Occult Cosmology

Virgo is birthed and able to stand on its own then the work of the kundalini is complete and it rises to be ‘crowned in heaven’.

Vulcan, veiled by the moon, rules Virgo esoterically, and in this case we have the unique relationship of Vulcan as the esoteric ruler of the Ascendant as well.

2. The Rising Sign is Taurus, called esoterically the ‘Mother of Illumination’. The seed thought demands the release of light from within the form and the blending of this light with the light of the soul. The Taurean light has been called “the light which liberates from death”1 or the “light of resurrection”.2 The burning up of desire also refers to the rising kundalini burning its way through the etheric webs as it lifts to the crown.

3. The Opposing Sign is Pisces, the sign of the saviour and the ‘risen Christ’ united with the Father, who has become the light of the world. Thus we have here the possibility of the blending of a triple light—that of the form, that of the soul and that of the monad.

At this stage what is required is the ‘marriage of the soul and personality’, the Son and the Mother, so that the Son may arise ‘on the wings of the rising virgin’ and return to the Father.

4. The esoteric planet is Vulcan and the direction of his arrow indicates the will of the soul to reach the depths of matter.

There are two components to the Will, one held on the atmic plane and the second anchored in the base chakra. Vulcan ruling Virgo (veiled by the moon) represents the will that has already been anchored in the depths. Vulcan ruling Taurus represents the will of the soul on the atmic plane descending to resurrect its counterpart.

The keynote of this meditation therefore is the raising of the kundalini or Shakti force so that the soul can be released from its long cycle of incarnation in the three worlds. The ‘eye that opens’ as a result of the rising forces in this case is the central eye of the soul or the jewel in the egoic lotus, illuminating the path of return and the higher Way. 166