Astrology of Creation. A study of the symbolism of the correspondences between spirit and matter. The structured cosmos.

 

© René Bijloo 2025

1. From the center: Spiritual plane. Sun and triangle.

Sun with heart = The Lord, God, Creator. Triangle = Trinity of all things beginning with the Godhead, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, i.e., love (heart), wisdom (sun—light), and will (rays), and the three stages of life, beginning, peak, and end. The three orange arrows express the universal rotational movement, i.e. the development and infinity of life flowing from the divine center. The rotational movement then creates the material universe, i.e. the natural plane. Thus, the spirit of God flows into creation, which He maintains through polarity, i.e., mutual forces, i.e., with the tension of the force of attraction—because God draws everything to Himself in His love—against the centrifugal force—because He, as the Creator, wants to see everything freely act out of itself. In order for everything to remain in balance, without which there would be no life, God acts with His will as a third force. The triangle and the number 3 testify to the mutual support of the divine creative forces. From this comes, as already mentioned, the universal rotational movement in the cosmos, which creates free life capable of developing thanks to the momentum from the center, where the will of God (Holy Spirit) is the driving force. Thus, spirit and matter are connected. This can be symbolically represented in the zodiac by 12 animal signs as correspondences. The 12 signs or symbols are containers of an effect from the spirit to matter in a specific order. We now move to the middle of the mandala, beyond the triangle and to the outer circle, where we see 12 segments.

B. Natural level. Starting with the 4 elements. Middle field and outer circle.

Here we connect the spiritual (invisible), which comes from the WORD, with the material, which can be found in nature, in order to discover the correspondences, i.e., the connection. Center: Polarity (+ -) in the 4 elements, 1. Fire (+ repels, heat), 2. Earth (- attracts, e.g., gravity), 3. water and 4. air, as an expression/manifestation of the Creator's will on the natural plane, i.e. materially, through the effect of the so-called elements as different degrees of freedom of the spiritual, i.e. movement of the corresponding spirits within them. Outside: 12 signs of the zodiac as correspondences of the connection between the 4 elements and the respective polarity with the respective stages, where 1 is the beginning, 2 the peak and 3 the end of a life cycle. Thus, each sign of the zodiac is only a symbol of the corresponding polarity of one of the 4 elements in a certain stage, e.g. Leo ♌︎ is fire at its peak (midsummer, July-August), of positive polarity because the spirits in fire are active spirits, whereas in contrast, the spirits that form the element earth are passive, i.e., of negative polarity, in order to oppose the positive or active elements and thus create a dynamic balance. The 12 animal signs are connected to the center, i.e., the spirit of God, through correspondence and are nothing in themselves, but only through the workings of His spirit, in the polarity of an element at a certain stage, i.e., element + polarity + phase. It should be noted that signs of the same polarity are opposite each other, i.e., - to - and + to +, thus repelling each other, which maintains the entire system, i.e., the cosmos, through tension. However, when placed next to each other, they go from + to - to +, etc., to create a vibration, because everything is made of vibrations in different wavelengths.