144 Spiritual Astrology
of the spiritual path of man. This sign marks the autumn
equinox which bears correspondence with the midnight
of the day.
Imagine six different rivers crossing the circular path
of the zodiac in straight lines. A pilgrim who is travelling
along the path can taste all the rivers by completing half
of the journey. Even though the rivers cross at twelve
points on the circumference, the water is tasted completely
only through six signs. The other six points contain the
same water, but flowing in the opposite direction. In fact,
Libra arranges the twelve signs into six pairs of signs.
Visualise the whole nervous system (which is the
manifestation of the subtler lines of force) branching off
the vertebral column and reaching the extreme ends of
the body. What the vertebral column is to the two sets of
the nerves (efferent and afferent) the line between the two
equinoxes is to the zodiac. The line that links the two
equinoxes through the centre of the earth represents
Brahmarandhra along which the six pairs of the signs are
arranged as the six potential chakras. To a true student of
the yogic path, his six chakra-s are but six pairs of chakra-s.
His working starts with the awakening of the six chakra-s
and ends with locating the six other chakras in the body
of Antahkaran.a.
When the spiritualist completes his journey of
tracing the path from Libra to Aries in the reversed
direction, he has completed the journey through the six
other signs. By this time Libra is elevated and absorbed
into Aries. The lower pole in him is nullified and he bears
the one pole in his head with the God-centre of the
universe as the second pole. This God-centre is located
through the path of the Sun. Then again the one pole in
man becomes one with its higher pole, the God-centre.