Quadruplicities & Gunas

[Solve et Coagula]

Do the astrological quadruplicities correspond with the Three Gunas?

[Jim Eshelman]

@Jackdaw said

"Do the astrological quadruplicities correspond with the Three Gunas?"

A correspondence can be made, yes. (Soror Meral did so.) It isn't as strong as other correspondences, and not my preferred way of looking at it but, yeah, you can make that association and it's not bad.

[Solve et Coagula]

Is there another tripartite system to which you feel they better correspond or do they stand alone?

[Aum418]

The 12 zodiac signs are permutations of 4 elements in 3 modalities of Fixed-Cardinal-Mutable. Aries is Fire + Cardinal, Taurus is Earth + Fixed, etc. etc. etc.

In this sense:

1. Cardinal = Sulphur = Rajas
2. Fixed = Salt = Tamas
3. Mutable = Mercury = Sattvas

Is that what you were asking?

In this scheme, the guna of 'Rajas' corresponds to Aries (fire), Capricorn (earth), etc. ... Tamas corresponds to Taurus (earth), Leo (fire), Aquarius (air), etc. ... Sattvas refers to Virgo (earth), Gemini (air), Pisces (water), etc.

IAO131

[Solve et Coagula]

It just seems odd to assign the Kerubic signs to Tamas.

[Aum418]

@Jackdaw said

"It just seems odd to assign the Kerubic signs to Tamas."

In the sense they are fixed, they are just like Salt and just like Tamas (which signifies inertia).

IAO131