by Robert Wilkinson
Today we revisit the glyphs for the spiritual aspects I’ve used for over 40 years. If you want symbols for the novile series aspects, the septile series aspects, or the elftile (11th harmonic) aspects, here they are!
I’ve been working with the various novile and septile series aspects for years. Back in the 70s they didn’t have glyphs and very little was known about their meaning other than brief general explanations in a couple of books. Over the years I worked extensively with these aspects, and came to understand how they operate. That gave rise to the glyphs I created.
The non-rational 7th harmonic (septile series) aspects and 11th harmonic (elftile series) aspects were assigned symbols involving circles, since each of these aspects is a non-rational number. Each of these symbols seemed an apt way of representing these aspects, and are easy to draw and instantly recognizable.
The 9th harmonic (novile series) aspects had to in some way relate to the pre-existing glyph for the trinovile, or what is better known as the trine. So these 4 aspect symbols all involve partial triangles and/or diamond shapes.
These glyphs are not of recent invention. I began my work with septiles and noviles in the early 1970s, and originally introduced the glyphs I created in my classes on aspects in my School of Astrology in 1975. I started exploring these aspects as a result of reading two Dane Rudhyar articles published in 1938 and 1948, as well as some work Marc Jones had done.
I then offered the glyphs and meanings for the novile and septile series to the general public in my ancient out of print work Astrology and the Spiritual Path, published in 1979. (This is not the same work as “Astrology and the Spiritual Path” written years later by the Hubers.) I’ll do a major rewrite on that work sometime in the future, and republish it in an expanded form. I explained a lot about these aspects in my 2015 webinar on the subject. If there’s enough demand I’ll try to offer it again in the future.
Mike Meyers in The Handbook for the Humanistic Astrologer (1974) also introduced some possible meanings for the septile, biseptile, triseptile, and novile, but they were sketchy and didn’t extend beyond a brief generalized sentence or phrase. He offered a Star of Solomon as the glyph for the septile, but it never seemed to take root in the lexicon.
I began to explore the 11th harmonic aspect series in the late 70s, and after some time using them and seeking to understand how they fit into the whole system of aspects on the 360 phase wheel, I got some very interesting revelations. These are the aspects in the mis-named “undecile” series.
I realized this series had to be re-named, since there is nothing related to a “decile” in these aspects. Deciles are the 10th harmonic series, and include the Decile (semiquintile, 36 degrees), Quintile, Tredecile (108 degrees), and Biquintile (144). I’ve explained in numerous articles that the 5th and 10th harmonic aspects are related, and manifest as various types of specialization, personal gifts, unique qualities and circumstances, interactive gifts, and serendipity.
All these 10th harmonic aspects have glyphs that date back at least a hundred years, and some of the aspect values originated with Kepler (yes, THAT Kepler, and I don't mean the excellent software created by Fei and David Cochrane!) I learned about these aspects through The A to Z Horoscope Maker and Delineator, Llewellyn George’s 1910 masterwork. I won't give you the symbols here, but they include a horizontal line with a perpendicular line in the middle pointed up for the decile, a "Q" for the quintile (I prefer a 5 pointed star), a "Y" with two horizontal lines just under the fork for the tredecile, and a math plus/minus sign for the biquintile. In that work he also gives glyphs for others in the “decile” series, including the Vigintile (18 degrees depicted as a horizontal line with a small peak in the middle) and the Quindecile (24 degrees depicted as a modified square root sign).
I believe that any name involving “decile” is unacceptable for nonrational aspects belonging to another harmonic, so I chose the name “elftile” for the 11th harmonic series, since the word “elf” is German for 11. No problem breaking free of the Greco-Roman names! In this series we have the elftile, bielftile, trielftile, quadrelftile, and pentelftile. Each of these involves non-rationality, as well as the dualities represented by the number 11.
As you know from my articles, the septile, biseptile, and triseptile all involve “forks in the road of destiny,” since any 7th harmonic aspect must in some way be related to Saturn, who is associated with the number 7. They all work in irrational ways or in irrational circumstances, and represent points of choice and change where we determine which road we will take.
The septile is always personal, whereas the biseptile and triseptile are interactive. The novile and binovile are always personal, whereas the trinovile (trine) and quadranovile are always interactive. I explained this in great detail in the webinar on the novile and septile series aspects. When I make it available again, it will only be a small cost, and includes a Powerpoint presentation with numerous slides and recorded audio tracks on the subject matter.
As I told readers then, this material is extremely important in understanding the turning points and realizations we all encounter throughout our lives. By understanding how the three Septile-series aspects work, and how the four Novile-series aspects work, we can see when crucial “forks in the road of destiny” will happen, as well as the timing on how our spiritual realizations build on previous spiritual realizations throughout our lives.
By understanding the spiritual aspects, we can see a larger continuity in when we have had and will have spiritual realizations, as well as points in our lives where we can see how prior choices influence current events, and how current choices influence future events, and thus take command of our destiny. These mark the most important points of transformation throughout our lives from cradle to grave.
I’ve only hinted at the meanings of the elftile series aspects in my articles. As they are based in 11, and 11 represents a number of potential mastery by overcoming some form of duality, we can expect that all 5 of the aspects in this series involves overcoming duality to achieve a form of mastery.
Because of the nature of this challenge, I’ve also found that it takes a certain level of faith in the process of dealing with dualities to master them. So each of the 5 different aspects in the Elftile series represents a phase of dealing with duality through making leaps of faith that help us transcend and master that particular type of duality. And due to the degree value for each of the aspects, we find that the Elftile and Bielftile are personal, whereas the Trielftile, Quadrelftile, and Pentelftile are always interactive.
That’s all I’ll give you today regarding the meaning of these 7th, 9th, and 11th harmonic series aspects, which are fertile ground for extensive research into the spiritual dimensions of our unfoldment. And now for the glyphs! Each of these symbols should be self-evident as to why I chose to associate them with a specific aspect. And meditating on them is an exercise in itself, since at least three of the symbols (biseptile, triseptile, and quadranovile) have been around since antiquity.
Enjoy! Welcome to the leading edge of one of the 4 primary building blocks of Astrology!
If you want to see a bigger picture of each of these glyphs, as well as the name and specific angle associated with them, just click on the picture and you’ll get a bigger page with all of them displayed.
I first offered these spiritual aspects to the world on this site on October 1, 2015, which seemed like a truly fitting way to celebrate the birthday of Marc Edmund Jones! Please enjoy exploring these aspects in charts, and I’ll see you soon with another article on the septile series aspects and their meaning.
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