54 Spiritual Astrology
arc of the zodiac. This difference not only creates practical
difficulties to a true spiritual astrologer, but also proves
the doubtful nature of the followers. Each champion of a
particular school of thought piled up a group of books
written by previous scholars and tried to uphold his own
argument, instead of trying to locate fragments of truth
on the arc of the God-made skies.
Is there no first point in its absolute sense? This
question for ever lingers in the mind of every truth-seeker.
Is there no real beginning, in its absolute sense, to this
creation? This forms the answer: ‘Is there no beginning to
the circumference of a circle?’ The answer explains much
more! If we mark a certain point, that becomes the
beginning for our comprehension. There are many
beginnings and many endings. Every point is a beginning
and an ending in itself and it marks its own round. It is
for us to leave off or ignore man-marked circles and try
to seek those marked by the Creator which appear to man
in the form of some phenomena. The two equinoxes and
the two solstices form four kinds of beginnings to the year.
The ancient seers had four beginnings of the year for four
different purposes.
If we follow the problem more faithfully to a still
more legitimate end of the intuitional logic of man, we
have another secret which reveals itself. Any conjunction
of two or more planets anywhere on the zodiac starts a
separate beginning of the zodiac which contains the whole
succession of events caused, affected and culminated by
that influence of the conjunction. The conjunction gives
rise to a succession of incidents, for which it works as the
first point of Aries. The conjunction of the apparent earth
and sky at the time and place of our birth forms our own
first point of Aries or our ascendant. The succession of