An Astrological Mandala: The Cycle of Transformations and Its 360 Symbolic Phases

Some three decades ago in an attempt to produce a series of symbols that would be relevant to contemporary students of astrology Marc Edmund Jones and a clairvoyant friend formulated the so-called Sabian symbols. Now Dane Rudhyar has taken these symbols and reinterpreted them to emphasize their character as a cyclic and structured series which formalizes and reveals the archetypal meaning of 360 basic phases of human experience. Rudhyar also demonstrates how the Sabian symbols can be used for divination. Like Tarot cards and the I Ching they provide clues to the best way to face anxieties or suggest what alternative courses of action might mean in ones life. In the form of pictures that are easily recognizable to people today these symbols can be said to constitute a contemporary American I Ching a series of symbols that goes to the very root of planetary significance for our present era.