The Astrological Coding of Genesis: Part 2

  

  Alright. We've seen the establishment of the Planets in their day as a core component of the story of creation which begins the Judeo-Christian Bible.  It occurs to me that a book I'd intended to write might make more sense as a relentlessly ongoing series here decoding this thing from the birth of the Earth onwards.  So here we go, taking up where we left off in Chapter 2 of Genesis...

⁴ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

  Essentially, though the planets and their spheres had been placed in the sky, the Lord now needed to set them in motion, and so we will see the creation of the Zodiacal wheel as it describes the great wheel of life which is the year.  All planetary spheres must make this transit within their own time to accomplish the deeds needed to keep existence growing, thriving, and decaying to make way for newer life. 
 

⁵ And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

⁶ But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

⁷ And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

  Now most people are familiar with the Zodiac beginning with Aries, which certainly has its own logic and merits, but for our purposes here, consider that life begins from the depths of darkness at the Winter Solstice, and grows from the frozen ground to blossom in the spring.  As such, God forms man from the dust in the ground, which is Capricorn, an earth sign great cardinal constructive power.  Man, is represented by the sign of Aquarius, the water bearer who purifies himself to serve the Gods.  Of course, at the beginning of the human story in the Bible, man is innocent and blameless.  Apparently we started with a clean slate, which is not a state those of us born later got to benefit from! There was a mist which came up from the Earth to allow for plants to grow is of course the generative qualities of Jupiter within his watery domain of Pisces.  The breath of life is the animating initiatory force which sends an animating soul into Adam.  Fire is the element which is connected to the animating force of life, despite it being described as breath here.   This moment of life is Aries.  Aries rules the head, the nostrils being a part of the head. 

⁸ And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

⁹ And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

   Planting a garden is a decidedly Taurean activity in the northern hemisphere.  The East is the cardinal direction of Spring, where the Sun rises again.  Verse 9 may not seem like it, but this is truly our Gemini verse.  Gemini, the sign of the twins, is the ultimate sign of dichotomous thought.  At the peak of the Spring Sun attaining its maximum Northern height in the sky, we divide up all the possibilities in life to be done under the waxing Sun.  Gemini is a sign of amassing ideas and determining the differences between things.  Here we have nested dichotomies (just like the twins born to Zeus and Leda were actually double twins, as Castor and Pollux were born at the same time as Clytemnestra and Helen), first, we have the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge.  Within that dichotomy, we have the further issue of the Tree of Knowledge determining between Good and Evil.  If you have any doubt about this verse being Gemini coded, I am not the first esotericist to note this, just check out the Lovers card in the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck, a Major Arcana card explicitly correlated to the sign of Gemini. 

¹⁰ And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

¹¹ The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

¹² And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

   Now the river which waters the garden is clearly Cancer.  In the time of year as the Sun builds to its greatest heat, the primary concern for growing plants is an abundance of water.  The significations of the water sign of Cancer are entirely related to nurturing the growth of delicate things, using the spiky carapace to protect the soft and gentle insides.  As regards the four rivers, perhaps we have here a description of the Crab constellation itself. 

  Next we have a reference to Gold, which is decidedly the domain of the Sun, which rules the next sign of Leo.  Onyx stone is related directly to the star Algorab which is within the wing of Corvus, a constellation with Virgo in the night sky, and would have been within the bounds of the tropical sign of Virgo when Genesis was written during the Age of the Ram.

  Bdellium seems to be given to the nature of Mars, so perhaps we are skipping ahead to Scorpio, though not for long, as the next verse gives a sideways glance at least towards Libra.

¹³ And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
¹⁴ And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
  According to Agrippa, Ethiopia is given to the nature of Saturn (specifically Saturn in Aquarius, a trine to Libra at least) which exalts in Libra.  Assyria is next mentioned, which is given to the nature of Mercury in Virgo.

¹⁵ And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

¹⁶ And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

¹⁷ But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

¹⁸ And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

¹⁹ And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

²⁰ And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

²¹ And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

²² And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

   This entire section seems to be Libra coded.  The Venus rulership gives the quality of dressing and enjoying the food of the Garden of Eden.  The measuring of all the creatures before him also has some resonance with the scales of Libra.  The judgment between that which is good and evil can also be seen within Libra, as well as the following of God's law.  The need for a partner, of course, has a deep resonance with Libra which is naturally correlated to the seventh house of marriage.

²³ And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

²⁴ Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

²⁵ And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

    I don't think I need to make expressly clear how Scorpio has entered the chat at the end of this chapter!

Chapter 3

 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

² And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

³ But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

⁴ And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

⁵ For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

⁷ And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

   Relentless Scorpio coding here as move to chapter 3.  Serpens, the great snake with which Ophiuchus must wrestle, would have been in the bounds of tropical Scorpio when Genesis was scripted.  The deep occult questioning of the mysteries of the world are present within the significations of Scorpio, as are a deep and present understanding of the dangers and powers of sexuality, as well as an attempt to hide them from public view.   Death as well plays a role here, as it often does in standard Scorpionic significations. 

⁸ And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

    It is fascinating that we are now talking about the "cool of the day" implying the season of Fall, just was we are about to witness the fall of Man from paradise. 

⁹ And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

¹⁰ And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

¹¹ And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

 

   These verses speak to Sagittarius, which bears the theme of great vision, seeing the larger picture in all things, and focusing upon the philosophical implications of that which we aim towards.  God not being able to SEE Adam implies a malfunction in the Sagittarian sphere, which aims to see all things in their most potent manifest form.  

¹² And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

¹³ And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

¹⁴ And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

¹⁶ Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

¹⁷ And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

¹⁸ Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

¹⁹ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

    This sections speaks very clearly to me of the Winter Solstice.  There is a death and a rebirth here.  The easy carefree life in paradise is done.  The Sun must die to be reborn again.  Now, pain and suffering shall be the human fate, but it accompanies the potential to build a new world of one's own making.  The Cardinal scaffolding of Saturn are on display here.  It will be difficult, full of the dust and soil of Capricorn, but one can build a life on their own terms now, having completed the cycle of the Zodiac.  One can easily interpret this moment as the Saturn return at age 29, where one takes responsibility for their own existence and the consequences of their choices, or one will simply starve in the wilderness of foolish naivete.

 

²⁰ And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

²¹ Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

²² And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

²³ Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

²⁴ So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

   We continue on this theme of birth and death.  Eve becomes a new beginning as the Sun is born again in Capricorn.  The cold of winter is emphasized by the need for coats of skins.  One can imagine the Summer of humanity's innocence in the Garden of Eden, with the entire narrative of nudity, being a parable for the need to prepare and brace oneself for the harsh realities of winter.  One might imagine the constellation of Cygnus, the Swan, the great Northern Cross, being the flaming sword barring the way back to heaven, placed prohibitively across the Milky Way, which was envisioned by virtually every human religion as the path of souls to and from the boundaries of this Earth.  Souls would depart the Earthly realm back to heaven through the gate of Capricorn in the Winter Solstice, where the Milky Way would have been perfectly align with during the codification of this text.  Without eating of the tree of Life, humanity is now doomed to mortality and toil.  It is perhaps impossible to not imagine the Garden of Eden being the Pole Star itself.  Were the ancient rituals of ascension to the Pole star built into the tunnels of countless temples an attempt to reattain the promises of the Tree of Life, now that we are doomed with the burden of the Tree of Knowledge?  A tale to be continued....