146 Spiritual Astrology
student to a mastery of the vital and mental activity. Libra,
the balance, performs all these functions. By practising
the art of Pra-n.a-ya-ma, the activity of the consciousness in
the solar plexus and below is gradually directed towards
the higher centres via the heart-centre. Man is made to
establish himself in the higher pole between the A
-
jna- chakra
and the head-centre. The lower pole is eliminated and
polarity is neutralised. “When Sun crosses the last degree
of Virgo in his downward path (path of the planets), there
is a reversal of the whole process. Sun once again enters
Aries and there is no fall of the Sun into the night of matter.
The same six signs are traced again in the opposite
direction until the starting point is reached”. This is true
with the yogi
-
s and this marks the change through
Pra-n.a-ya-ma, the fourth step of the eight-fold path of
Pathanjali.
In the physical body of an average man, Libra is
located in the solar plexus. It governs all the functions of
the lower pulsations. To a student of Pra-n.a-ya-ma and
Pratya-ha-ra, Libra is located below the head-centre along
with Aries. Taurus and Pisces are located in the third eye.
Gemini and Aquarius are located in the vocal cords.
Cancer and Capricorn are located in the heart-centre. Leo
and Sagittarius are located in the diaphragm and the solar
plexus. Virgo and Scorpio are located in the spleen-centre
and the base chakra. Now, there is a violent disturbance
of the location of all the centres during the attainment of
the fourth and fifth steps of Ra-ja yoga. During the sixth
step new centres are located. They are: (1) between the
head-centre and the A
-
jna- chakra; (2) between the A-
jna-
chakra and the throat-centre; (3) between the throat-centre
and the heart-centre; (4) between the heart-centre and the
solar plexus; (5) in the heart-centre; and (6) at the base-