<< Technique: The Aries AXIS >>

In dial work, much attention goes to “The Aries Axis.”  And that simply means points at 00 degrees of any of the Cardinal signs, points at 15 degrees of any of the Fixed signs, and the two midpoints of that primary axis: the quadratures, one in 22:30 of any of the Cardinal signs and 07:30 of any of the Mutable signs.  On this chart, those points are shown in red.  (Radix Mercury and Hades should also be in red!)

Aside from acting like an action-driven 
Cardinal Grand Square, the Aries Point is kind of like an Ascendant in that it shows your adaptation to the larger world; points in the Aries Axis indicate how you are “compared to the average person.”

The Aries Axis really earns its reputation when solar arc directed factors approach (apply to) it.  Those factors are then involved in signature events for the year.

This is the chart of Charlton Heston (middle rim.)  The inner dial shows solar arc directions for the same date as the outer dial: August 9, 2002 when he announced that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.  Note solar arc Psyche (brain) in 14 Fixed applying to the Aries Axis.  Also note that the Sun, Eros and Child, by solar arc, have reached the Aries Axis.   You see that the directed ASC has just separated from its year in the Aries Axis.  (Although not precisely correct, you can figure that factors move about one degree per year.) 

If you are interested in a discussion and other Alzheimer examples (including the chart of Glen Campbell who announced in late June 2011 that he’d been diagnosed with symptoms consistent with Alzheimer’s, see the text, “Dial Techniques and Medical Case Studies.”  Charts of patients with rare lung diseases and cancer are also covered in that volume.   (Cancer charts also addressed in the September and October 2012 issues of the newsletter, “Tools of the Trade.”  Subscribe now!)

At the other quadrature, in 07:30 Mutable, we find Niobe, Grieve and Eurydike, Rx.  A quick interpretation of that would be:  there is a humbling grief over dependency on another.

If you see the inner dial (of this chart or YOUR chart) of directions as moving counterclockwise  in time, you immediately want to know when points in your chart attained the Aries Axis and the resulting high profile that provides.  To make this easy, refer to the following table.  It lists the dial degree and the sign and mode degree (ie., 61/01 M means that it’s dial degree 61 and it is a factor in 01 of any Mutable sign.)  It also shows the approximate age you would be when a factor in those degrees would have attained the Aries Axis—and the ages of the twenty-two and a half year repeats.

For instance: let’s say that your radix Sun is in 10 Scorpio.  On the dial, that’s degree 40.  You look on the table to find 40/10 F.  Then look across at the ages when your Sun would reach any part of The Aries Axis.  In this case you, find the first age as during the 3rd and 4th year.  The last step is to add the age to your birth year.  So, if you were born in 1972, you’d add 3-4 and know that in 1975-1976, your Sun was a high profile case.  (And then you’d look to see what other radix points would have also been in the Aries Axis at that time because they, along with transits in the Aries Axis during that time, would describe strong events in those years.  Let me just mention that Saturn manages to be in the axis part of most years—so it adds its influence to the radix and directed points sharing the axis.

Ages when solar arc directed factors apply to & occupy The Aries axis:

Dial/*             Dial/*        Dial/*        Dial/*                  Ages           Ages      Ages           Ages

00/00 C          22/22 C     45/15 F     67/07 M              21-22         43-44     65-66         87-88

01/01 C          23/23 C     46/16 F     68/08 M              20-21         42-43     64-65         86-87

02/02 C          24/24 C     47/17 F     69/09 M              19-20         41-42     64-65         85-86

03/03 C          25/25 C     48/18 F     70/10 M              18-19         40-41     62-63         84-85

04/04 C          26/26 C     49/19 F     71/11 M              17-18         39-40     61-62         83-84

05/05 C          27/27 C     50/20 F     72/12 M              16-17         38-39     60-61         82-83

06/06 C          28/28 C     51/21 F     73/13 M              15-16         37-38     59-60         81-82

07/07 C          29/29 C     52/22 F     74/14 M              14-15         36-37     58-59         80-81

08/08 C          30/00 F     53/23 F     75/15 M              13-14         35-36     57-58         79-80

09/09 C          31/01 F     54/24 F     76/16 M              12-13         34-35     56-57         78-79

10/10 C          32/02 F     55/25 F     77/17 M              11-12         33-34     55-56         77-78

11/11 C          33/03 F     56/26 F     78/18 M              10-11         32-33     54-55         76-77

12/12 C          34/04 F     57/27 F     79/19 M              09-10         31-32     53-54         75-76

13/13 C          35/05 F     58/28 F     80/20 M              08-09         30-31     52-53         74-75

14/14 C          36/06 F     59/29 F     81/21 M              07-08         29-30     51-52         73-74

15/15 C          37/07 F     60/00 M    82/22 M              06-07         28-29     50-51         72-73

16/16 C          38/08 F     61/01 M    83/23 M              05-06         27-28     49-50         71-72

17/17 C          39/09 F     62/02 M    84/24 M              04-05         26-27     48-49         70-71

18/18 C          40/10 F     63/03 M    85/25 M              03-04         25-26     47-48         69-70

19/19 C          41/11 F     64/04 M    86/26 M              02-03         24-25     46-47         68-69

20/20 C          42/12 F     65/05 M    87/27 M              01-02         23-24     45-46         67-68

21/21 C          43/13 F     66/06 M    88/28 M              00-01         22-23     44-45         66-67

22/22 C          44/14 F     67/07 M    89/29 M              Prenatal through early months*

 

Of course, it’s also valuable to see when midpoints apply to The Aries Axis, so you can take midpoint degrees to the table above too. 

 

And, next time, we’ll talk about directing factors to other axes (and how to simplify that math.)

 

 

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