Parading
Peacock
& The Sabian Symbols
The
Sabian Symbols were creatively imaged into time/space reality by
the astrologer,
Marc Edmund Jones, and clairvoyant, Elsie Wheeler, back in the
mid 1920s. In
the Sabian Symbols, each of the 360 degrees of the Zodiac has its
very own word symbol, and I greatly enjoy playing with these wonderful "word picture" symbols.
Marc Edmund
Jones (the original astrologer involved in their creation) wrote several
books on the symbols starting in the 1950s.
In 1973 a
book on the subject of Sabian Symbols was published that went on to become
quite popular. This book, based on the Sabian symbols, was written by
author/astrologer Dane Rudhyar and is named the Astrological Mandala.
If you've seen a book on the Sabian Symbols hanging out on the shelves
of your local bookstore, then it was probably this one...
I
occasionally hear rumblings of criticism from "purists" regarding Rudhyar's book
and the fact that he changed (updated) some of the language and terms
used for the symbols. But the fact is... that up until the publishing
of Rudhyar's book - most of the astrology community had never even heard
of these relatively obscure symbols. So if it weren't for Rudhyar...
most of these picky "purists" would have never laid eyes
on the Sabian Symbols...
My
favorite modern book on the subject of Sabian Symbols is 360 Degrees
of Wisdom. 360 Degrees of Wisdom written by Lynda Hill of Australia.
If you've ever seen the quite excellent Astrological Clock software program
Solar Spark - then Lynda Hill is the person who wrote the Sabian
Symbol interpretations. Here's a link
to her most excellent site with plenty of info on the Sabian Symbols.
My
Limited Take
My experience has been that sometimes the symbols "work" incredibly well...
and sometimes they appear to lose energy and don't "seem to work" particularly
well at all... (Of course, as Lynda Hill once gently chided me - the "losing
energy thing" might be because I'm not wearing the proper "eyeglasses" to
see what's there... and she - an extraordinarily talented astrologer
in her own right - could easily be right.)
And (in the
spirit of the Sabian Symbols) I think I prefer to remain a bit vague and
mysterious about the many different ways that they can be utilized.
Oh
yeah! Parading
Peacock? The Parading Peacock is the Sabian Symbol attached to my natal
Moon...
So, now
do ya like them? If you've been to the rest of this site, then you
can readily see how well they really do "work?"
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