Aries
2. Again, imaginatively, he carries his thought to the ruling planet (in this case Vulcan, veiled by the Moon). He visualizes the crescent moon with the “hammer of God� lying athwart it. He sees this hammer come into living activity and begin to fashion the moon form, his personality. The process of fashioning is emphasized, not the work of consequent destruction. He sees the form being fitted for the inflow of the fused energies from Virgo and Libra. He sees himself descending in consciousness into the head centre, carrying with him as a part of himself the blended energies and these he appropriates, using the symbol here depicted as the chalice of the energies, as it is called. Symbolically speaking, the form (the moon) has been hammered into receptivity and true expression by the activity of Vulcan. 3. Then, by an act of the will and visualization, he precipitates the energy thus received into the heart centre (in this case), there to do its work of balancing forces, fostering the Christ consciousness and 138