington seems to be presenting in passages such as

"Jupiter's symbolism is one of expansion, good luck, rewards, etc. So when Pluto is in hard aspect relationship with Jupiter, all of the wonderful elements of Jupiter's symbolism are really quite magnified. The potential of expansiveness, luck, and all of those things that you know about Jupiter become much larger than they are when Jupiter is in an aspect relationship with other planets. This fortunate, lucky, expansive prowess is also extended to aspect contacts to the Jupiter/Pluto midpoint." (Fearrington)

In COSI, Jupiter/Pluto isn't explicitly "success" or "good fortune" but desire for power (plutocracy) (p. 234). Psychologically, Ebertin says that, if positively set, it suggests a striving for the development of power (spiritual, mental, material, whatever), the desire to lead/direct the masses and so forth, while if poorly placed it can indicate fanaticism in these goals, the desire to exploit the masses and wastefulness. When addressing the "probable manifestations", he cites it as indicating (positive) "leading or participating in uprisings" and/or the "attainment of leadership", which I suppose latter item might be taken as a kind of success; but if negative, rather the opposite: the "loss of social standing and wealth; conflict with authorities and the executors of governmental power (arrest). The misfortune to lose everything." For specific manifestations contrary to the success theme, Ebertin cites for instance Mars = Jupiter/Pluto as the "desire to achieve great things" and not the actual achievement of them; Mercury at Jupiter/Pluto is similary a desire to influence, an indication of a propensity for propaganda, but not necessarily the success of that propaganda. Saturn at Jupiter/Pluto is given as "Inhibitions in one's development. The inability to progress, difficulties, separation." With Neptune, the "Inclination to deceive others, and to cheat and seduce people. A general disappointment, suffering damage or loss through others without being aware of it." The closest match in Ebertin to what Fearrington seems to intend would appear to be MC = Jupiter/Pluto, which was given as "advantages in one's occupation, advancement and promotion, great luck." Which brings us back, again, to the actual book cover illustration which Mr. Fearrington says he'd forgotten: the MC directed to the Jupiter/Pluto midpoint.

With Ebertin, Sun = Jupiter/Pluto indicates the potential for a successful use of "extraordinary physical or mental powers", the "creation of (apparently) magical effects" in a life. In the charted example, that potential is present natally; it is presented as manifesting in actual success around age 35 when the directed MC conjuncts the Sun. The placement of the red "I AM" is also not coincidental on the cover, since the Sun and MC in the Hamburg school and Ebertin's own Cosmobiology are symbols of self, so their conjunction is an explicit manifestation of the individual's self and thus the expression "I AM". In COSI, the "probable manifestation" of the well-placed Sun/MC conjunction is "individual progress or advancement, individual relations, pursuit of one's objective, successes".

In my own chart, on the 90° dial, I have no natal bodies directly on my Jupiter/Pluto midpoint, but my Venus/MC midpoint is conjunct with an orb of 15 minutes, and Node/Ascendant by 26 minutes, either of which might suggest why a handful of people occasionally enjoy my music or varied efforts at artistic pursuits. Had I been born roughly a half hour later, I would have had MC = Jupiter/Pluto exactly and very nearly Fortune = Jupiter/Pluto.