156 Spiritual Astrology
ascendant of Lord Krishn.a in Taurus gives us the reason
of his vanquishing the serpent, Ka-l.i
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ya.
The cycles of time are disturbed as the periods of
time by Scorpio. Cycles represent uniform speed in
circular motion and periods represent uniform change in
speed, of the circular motion. The repetition of an incident
at uniformly varying intervals of time marks periodicity.
Therefore the ‘periods’ of woman and the periodical
floods on earth of rivers and oceans and all the cataclysms
of nature due to a constant precession of the equinoxes
and the shifting of the poles are all controlled by the
activity of the sign Scorpio. The return of man into matter
(birth) is caused by Scorpio through Cancer, because
Scorpio is linked with Cancer by trine aspect. Both of them
are watery signs and water is the fertilising and
germinating agent of nature.
The growth of the foetus in the womb, when man is
buried in the grave of the physical plane, imitates the drama
of the whole evolution. This is an inevitable experience
through the process of evolution. The wise spiritualist can
cross this only by experiencing this through the rituals of
the higher order. When man is made to imitate the whole
process of gestation under the spiritual guidance of a Guru,
in the halls of the temples of initiation that are arranged in
correspondence with the structure of the uterus, man by this
experience crosses the necessity of undergoing many of his
physical births. This is one of the secrets of the rituals of
“The Dying God”. Falling into cycles of birth (spiritual death)
and death (spiritual birth) through the gateway of Cancer
and Capricorn is called the repeated death of man. Scorpio,
which represents the generative organs, is called the grave
or the valley of death. The inner man, or the soul, is called
the truth-bearer (Satyava-n), the truth being the Spiritual Sun