mapping the archetypes onto astrology (query)

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You may choose astrology, the twelve signs, as you call these portions of your planet’s energy web, and what has been called the ten planets. You may choose the tarot with its twenty-two so-called Major Arcana. You may choose the study of the so-called Tree of Life with its ten Sephiroth and the twenty-two relationships between the stations.

The strongest interpretation of this passage is that Ra meant the 10 planets and 12 signs to be taken together to equal 22 archetypes.

There is actually a standard map which has been in use for sometime now among the Golden Dawn and its splinter groups. It may seem odd that planets are attributed to both spheres and pathways, but that's precisely the traditional method. They may be difficult to see on this map, but they're all marked. Note that there are actually 12 signs, seven planets and 3 elemental signs (fire, water, air) rather than 12 signs and ten planets:



For my part, I have not yet come to any firm conclusions about these associations. More and more I find myself thinking that they are not directly mappable onto each other. But I still try.

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Also, Meerie, the male and female switch in the lower spheres -- just like on the body. So Chesed and Netzach are very feminine spheres. It is a simple fact of the matter that there is only one planet with a female name, so Jupiter and Saturn had to be taken as female energies rather than overtly female gods. The feminine triad is represented here fairly faithfully: Saturn (crone), Jupiter (mother), Venus (maiden).