> Heyas,
>
> I've been away a bit, and will return to being away quite soon.
>
> In the meantime, i have been reading back some of my personal musings, and
> i kinda liked one.
>
> So feel free to tear apart these musings, cos at the moment i am to busy
> to > do enough research for this one.
>
> here goes :
> Musings
> The four worlds are in most renderings in hermetic kabbalah four identical

>> worlds.

> They are just repetitions of what came before on a denser scale.
>
> This bothers me.
> Repetition seems like a sure fire way to end up in stagnation.
>
> There are a myriad of different Tree's of Life out there, with different
> forms, attributes, a big mess.
>
> A big mess is very good for inducing confusion.
>
> Confusion is good, it can be a road towards change.
> (see me adding my bit of confusion, right here :P)
>
> The most authoritive text on the tree of life is the sefer yetzirah.
>
> In it, it is made quite clear that there are 3 mother, 7 doubles, and 12
> single.
>
> Pretty much every rendition of the Tol also has 3 horizontal, 7 vertical,
> and 12 diagonal connections/paths.
>
> The connection with the planets.
>
> The classic connection is saturn=binah, jupiter=chesed, mars=geburah,
> sun=tiphareth, venus=netzach, mercury=hod, moon=yesod, malkuth=earth.
>
> I would say that the above classification is pretty accurate, for assiah.
>
> In Assiah, we see the universe from our viewpoint. It is the actual
> physical > world.
>
> So apparent motion of them wanderers in the sky seems appropriate.
>
> (would make uranus=chokma, neptune=kether; uranus is electricity, neptune
> is the ocean of consciousness)
>
> [here is the large gap in the progress]
>
> For Atziluth, however, the 'actual situation', this would not do.
>
> For Atziluth we look at the actual properties of our solar system.
>
> The sun is the only thing in our solar system giving it life. (well,
> jupiter emits more heath than it gets from the sun)
>
> The sun can be seen as Kether, expanding a bubble in 'chaotic' space to
> create life.
>
> The magnetic field of mercury (strong for it's size) is produced by
> fossilized magnetized material. It is a static field, not created from
> moving liquid-metal like the earths. It is Thoth, the messenger, it is
> chokma, the bringer of wisdom.
>
> (mercury in it's highest aspect is pure wisdom)
>
> Next we move to venus. Venus is weird in our solar system. It is the only
> planet to rotate retrograde, and it rotates reaaaally slow. Venus, while
> farther fom the sun than mercury has a hotter surface than mercury. This
> is due to a continuous clouding of the planet in clouds of sulphuric acid.
> The greenhouse effect this causes makes the surface hot, and the sulpuric
> acid rains, make anything on the surface into a, well, generall mish mash
> of reality :P == Binah.
>
> For Venus her astrological meanings, Venus rules forms. The highest form
> of Venus thus is the possibility of forms. (== Binah)
>
> (venus being linked to beauty is because of the relation to form, we can
> only appreciate beauty when it has some form. This form can also be highly
> abstract)
> Da'ath, the sephira that is not a sephira.
>
> In this article I am equating the sephiroth with objects in our solar
> system.
>
> Mainly planets and the sun. (kether is quite a different sort of sphere
> than any other)
>
> A perfect candidate for Janus the gatekeeper is our moon.
>
> It is not a planet vs it is not a sephira.
>
> Da'ath represents knowledge. Pretty much the result of a decision.
>
> The moon simply reflects what is chosen. (mainly the choices of our sun)
>
> (Remember that we are talking Atziluth here, in Assiah it would be about
> what other people do; what we experience, the moon being linked to our
> senses and all)
>
>
>
> You may ask why I start with sun and make merc/venus supernals.
>
> A valid question.
>
> In my reckoning, humanity, as a species, is in incarnate form restricted
> to reaching the consciousness represented by chesed.
>
> So, that makes planet earth Chesed
>
> Pretty nice that in the sequence of the solar system, this is actually
> provided for.
>
>
>
> Now we have mars and geburah.
>
> Mars still ruling force.
>
> Well, seeing how it is the same rulership, I will skip explanations.
>
>
>
> Tiphereth and Jupiter.
>
> Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system.
>
> It has 4 big moons, and a myriad of smaller ones.
>
> It has a nice big dot on it. (the eye of jupiter, the current one is dying
> out, but a new one has already been found, no speculation there :P)
>
> The solar symbol is a circle. (woot woot kether)
>
> The solar symbol with a dot in it signifies Tiphareth.
>
> It is the soul seeing itself reflected.
>
> Tiphareth in Atziluth is about happy go lucky like Jupiter is.
>
> It expands what it touches.
>
>
>
> Netzach and saturn.
>
> Netzach is about forms.
>
> Actualized forms.
>
> In our daily lives that has far more to do with venus, cos we shape what
> we like.
>
> But in the solar system, there is no substitute for Saturn when it comes
> down to materialized forms. Something apt I found online : (mark kampe,
> printed without permission, which is acceptable for educational purposes
> :P)
>
> "It is Netzach that will not be defeated, and that persists in the face of
> frustrations. It is Netzach that cannot decline a challenge. It is
> Netzach that awards and celebrates the victor's laurel crown."
>
> Anyone who knows astrology knows that saturn is the one that gives rewards
> after persistence.
>
>
>
> Hod and Uranus.
>
> Hod is about the knowledge about the structure, the classification of
> things.
>
> Uranus is about sudden insight, rebellion against form, about technical
> things.
>
> Think :"specs" (of computers, networks, idea's) all them specs exist
> simultaniously in our solar system in Atziluth. All of the knowledge of
> all the possible structures, this is uranus in atziluth.
>
>
>
> Yesod and Neptune.
>
> The easiest one.
>
> Neptune is the sea of dreams, contrary to the moon's personal dreams.
>
> Nothing can compare in appropriateness when thinking yesod in atziluth.
>
>
>
> Malkuth, in atziluth, or the actual way it is.
>
> It is not pluto, it cannot be only one object.
>
> Luckily the outer band of our solar system is a junkpile of debris, all
> floating around the sun.
>
> There is nothing more suited for malkuth than this collected pile of
> debris.
>
> (before the reader get's angry, think about what malkuth essentially
> stands for; all the bits of differentiated matter.)
>
> Feel free to flame as hard as you can, i will be watching this topic for
> about a week.
> (maybe longer if it gets interesting)