Scorpio 157in him. There is a prohecy that Satyava-n dies within a year
after he marries Savithri (the light of the Sun). He marries
and then he dies at the time of Sunset. Yama (whose principles
are focused through Pluto) takes him away from his body
to the nether worlds into darkness (Scorpio). The truth-bearer
loses his consciousness of truth. But the spiritual light, who
is his wife, follows him upto the nether regions and brings
him back. Once again the truth-bearer is brought to life by
the next dawn.
This story gives much food to the ritutalist of the
speculative and the operative order of rituals. Scorpio is
the sign of rituals, because a ritual is the higher order
imitated in the material plane. Since the process of
reproduction and death also signifies the same thing, man
can cross the influence of death and rebirth through
enacting the ritual and conducting the symbolic journeys
of the soul. Periodicity works in rituals also. Every year,
the solar gods and the zodiacal angels dissolve their offices
during the month of Scorpio and resume at the beginning
of the next month. The officers of “the Day of Brahma”
also have their Scorpio.
“Death is but a loop-hole of awareness” says Sanat-
Sujatha, the fourth of the Kuma-ra-s. This means the loop-
hole of man in any plane. The eighth house represents
the loop-holes of a person and trains him to fill the gaps
into perfection.
Mars, who governs the sex act in his lowest plane of
expression, is the ruler of the sign for the people of the
individual plane. Some orthodox astrologers think that
Venus governs the sex act. It is not true. Venus governs love
on the higher plane and romance in the lower plane.
Expression of beauty through form is the higher quality of