THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ASTROLOGY ~.' .. ~.'"." ALEISTER CROWLEY WITH EVANGELINE ADAMS THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ASTROLOGY LIBER DXXXVI EDITED BY HYMENAEUS BETA ~WEISERBoOKS l!J Boston, MA/York Beach, ME This edition first published in 2002 by Red Wheel/Weiser, Inc. Po. Box 612 York Beach Maine 03910 Material first published in Evangeline Adams, Astrology, 't&ur Place in the Sun copyright ©1927 Ordo Templi Orientis. All rights reserved. Material first published in Evangeline Adams, Astrology, 't&ur Place Among the Stars copyright ©1930 Ordo Templi Orientis. All rights reserved. New matter and material with no previous authorized publication copyright ©2002 Ordo Templi Orientis. All rights reserved. The moral right of Aleister Crowley to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted. Ordo Templi Orientis International Headquarters JAF Box 7666 • New York, NY 10116-4632 USA or Postfach 33 2012· D-14180 Berlin, Germany ISBN 0-87728-908-5 EB Printed in the United States of America. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials z39.48.1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Crowley, Aleister, 1875-1947. The general principles of astrology / Aleister Crowley with Evangeline Adams. Edited by Hymenaeus Beta. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87728-908-5 (hardcover: alk. paper) --ISBN 0-87728-909-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Astrology. 2. Occultism. I. Crowley, Aleister, 1875-1947. II. Adams, Evangeline Smith, 1859?-1932. III. Hymenaeus Beta, 1955-. IV Title. BF1708.1.C7572002 133.5--dc21 00-036517 CIP Table of Contents Figures, Tables and Charts Vll Abbreviations and Symbols Xlll Acknowledgments xv Editor's Introduction XVll Technical Note: Crowley's Methods of Astrological Interpretation XXXIX LIBER DXXXVI: THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ASTROLOGY Preface 3 Introduction to the General Principles of Astrology 7 CHAPTER 1 Man and the Universe 17 CHAPTER 2 The Technical Elements of Astrology 21 CHAPTER 3 How to Set Up a Figure of the Heavens Suitable for an Astrological Judgment 24 CHAPTER 4 The General Signification of the Planets 27 CHAPTER 5 The General Signification of the Signs 32 CHAPTER 6 The General Signification of the Aspects 45 CHAPTER 7 The General Principles ofJ udging a Figure 47 CHAPTER 8 The Master Key to Astrology 49 CHAPTER 9 The Houses of Heaven 53 CHAPTER 10 The Rising Signs 59 CHAPTER 11 The Sun 155 The Influence of the Sun on the Individual 156 The Sun Symbolically Considered 158 The Sun in the Signs 160 CHAPTER 12 The Moon 175 The Influence of the Moon on the Individual 178 The Moon Symbolically Considered 180 The Moon in the Signs 182 CHAPTER 13 Mercury 200 Mercury Symbolically Considered 203 Mercury in the Signs 205 CHAPTER 14 Venus 219 Venus Symbolically Considered 221 Venus in the Signs 223 v Vi THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ASTROLOGY CHAPTER 15 Mars 248 Mars Symbolically Considered 250 Mars in the Signs 252 CHAPTER 16 Jupiter 267 Jupiter Symbolically Considered 270 Jupiter in the Signs 272 CHAPTER 17 Saturn 290 Saturn Symbolically Considered 294 Saturn in the Signs 296 CHAPTER 18 Uranus 314 Uranus Symbolically Considered 320 Uranus in the Signs 323 Uranus in the Houses 355 CHAPTER 19 Neptune 381 Neptune Symbolically Considered 385 The Influence of Neptune on the Individual 390 Neptune in the Signs 392 Neptune in the Houses 400 Neptune in His Aspects to the Other Planets 424 APPENDICES APPENDIX 1 My Theory of Astrology 437 APPENDIX 2 How to Learn the Practice of Astrology 441 APPENDIX 3 How Horoscopes are Faked 445 APPENDIX 4 Charts, Biographies and Index to Chart References 449 APPENDIX 5 Tables and Diagrams 533 Editorial Notes 545 Works Cited 577 Index 587 Illustration Credits 595 Figures, Tables and Charts FIGURE 1 The Outer Planets of the Solar System 6 FIGURE 2 A Renaissance Geocentric Cosmos ofTen Heavens 16 FIGURE 3 A Modern Geocentric Cosmos 20 FIGURE 4 The Emperor 36 FIGURE 5 The Pope 36 FIGURE 6 The Lovers 37 FIGURE 7 The Charioteer 37 FIGURE 8 Strength 38 FIGURE 9 The Hermit 38 FIGURE 10 Justice 39 FIGURE 11 Death 39 FIGURE 12 Temperance 40 FIGURE 13 Art (Crowley/Harris) 40 FIGURE 14 The Devil (Crowley/Harris) 41 FIGURE 15 The Devil 41 FIGURE 16 The Sabbatic Goat (Levi) 42 FIGURE 17 The Star 43 FIGURE 18 The Star (Crowley/Harris) 43 FIGURE 19 The Moon 44 FIGUIU 20 The Twelve Houses with Mundane Attributions of Natural Signs 55 FIGURE 21 The Septenary and the Zodiac in Contrary Motion 315 FIGURE 22 The Classical Septenary of Planets 533 FIGURE 23 Essential Dignities (2). Rulers, Exaltations and Superior Governors 535 FIGURE 24 Essential Dignities (4). Rulers by Sign and House 536 FIGURE 25 Essential Dignities (5). Elemental Triplicities 537 FIGURE 26 Essential Dignities (7). Quadruplicities: Cardinal, Kerubic (Fixed) and Mutable 537 FIGURE 27 The Psychological Tree of Life 540 FIGURE 28 The Tree of Life with Crowley's Final Astrological Attributions 541 FIGURE 29 The Symmetrical Disposition of Rulers and Superior Governors 544 FIGURE 30 The Heavenly Hexagram showing Rulers and Superior Governors 544 VB VllI THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF ASTROLOGY TABLE 1 Planetary Positions for Charts Illustrating the Master Key to Astrology 51 TABLE 2 Neptune in History 382 TABLE 3 The Classical Septenary of Planets and their Attributions 533 TABLE 4 The Genethliac Values of the Planets 534 TABLE 5 The Triple Trinity of the Planets 534 TABLE 6 Essential Dignities (1). Rulers, Exaltations, Detriments and Falls, by Planet 535 TABLE 7 Essential Dignities (3). Rulerships, Exaltations, Falls, Detriments, Superior Governors, Decans (Faces) and Sex, by Zodiacal Sign 536 TABLE 8 Essential Dignities (6). Zodiacal Triplicities by Element with Planetary Rulers by Day and Night 537 TABLE 9 Essential Dignities (8). The Triplicities of the Zodiac 538 TABLE 10 Astrology, Qabalah and the Tarot 539 TABLE 11 The Planets and the Sexes 542 TABLE 12 The Zodiac and the Parts of the Body 543 TABLE 13 Mundane Astrology and the Zodiacal Rulers of Countries 544 TABLE 14 Book Outline and Table of Contents, from Typescript 546 TABLE 15 Sources (Typescript, Sun and Stars) and their Arrangement 549 TABLE 16 Comparative Analysis of Source Texts 553 CHART 1 Congenital Idiot 177 CHART 2 Henry Ford 183 CHART 3 Walt Whitman 228 CHART 4 Elbert Hubbard 230 CHART 5 Rutherford B. Hayes 235 CHAR T 6 Mark Twain 241 CHAR T 7 Robert Burns 245 CHART 8 Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Prince of Wales 330 CHART 9 Florence Maybrick 330 CHAR T 10 John Burns 331 CHAR TIl Billy Sunday 331 CHART 12 Lizzy Lind-af-Hageby 337 CHART 13 Violet Mary Charlesworth 338 CHART 14 George Borrow 340 CHAR T 15 Phyllis Dare 341 CHART 16 Zena Dare 341 CHART 17 Emile Loubet 354 CHART 18 Drowned at Age 27 372 CHART 19 Child Drowned at 3 Years 372 CHART 20 Child Suffocated at Birth (1) 372 CHART 21 Child Suffocated at Birth (2) 372 CHART 22 Child Strangled by Falling off Chair 372 CHART 23 Child Strangled by Mother 372 CHART 24 Orville Ward Owen 425 CHART 25 Neptune "dual mind" 426 Figures, Tables and Charts lX CHAR T 26 Napoleon III 442 CHART 27 Adolf Hitler 442 CHAR T 28 'Abbas Effendi 450 CHART 29 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa 450 CHAR T 30 Alexander the Great 451 CHART 31 Alexander II 451 CHAR T 32 Pope Alexander VI 452 CHART 33 Edith Allonby 452 CHART 34 H. H. Asquith 453 CHART 35 Wilhelm Backhaus 453 CHAR T 36 Arthur James Balfour 454 CHART 37 Honore de Balzac 454 CHART 38 Marie Bashkirtseff 455 CHAR T 39 Charles Baudelaire 455 CHART 40 Annie Besant 456 CHART 41 Bismarck 456 CHART 42 William Blake 457 CHART 43 Helena Petrovna Blavatsky 457 CHART 44 Rosa Bonheur 458 CHAR T 45 Cesare Borgia 458 CHART 46 Georges Boulanger 459 CHART 47 John Bright 459 CHAR T 48 Henry Peter Brougham (Lord Brougham) 460 CHART 49 William Jennings Bryan 460 CHAR T 50 Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Lord Lytton) 461 CHART 51 Sir Richard Burton 461 CHART 52 Lord Byron 462 CHART 53 Sadi Carnot 462 CHART 54 Lewis Carroll 463 CHART 55 Joseph Chamberlain 463 CHART 56 Charles I 464 CHART 57 Thomas Chatterton 464 CHART 58 Frederic Chopin 465 CHART 59 Sir Winston Churchill 465 CHART 60 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 466 CHART 61 Mabel Collins 466 CHART 62 Nicolaus Copernicus 467 CHART 63 Oliver Cromwell 467 CHART 64 Aleister Crowley 468 CHART 65 Dante 468 CHART 66 Datas 469 CHART 67 Alphonse Daudet 469 CHART 68 Sir Humphry Davy 470 CHART 69 Charles Dickens 470 CHART 70 Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield) 471 CHART 71 Alfred Dreyfus 471