Theos-Talk Archives (November 2006 Message tt01128)

Friends,  
 
We can look at a few central data from H.P. Blavatsky?s astrological chart, and then evaluate the libels according to which she was a ?charlatan?  --  to use  Paul Johnson?s  word (1), or the allegations according to which she ?might be a fraud?, as suggested by John Algeo and Daniel Caldwell. 
 
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). 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.  
 
 
Regards,   Carlos. 
 
 
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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