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The Concept of Globe in Astrology 35

him an idea of the truth of his rebirth. He could gradually
study the rotation of the earth around the Sun through a
year. This made the Sun appear to be rotating around the
earth. The year producing six seasonal effects, twelve
lunar months of one new Moon and one full Moon each,
gave him the idea of dividing the day also into six, twelve
and twenty four equal parts. He could locate these
divisions in the egg in his mother’s womb also. The stalk
of the egg which links the egg with the ovary corresponds
to sunrise in the day and the ascendant in his mundane
egg. Through this, the individual derives his life-
sustenance as a child of the great mother nature. The
umbilical cord of the child in the mother’s womb gave
him a hint that there is a second and a lower link between
himself and nature. In the day, he located this at the place
of the sunset. He could also locate this in his mundane
egg of twelve houses at a point which we call the seventh
house. In the lunar month, these two points (the higher
stalk and the lower cord) correspond with the new Moon
and the full Moon. In the solar year the two equinoxes
correspond to these two centres, the stalk corresponding
to the vernal equinox and the cord to the autumn equinox.
These two points form the rise and fall of the annual of
the Sun.

Summing up the above symbols we get the following
points :

(1) The gestation of the individual in his mother’s womb
is but an imitation of the Sun’s path along the annual
rotation of the earth and also the diurnal rotation of
the earth on its own axis. His development in the
womb through the ten months is a symbol of his
own evolutionary development or the path of the
soul.