Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt00641)

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Bad News for HPB’s Slanderers?

HELENA BLAVATSKY’S ASTROLOGICAL

CHART,  AS A PICTURE OF HER CHARACTER

Carlos Cardoso Aveline

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Dear Friends,


It might be interesting to look at a few central data from H.P. Blavatsky’s 
astrological chart, and thus evaluate the libels according to which she was 
a “charlatan”  --  to use  Paul Johnson’s  word (1).

First of all, one should consider that people are in general but the slaves 
of their best, or strongest, qualities.

The Sun in Leo ( 18 degrees,  05 minutes in HPB’s chart ) makes a person  
too strong in confrontation,  in truthfulness,  in Light  and in 
self-confidence to indulge in, or accept,  dishonesty and fraud.  People 
with Sun in Leo are,  literally, sunny persons. (2)

The Ascendant in Cancer ( 11 degrees 56 minutes in HPB’s chart )  makes a 
person too strong in emotions  to fake situations. The  feelings will change 
(like the Moon);  but sincerity, sensibility  and a certain vulnerability 
will be there all the time, even if under a protective armour, or  shell. 
The Ascendant in Cancer also makes a person deeply devoted to his or her 
family.  HPB’s true family was mankind, nay, all life. And her closest 
relatives in such an universal family were some Adepts -- and her own 
co-disciples.

The Moon in Libra ( 09 degrees, 41 minutes in HPB’s chart)   opens the 
person’s emotions to  the others.  There is transparency and a need to share 
with other people everything that is dear to one.  There is an openess that 
leads the compassionate Ascendant in Cancer to love and to try to protect 
all beings and  each of them.   Such a Leo/Cancer/Libra person  is too 
valiant and too sensitive at the same time,  which provokes a strongly 
challenging, but  splendid alchemical process. HPB’s life shows that.

HPB’s chart has no planet in Gemini -- a zodiacal sign often associated -- 
in its lower aspects -- with ambiguity and disguised action. More:  her 
twelfth house, a house of suffering and loss, begins in Gemini, which means 
that she may suffer in the hands of astutely dishonest persons (her 
libelers). And her chart has no planet in Scorpio, either.

Mercury in Virgo in HPB’s chart gave her an objective mind.  Her mind kept 
its “feet on earth”. It  had a critical view of things and saw details with 
great precision.  A  Virginian mind (Mercury in Virgo) is not false. It is 
truthful.  It wants perfection in all things and  hence it is often too 
critical.

What about the rumours that she was a fraud?  Is  there an  astrological 
explanation for that?  Let’s take a look at it, in three points.

FIRST.
Persons with Cancer ascendant  have the tendency  to  suffer from time to 
time because of their public image. In some  cyclic occasions,  they have to 
“change their shells”, getting rather defenseless in the process.

SECOND.
The Moon in Libra made  HPB too vulnerable to other people (while giving her 
a great sense of beauty, equilibrium, justice and  harmony).

THIRD.
H.P.B. had the beginning of her 10th House, the house of public image, at 13 
degrees of Piscis.  Hence her public image, in its higher aspect, is that of 
a dreamer, a deep philosopher, a mystic who lives and teaches the dream and 
the transcendental reality of Universal Brotherhood, Compassion Eternal, 
Unity in Diversity and Kosmic Love.  But in its lower aspect her IMAGE is 
that of a trickster, a too mysterious woman, a false person. Piscis has no 
strong outer personal identity because it’s not attached to the world of 
forms. It is the Ocean.  It is the mystery. And so  H.P.B.’s  public image 
is that of  “a Sphynx”,  in spite of  the fact that, with Sun in Leo,  in 
reality she did have a most intense and strong sense of identity and knew 
VERY WELL who she was.   Public image is of no substance, per se,  and HPB 
made a lifelong effort to show the  difference between outer apearances and 
inner reality.

The  combination of the factors listed above shows a life of courageous 
self-sacrifice for humanity, with an objective mind, and a person who seeks 
refuge  in  the truth but is hurt by lies, falsehoods and cowardly actions.

I hope the above data may help explain both  HPB’s sincerity and her 
suffering. A suffering which occurred in her personality (Ascendant  and  
Moon), and which was largely provoked by disloyalty.


Best regards,   Carlos Cardoso Aveline


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NOTES:

(1) See, for instance, Paul Johnsons’ pamphlet “Madame Blavatsky - The 
‘Veiled Years’ ”,  Theosophical History Centre, London, 1987,  p. 07.  On 
page 03 Johnson mentions his belief  that there were “fraudulent aspects” in 
HPB’s life and work.

(2) H.P.B.’s natal chart was published by Boris de Zirkoff in “The Collected 
Writings of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky”, TPH, India-USA, third edition, 1988, 
Volume I, page LXXIV.

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