An Astrological Mandala: The Cycle of Transformations and Its 360 Symbolic Phases
by Dane Rudhyar
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Author: Dane RudhyarEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1974-05
ISBN: 0394719921
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Vintage Books
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Book Review: Essential in the Astrologer's Cache of Guidebooks
Summary: 5 Stars
Of all of Dane Rudhyar's informative books on applied astrology - his analysis of the Sabian symbols has become my favorite - and the most useful when it comes to reading horoscopes. That is not to say that the Sabian symbols are easily dealt with. I spent a number of years holding this method at bay because of its obvious idiosyncrasy and discursiveness. After all, mastering even the basic implications of 360 symbolic notations still seems to me a daunting, if not impossible task. Also, as astrologers, we are constantly working for some semblance of objectivity in our analyses - and the symbols seem to enhance the vagueness which is the plague of modern astrological interpretation.
Now, as I look at the book, twenty years later, I feel a lot of the problems stemmed from too lazy a reading of Rudyar's excellent introductory and concluding essays which, in a succinct and precise manner, explicate the project he as been working on since his seminal "The Astrology of Personality". The book is worth the price, if simply for these ten essays alone, in which Rudyar shares his deep, and I believe essential, understanding of the subject, and they do give you a handle on using the symbology to enhance horoscope interpretations.
". . . for the humanistic astrologer, a birth chart is a person-centered symbol. That is to say, it carries a "message" - the symbolic formulation of the individual's dharma. It suggests how he can best actualize the innate potentialities of his particular and unique selfhood."
". . . human experience is essentially cyclic and it unfolds according to structural principles."
"Even though a normal cultured person meets all the facts of experience that can possibly be crowded into the few decades of life, only those experiences from which meaning has been extracted count spiritually, and are remembered. These meanings, finite in terms of their archetypal characteristics, constitute an organic whole because they are creative products of the person's total personality, which is an "organism" in the broader sense of the term. In their sequence and unfoldment, they display an organic and cyclic quality; and the structural factor in this process of extraction of meanings from experience can be derived from simple numerical principles, such as those of the I Ching or the Sabian cycle of symbols."
Summary of An Astrological Mandala: The Cycle of Transformations and Its 360 Symbolic Phases
Some three decades ago, in an attempt to produce a series of symbols that would be relevant to contemporary students of astrology, Marc Edmund Jones and a clairvoyant friend formulated the so-called Sabian symbols. Now Dane Rudhyar has taken these symbols and reinterpreted them to emphasize their character as a cyclic and structured series which formalizes and reveals the archetypal meaning of 360 basic phases of human experience. Rudhyar also demonstrates how the Sabian symbols can be used for divination. Like Tarot cards and the I Ching, they provide clues to the best way to face anxieties, or suggest what alternative courses of action might mean in one's life. In the form of pictures that are easily recognizable to people today, these symbols can be said to constitute a contemporary, American I Ching, a series of symbols that goes to the very root of planetary significance for our present era.Psychology & Counseling Books
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