principles of the uranian system

The Equinoctial points, the Ascondant and the Descendant,
constitute the connecting bridge between the individual .and the
multitude*
0°00 .-irios is here referred to only as pertaining to the gen¬
eral onviroment. Of course, all the other Cardinal points have
their characteristics and it is easily understood why these points
are used for prognoses which pertain to the whole World.
If we find Uranus and Hades equally distant from any cardinal
point, which is the same as saying that one of the Cardinal points
is in the halfsum of those two planets, one can expect many fatal
accidents.
A planetary configuration of the first order:
Uranus plus Hades minus Aries » Aries
(Using the disc one can immediately see and check when these
constellations are due as events by Solar Arc).
Such constellations which are anchored in the Radix Horoscope,
and which pertain to the connections of the native with the world
around him, have agroat influence on the native, according to
the position of the picture in the Merirlian Houses of the Radical
chart.
If we find one or both in a certain house of the Earth which
moans a certain sign of the Zodiac, we should pay special atten¬
tion when the planet is found in the corresponding house of the
Meridian, or when transiting planets are in corresponding houses
of the Earth and of the Meridian, and form hard angles with each
other.

For example:
Uranus in the XIth House of the Earth in the sign
of Virgo, and Saturn in the Xllth house of the
Meridian of the birth, indicate the event when
Uranus and Saturn Current (transiting) are
connected exactly with each other by ”hard” angles
Square, Conjunction, Opposition, Serai-Square, or
Sosi-Square•
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It should be mentioned here that every
factor has a meaning in such complicated and large configurations.
Its effect can be seen in the general character as well as in tho
time factor. For typical personal evaluation all the above
pointers should be observed.
Taking as an example, Sun plus Moon, which means friendship,
marriage, parents, man and woman, day and hour, Sun minus Moon and
Moon minus Sun have also to be taken into consideration, because
they mean the same thing as Sun and Moon. In current constellations
or daily constellations, the day and hour are often set off by Sun
plus arles, or Moon plus Aries. In rectification, while checking
Sun and Moon for their correct places, it is of great importance
to know these, things.

For instance: Sun and Moon would be translated into man and
woman, husband and wife. Tho information concerning this union
lies in the midpoint between these two planets.
Through the mechanical setting of the graduated disc(which in
the future will be called disc in short) upon the midpoint, we
realize that this is a planetary picture and in this way the
other planets will be. drawn into it for further information.
Suppose one finds Venus and Saturn (meaning separation of Love)
then one has information that the native will not be spared separa¬
tion in love. How this separation will come about can bo explained
through the separating planets houso positions. In this case it
will be tho planet Saturn whose position vie wlllhave to examine
more thoroughly. If he is located in the 11th house, representing
friends. It Indicates a disturbance of the peace through friends.
If Saturn were in the 8th house, it tells us about sickness or a
case of death ... in tho 9th, that a trip or voyage will be the
cause of separation; and so on with the ether houses.



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The knowledge of the general technique of hcroscopy is a necessity.
The purpose of this book of Rules is to show the student new ways to
Perfect this technic and analytical ability. Only when we apply the
knowledge given here will we gain understanding. It should also be
pointed out that when we deiinate the planetary constellations given
here they myst be connected with the houses to arrive at a basic
moaning, to show the general interpretation of the configuration. This
general interpretation Very ofton produces suprisingly accurate re¬
sults even for a poor astrologer. The book will give the serious
student many new ideas to fire his imagination.
It should also be understood that these delinations are given as
examples and must not be taken too literally, because firstly, we have
to take the houses into onnsidrration* and secondly not all the
possible delineations of the planetary positions can be cited.
For example:
Uranus plus Hades (murder, war crimes) minus Saturn = separation or
losses through murder. One can also delineate this combination in much
milder fashion and make it more general. It then could read:
Sudden ugly separations, ®r sudden separations which were caused by
ugly and base motives.
An illustration taken from a known case is as follows:-
The configuration of Uranus/Hades is in the Vllth house and has
Saturn in its halfsum with Uranuu in the Xth and Hades in the Illrd.
In the same axis is Neptune/Gupi lo = Saturn, meaning: a poor match
is separated. When the progressed Sun reached the axis of this picture
by opposing Saturn, the marriage was ended. The cause of divorce was
adultery committed by the wife with a fellow officer during the 1st
World War, and resulted in a duel. The separation did really happen
through war and murder almost resulted from the duel.
According to the rule, one could assume that the separation was
caused because one party became a victim of the war. To answer this
question one must investigate the whole constellation due at that time.
In most cases it is sufficient to take the houses into consideration to
find the answer to the question . Hades in the Illrd house reads:
Mean and base deeds by acquaintances, neighbors, sisters, brothers,
comrades and travel. Uranus in the Xth house reads: Sudden and urfc:
expected anguish or excitement, events which endangers reputations and
position. Saturn in the Vllth house means: basically, separatien from
partners.
The aforementioned extreme delineation of the combination of Uranus/
Hades is not really supported by the house positions. However, in our
example, we find the additional combination Mars/Kronos ~ Saturn.
Separation by others, in this case by Kronos which is the state or
authority. We also read Neptune/Cupido = Saturn: dissolution of a bdd
marriage, and Uranus/Hades: sudden ugly deeds of acquaintances or
comrades by violence or war crimes.


Tho fact that thin confirmation was actuated at the time of
these events by tbi progress 3d Sun indicates this episode. All
grave constellation, the war, tho personal scandals
and tho duel so deal here with a constellation which does not
o ten stanc, in the heavens, anc; it is not an accident that at tho
cginning of the first World W' r the combatants, having been born
around 1895 had this constellation, Uranus/Hades - Saturn in their
horoscopes.
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rov^linS study to examine a number of horoscopes
with these configurations and to sec how their Meridian affected
each one individually. Such research produces material which is
oi statistical value and which crystalizes the basic delineations.
Astrology is unquestionably correct but is often applied the wrong
This Book of Rules was developed to increase the knowledge of
the student and point to the way. Alfred Witte purposely used
^ ^°y~w°rd3 for the delineations because nature works
at way, and elaboration as a role, leads in the wrong direction,
lo read simply and accurately wh'-t is written in tho horoscope ifi
to get to ios true significance and constitutes a groat art.
One could write whole volumes about tho wrong application of
delineations, some of which accidentally turned out to bo right,
but one can make the same criticisms about any other science.
To got the fulluso out of the Book of Rules, the pupil should
be ar.tiliar with tho mechanical methods of finding the planetary
configurations in the horoscope. In practical application of tho
ru}’£S it would bo^ too tedious to compute those combinations
arithmetically. It is important that one has tho knowledge and
tho skill to find all those combinations mechanically, thus avoid¬
ing errors and saving time.
The mechanical instrument used in
iiio wuiiiuu u usoa m mis work is a 360 disc
although for practical work a 90° disc -is uspd.,-' The space of
degree thereby becomes four times as large and enables one to
a
to five or ten minutes of arc accurately. All squares and opposi¬
tions show as conjunctions, while tho semi and scsqul—squares show
as oppositions.
In tho 90J disc, all factors (planets, angles etc) in the
Cardinal signs are placed in Aries.
All factors in tho fixed signs are placed in Taurus, and all
from tho common signs are placed in Gemini
This 90° chart greatly simplefies the finding of the Planetary pictures, and is used by tho exp it almost exclusively. However, the beginner, while he may find the pictures by means of the 90° chart, should then place them in a 360° chart so as to sort their
proper house positions and relations.

Nessus examples

Nessus transit
This piece of research began with a prayer. I was due a transit of Nessus over my Jupiter in Aquarius in the 11th house and I wasn’t looking forward to it. I mean Nessus has a nasty reputation. My fantasy kicked in (I should mention that I have Pisces rising) and with it fear. In my mind, Nessus was becoming an enemy and I was to be attacked by this monstrous centaur who had killed the hero Hercules from beyond the grave. What chance did I stand?

In my imagination Nessus became this street wise urban thug who would cheat, lie and manipulate to get what he wanted or if he couldn’t get it, to get revenge instead. Scary stuff but I know what happens if you approach a situation with fear. You’re in line for a self-fulfilling prophecy – since energy follows thought.

So I thought well if Nessus is going to be around I want him as my ally not as an enemy and I tried to imagine what that would mean. And this is what I said to him:

“Nessus, I need your street-wisdom to tell me who the poisoners are. I need you to tell me who’s going to cheat me or rip me off on whatever deal. I need your cunning to get me through whatever tight spots life puts me in, and to see the shit coming before it hits. But I don’t want your vengefulness. I got to rise above the need to get back, get even whatever the deal. ‘Cos that revenge can create karma that goes round and comes round and carries from beyond the grave. Stuff that can curse and lead to all sorts of consequences down the ancestral line or the line of incarnations. I don’t want to set up shit like that.”

With Nessus as my ally I can spot the con-artists, the scam-merchants and the shysters. I’ve learned a bit more street wisdom. I’ve probably substantially increased my chances of survival. You see, with my Jupiter in Aquarius I tend to walk around with a very idealistic (and some would say naive) view of humanity. Thanks Nessus.



Case Study
A few months later I get a phone call from Charlie, a long-term musician friend of mine. He’s been getting email from an astrologer in the States telling him that he has this magical window of opportunity coming up that lasts 56 days when Pluto and the Moon will be in exactly the same place they were when he was born. So I tell him that’s bollocks. The Moon comes back to its natal place once every 28 days so no big deal. Pluto on the other had has a cycle of 248 years so unless he’s been lying to me about his age, that is just not on. He tells me that confirms his suspicions, ‘cos the astrologer from the States keeps improving her offer, reducing her prices “for only $40 this once in a life time magical window of opportunity… etc” Stinks of scam I tell him. I thought so he says.

Then a few weeks later we’re in a restaurant and Charlie he tells me he’s had the attention of another couple of scamsters. One a classic 419 scam known formally as an advance fee fraud. The name comes from the part of the Nigerian civil code banning such illegal activities.

The scam works as follows. You receive an email asking for your help. Telling you that a member of government or other important person has died intestate and there’s a few million dollars at stake and they need a safe bank account to pass the money through. In gratitude for the use of your bank account they will give you the odd million. Usually these letters are plausible. If you reply there are phone calls, maybe meetings to set things up and then they tell you they need a couple of thousand up front for administrative costs… and then maybe more money for other expenses like lawyers etc and you find that you’re paying out and they, having got as much as they think they can get from you, just disappear.

Believe me, many intelligent, educated people have been suckered like this: university lecturers, eminent scientists, solicitors. All left brain people who are unaware of being manipulated emotionally. And the hook of course is greed.

But Charlie has been around the block a few times, and decides to play with the scammers, scambaiting they call it. He enters into a dialogue with them. They suggest he flies out to Dubai for a meeting. But when he starts asking for more assurances they start pouring on the emotional pressure – how this person is suffering, how they thought they could rely on him – and he gets back to them not be so emotional and he wants to deal with this in a business-like way. He also reminds them that it’s going to cause a lot of suspicion if he suddenly pays a few million into his current account! Eventually the emails stop. They realise they’re wasting their time and they give up.

Then a bit later, he gets a completely unrelated offer. An entrepreneur is setting up a gig and wants to use Charlie’s band. Good fee. Two and a half grand (£2500). Fine, so he gets the gig organised and the entrepreneur sends him a cheque for the fee. But the cheque is made out for £4000. So he contacts them and they say whoops, administrative error, please bank the cheque and send us the difference. So he pays in the cheque but, being a canny sod, waits the three days for it to clear. While he’s waiting he gets messages from the entrepreneur asking him where is the money he was going to send them. He tells them the cheque hasn’t cleared yet. Then he gets a message from the bank that the cheque has bounced.

Apparently a number of cheque-books were stolen from a company and the thieves have been trying to pass these cheques off to get cash by using a number of similar scams.

The well-paying gig was never going to happen of course, it was just a lure and fortunately most of the other members of the band were able to find other work for that evening.

So Charlie and me are sitting in a restaurant while he’s telling me all this and it pops into my head that hang on a minute, three scams – there’s something going on. It must be Nessus involved.

And when I have the chance to check his chart and transits, there it is! Charlie’s natal Sun is in the last degree of Aries and Nessus is transiting square to it. Bingo! Then I check his natal Nessus ‘cos I want to see how he managed not to be conned and he has Nessus in Taurus in the 7th exactly opposing his Mars in the first house in Scorpio. Plus he has Scorpio rising. I tell him what’s going on and that he has the ability to undertake such scams himself if he chooses. He tells me that he’s looked at that part of himself and he chooses not to. That’s why he’s a friend.

Nessus the con artist
The con man is a particular type of thief. He doesn’t just break into your house or car and take whatever is valuable. He doesn’t threaten you with a knife in the street or jump you from behind in a dark alley. He gets you to believe a story in order to steal from you. There’s stealth involved, there’s a lie involved. You’ve been conned, gulled, suckered and that hurts just as much or more than the material loss.

There are other types of con as well. From the point of view of the street kid we met before. He trusts nobody, least of all the social and political system. For him the whole of the government is a con. The military is a con. Religion is a con. Compared to them, his little scams and deals are very small beer indeed.

More mythological stuff
I want to look some more at the mythology of Nessus. He’s got this reputation as the poisoner but l let’s look at where the poison came from. So, just to remind you of the story: Hercules died when he put on the tunic that had been soaked in a so-called “love philtre” made from the blood of Nessus. Nessus had died from Hercules’ arrows which were tipped with the poison that Hercules got from the Lernean Hydra – the monster with nine heads that lived in the swamps. Hydra was a poisonous water snake, water represents the feeling or emotional function. The poison had its origin in emotional poison.

Emotional poison is just as destructive or even more so than any physical poison. It can make us ill or it can kill us. Unexpressed grief or anger, unresolved hate, even the pain of unexpressed or rejected love can eat away at us emotionally, spiritually or physically. An emotional hurt caused by an unkind word or deed can stay with us all our lives. And if you think in terms of many lives, that poison can be transmitted from parent to child, from life to life. Karmic memory is emotional.

Note we’re not talking about thoughts here or sensations or intuitions. It’s emotion that carries the poison. And those who are the most vulnerable are those individuals who are undeveloped let us say in the emotional arena. They may be able to wield formidable intellects but when it comes to feelings, they are lost.

And that typifies much of Western society. An overdependence on the intellect so that emotion is sidelined or considered as an also-ran. And by ignoring emotion we become vulnerable to emotional manipulation. Which is exactly what happens in politics, in advertising, in journalism.

Nessus and the Descendent
The descendent is the cusp of the seventh house. The house of relationships and partnerships. The horizon line is the line between ego and alter, me and the other. Planets on the descendent or in the seventh house tend to be projected onto the partner, or any close relationship. For example with the sun in this position, the sense of self is projected onto the other. Relationships are more than important because my sense of self is invested in the other person.

With the moon in this position I take care of the other’s needs rather than my own. I may tend to mother other people. With Mars in this position, I’m projecting physical strength onto the other person instead of knowing my own strength. With Saturn in this position I’m looking for authority in the other person instead of owning my own authority. With Uranus I’m projecting my sense of unique individuality onto the other and going for magical Uranian individuals to complete what I feel I lack. And so on.

With Nessus in that position the danger is that I see relationships in terms of someone is trying to trick me. I can’t trust anyone. There must be a scam or something.

So even if the relationship is clean, I’m always on the look-out for the sting. And sometimes I find it when it isn’t there. I blame the other person for something they haven’t done. Maybe I turn the other person into what I expect of them – they become what I expect them to become – and I’ve ended up deluding myself and losing a friendship.

Nessus and the Sun
I prefer Nessus in aspect to the sun to Nessus/moon contacts. At least with the sun it’s a bit more conscious. I knew (briefly thank God) a trader in the securities markets. Nessus square the sun. He was an ace manipulator. Hated losing. Vengeful. Fine, you could see exactly where you stood with him. You knew he was going to try to put one over on you.

With Nessus conjunct the sun, the consciousness is hard-wired to the whole Nessian game of manipulation. They just don’t know anything else. They look at everything in terms who gets one over whom. Who can con whom. Who can spin and get away with it. Don’t even think about showing them what they’re doing or – heaven forbid – suggesting that they stop. They can’t stop and even if they pretend to stop, their stopping will just be part of another strategy or manipulation.

And if you sort of get the feeling I’m describing a politician here, you’re damned right I am. Tony Blair, the former British Prime-Minister has Nessus conjunct the sun in Taurus. But please, please don’t tell him. He’ll probably be flattered.

Nessus and Mars
Mars is in a way the antithesis of Nessus. Mars is direct and to the point. Whereas Nessus is everything but. So, when Mars is working with Nessus in a chart there are various scenarios. Mars’ directness can give the clarity to countermand or override the deceitfulness of Nessus. It can give the individual a strong ability to “cut the crap”, to see the games. If pushed to an extreme it can see conspiracies in everything.

Nessus and Jupiter
I knew a solicitor who had Nessus conjunct Jupiter conjunct the ascendant in Taurus. At first meeting he was positive, bouncy and jovial. His joviality however hid a lying manipulative bastard. He could lie so charmingly and he would just get away with it. He just defined the word shyster.

Nessus and Saturn
Saturn is the planet that takes responsibility. With Nessus in hard aspect to Saturn, the sting is to deny responsibility and to dump all the responsibility on someone else.

Alan, a gay friend of mine meets a beautiful, sexy Brazilian guy just before Christmas. After doing what ever they do he gives the Brazilian his phone number and they arrange to meet up again. The Brazilian guy tells him that he is staying in London with his parents who are going back shortly to Brazil. Meanwhile he doesn’t want to spend Christmas with his parents and their boring Portuguese friends, can he stay for a few days. Alan is delighted. Good sex over Christmas is just the sort of midwinter boost he needs. It doesn’t matter that the Brazilian can hardly speak English… Deal!

After Christmas the Brazilian asks Alan if he can put him up for a few months. Now Alan has made this type of mistake before, moving someone in just because the sex is good. He phones me and asks me to check the birth charts. And I discover that the day of the first meeting was within days of the Brazilian guy’s first hit of his Saturn return. I tell him to be careful about taking responsibility for this chap.

So he arranges a meeting with someone to act as interpreter to really get clear all the angles and implications. But an hour before the meeting is due to take place, Brazilian boy says he can’t make it because the Social Security are coming round to his old flat. Takes all his gear (all the bottles of expensive personal care products) and leaves. Alan is of course devastated, he doesn’t really understand what is going on but he realises that a little pain now is better than a lot of pain later.

A few weeks later Brazilian guy comes back and Alan gets more of the story. He’s overstayed his British visa and needs somewhere to stay while he earns money to pay for a marriage of convenience with a gay woman. He’s desperate, he needs to borrow money, he’s got a job in his uncle’s restaurant and he can pay it back. Just for a couple of months, please. And he’s sobbing on the sofa. Fortunately Alan is just about hard and cynical enough not to be taken in by the tears.

Later while researching Nessus, I check the chart of the Brazilian guy. He’s got Nessus a degree away from a conjunction with Saturn in Gemini. So it wasn’t just “take responsibility for me I’m a poor boy coping with a Saturn return in a foreign country”. There was a scam involved as well. Alan was being manipulated. If he had given this character the key to his flat, he would have been firstly harbouring an illegal immigrant and would probably have ended up with an enormous phone bill for calls to Brazil (bigger than what he already has run up).

So when Nessus is working with Saturn, p




Meghan - Nessus in 4th square ASC (father issues?)