158 Spiritual Astrology
Venus and glamour for beauty is the lower quality of Venus.
Thirst for sex and response to the warmth of the physical
touch which is an expression of the animal magnetism of
man and woman, is governed by Mars, the planet of activity.
For those who take up the path of crossing the rings
of periodicity, through the symbolic journeys in rituals,
Saturn takes up the rulership. Saturn has snail-like rings
around him, which represent the passage of bondage,
suffering and death when traced in one direction, and
liberation when traced in the reversed direction. Crossing
the limitations of man by eliminating the wants (Vaira-gya)
is another path that can be traced in Scorpio. Cutting off
all desires, leaving away all wealth and possessions and
retiring into the caves and forests for solitude to conduct
penance is one of the activities of this sign, because it
represents death to the world of wants. For such disciples
Pluto is the ruler of this sign. All the disciples of this sign
have a veil of secrecy about their own paths. The
spiritualist, who follows the paths of this sign, develops
and attains perfection in perfect secrecy, just as the child
in the womb. Any change that is governed by Scorpio,
can never be noticed by others. The growth of the flower,
the fruit from the flower, the seed from the fruit and the
plant from the seed can never be observed by the naked
eye.
There was a time on this earth, when man and
woman lived only as fellow-beings without the
relationship of sex and reproduction. They were the
children of nature and wandered freely in the garden of
God. They had neither physical bodies nor any sense of
‘shame’. The serpent (the downward spiral path of fall
into matter) tempted them. They ate the fruit of the tree
of knowledge (the origin of the mind). There was the fall