Sabian Symbol, Jones Pattern, Evolutionary Configurations, and More.

This article covers significant aspects, degree symbols, and other important factors in this Solar eclipse New Moon at 10 Aries on March 29.

This brings the Light of new interpretations as a fulfillment of Self which gives us alternative futures. This is a “back to the future” eclipse which helps us cultivate clarity and resilience!

This eclipse begins several years of things shutting down where we have 10 Aries in our charts. That doesn’t necessarily mean something bad. We’ve already been getting a new look due to Mercury going SRX on that degree, so suspend judgment, do your research or reviews, and get ready to move forward into the voids in April.

We’re in a time of overlapping Pisces and Aries energies, so if things feel deep, vast, and heavy, it’s showing us how to be compassionate and bless needed passages in our lives. Pisces is about endings and feeling compassion, so navigate the endings with faith in the future that as you let go of the ghosts of the past, your life will open to new vistas. We are in a transition into the new era and won’t be done with the passage until February 2026.

The span between 6-10 Aries is about “desire” on the social and emotional levels of life. 10 Aries fulfills the span which began with the new social and/or emotional “illumination of a facet of personality” we began at 6 Aries. With the stellium in Pisces including the North Node, it’s time to get closure as our resolve takes us from the past into the future.

The Planetary Spread

In this chart, because the inner planets are between late Pisces and early Aries in a 10+ degree span, that’s the main focus for the next 4 weeks and areas to be shut down over the next 4 years. At this point, with the planets occupying half of the zodiac between Aquarius and Cancer with none in Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, or Capricorn, it creates a Bowl Jones pattern. At this time we have planets in Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, and Cancer.

Depending on the position of the Moon and the inner planets relative to the outer planets, different months bring us different Jones Patterns. These patterns operate their own independent influence, regardless of which planet is in which sign.

Currently, the outer planet occupied span begins with Pluto in early Aquarius, and proceeds through Saturn and Neptune in late Pisces, Uranus in late Taurus and ends with Jupiter in mid-Gemini. (We don’t include TransPluto, since Jones didn’t use it in defining his patterns). Because we have 6 signs represented with an empty span of about 190 degrees, we have a “Bowl” Jones Pattern.

So What is a “Bowl” Jones Pattern and how does it work?

This type of spread, with all the planets occupying approximately half of the signs with an empty half opposite the occupied half, creates a “special type of conscious selfhood,” which Dr. Jones says “marks the Bowl type of temperament. He goes on to state “Fundamentally it is an extreme self-containment,” which “holds things, and a Bowl individual is one who always has something to bear.”

He goes on to state that with the Bowl, “the whole dynamic of man, his total power of achievement, arises in his instinctive realization that he is set off against a definite part of the world, that there is a complete segment of experience from which he is excluded in some subtle fashion. The Bowl not only holds something, but also places whatever it holds into relationship with a larger consideration.”

Dr. Jones continues that “the occupied segment of the Bowl horoscope reveals the activity and organization of the self, since planets are significant according to their place by sign and house, and the unoccupied segment becomes a challenge to existence, or the need and emptiness to which the native must direct his attention. The outstanding characteristic of the Bowl temperament is its marked sense of what is self-contained in contrast with what the self cannot hold, and this take an everyday form in an advocacy of some cause, the furtherance of a mission, an introspective concern over the purpose of experience.”

He concludes his explanation of how the pattern works with “The Bowl native always has something to give to his fellows, whether literally or psychologically, whether constructively or vindictively, because his orientation to the world arises from division; that is, frustration and uncertainty. The leading planets, determined in exactly the same way as for the Locomotive pattern, give a point of application, and shows where and how the native seeks to carry out his mission or gain his everyday justification for existence.”

He brings up another important point of analysis, as he states “the leading planet is of secondary importance in the Bowl pattern, unless it is found in a strong opposition or cosmic cross. The fundamental attack on the problems of life by the Bowl individual is indicated more significantly by the tilt or house-position of the Bowl-segment.”

He concludes this section by stating “the Bowl character is definitely more self-expending, or self-seeking, and more practically interested in what things mean and what they are. It continually throws the emphasis from the signs into the houses. It a general way the Bowl tends to ‘scoop up’ things and initiate experience when the position of the leading planet ranges from the fourth cusp, up and over the ascendant, to the Midheaven cusp, and then inclines to “capture” things or consummate various phases of life when the leading planet is placed similarly from the tenth angle down over the descendant to the nadir.”

Pluto at 4 Aquarius is the leading planet on a degree of “A Hindu healer.” This means that as we enter opportunity or experience, we will go through major purifications related to the collective Aquarian seeds being sprouted.

Some will experience life changing events which involve a revelation of some sort of latent healing power, or offered an opportunity to “consciously utilize divine potency.” This entry to the Bowl tells us we are all being exposed to the seeds of an inner divine potency if we choose to sprout them.

With Mars at 23 Cancer closing the Bowl, we’ll finish experience with a sense of what we need to gather which sustains our current movement into a future we’ve prepared for. Be alert for potentially needing some sort of proper defense, “self-gathering” what will sustain us in the future. A lot of people are wondering how to take care of basic needs right now, and as Mars is the ruler of the eclipse, get a new understanding of future needs.

This will help us all to mobilize on our own behalf so we can take care of ourselves or others. Share ideas in a spirit of fellowship and strengthen inner magnetism and external bonds with your spiritual Sisters and Brothers.

This leads with actional contribution, and closes with emotional-social consolidation. Because the leading edge is Aquarian Air, approach experience with a sense of vision, cooperation, the uniqueness of each part of the whole, and willingness to rise to an occasion. Because the closing edge is Cancer Water, by the time you’re done with a given experience, you’ll have a new way of mobilizing on your own behalf.

The Sabian Symbol for the New Moon

A New Moon sets the seed forms for what the following month will demonstrate. This Lunation falls at 10 Aries, and it is said that the first third (decan) of any sign deals with the physical, material, and actional levels of life, and being the first decan of Aries it has a sub-influence of Aries/Mars with an added dose of Mars. Resilience and warrioring are in the air! While I've given you a sense of this degree up to now, this is where we go into depth.

The Sabian symbol for the 10th degree of Aries is “A man teaching new forms for old symbols.” In the Astrology of Personality, where Rudhyar uses the original Dr. Jones' class notes on the symbols, 10 Aries is a degree of “Deep understanding, beyond normal means,” “abstract seership, integrating the inner and the outer,” and “interpretive gift.”

In The Astrological Mandala he states this degree is one of “revision of attitude at the beginning of a new cycle of experience,” involving “the problem of focusing one’s energies upon emotional drives and cultural values which exclude far more than they include.” This symbol is where we “reformulate at a new level much that had been taken for granted because it indeed originally had been an evolutionary necessity.”

He continues by stating “the very concrete emotional-arousing images of the past can now be reinterpreted as ‘symbols’ with a wider scope of meaning.” He says this is a stage where “a new dimension of consciousness is discovered, revealing higher possibilities of experience and mental development,” and is a stage of Abstraction. This symbol is said to be in the Span of Realization, Act of Differentiation, and the last degree of the Emotional-Cultural level of the Scene of Desire.

Dr. Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, says this degree symbolizes ”the continuous and necessary rectification of understanding through direct and everyday experience,” where “every factor of inner realization” is brought into “immediate and personal significance.” He states “here the wisdom of the race is revivified and made available for all through its recurrent and continual validation in human affairs.”

He continues that here many are served by those who can dramatize “each special phase of a total reality.” He offers us the keyword of INTERPRETATION, and states that when this degree works positively, it is “an exceptional capacity for putting every part of an individual’s heritage to work.” We are told it’s “manipulating, critical, original, specializing, and social-inspired.”

So the focus of this Solar eclipse is about losing an old perspective and gaining a new one over the next four years through taking a new look at seeing new meaning in old experiences, and abstracting that knowing into a more holistic view of what we’re going through. This is a review so we can revise our understanding and find a new form of greater social power allowing us to complete a form of healing specific to 2020, thanks to 10 Aries being Chiron’s stationary retrograde degree then.

As 10 Aries was the degree where Mercury went stationary retrograde, the losses related to this eclipse will lead us to a more well-rounded view of how subconsciousness and unconsciousness create thought forms whether we know it or not. With the retrograde quality, we may see how our subconscious mind or the subconscious mind of another gave us a new understanding of how those work out in shaping our future.

Important Aspects

Remember that in reading a Lunation chart (as well as a horary, inceptional, electional, or any event chart) the forming aspects show things to come, while separating aspects show things already past. Partile separating aspects show what’s been going on in the Now. This section covers only forming and partile separating aspects.

The Lunation is biseptile Mars, bielftile Jupiter, semisquare Uranus, Neptune, and bielftile Pluto; Mercury is conjunct Venus, Saturn, and Neptune (all out of sign); Venus is trine Mars, conjunct Saturn, sextile Uranus and conjunct Neptune; and the Sun makes the same aspects as the Moon.

Outer planet aspects feature Mars decile Jupiter, trine Saturn, sextile Uranus, and trine Neptune; Jupiter is binovile Saturn and sesquisquare Pluto; Saturn is sextile Uranus, conjunct Neptune, and septile Pluto; Uranus is sextile Neptune, and Neptune’s on the way to sextile Pluto as it goes into Aries.

This month the friction is provided by 2 semisquares, 0 squares, 1 sesquisquare, and 0 quincunxes. While squares challenge “right action” at a turning point of a cycle, the semisquares are more about internal decisions and movement with personal inner crises, both public and private, which we must deal with.

Sesquisquares on the other hand create friction, agitation, and irritation in our world that involves others. In my experience sesquisquares are not necessarily associated with times of crisis, but they do seem to be times of no rest and spurs to act that may be inconvenient and aggravating. They definitely aren’t calm! And quincunxes force adjustments and sacrifices.

Special Configurations in Evolutionary Astrology

This month we have 1 special evolutionary configuration involving Mars, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

1) Mars is trine Saturn and Neptune and sextile Uranus, with Saturn sextile Uranus and Uranus sextile Neptune. This activates 3 points of a “6 Pointed Star of Productive Awareness,” promising productivity and stabilization to those affected. This strengthens and harmonizes with planets and points we have in the last 10 degrees of Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces.

This month we also give a nod to the Lunation biseptile its ruler Mars, marking a “fork in the road” of needing to become part of a fellowship, and exchange ideas for the benefit of the whole. This will primarily affect planets and points we have near 8-12 Aries, 29 Taurus-3 Gemini, 21-25 Cancer, 13-17 Virgo, 5-9 Scorpio, 26-30 Sagittarius, and 17-21 Aquarius.

Explaining Harmonics

Aspects in the same series are considered to be various stages of “harmonics” for each series.

The novile (9th harmonic), septile (7th harmonic) and elftile (11th harmonic) series all feature spiritual aspects. All novile series (9th harmonic) aspects indicate things which need to be put on the shelf for a while, or that which has been waiting can now move forward. They represent gestative energies that can lead to great spiritual realizations. Septile series aspects represent forks in the road of destiny, while the 11th harmonic elftile series indicate that faith is required to deal with transcending some dualities, issues and points of evolution where we must make a leap of faith to attain a form of mastery over that type of duality. This series tests our faith. Both the 7th and 11th series involve non-rational aspect values, bringing an element of irrationality in behavior and circumstances.

The quintile and biquintile (5th harmonic) and related 10th (decile and tredecile), 15th (quindecile), and 20th harmonic (vigintile) aspects are all specialization aspects. You can find more by going to Astrology Class on the Specializing Aspects Pt. 1 – The Quintile and Biquintile, and Astrology Class on the Specializing Aspects Part 2 – The Decile, Tredecile, Quindecile and the Vigintile.

You can find out more about the spiritual aspects (septile, novile, and elftile series) by referencing this brief overview of Astrological Aspects – the 7th, 9th, and 11th Harmonic Series Aspects and their Symbols. I did a much lengthier exploration and explanation of how each of the 11th harmonic series aspects work in the article The 11th Harmonic Aspects in Astrology – the Elftile Series of Faith and Transcendence.

Element Balance

This month shows a seriously imbalanced distribution. This month the 10 traditional planets occupy 6 signs. We have 3 planets in Fire (inspiration and warmth), 1 planet in Earth (practical grounding), 2 in Air (relatedness and communicating), and 4 in Water (feelings and experiencing).

Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, it’s more hot than cool with a lot of “go with the flow.” This shows a lot of hot water with a need to spread ideas but not a lot of practicality.

The current sequence at present of Deciding, Feeling, and Thinking

We’ve been through several different sequences over the past few months. There are six patterns, and each has their strengths and weaknesses. This begins a new pattern thanks to the retrograde Venus and Mercury. For now, as a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience over the next four weeks involves beginning activity with feeling, then thinking, and then making decisions.

This pattern initiates activity by feeling its way into ideas, perceptions, and information. Let your hunches lead to new knowledge. Then, after a new idea, vision, or understanding, then make a decision and act on it! Try not to overplan too far into the future. Take your feeling-knowing one step at a time, and keep things in balanced motion, even if they go all over the place at times.

Once we’ve made a decision and acted on it, then a new feeling will naturally arise showing the next thing to learn about, communicate, or understand. So feel, flow, and experience, since these will lead you to ideas and views that will in turn lead to the next decision.

The issue with this pattern in play is that with Venus and Mercury both retrograde, there is a potential for getting hung up on past feelings or perceptions which were distorted, or somehow need to be resolved before action can take place. So do your reviews and rehearsals, but beware of the need for too much information which scatters rather than focuses. Make sure your feelings are accurate, compassionate, and productive as you seek new ideas and understanding.

This pattern is sensitive to others’ feelings, and when healthy usually offers a positive and encouraging take on things. It is said this pattern has the best “bedside manner,” and can be a good sounding board to bounce all kinds of things off of until everything’s been discussed and processed so that a clear decision can be made. This pattern offers us that the journey of a thousand miles is truly one step at a time.

So if you’re wondering what to do, reference your feelings from a place of objectivity and compassion. Once you have “retreated to compassion,” then find your vision or understanding you need to execute an action or make a decision.

If you’re wondering what to do, go to your feelings and sit with them. What are you experiencing which can help you feel what you need to know before you act? If you understand something but don’t know what to do, what are your feelings telling you that you must do? If your actions aren’t bringing you clarity, what internal feelings are blocking your vision? Let your feelings lead you to clear ideas which help you make decisions.

Summing Up

This New Moon Solar eclipse will bring new understanding, new interpretations, new ways of preparing for the future, and the beginning of a several week purification period which will leave us all clean and clear by 2026 of many old ghosts. Be strong, show perseverance during the next 4 years, and follow your heart, setting aside excuses for not doing that.

We now are in a time of the convergence of past, present, and future. We are learning to be strong and resilient in expressing the love we ARE while leaving something from the past behind. It could be an idea, or a behavior, a ghost from the past, or an attitude which made us rigid or defensive. This month patience and persistence brings us a new “feeling-knowing,” as well as the potential for strengthening our relationships in caring ways.

Purify, love without limit, and have faith that as you feel your way through the flow, you’ll find the understanding you need and the blessing to go your own way or to do your own thing in your own way. We’ve already had glimpses of what we believe abundance or fulfillment might look like; now we move forward along familiar lines of flow we’ve been navigating since September.

We’re in the end stage of saying goodbye to old ways, places, and people, However, since all forms pass away in this impermanent world, this created space for new ways and new experiences since there’s more potential than there is in whatever has left. Celebrate the uplifting energies at play in your chart, and let go of memories which don’t serve the flow into the future. Feel the lightness of your unique evolutionary dance through space and time. We’re all moving from the interpersonal to the transpersonal level of focus.

Neptune is showing the way to “let go let god” as we approach the threshold of a new Neptunian experience of Aries for the first time in about 150 years. For now, practice sensing the flow and simultaneity of knowing and experiencing a vaster connection to the collective field. This prepares us for receiving what we need to walk into the new collective reality of Neptune in Aries in late March!

We have been exploring our new life, new land, new field and new focus which has unfolded since January 2024. We now will be given glimpses of the future which requires we arouse our “command and control” abilities to “put on the show.” This will be the fulfillment of a dream for many, as well as the end of a long quest. If you feel empty, sit with it and reflect on what you’ve accomplished. The void you feel will be filled in the future through the love which magnetizes what’s true for you. With Mercury and Venus both retrograde and conjunct Saturn and Neptune, be willing to learn, to see, to understand, and be open to other futures. This helps us glimpse a new worldly order with a focus on joining with our Spiritual Brothers and Sisters.

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

While Saturn’s in Pisces, we are learning about the collective field and techniques of “non-local awareness” while developing our subtle senses of clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience. Forgiveness allows Divine Grace to manifest, and the quicker things flow down the timestream the less of an obstruction they’ll be.

Saturn in a sign of “distributing feelings” is teaching us how to demonstrate practical compassion as we live at a higher level than we used to. We are now living the life renewal we “heard as a call” last June, and can enjoy. Have faith that your faith in your process has brought you to a threshold of seeing the fruits of that faith made manifest.

Saturn in Pisces helps us understand how to deepen our connection with others and Source. It has allowed us to restructure that sign response in our lives, and given many of us a more mature view of life’s passages and common themes. We’re stabilizing our “feeling knowing” over the next few months, so go with the flow, even when it means you have to take a plunge!

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And now, on a related note….

Because Venus is exalted and conjunct Saturn and Neptune, She is a very powerful force for practical compassion. She shows us the way to let go with grace, and promises more mature and deep relationships in the future once this passage is complete in February 2026. As She went retrograde at 11 Aries, it promises A) a new worldly order wherever we have 11 Aries, and b) the emergence of new leaders on the world stage.

During Venus retrograde, we often experience returns and/or memories of new types of love we had in the past, or old loves who allowed us maximum freedom to be ourselves. So we’re reviewing early Aries and late Pisces through a Venus lens, as well as a Mercury retrograde lens as well. This will fuse a lot of information we need for the future, allows us to reinterpret some things so we can move forward in mid-April.

Venus has tremendous influence in shaping our expression and how we release our “potential for beauty” or “potential to enjoy life with others.” This month She brings beauty and value to our ability to find new relationships which develop quickly, with each naturally able to be their most genuine self.

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The Long View

In 2020 we entered a transition phase in human history. While we will be functioning within the Capricorn cycles we began then, we also have begun an era unknown to humanity since the 13th and 14th centuries. Even then, we were still in the depth of the Age of Pisces, so the awakening of new ideas then were relative to the old era, whereas what’s coming involves wave after wave of Aquarian energies, pushing us to the coming Great Age emerging in the second half of this century.

The long wave Aquarian pulses were initially set into motion by the Mars conjunct Saturn at 1 Aquarius on March 31, 2020, marking the initiation of archetypal Aquarian preliminary structures offered by Saturn. The promise and potential of the new Aquarian pulse then began to expand into a greater social and cultural vision beginning at the Jupiter conjunction with Saturn, the Grand Mutation of the Solstice also at 1 Aquarius. So we have 20 years of Aquarian energies set into motion by that conjunction!

All Aquarian transits and conjunctions in 2022, 2023, and 2024 have given a new impetus and new expression to the Aquarian structures which took shape in 2021. Each transit strengthens the Pluto in Aquarius “generation” of the 21st century which lasts until 2043. As there will be a Jupiter conjunction with Pluto at 15 Aquarius in 2033, we’ll see the “expansion of the Angels of the Age of Aquarius” at that time.

2021 opened a new adventure for all of us, and the “metamorphosis” we went through showed us what the coming Age of Aquarius is about. 2022 helped us remember we are Beings of Light, a Superstar shining the Light of our Eternal Love into our world. We’re now expanding our spiritual knowledge, understanding, and effective forms of service, and have entered a new phase with Mars in a new Sun/Mars conjunction cycle.

New groups of Spiritual communities have formed since 2021, and are being given a boost this year. Those which are Aquarian in nature will be “lifted on the wings of angels” in 2024. Trust the process. Revolution is in the air! And when you find things and people of eternal worth, value them with all your heart.

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