Soul - Centered Astrology - Scorpio: Sign Of Death But The Key To A Better Life

- Alan Oken

In the above paragraph I mention a formula for success in life. This is the consistent process of what I would like to call “creative loss.” In a world in which gain, and especially material gain, is conceived to be the number-one priority for all actions and orientations, the concept—and the actuality!—of a consciously created orientation to loss seems absurd. But it is exactly this process that is personified by the higher nature of the sign Scorpio.

But there are procedures, methods, and qualifications to the Scorpionic, evolutionary direction of the proper use of loss, death, and release. In the Esoteric Wisdom Teachings of which the true astrology is a major part, we call this evolutionary direction The Path. Scorpio, along with its rulers Mars and Pluto, and its astrological domicile, the eighth house, plays a major role in its unfolding, as does the esoteric planet of Taurus, Vulcan. Three other energetic factors are also of major importance to this process, factors about which I will write in this article. These are the First, Fourth, and Sixth Rays.

The Rays, of which there are seven, are the fundamental “energy fields” used for the manifestation of all and everything. Indeed, traditional exoteric astrology (psychology, behavior, character, and personality) is based on the number twelve: the twelve signs. Esoteric astrology (evolutionary path, reason for incarnation, soul personality interplay), however, is based on the number seven while soul-centered astrology attempts to combine the two into a synthesized approach to living in our world. This soul-centered approach, as I have often written, is to provide an astrological lens for those of us who are simultaneously walking the vertical Path to Heaven and the horizontal path of daily life on earth.