Terrascope and Manifold
A StarBase Audition with References to DA
Audition Audio:
Illustrations
JLL early horoscope using Placidian house-system. Note the traditional symbols or glyphs for the 12 signs. Symbols for planets are also traditional except for Pluto near Mars in house 2. The houses run counterclockwise from the 1st at the 9 o’clock position. Note also the numbers on the division lines (cusps) of the houses: they are uneven, showing that the 30-degree signs are unequally distributed around 12 30-degree sectors in the circle of 12 houses. This was a huge problem for me in establishing a sign/house overlay that would allow me to project the planets accurately into the real-sky zodiac.
An early Terrascope illustrates how I solved that problem. The format of the Terrascope approximates an “equal-house” system but with special and unique features. Note: the cross of the four incoming axes, left and right, bottom and top: houses 1, 4, 7, and 10 but now renamed FACETS. Then note the four outgoing axes centered on the dividing lines between houses: 2/3, 5/6, 8/9, 11/12. This format is based on a 4 – 8 structure with four incoming axes with four facets, and four outgoing axes with eight facets. Imagine contraction through facets 1, 4, 7, and 10, arrows inward; and expansion through the paired facets, 2/3, 5/6. 8/9, 11.12. This layout entirely changes the dynamic feel of the horoscope. It is no longer a flat plane reduction of the surrounding sky to 12 sectors, it is a “time/space mandala” of emergent properties.
You see immediately how I could project straight lines from the sign/house positions into the stellar longitudes in the real-sky zodiac, the Rimsite – the encompassing blue circle. The Terrascope includes the earth shown by the gold projection from its placement in the 12th facet in Gemini into the constellations.
The Terrascope here uses my novel glyphs for the 12 signs and in some cases the planets, although Leo on the cusp of facet 2 has not been changed. For explanation of these glyphs and more details on the innovations of the Terrascope, see 14.100 From Horoscope to Terrascope.
Jonas’ traditional horoscope with Placidian houses. Three factors, the rising sign or ascendant at 24 Scorpio, the Midheaven at 20 Virgo, and the exact moon position at 9 degrees Libra 12 minutes, carry over into the Terrascope and the Manifold. Otherwise there are significant changes as seen here:
This Terrascope without Rimsite reveals how conversion from the horoscope can change house positions. For JLL, the conversion moves Saturn from house 1 to facet 2, and Venus from house 5 to facet 6. The check marks around the perimeter of Jonas’ Terrascope show nine relocations of the planets in facets. For instance, Venus stands in the 9th facet, not in the 8th house. These relocations are radical and produce entirely different interpretations of the circumstantial and contextual dynamics of the planets. More on this issue in the unit cited above.
Finally, here is the StarBase software projection of the tabulation of the manifold into the real-sky zodiac.
There are a couple of errors (midheaven and ascendant crossed out) and a slight discrepancy in the position of the moon (10 Libra at the Grail Cup of the Virgin) due to technicalities of StarBase software which are currently being resolved.