THE ASTROLOGICAL LUCIFER IN RELATIONSHIPS

Andrew Kessler

Satan in his Original Glory

William Blake

Lucifer is the King James Version rendering of the

Hebrew word הילל in Isaiah 14:12. This word,

transliterated hêlêl or heylel, occurs only once in the

Hebrew Bible, and according to the KJV-influenced

Strong's Concordance means "shining one, morning

star, Lucifer."

The word Lucifer is taken from the Latin Vulgate,

which translates הילל as lucifer, meaning "the

morning star, the planet Venus", or, as an adjective,

"light-bringing.“ The Septuagint renders הילל in

Greek as ἑωσφόρος (heōsphoros), a name, literally

"bringer of dawn," for the morning star.

In this passage (Isaiah 14:12), Isaiah applies to a king of Babylon the

image of the morning star fallen from the sky, an image he is generally

believed to have borrowed from a legend in Canaanite mythology.

Isaiah 14

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the

morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, that didst cast

lots over the nations!

13 And thou saidst in thy heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, above

the stars of God will I exalt my throne, and I will sit upon the

mount of meeting, in the uttermost parts of the north;

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the

Most High.‘

15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to the nether-world, to the

uttermost parts of the pit.

Lucifer and Venus

• In the traditional astrology of the ancient world, Lucifer is associated

with the planet Venus. The origin of this lies in the phenomenon of

heliacal rising, or when Venus Rx rises in the east ahead of the Sun

(around 15° to 17°) and is visible to the eye.

• Planets rising ahead of (before) the Sun are morning stars ─

“masculine” energy

• Planets rising after the Sun are evening stars ─ nocturnal, “feminine”

energy

• Morning Star Venus was called Phosphoros, or Lucifer in Latin. She

was considered a warrior goddess by the Babylonians. Venus

Hesperus, the Evening Star, was viewed as the goddess of love and

sensuality.

Fallen Angels

• The Books of Enoch 1 (c. 300 – 100 BC) and 2 (1st

century CE) in The Old Testament Apocrypha

• The Watchers or Fallen Angels (Grigori) were led by a

rebel angel Samyaza. They “abandoned their posts” and

mated with humans.

• Taught humans the arts of metallurgy, astrology,

cosmetics, writing with ink and paper, the course of the

moon, etc.

Satan: ן ט "ha-Satan, "The Opposer הש

Man is included in the divine process, and this means that the principle

of separateness and autonomy over and against God—which is

personified in Lucifer as the God-opposing will—is included in it too.

C.G. Jung

Man is included in the divine process, and this means that the principle of

separateness and autonomy over and against God—which is personified in

Lucifer as the God-opposing will—is included in it too. But for this will there

would have been no creation and no work of salvation either. The shadow and

the opposing will are the necessary conditions for all actualization. An object

that has no will of its own, capable, if need be, of opposing its creator, and with

no qualities other than its creator’s, such an object has no independent

existence and is incapable of ethical decision. At best it is just a piece of

clockwork which the Creator has to wind up to make it function. Therefore

Lucifer was perhaps the one who best understood the divine will most faithfully.

For, by rebelling against God, he became the active principle of a creation

which opposed to God a counter-will of its own. Because God willed this, we

are told in Genesis 3 that he gave man the power to will otherwise. Had he not

done so, he would have created nothing but a machine, and then the

incarnation and the redemption would never have come about.

C.G. Jung, “A psychological approach to the dogma of the Trinity”

Nature never produces that which is perfect, or that which is complete in its

condition, but man has to complete it. This completing art is called

alchemical.

Paracelsus

And Azaz’el taught men the art of making swords, and knives, and shields,

and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the

art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony,

and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all

coloring tinctures.

1:8 Enoch

The proper function of the ego is to achieve consciousness. This would not

seem to be possible without the activation of evil. It is only when we come up

against evil that consciousness is raised to a certain height. So it may be,

paradoxically, that God allows evil because, even though it seeks to destroy

wholeness, wholeness in the spiritual sense would be impossible without it.

John Sanford, Jungian analyst

Dual aspects of the archetype

Lucifer’s challenging aspect:

• Amplifying problems, “separating” desires, fears,

emotional points of vulnerability and completely distorting

them

Lucifer’s empowering aspect:

• Teaching, providing assistance, deep insight, perception,

courage, ability, and spirituality in a Promethean sense

Natal chart of Elmer Wayne Henley

Lucifer is at 13 Cancer

Natal chart of Dean Corll

Lucifer is at 24 Pisces

Synastry of Corrl and Henley

Composite chart of Corll and Henley

Lucifer is at 18 Taurus

Heartbreak.

Composite chart of a love relationship

Lucifer is at 22 degrees Leo

Rock and roll partners

Natal chart of Mick Jagger Lucifer is at 18° Scorpio in the Sixth House

Natal chart of Keith Richards Lucifer is at 12° Capricorn in the Second House

Synastry of Jagger and Richards

Composite chart of Jagger and Richards Lucifer is at 15°44’ Sagittarius in the Tenth House

Natal chart of Partner 1 Lucifer is at 29° 37’ Virgo Rx in the Fifth House

Natal chart of Partner 2 Lucifer is at 19° Cancer Rx in the Seventh House

Synastry of Partners 1 and 2

Composite chart of Partners 1 and 2 Lucifer is at 24 degrees Leo Rx in the Sixth House

Diana, Princess of Wales and Charles, Prince of Wales

Natal chart of Princess Diana Lucifer is at 2° Leo in the Eighth House

Natal chart of Prince Charles Lucifer is at 3° Capricorn in the Sixth House

Synastry of Charles and Diana

Composite chart of Diana and Charles Lucifer is at 17° Libra in the Seventh House

Paramhansa Yogananda and Sri Yukteswar Giri

Natal chart of Yogananda Lucifer is at 25 Virgo in the First House

Natal chart of Sri Yukteswar Lucifer is at 26 Aquarius in the Seventh House

Composite chart of Yogananda and Yukteswar Lucifer is at 11 Sagittarius in the Fourth House