The Fixed Stars in Esoteric Astrology
There are numerous references in Alice Bailey’s Esoteric Astrology to individual stars and constellations. The main three represent the three major principles as the source of the first three rays.
- The Great Bear
- Ray 1, via Leo-Saturn-GreatBear
- Sirius
- Ray 2, via Pisces-Uranus-Sirius
- The Pleiades
- Ray 3, via Capricorn-Mercury-Pleiades
The Pointers, Polaris, Alcyone and more
- The two pointers in the Great Bear represent: body (Dubhe), soul (Merak), with Polaris (spirit),
- with Polaris: “star of re-orientation”, completing three stages of the will with the pointers.
- One of the Pleiades, Alcyone is mentioned specifically and connected to Ray 3 as “the Star of the Individual—governing Humanity” and the “star of intelligence”.
The constellations Cassiopeia and Coma Berenices (in the Virgo cluster of galaxies), with Andromeda—the spiral galaxy closest to the Milky Way (our galaxy)—are all mentioned briefly in a paragraph about the exaltation of the form
or matter/mother principle of active intelligence. For more on this (and the asteroids) see The Astrology of Form