40 Spiritual Astrology
endings of these straight lines are concealed in the point
in a bud stage. This is because the point is the bud of the
circle and the circle is the blossom of the point. The first
diameter is symbolically understood as the East and the
West. After it travels by rotation there are two different
positions of the diameter or numerically speaking there
is the emergence of two diameters which cross each other
so that the space in the circle is divided into four equal
parts.
The second position of the diameter is symbolically
known as the North and the South. This is the birth of
Chaturbhuja (four-armed) or the cross. This is the birth of
four signs along the circumference. Before the birth of the
point, all the four signs were in the point. Even today the
earth rotates around its own axis while it imitates the
rotation of the points and produces the four cardinal
points of the day: Sunrise, Noon, Sunset and Midnight.
The apparent moon-phases also describe these four points
in a lunar month: the new-moon, the half-moon, the full-
moon and the half-moon. The apparent path of the Sun
in the solar year also marks these four points: the Winter
Solstice, the Vernal Equinox, the Summer Solstice and the
Autumn Equinox. The path of the equinox also marks
these four points in its varying speeds while it describes
the great year along the ecliptic through its precession.
Every planet has got its own circle or zodiac around itself.
The Sun also has his own zodiac which differs from our
earth zodiac. The earth zodiac is the apparent circle
around our earth which marks the positions of various
stars and constellations. In this connection, it is interesting
to note that every planetary body is shaped only into a
globe and not into an irregular body. This is because space
is globular by nature and it produces only globular shapes.