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If you want to avoid putting your finger-prints all over the surfaces, wear light fabric or polythene gloves, as given away in hair colouring kits. You can buy packets of disposable gloves in Boots.

Before beginning to stick the model together, notice generally how the parts will fit together, and see how there is only one way all the parts are going to fit together.

Photo's are of pre production version, production version has more vibrant metallic colours.

We recommend using a very small tube of strong, fast-drying, clear glue for best results (Uhu, Loctite or Pritt Stick). Use it sparingly, stroking a thin flat line of glue along the inside edge of each tab where it meets the colour.

First stick together the shapes around the black triangle, making a cup.

Don’t be in a hurry – stick only one or two tabs at a time, making sure you get the facets to meet at their common edges exactly, and avoid denting the corners.

In the early stages paper clips help in keeping surfaces pressed hard together.

Allow each new sticking to dry completely before moving on to the next one, otherwise the model will slide apart if still moist.

As the model progresses you will not be able to get a tight hold on the facets as the solid begins to close inwards round an invisible sphere. Now press surfaces together with fingers and thumb if you can reach.

As you get to the last tabs, and your fingers can no longer fit inside to press, it is becomes important to let the glue dry slightly before sticking the tabs, so that they adhere instantly when slotted into place.

Once you have the first cup established, fold down on to it, one by one, the next triangles and squares, leaving the deep pink square of i until last (it’s worth rehearsing with a ‘dry run’ the order you will stick each tab before you do it permanently with glue!).

Remember, do not try and stick too many tabs at the same time, as the shape is now getting tighter and it will be harder to put your finger in to press from inside and make a firm join. It is now even more important to let each glued tab dry completely before moving on to the next.

If you find you have pushed some facets in too deeply, stick a long sewing pin or needle under the corner to ease it back up to the right level.

You will find that the final deep pink facet for i bends over as a flap onto the remaining exposed tabs below it, making it easy to complete your model assembly.

Place the model on the work surface with this last-stuck facet on the bottom, pressing gently downwards for the final seal.

Buff up your completed Cosmokrator with a duster to get rid of any pressure marks incurred while making it.

Now you are ready to put it to use – or just contemplate it as it sits on your mantelpiece or windowsill, turning it to a different view from time to time.

Other equipment you could buy or borrow to enhance your use of Cosmokrator (apart from the tube of glue):

Copy of Sun Signs (Pan paperback) by Linda Goodman (see under Using Cosmokrator to understand friends and enemies)

Set of Acrylic Colours so you can paint your own Cosmokrator-based diagrams (see list under Cosmokrator's Colours)

Copy of Love Signs (Pan paperback) by Linda Goodman (see under Using Cosmokrator to find your ‘other half’’)

Getting started

In our Introduction to using Cosmokrator given on this website, given step by step in the order given in the right-hand menu on the Home Page of this website, we now suggest a primary exercise, which is to consider Opposites, and their application to life (Spanner/Veil 1).

The First Pair of Opposites

First take your assembled model in your hands. Place one forefinger on the top, polar centre œ on the black triangle, and your other forefinger on the bottom, silver Sirius Ö triangle.

With your thumb, you can now revolve the model between your two fingers. This simulates the spinning of the sky round the polar axis as experienced from planet earth - marked on your model in the black triangle by a cross inside a circle Å .

In terms of colour opposition, you can see that you have a Black –v- White opposition – the first polarity (we will always use the Chinese Ying-Yang symbol [ to represent polarity, -v- , or ‘opposition’). The Black [ White axis can symbolise such ideas as Night [ Day; Winter [ Summer; Female [ Male; Sky [ Earth; Death [ Life and so on – the really ultimate oppositions.

Using this opposition to interpret life is using Spanner 1. Spotting this opposition at work within existence is pulling aside Veil 1. In terms of our existence on the earthly plane, we contend with these oppositions all the time, and have to find ways to reconcile the tension of their pull in opposite directions.

Having seen the Polar Axis dimension of life, the next simple step to take in understanding Cosmokrator is to move into the world of colour, look at their effects, and their symbolism.

The Six Pairs of Colour Opposites

The colour spectrum of the rainbow (whose separate colours are the constituents of white light, which can be split through a prism into the separate hues of the colour waveband) can be arranged as pairs of complementary colours (this is fully explored in Book 0: Introduction – see under Forthcoming Books) - and this is how they are placed on Cosmokrator.

Hold the model in your hand and notice how pairs of triangles and squares form opposing combinations of colour. These can represent the powers of the planets and zodiac signs whose symbols are drawn on them.

In order not to clutter up the model with the written names of the signs and planets, which would distract from the power of the colours alone, we have given you the key to what they stand for in the diagram given under Cosmokrator and Astrology.

We suggest you print out, or draw out, the zodiac laid out on the flat as given in Cosmokrator and Astrology and then look at your model and read out to yourself what each symbol stands for, in order to familiarise yourself with the Planets, Signs and their colours.

You may even wish to paint in the colours on your flat version if you cannot wait to see our diagrams that do this in Books 7-10, since copying fixes them in the mind (see under Cosmokrator’s Colours).

You can see that the pairs of opposites for the Zodiac and its planets are expressed as pairs of complementary colours on Cosmokrator, while their actual sequence in order of time in the sky is given on the flat diagram.

Now you are ready to look at other sections on this website that show you how to use this knowledge in understanding aspects of your life – especially in your experience of periods of time, judging people and making colour decisions for your dress and surroundings.

What is Cosmokrator for?

‘He’s got the whole world in His hands’ – so the song goes, and so say the scriptures of most religions (metaphorical of course, since God can’t possibly have human hands). It would be intriguing to be able in some way to see the universe from the outside, in order to understand it. Cosmokrator is such a model of the universe that can be held in our hands.

There are other ways of achieving cosmos miniaturisation that are well-known - such as listening to a great symphony, sitting round a Persian carpet, or visiting a great cathedral – indeed the human body in ancient times was also seen as the summation of the universe and its parts (see Book 6 in our list of Forthcoming Books).

Cosmokrator, a beautiful coloured model expressing its harmonies, helps us to see aspects of the universe that we both contain and are contained within. It shows some well-known sequences of life, notably the colour spectrum and the sections of the sky above us that form the zodiac, along with their ruling planets.

Children and adults alike are attracted to it, and can use it richly, according to their capacity, even as absolute beginners.

Cosmokrator could be described as a multivalent ‘Spanner’ that helps you measure the Universe in different ways, while at the same time enabling you to see what clothes and hides its essence - hence we also term it a many-layered ‘Veil’!

In a nutshell, Cosmokrator uses simple number combinations, shapes, and the colour spectrum to help you understand the order and beauty of life. As a starter exercise, by using colour opposites alone, Cosmokrator can be used to explain plain numbers and music, and thereby the nature of the signs and planets of astrology, enabling even the beginner to:

interpret key personal characteristics of yourself, your friends and your enemies – and therefore to

pinpoint who actually your ‘other half’ could be;

have fun with it as a game for parties and family gatherings;

use it as a colour guide for astrologically balanced interior decoration, choice of dress and jewellery, or any other kind of design;

understand World Ages, and when the coming Age of Aquarius is due to begin;

use it at a deeper level as a means of regulating your life by complementary activities, and

as a support for meditation, prayer, contemplation – and your own transformation, with the help also of

a series of small books and poem cards that will be published over a period of time, starting with our introduction given on the www.cosmokrator.com website.

But there is much more about the Turning One (the literal meaning of the word ‘Universe’) contained in this 14-faceted model (7 facets for the days of the week, and 7 for the nights). Long ago the ancient Greeks saw that the main notes of the musical scale correspond to the numbers 1-7 (though the octave can be split into smaller intervals, increasing the number of subdivisions), and that the spacing of the planets corresponds to the intervals between the main notes of the Octave. To give one example of natural correspondences, the Sun equates to the middle note of the Octave, F/Fa and is expressed by the colour Gold.

In other words, a musical note expresses a number and a colour on different planes (or wavelengths), so that on a much larger scale, as the Greeks observed, notes and colours can then be related to a Sign and its Planet.

What we have tried to give you in your New, yet Old, Model of the Universe is a tangible object that sums up these musical correspondences, which enable transformation from one plane to another all the time – and we take it for granted. How else could your voice change into electrical impulses down a phone line and come out the other end as a voice again?

However, not everyone will want to look in such detail at the separate parts of sets of wavelengths, rewarding though it may be. The potential for using Cosmokrator in a light-hearted way at family tea, or at a party with friends and guests, is huge. It gives a rough guide to people’s Sun Signs, their particular colour, and what they are really like, according to the standard books on Astrology! In the shark-infested waters of office politics, it can defuse situations to find out the boss’s Sun Sign and look up the inside information about him (or other work colleagues, for that matter!).

You can use the colours and signs on Cosmokrator to apply to your own life. Do you sometimes find you are repeating the same behaviour or getting into the same mood or situation again and again? You need to balance yourself, and the first way to do this is to find your opposite – in colour terms first, and then use it an indicator to other pursuits you could take up in order to achieve this.

By starting to see these seven pairs of opposites at work in life around us, Cosmokrator can be used as a focus for meditation, whether in the abstract, or in connection with related divinities. Its properties lie at the heart of religion, ancient and modern.

Cosmokrator can be used at a rudimentary level straight away by following (in strict order, or hopping about as the fancy takes you) the steps given on the home page menu of our www.cosmokrator.com website). From this we hope your interest in developing its use on more complex levels will be awakened.

But to gain the full benefit from you can do with it later on, once you are more familiar with it, you will want to read some or all of the fascinating series of small books about the seven separate Spanners, or Veils, that are contained within Cosmokrator (see under Forthcoming Books). Through them we gradually show how and why Cosmokrator works.

What ‘Cosmokrator’ means, and its structure

Reconstructed for modern consumption from ancient sources, the Greek word, ‘Cosmokrator’ means 'Ruler of the Cosmos’. ‘Cosmos’ itself means ‘Ordered Universe’. Our choice of name, echoes the word, ‘Protractor’ (a Perspex semicircular instrument used to measure angles) – or the word ‘Ruler’, the simplest instrument of all used for measuring - suggesting that Cosmokrator, too, is a measuring instrument for most aspects of the Cosmos. It is like an X-ray viewer that enables us to see and gain control of our surroundings, and then to rule them and ourselves wisely, and can be used by child or adult alike.

With beginners in mind, on this website we ask you to look at key oppositions - as the first way in which you can use Cosmokrator.

Your model is a Cosmos ruler in the form of a coloured cuboctahedron encompassing the entire colour spectrum, so it conveniently sums up in miniature the building blocks, or wave-bands of our Universe, and the laws which operate both within and beyond us. We will come to see separate clusters of Building Blocks taken together as ‘Spanners’ (an approach appealing more to men), and the same groups seen from the point of view of Wavebands as ‘Veils’ (a viewpoint appealing more to women).

Cosmokrator encapsulates Seven very distinct Spanners, or Veils. It consists of fourteen faces, coloured in seven opposed colour pairs that in turn contain a further closely related seven pairs of opposed hues - adding up to 28 colours in all, some of them metallic.

Cosmokrator happens also to have the signs of the zodiac and its ruling planets drawn on it, but this is only one level of its use. When not using the Astrology Spanner/Veil (actually a very advanced one, being Spanner/Veil No. 6), you can completely ignore the symbols and just concentrate on colours and their musical notes (see Books 0 and 1).

Having said that, Cosmokrator as a three-dimensional colour zodiac describes the all-encompassing heavens, like the Roman Sphere of Urania (see under Cosmokrator’s History). Because it is enriched by colour, it is a more multipurpose instrument than our Neolithic predecessors’ stone balls (see also under Cosmokrator’s History).

Cosmokrator is therefore a three-dimensional icon containing within it many cosmic verities that are helpful to us in understanding our position in the world. We can use it both as a serious icon and a frivolous trinket. On this website, by way of introduction, we explain a few generalities about it mostly from light-hearted angles, so as to give an overview of its potential – to make a start it is best first to use Cosmokrator quite superficially by playing with the idea of the separate pairs of opposites - the Spanner/Veil 1 approach - so as not to overwhelm you with the myriad possibilities of Cosmokrator all at once, many of which you personally might never want to use.

The full scope of Cosmokrator will gradually unfold under separate subject areas – see under Forthcoming Books.

Cosmokrator’s history

In ancient Sidon every year at the festival of Urania, Goddess of the starry Night Sky globe, a sphere representing this Goddess was placed in an open carriage and pulled through the streets amidst great celebration. Under Roman occupation this event was commemorated on coins (see illustration below) showing what the float looked like – a precursor of those we see in the Lord Mayor’s Show in London.

That festival was celebrated at the end of an era stretching back six or seven thousand years, during which time the first farmers had gradually been working out the cycles of the planets as they moved against the stars at night, in order to tell the time more accurately. We guess this must be so, not only because of the observatories (stone circles) built by Neolithic man in Europe, throughout the ancient Near East and as far east as India, but also because in recent decades small granite stone balls of unknown function dating back to this time, stored in the cellars and cupboards of museums in Britain, have now been recognised for what they are – precursors of Cosmokrator.

Ashmolean Museum

Cosmokrator has fourteen flat facets so is comparable to the granite stone ball illustrated here (slightly battered – it is over 5,000 years old, after all) – though its fourteen facets are spheroid (Cosmokrator is not, in this sense, so sophisticated - but it is coloured!). The picture can be misleading as to size, for it is no bigger than a tennis ball, and nestles neatly in the cupped palm of the hand. Its geometrical partitions are accurate, with plain, curved surfaces that may originally have been polished. Not all the balls are plain - some of the others (literally hundreds with differing numbers of facets have been found in northern Scotland - Aberdeenshire in particular) have spirals or hatched markings carved on them.

We cannot know precisely what these stone balls were used for, but they are astonishing in their accuracy, and must have been important instruments of calculation for people to bother to carve them in such a hard stone. We do not know if they were used to understand sectors of the sky, or as spherical abaci – what is certain is that these pure shapes precede Plato and Aristotle’s descriptions of the underlying three-dimensional geometry of the universe in similar terms, in their writings of c.500-350 B.C. Stone Age Man in Britain had got there long before the Greeks.

I like to think Cosmokrator is the twenty-first century successor to these Neolithic instruments, and that by using it we are attaching ourselves to ancient roots, continuing the work of our stone age ancestors, so clever at measuring and making. The story of their recent rediscovery in neglected drawers of Britain’s key museums is given in more detail in our book on architecture (Book 11).

Cosmokrator and astronomy

The First Pair of Opposites The symbol we use for any opposition is [.

On the model the polar centre is represented by the dark grey outer triangle with the symbol of the dark sun on it, to represent the dark point at the centre of the sky, for in our era the exact North Pole is not marked by a particular star. This is the upper end of the Polar Axis round which the stars appear to spin as we stand on Earth. At the inner triangle we have placed the symbol for Earth (the circle with the cross inside), because the North Pole is directly related to our position standing on Earth and looking up at it in a straight line. Both these symbols appear over each other in the centre of the diagram given under Cosmokrator and Astrology, shown with the Signs of the Zodiac and their ruling Planets radiating around this dual centre.

We have used the ancient Egyptian convention of running the polar axis from the black sun of the Pole to the silver-white star, Sirius on Earth’s horizon. On your model it is positioned exactly opposite on the underneath of the model as a five-pointed star, and is also thus marked on the outer circumference of the flat diagram (which you may wish to print out to refer to and colour in with the same colours as on your model (see list of paints to use under Cosmokrator's Colours)). In Egypt during the Gemini-Sagittarian era, when Sirius started to appear in the sky at sunrise the astronomers of the time noted that it heralded the imminent flooding of the Nile river a month later, and so this brightest star in the sky was worshipped as the Goddess Isis, and celebrated as the marker for the start of Egypt’s New Year at the Summer Solstice.

Because of this ancient tradition of using Sirius as the marker for the beginning of the year (like the third, alarm-setting hand on an alarm clock) the five-pointed star on Cosmokrator also stands for this same 'alarm hand' marker - known today by astronomers as the ‘Vernal Point’ - the marker which alerts society to the start day of the next new year. (Only many centuries later did Egyptian astronomers realise that Sirius itself slips backward in the zodiac and is not as reliable a pointer for the New Year as they thought.)

We have placed a Spiral in the triangle within the Sirius triangle at the base of Cosmokrator, to represent the phenomenon known as the Precession of the Equinoxes, or the backward slippage of the Vernal Point round the zodiac over a period of 25,000 years (termed the ‘Great Year’ by Plato). This is explained fully in one of our final books but see also under Understanding World Ages. The same spiral is indicated by one turn in the outer circumference of the flat diagram in Cosmokrator and Astrology.

We have now explored the first polarity on Cosmokrator – Earth [ Heaven, shown as the Black and White opposition. We have looked at Å [ œ (the Polar Axis) and Ö [ - (the Horizon around which the Sun and New Year marker (Vernal Point) come together during a Year). These are the two primary fixed fields in our experience of Time which, like tent pole and tent, make a framework in space for all the stars and planets that pass round inside it, which ancient Man used as a vast clock of increasing refinement (see our Book 9 on Astronomy, and under Understanding World Ages.

Now we are well positioned to consider the revolving Colours on Cosmokrator – which taken in this context stands for the sky, divided into the territories of the Planets and their Signs as held in place by the Polar Axis. The Zodiac wheels one circuit every day against the Horizon as the Sun rises against it every day along the Ecliptic during one whole Year (the 'Ecliptic' is, literally, the path the Sun follows through the Zodiac stars).

Cosmokrator as a calendar

Before considering Cosmokrator as an astrological, or interpretive instrument, while still thinking of Cosmokrator in Astronomy mode you can start to use your Cosmokrator as a general monthly calendar.

At the change of sign around the 21^st/22^nd or even 23^rd of each month (see table below), position Cosmokrator on your mantelpiece or windowsill so that the current sign is uppermost and catching the light. Month by month you can follow the year through by Sign and get a feel for its qualities, and whether the colour matches the local weather, your state of mind, and every-day events such as fashion colours.

These, after all, were the original months! They are now called Signs because of the Sun’s Precession from the Vernal Point back from what the Egyptians called ‘The First Time’ in the Leo-Aquarian Age. All that has happened is that, because of the exponential dislocation caused by Precession, the current months have slipped back from their original beginnings (already in my lifetime the start dates for some signs have moved on a day).

The signs correspond to our present months as follows:

*Present-day dates* [According to Raphael’s Ephemeris]	*Sign*	*Element*
20 March-20 April	^ Aries	FIRE
20 April-21 May	_ Taurus	EARTH
21 May-21 June	` Gemini	AIR
21 June-21 July	a Cancer	WATER
22 July-23 August	b Leo	FIRE
23 August-23 September	c Virgo	EARTH
23 September-23 October	d Libra	AIR
23 October- 22 November	e Scorpio	WATER
22 November-22 December	f Sagittarius	FIRE
22 December-21 January	g Capricorn	EARTH
21 January-18 February	h Aquarius	AIR
18 February-20 March	i Pisces	WATER

Alternatively, as the model consists of seven pairs of opposites, you can turn it to look at a different combined colour opposition for every day of the week, as follows:

a [ g(Cancer-Capricorn axis)	Monday
^ [ d (Aries-Libra axis)	Tuesday
` [ f (Gemini-Sagittarius axis)	Wednesday
_ [ e (Taurus-Scorpio axis)	Thursday
c [ i (Virgo-Pisces axis)	Friday
b [ h (Leo-Aquarius axis)	Saturday
Heaven [ Earth (Polar Axis)	Day of rest – Axis of Eternity

[ Remember, we use the Ying-Yang symbol [ to signify an opposition]

In the morning, as you get ready for your day’s work, get into the habit of turning Cosmokrator round each day, and looking at each pair of colours as they become the theme of that day. Consider the nature of the Sign in terms of its colour, as well as that of the Ruling Planet and notice any associations that come up in your mind as you start to learn this new language of colour and Time.

If your day of rest is not Sunday (Christians), but a Friday (Muslims) or Saturday (Jews), you can redistribute the sequence to suit your cultural perspective. If you think you have no religion, the Cosmos still gives you a Seventh Day different from the other Six, so let it different enough to give you a rest from the treadmill of the working week!

You can also use Cosmokrator's 7 pairs of opposites to go through, each day of the week, the 5 World Ages of the past, our present era, and the future Aquarian Age, using the extreme right-hand column of the table in our later section on Understanding World Ages as a guide for positioning.

In our book on using Cosmokrator for spiritual exercises (Book 14) we will show that the Six main Themes of Meditation and the Seventh master meditation can be linked to these seven alternations, so that the calendrical use of Cosmokrator can be expanded to using it as a reminder and support for contemplative activities.

Cosmokrator and astrology

Ó Asia Shepsut/Asia Haleem

The Six Pairs of Colour Opposites

To highlight the nature of the Signs and their Planets, they have been arranged on Cosmokrator in pairs of complementary Signs and their colours, which are equivalent on other levels to energies, or musical notes (see Book 1). If you are unfamiliar with the symbols for the Signs as given on the outer triangles and squares round the equator zone of the model - and may not know the symbols for the more unusual Planets, marked in the inner zones, check on the diagram above, where the names are written against the symbols (here, the Planets are on the outside) - and then see their corresponding colours on Cosmokrator itself (see also under Cosmokrator's colours)..

Our zodiac for the first time uses the full Age of Aquarius astrology, which means that we now know of 12 Planets, each of which can be assigned to the overall ruler ship of a Sign – on the model this means we have divided the colour spectrum into 12 semitones for the Signs, and then into 24 micro-tones for the inclusion of the Planets’ colours governing the Signs. (In Books 7-9 we fully demonstrate the accuracy of these relationships between colour, music and astrology at this level of fineness.) Having the full panoply of Planet and Sign vastly improves our ability to analyse and interpret what is going on in people’s lives, so be pleased to know that you are pioneers in its use!

For details on what people are like who have their Sun in one or other of these signs, I recommend you buy, beg, borrow or steal a copy of Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs (constantly available in Pan paperback), since she is the only astrologer to have begun, before her death, to adopt all 12 ruling planets and mention their properties.

The system of twelve planets with their twelve signs, the inclusion of the Polar Axis in the zodiac, and the idea of using the cuboctahedron to portray them derive from the pioneering work of Charles Musès, a notable cosmologist (see Bibliography in Book 14) - Linda Goodman in her books on astrology acknowledges her debt to him.

Where in the past some planets have been rulers of two signs, the true rulers of Taurus (Pan) and Virgo (Vulcan) have now been allocated after astronomers (not astrologers!) have confirmed that indeed perturbations on the very outside and very inside of our solar system indicate their presence. Interestingly, the ancients (we know this from their worship of these Gods) already knew about Uranus (true ruler of Aquarius), Neptune (true ruler of Pisces) and Pluto (true ruler of Scorpio) - as well as Vulcan and Pan. Present-day astrologers have almost digested the effects of the last three and use them in horoscopes, but only a few have brought the specific energies of last two into the Pantheon, so recent is their rediscovery - discussion of their validity has only just begun to trickle down into the astrologer community.

As you start to use Cosmokrator, you will learn the meanings of its facets gradually as you go along, until slowly the symbols and their colours will become familiar enough for you to know them off by heart. It is worth copying the diagram above with ruler, compass and pen and ink, to fix them more quickly in your mind until you know them as automatically as the normal alphabet.

Using Cosmokrator to fill out a horoscope

Very few people are a pure manifestation of their Sun Sign as described in Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs, because that pure colour is dampened or heightened by the effects of eleven other planets in other zones of their horoscope, pulling in different directions and overlaying their colours onto the original Sun Sign colour. We look into this level of complexity in Books 7-9.

Until those books are ready, you may want get a hint of what a full colour horoscope would look like, because its colour harmonies and dissonances would give you a pretty good picture of the easy and difficult areas of any person’s life. To take a single example, if Gemini is in your marriage house (Orange), with the sensual planet Venus in it to stand for your destined marriage partner, the overlay of Venusian Green over Orange produces a rather a muddy effect and putting these colours next to each other produces a dissonant effect.

Because Gemini's are intellectual Air signs, they would find it had to handle a wife who is as physical and sensual as the planet Venus indicates, and the colour mix indicate this– the prognosis for the marriage would not be good. Whereas if Uranus was in the marriage house, its Mauve would contrast pleasingly with the Orange of Gemini.

As a simple beginning the Sun Sign of a person (which is all we are asking you to look for in these beginners’ exercises), gives an pretty good rule of thumb on what to expect about their basic nature and centre of their being (just as the Sun is the centre of our solar system). These characteristics (which you can look up in Linda Goodman) will show up clearly in one particular zone of their life, since the Sun on their full horoscope would appear in one of twelve possible zones of their life.

If you really want to know more precisely about yourself, a friend or an enemy, you will need to go to a professional astrologer and have a proper horoscope drawn up, which you can then translate into colours, using Cosmokrator as reference. In other words you would draw out a blank horoscope with a double circle, one for the planets and one for the signs, fill in the symbols in the right places according to the horoscope given, and finally paint in their colours using Cosmokrator as a guide. For the colours to use, see under Cosmokrator’s Colours.

Understanding past World Ages - and the Age we live in

Cosmokrator shows the six axes of the astrological World Ages in terms of their colours (the Axis of Eternity is marked by the Black/White Polar contrast). It is of topical interest for us today because we are said to be in the confusing and turbulent transitional phase between the ending of the Age of Pisces and the beginning of the Age of Aquarius. Robert Powell calculates (see table below) that we still have a few hundred years to go before the Sun starts to rise against 0° Aquarius on the first day of Spring.

Before we can explain the nature of the World Ages, we need again to remember what is meant by the phenomenon of the Precession of the Equinoxes - and its connection with the Vernal Point, as already referred to under Cosmokrator and Astronomy.

In more northerly lands such as Mesopotamia, the New Year was celebrated at the Spring Equinox, so the point amongst the stars against which the Sun rose in the morning on that day around 21 March came to be known as the Vernal Point. But every year the point of the Sun’s rising against the constant star background was seen to have occurred very slightly earlier, and it gradually slipped back to rising on the same date against the stars of a new sign (and eventually, over time, through the entire 360º circle of Earth’s horizon). It takes approximately 2100 years for the Vernal Point to slip back through one Sign.

The key need to have a Vernal Point is for society to have a starting point to the solar year, and in the main European body of astronomical knowledge this starting point, as secured by seeing the Sun rise against the stars at the Spring Equinox, is conventionally termed the Vernal Point - occurring these days on 21/22 March at 29°i every year. In other words sunrise at VP is on the brink of moving out of i into h.

The cycle of slippage backwards of the Sun’s starting point at New Year through the entire Zodiac (taking place imperceptibly over the vastly long era of 12 Signs x 2,100yrs (= 25,200 years, known as the Platonic Year) is termed the ‘Precession of the Equinoxes’. The Precession of the Equinoxes, according to ancient writers, accounts for the different World Ages because of the fact that the Vernal Point moves into the domain of another Sign of the Zodiac which signifies a total change to the quality of the Spirit of the Age.

The importance of the Vernal Point is particularly crucial when we need to measure the starting and ending points of World Eras which, according to Robert Powell’s precise stellar calculations, encompass the following millennia of mankind's past. The table also gives - in very broad strokes, in the second to the right column - the key stages of mankind's gradual mastery of the vast astronomical clock of the sky.

In the extreme right-hand column are given the colour polarities associated with each era which you can spin round successively when you use Cosmokrator to ponder on these vast eras of our history:

LEO-Aquarian	11126-8426BC	Great Floods	Black-White
CANCER-Capricornian	8426-6266BC	Sun-Moon Astronomy	Yellow-Pewter
GEMINI-Sagittarian	6266-4106BC	Sirius Astronomy	Orange-Blue
TAURO-Scorpean	4106-1946BC	Zodiac established	Copper-Turquoise
ARIES-Libran	1946-215BC	Other Planets’ cycles measured	Red-Green
PISCES-Virgoan	215BC-2375AD	Monotheistic religions	Magenta-Bronze
AQUARIUS-Leonid	2375-4535AD	New Age faiths based on physics	Mauve-Gold

Calculations from Robert Powell Hermetic Astrology Hermetica Verlag Kinsau Germany

Although these eras are governed by the Sign through which the Vernal Point is moving at the time, it is important to remember to take the operative Sign along with its opposite and consider them as one axis, as the peoples of great past civilizations did - since it is the entire axis that gives the key characteristics of a particular World Age.

To take one example, the Leo- (Lion) Aquarian (Human) opposition was symbolized by the Sphinx (other such dual figures are analysed in Book 10). Its quality in terms of colour is a Gold-Mauve contrast. Much of ancient art becomes more meaningful when we realise that composite animal/human figures were invented as a visual language by ancient peoples to describe these World Age axes to sum up the distant memory of past World Eras at a glance.

These are macrocosmic oppositions of Time which Cosmokrator neatly presents as colour contrasts which can convey the character of the spirit of each era. The nature of these grand eras of human history is summed up at a glance in just the same way as you will later assess interpersonal dualities – but this time on a macrocosmic, rather than human, scale.

Now that we are moving towards an Aquarius-Leonid age (now a Mauve-Gold contrast, with emphasis on the Mauve, rather than the Gold), information about the initial Leo-Aquarian era is fortuitously coming to light at the hands of the archaeologists and geologists as we reach the half-way point in the Platonic Year, as measured from the beginning of the Leo-Aquarian era that is measured from the new beginnings encountered by the human race when the last Ice Age came to an end with devastating floods throughout the Northern Hemisphere.

The Age of Pisces-Virgo (a Madder [ Olive Green contrast), where the Vernal Point has travelled backwards through i for the last 2000 years, is nearly at an end. Its link with Christian symbolism is obvious (the Fish was an early symbol for Christ, and Virgo speaks for itself as the Virgin Mary – the composite pagan figure is the Mermaid).

With the advent of the Age of Aquarius, when the Spring Equinox sunrise will occur for the first time at 0°h, the nature of society, its religion and its symbols looks to be on the point of changing radically – the New Age activities of the last few decades point to this (see our books on the structure of atoms, molecules and music under Forthcoming Books).

Cosmokrator’s colours

The most appealing feature of the model is its colours. These days humanity is more cut off from a sense of cosmic order than probably it ever has been. Colour is one of the last reverberations of the Music of the Spheres to which the soul is still comparatively open. According to laws of correspondence each colour (sometimes metallic) really does match the notes, or parts of other universal languages.

Cosmokrator’s colours provide an easy avenue to learning and understanding not only music, number and shape, but their advanced combination in astrology, almost the most complex Spanner/Veil the universe has to offer us (Spanner 6/Veil 6) - which we are allowing you to try out from the very outset.

On this website we are introducing only one component within Cosmokrator to start with, duality and complementarity (symbolised by [) We call the division of anything into its two opposites Spanner 1/Veil 1 - and this is the simplest one to use, or apply. We have so far introduced the Black-White opposition as the most extreme case, but the colours of the spectrum, too, can be arranged in sets of opposites, as they appear on Cosmokrator.

As shown in the Getting Started section, take your model in your two hands, and with your right forefinger on the black triangle uppermost, put your lower forefinger underneath on the silver triangle exactly opposite. With your thumbs, lightly spin your zodiac round. You are looking at a symbolic representation of the signs of the zodiac and their ruling planets in terms of colour fields revolving round the Polar Axis. I believe one of the functions of the Neolithic stone balls (see under Cosmokrator’s history) was also to represent different quarters of the sky.

As you spin Cosmokrator round on its Black-White axis, you may notice that it has a cool, purple/blue/green half which could stand for the colder half of the year, and a hot, red/orange/yellow half for the hotter half of the year, but they spiral into each other in a three-dimensional Ying-Yang movement.

On Cosmokrator the Signs and their ruling Planets are arranged in pairs of opposite colours (their actual sequence, given in the order of the colours of the rainbow, is given in the diagram under Cosmokrator and Astrology) - so that we can see more clearly their character in terms of colour energies.

For people wanting to use the Cosmokrator colours in their own diagrams, we give below a list of the acrylic paints we used on the prototype for Cosmokrator. With a few exceptions, the paints are made by Winsor & Newton (alternative products are specifically named).

The colours given below as used in Aquarian Astrology are for private study use only.

Please apply to the copyright owner for their use on astrological products for sale other than Cosmokrator on asia@cosmokrator.com

The assigning of colours to the Planets and Zodiac Signs is as patented under the Cosmokrator Registered Design ® 3014118 and is © Asia Shepsut/Asia Haleem

All the colours will be available at any good artists supplies shop. Obviously it is important to get as close to the right colour or metal as possible if it is to be a true reflection of universal musical intervals.

Cosmokrator does not therefore claim to be a star map showing the signs of the zodiac in the order they would be in the sky (these are already available in the shops). Cosmokrator is a symbolic representation in terms of colour of not just the sky zones surrounding Earth that the Sun passes through during the year, but their main qualitative moods, which are universal because they can be applied to other octaves of our existence.

You are now ready to understand how the two sets of six pairs of Cosmokrator’s colours work - by trying the instrument out on other people and yourself.

Using Cosmokrator to find your ‘other half’

The term, ‘other half’ refers not only to your partners in life, but also your enemies!

This is because oppositions in life can complete each other, but they can also literally oppose each other. Either way, the nature of oppositions is that they are intense and dramatic. Most of us have had relationships where our love for another can alternate with deep hostility.

Just as when you place complementary colours next to each other, you get a slight radiation of the colour into each other’s fields, so in your other half you will find a strange echo of aspects of yourself displayed by that person. This is because of the Ying-Yang phenomenon [ that the light half has a tiny dot of dark in it, and the dark half a tiny dot of light – this is as true if you paint your Ying-Ying in complementary colours.

Taking the most striking example, the opposition between Mars and Venus in Aries and Libra, most people accept that fiery Mars needs to be balanced by cool Venus, and vice versa. In terms of colour, if you are an Arean - ruled by Mars - fiery, Post-Box Red and forward in temperament, then you need the Deep Orchard Green presence of a Libran – ruled by Venus, or Libran surrounding or activity, to tame you! Conversely, an equable Libran needs the fire of Aries to be stimulated into action. On the other hand, this opposition can mean that lifestyles are incompatible if the two people concerned are actually living together. Distance between friends is as important as intimacy!

Going on to look at the other pairs, if you are a Copper Taurean - ruled by nature-oriented Pan - you will be balanced to the utmost by the still deep waters of Turquoise Scorpio – ruled by Pluto. In enmity Scorpio’s search for spirituality can clash with Taurus’ love of material things.

If you are an Orange, somewhat adolescent Gemini – ruled by quicksilver Mercury - you will love the maturity of Royal Blue Sagittarians – ruled by dignified Jupiter – because they will absorb and contain your constant activity like a frame for a picture. Sagittarians feel the need to take someone junior in hand, so the feeling is reciprocal. But clearly the difference in their level of grown-upness can be a cause of conflict.

Egg-Yolk Yellow Cancerians concerned with nests and little ones and the minute details of every-day life (because they are ruled by the Moon) are given the wider view and overall structure that dull, Pewter-coloured Capricorn (ruled by detail-oriented Saturn) can provide. In reverse, Capricorn feels he or she can lay down all kinds of firm foundations for the ever-giving and nurturing Cancerian in a family situation – this opposition describes the classic Father/Mother roles. But when enmity is in the equation, Saturn’s rules stifle Cancer’s waxing and waning changefulness.

One of the most electric oppositions is that between Leos and Aquarians. Where Golden Leo – ruled by the Sun - is royal in demeanour, conscious of their place amongst a ruling, chosen few, Gas-Light Mauve Aquarians – ruled by ever-switching, sparkling Uranus - are concerned to bathe in humanity at large, in brotherhood and sisterhood. If they don’t clash, an Aquarian will lead a Leo towards egalitarianism, while the Leo will teach the Aquarian how to give orders.

Finally, swirling, frondy Pisceans (ruled by Neptune) - hectic and histrionic as their colour, Magenta, and prone to unleashing chaos around them - are arrested into a coralline order by Olive Green Virgoans (ruled by master-craftsman Vulcan) whose need is to organise others’ madness and untidiness some kind of structure.

For each set of complementaries, because we are talking about oppositions, the mutual attraction or repellence is so dramatic and electric that the tension can be unbearable: opposites may attract, but they also kill! That is what makes it dangerous, for it can turn out that a Virgoan will go mad herself trying to deal with her Piscean’s rampant disorganisation.

When, by using Cosmokrator’s Spanner/Veil 1, you analyse your colleagues at work, or family friends at a party, you may not only be identifying great loves, but also great hates – and the swing between the two.

Using Cosmokrator to understand friends - and enemies

Start with one other person to try out Cosmokrator. From their date of birth, identify their Sun Sign (see table under Cosmokrator as a Calendar). When you have found that out, look for its symbol and colour on Cosmokrator, where you will also see in the inner zone their ruling planet and its slightly different colour.

Now look up their Sign in Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs (Pan paperback) to find out all about them.

Then with Cosmokrator upright on its Polar Axis, look below your candidate’s Sun Sign panel to its opposite, and that will be the sign, planet and colours of the person, object or activity who/which will best contrast with them. Be quite instinctive about what associations with those colours come up in your mind to suggest people, things or activities that should bring equilibrium to your candidate's life.

You can now widen your sphere of activity, and go through the same procedure for a wider circle of people. You will then start to be able to categorise people around you under their Sun Sign/favourite colour types.

Neighbouring Sign (30°) Sextile (60°) Square (90°)

Trine (120°) Opposition (180°)

For how you get on with people whose Sun Signs are not opposite to yours we leave out the detail for the time being, because our exercise for the moment is to understand opposite extremes. However, you might like a preview of the other angles between Signs of the zodiac which are significant, if you want briefly to check the colours of people you come across who are not opposites. The diagrams above come from the book on World Harmony written by almost the last Astronomer to see no conflict between that discipline and Astrology - Johannes Kepler (Newton was the very last to combine the two naturally - until we come to the Aquarian astrologers of the coming new era).

To summarise,

if people’s Sun Signs are one sign away from each other (next to each other at 30°), the relationship is comfortable, since one follows on from the other;

if people’s Sun Signs are two signs away from each other (at 60° apart - sextile), there is a little more tension between the two, but it is harmonious;

if people’s Sun Signs are three signs away from each other (at 90° apart – square) the tension is dissonant because their direction to each other within the Zodiac is at right-angles to each other. This is the relationship that needs the most conscious effort to make it work;

if people’s Sun Signs are four signs away from each other (at 120° apart – trine) this is the ideal mixture of thinking alike and yet contrasting with each other, and is the best indicator for a good marriage;

if people’s Sun Signs are five signs away (at 150° apart - not illustrated) nothing is ever quite resolved between them and the relationship never ‘gels’;

and if people’s Sun Signs are six signs away (at 180° apart - opposition) then they are in opposition: the tension is almost intolerable but at maximum excitement.

Look also at the Element of the Sign as given under Using Cosmokrator as a Calendar. As a rule of thumb, signs of the same element, being trine, are extremely happy with each other, and Fire and Air signs, or Earth and Water signs, being sextile or in opposition to each other, also go well together. However, where signs are square to each other or next to each other the elements do not mix so easily, so there is not as much of a harmonic buzz between them.

Trine and sextile relations between Planets or Signs and their Colours are therefore harmonious, while Signs at right-angles to each other are dissonant – it is usually said that relationships on the square are there to learn lessons from, so it is better to look them in the face and try to handle them, rather than run away!

When checking out people's compatibility with each other, Cosmokrator gives you two colours for the Sun Signs of the persons involved (and two more if you also consider their ruling planets as well). Even if you don't check the angle of the signs to each other, as a rule of thumb you can gauge whether the colours seem to go together or not.

If you want the precise astrological detail about compatibility between Sun Signs types, you can always consult the best-selling books that analyse compatibility in depth in every possible combination, such as Linda Goodman’s Love Signs (also Pan paperbacks). Because we have so much else to tell you about Cosmokrator’s other uses in future books, whose overall purpose is to display the laws of correspondence between different octaves of existence, we do not plan to repeat the material in the excellent astrology books that already exist.

Cosmokrator in the office

In the shark-infested waters of office politics, it can defuse situations to find out more about the people you work with - openly or secretly - using Cosmokrator's simple methods.

Perhaps someone at a desk near you rubs you up the wrong way. Find out their birth date by fair means or foul, and look up their Sign and colour on Cosmokrator. Then consult Linda Goodman's books (Sun Signs or Love Signs) to find out more about them, and whether they are compatible with your Sun sign and colour (see under 13/14 if you have forgotten what to do). If you find your colours compared are not exactly beautiful together, you have the level of your incompatibility demonstrated to you visually, in a nutshell!

To help the situation, see what happens if you stick up on the wall behind you a sheet of coloured paper, or picture, in the opposing colour to your workmate's Sun Sign colour to see if that defuses the 'bad vibes' between you. You could do it more subtly by wearing clothes of that colour, or putting a vase of flowers/plant of that colour on your desk or windowsill.

Similarly it will be no surprise to find that those you get on with best will usually have Sun Sign and Planetary colours compatible with your own.

A whole book could be written about bosses by secretaries - and about secretaries by bosses. It can be rather gratifying to find out the boss's Sun Sign and look him up - and find that the Stars indeed confirm your opinion of him as an untidy and chaotic person unable to show emotional warmth - and yes, he might well be wearing a tie of the colour of his ruling planet without knowing it! Remember that Cosmokrator can help you find ways to balance his worst foibles – even if it is only to give him a tie at Christmas in the opposite colour to calm him down!

Bosses: remember that the same applies to your least manageable employees. You could even base your entire office party (see Cosmokrator at Family and Social Gatherings) on Cosmokrator games, using it to mend fences by discussing people's traits in a joking way that helps others accept them.

What is the point of all this? It simply helps you understand that people are of different types. You come to see that there is nothing personal about the way you get on with other people - it is simply a question of understanding the human types we are born as - you therefore become more detached about people you don't get on with and appreciate those you do 'hum together' with.

Using Cosmokrator to get 'inside intelligence' on your work colleagues helps you accept them - and yourself - as you are. You, too, can 'do' unconditional love - accepting people whole, along with their faults and foibles.

This information then enables you to see how best to work with people according to their strengths (some people are practical and are good with physical work, whilst others are in their element using their mind but hopeless coping with the physical world), and not to blame them for their vulnerabilities and weaknesses.

Cosmokrator at family and social gatherings

After experimenting with one or two people on their own, the potential for using Cosmokrator in a light-hearted way at family tea, or a party with friends and strangers, is huge. It simply gives a rough guide to people’s Sun Signs and what they are really like, according to the recipe books of Astrology! Try it out on close family members first, and move on from there – remember to have Linda Goodman’ Sun Signs by you side as well, to consult. It certainly helps you understand your children – and your parents!

Let us look at an example. Two children have parents who are a Virgo mother and Taurus father (trine to each other, so highly compatible). They have one son who is Sun Sign Capricorn (trine to both parents), and a Gemini daughter. Try as she might, the mother finds her daughter annoying. If you check on our flat zodiac diagram under Cosmokrator and Astrology, and count the number of signs between her and her mother’s you will see straight away that they are square to each other (see the diagrams under Using Cosmokrator to understand friends and enemies).

Look at their two colours - astrologically they are square, and their colours are dissonant - so it's always going to be hard work. This helps to understand and accept the situation, and realise the two will have to really try to give credit to each other’s strong points – and tiptoe round each other’s touchy ones.

The father's sign is next to his daughter's - which means that it's a safe, if not very exciting, relationship. Their colours gradate from Copper to Orange, as they are next to each other on the spectrum.

Overall, it is not a surprise to find the son is the favourite in the family, because his colour is trine to both that of his mother and his father - and that the daughter will always feels the odd one out - without any need to have recourse to complicated theories of psychoanalysis!

This is the delight of Cosmokrator - it can give you penetrating inside information (X-ray-like at times) about other people without having to dig information out of them by asking them obvious questions. It reveals aspects of people’s makeup you would not have guessed were there, but are there. In an hour’s application of Cosmokrator’s principles you gain the kind of intelligence you might expect from a spy observing a situation looking for clues for years. People are surprised that you know what's really going on. That is the power of colour matching and astrology for you, with Cosmokrator as the facilitator.

We would be interested to hear of any striking examples of your use of Cosmokrator in this way (see under Your Feedback Site), so that we can post real life examples on the website that you feel are worth sharing with other people.

Using Cosmokrator for home design

Of course, you do not have to think of Cosmokrator in astrological terms at all. As you hold it in your hand, moving it one way and the next, you will catch sight of fascinating colour oppositions which you can apply to an interior decoration colour scheme, or other areas of life that call for colour choices (see also Using Cosmokrator for Fashion Choices).

For instance, you might decide to have a living room with your Sun sign colour as the keynote, but a bedroom with the complementary sign colour to contrast with it.

A Gemini friend, married to a Gemini, described to me their new living room that they were having done up. I couldn't believe what he told me - they had chosen orange paint for the walls, pale orange silk curtains and an orange carpet! What could be more telling than that these two Gemini's had chosen their own colour to wallow in. However, most other people might find that concentration on one colour just too much.

I personally would have chosen pale blue curtains (complementary to orange) to bring some coolness into that citrus sea! Similarly, it is well known that a conservatory full of green plants looks ravishing when splattered with a few red accents - whether red cushions on the cane furniture, or plants with bright red berries or flowers.

Again, a reminder that we are advising on looking for complete opposites only at first – using the Ying-Yang of Spanner1/Veil 1 – so if you are seeking intermediate colour harmonies you will need to read some of our booklets for the next Spanners/Veils to be explained. But if you want to work it out for yourself in the meantime, the same principles of sextile, trine and square colours apply if you want to consider other harmonious colour combinations (see Kepler’s diagrams under Using Cosmokrator to understand Friends – and Enemies). To do this easily, you will definitely need first of all to colour in a print-out of the flat zodiac given under Cosmokrator and Astrology, to see easily the angles of the colours to each other.

As an instrument for making colour choices, Cosmokrator can be both useful and creative as a 3-D colour wheel, but you now know each colour has astrological and planetary overtones if you wish to tie them into a choice of colours that will reflect, or complement, a particular person’s surroundings according to their Sun sign – with balancing oppositions.

Remember, colours represent your state of mind, and they can be used to heal if that state is restless, sad – or even mad - just as music can. All that is needed is to start with a person's Sun Sign colour as the starting point and then relate other colours to it, whether in opposition, sextile or trine - or even square, if a more bizarre effect is sought (see Kepler's diagram).

Using Cosmokrator for fashion choices

Starting with the simple exercise in our introduction of using opposites, Cosmokrator is helpful in making fashion choices.

It is important to remember that your choice of colours for personal display can enhance your soul radiance - or obscure it. Psychics would say that dress and jewellery bring into view the emanations around you issuing from your spirit, mind and psyche - which most people do not perceive. Your aura, which instinctively draws or repels people to and from you, is the net combination of all these subtle ‘bodies’ that are anchored in your physical body – which you need to clothe, and wish to adorn.

We would argue that your colour choices are not always to do with trying to attract people, but about trying to share your inner self with them – pure information!

The first opposition of black and white has always been a classic combination for smartness and plain drama in dress, for men and for women, and indicates sobriety and reliability.

Now to the secondary oppositions, of which you can see six pairs as you spin your Cosmokrator round between your forefingers. Let us say you have chosen a blue skirt - the Cosmokrator shows you that its opposite colour is orange, so why not choose a blouse in that colour for maximum intensity of effect?

A man might choose a mauve shirt - how striking to have a bright yellow tie, or a tie with a lot of gold on it! A woman in the same colour blouse might choose a gold necklace instead.

As we are keeping it simple in this introduction, we shall not refer to examples of trine or sextile relations between the colours, or of those next to each other on the spectrum, but if you look for yourself, here, too, Cosmokrator gives you ideas of possible combinations between several colours as you spin it round. As mentioned in the previous section, you can use Kepler’s diagrams to look at intermediate harmonies.

If you know your own and your loved ones' Sun signs you can even govern your choice of fashion colours by astrological considerations!

Of course any of the colours you use might be in their pure form, or lightened by the addition of white - in which case you can go for an opposite that is the pure hue, lightened to the same tone, or made even lighter - expanding the range of possibilities for combining opposites.

This includes the face, and the application of makeup. Just think of the thousands of variations in lipstick colour, from a base red - or face-powder colour, from a base peach - that have been worked out by the cosmetics industry to suit every gradation of lips and skin! They have recently rediscovered an old secret, that skin looks more natural if small touches of pale green are blended in on the face to contrast with the rose. When it comes to eye-shadow, the least the colours are mixed with white, the more dramatic the effect of the contrast with the already existing contrast colour zones of hair, eye, skin and lips. Rethink your face (the result may not necessarily look artificial, but totally natural).

The choice of jewels and stones is an entire subject in itself which we cannot go into at length here. However, there are so many shops in existence now where not just precious stones, but the rich gamut of attractive semi-precious stones, are available, along with information about their allocation to Sun Signs. You can quite independently apply the knowledge of colour you are building up from your use of Cosmokrator to your choice of necklace, brooch or cuff-links. The stone that may be best for your state of being may not necessarily be the most attractive, so use your head as well as your heart in making your choice – notice their differing effects on you. You don’t necessarily have to look for an exciting effect – often an unobtrusive choice is what is needed.

Last but not least, take into account your harnessing of the healing power of colour to restore your spiritual health. So often people say they bought a blouse, a dress, a suit for its colour alone - which boils down to saying they felt they had to buy the colour! This can often mean that there was an instinctive sense that a particular colour was what was needed at the time to activate, or soothe, their entire being.

Remember, your choice of colour in jewellery and clothes could be nothing to do with self-display, but with putting yourself into a good state of being – self-healing by wearing.

Cosmokrator in the curriculum – a teaching aid for children and adults

Clearly, although Cosmokrator can be used frivolously as a plaything, it also has great potential as a teaching aid to understand the restored universal languages of the imminent Age of Aquarius. As well as displaying the colour spectrum as the key waveband to which the higher and lower wavebands of existence in many other media can be related, it is a symbolic instrument that is also the first 3-D zodiac to incorporate all 12 Planets with their Signs (as spelt out in our table under Cosmokrator and Astrology).

It is enough just to look at Cosmokrator and spin it round to be captivated by a beauty that offers order combined with emotion. This is because it appeals to the whole human being – to his or her spirit, mind, psyche and body.

For this reason it is a tool that can be used to coordinate the different levels of ourselves. So much unhappiness is caused by the body pulling in one direction, emotions and spirit in another! Using Cosmokrator helps to regulate a child or an adult’s awareness of different orders of existence, by spelling out and pointing towards the simple rules of harmony in any subject.

There is a school of thought which says that serious ideas are arrived at through play, and this remarkable object, which has taken 20 years to perfect, provides a combination of both to a sensational degree. It therefore has potential for use at all levels of education, being principal, yet multivalent in application. Notice how children are fascinated by it and want to play with it – (adults too).

In the final analysis, Cosmokrator provides a set of keys to understanding the worlds we live in. Put another way, it embodies several alphabets for the universal languages of number, music, colour and Time.

You may already know a great deal about the building blocks of the Universe and their interchange ability, through the different subjects you studied at school and university – in which case you will see straight away what Cosmokrator is about, and will be happy simply to look at the model sitting as a solid icon on your mantelpiece because it is a reminder that underneath our stressful lives is an ordered Cosmos at work.

Aside from the very general introduction given on this website, we plan a series of 16 downloadable paperbacks to be published in coming months to help you to plumb the far-reaching depths of its hidden possibilities (see under Forthcoming Books).

Those academics and professionals – whether in the sciences or the arts - already fully versed in the laws of colour, number and shape, will, I believe, see that Cosmokrator, held up to their audience or classroom, fully accounts for the principles of their particular field of knowledge without compromise. Not needing to read our booklets, they will see the potential of this symbolic model of the universe for explaining aspects of their subject succinctly.

In the final analysis, Cosmokrator provides a set of keys to most branches of knowledge, as well as to the possibilities of their interconnection. It is a touchstone, a solid mnemonic like the Neolithic stone balls - an item you cannot afford to be without, however young, however old, you are.

Spiritual exercises with Cosmokrator

In the ancient world each planet or sign was revered as a God or Goddess, symbolized by a human type or an animal (see our Books 10, 15 & 16). Our bibliography for the whole series, given in Book 14, will list all our source books that explore these links. Cosmokrator is one of the first instruments to pull ancient and modern knowledge together into one interrelated dance, or game.

You can use the colours and signs on Cosmokrator to enhance your daily life. Do you sometimes find you are repeating the same behaviour or getting into the same mood or situation again and again?

You need to balance yourself, and the first way to do this is to locate on Cosmokrator your opposite – in colour terms - to your Sun Sign, into which each of us is deeply embedded. To live solely by being powered from our central powerhouse - our Sun Sign characteristics - is sometimes a disadvantage for overall health since the qualities of each planet and sign have both an upside, and a downside! (Take one example – Virgo’s obsession with creating ordered structures can create her own cage of Bronze - from which she sometimes needs to be liberated by a swirl of chaos caused by the Magenta octopus tentacles of a Piscean activity such as swimming.)

Look on the model and look on the sign above or below yours (remember, all the symbols for the Signs are collected around the Equator of the model as you stand it on Sirius, or hold it between your forefingers with the North Pole upwards). You will find the colour complementary to yours that in some way is the key to filling in the gaps in your life, whether through dress, DIY or contact with other people.

Your complementary colour could even conjure up the idea of an activity you need to undertake to contrast with the habitual routines that keep you in a rut – for instance, one person who found deep green was their opposite colour said it must refer to the gardening which keeps him sane!

It is fascinating how, as the Age of Pisces draws to a close, so many people of the world have borrowed the religion, dress or music of another group of people at the opposite ends of the earth (take as one example how Westerners have become Muslims and Muslims have become Westerners). This is instinctive group balancing going on.

At a high level of action, people feel a natural lack, and seek to fill it by something they come across from another culture. I remember walking into a newsagent where the shopkeeper was a Chinese person from Hong Kong. She saw I was wearing a Chinese silk jacket of the kind you can easily buy in London’s Soho. ‘You’re wearing my clothes’, she said. ‘And you’re wearing mine’, I said, looking at her standing behind the counter in European blouse and skirt!

By starting to see these seven pairs of opposites at work in life around us, Cosmokrator can be used as a focus for meditation, whether in the abstract, or in connection with related divine powers.

The power of physically seen colour is so empowering to us humans because it is the reverberation back to an invisible God or Goddess - which is what the Planets and Signs were to ancient societies - they saw no division between the two. Using another vocabulary, we could say colour links us to the Angels, and ultimately to God, the White Light. Each colour is a Power, and using colour consciously is a fruitful spiritual activity in itself, even if we think we are not the kind of person to pray or meditate or go to church, mosque, temple or synagogue.

Some people prefer the idea that all the colours of the rainbow are combined into the One White Light, or the One Absolute God (Jehovah/Allah/Krishna/Shiva/Nirvana – whatever the name) – but others find the approach to the one Source via the separate colours or separate divinities that make up a Pantheon much more accessible and appealing. This is where Cosmokrator comes in because it splits up the White-Black axis into the colours they contain within them, each of which is a path back to the central Axis at the Centre.

It follows from the primary exercise of this introduction to Cosmokrator into [ that to start with you should work to increase polarity in your life. Concentrate on the difference between Male and Female, rather than obliterating them. Be awake in the daytime and sleep when it’s night, rather than trying to make one into the other.

You will find other areas of your life, we are sure, where you can enhance the quality of your experiences by setting up stronger contrasts – even in such a mundane area as eating at meals and not eating between them; replenishing your spirit by silence and then listening to complex, really harmonic, music.

Be daring, maybe the best thing for you is to marry an African or paint the exterior of your house pink, rather than live a monochrome life! Explore and reassess!

Colour, Music and Number are all reflectors of these vast divine powers in higher worlds that can provide us with bridges from our mundane physical world to divine refreshment. Cosmokrator in the end has to be taken as an indicator of the ideal whole person in whole experience mode – an instrument that looks at the relation of the parts to the whole.

Follow all that Cosmokrator leads to: listen to a symphony; sit on a rich Persian carpet; visit a great cathedral; look at great art; live in virgin nature unaltered by the hand of mankind, love others for their whole being (rather than just their body)! The final result of working with Cosmokrator is to know and experience the Universe - in whatever modes come to you naturally.

You might want to share your experiences of how Cosmokrator has led you to balance your life, by sending your story to asia@cosmokrator.com and we will post the best ones on Your Feedback Site.

We hope in the future to give public demonstrations of hold teach-ins using Cosmokrator – this depends on how the first users of Cosmokrator take to it. In the meantime, if you have any questions about Cosmokrator, please send them to asia@cosmokrator.com.

Forthcoming books to deepen your use of Cosmokrator - tour guides to the architecture of life in our Universe today

Cosmokrator is a self-assembly card model printed in 28 colours with the sigils of the Signs and Planets reversed out.

For initial use, the Getting Started Guide is as you find it here, on the www.cosmokrator.com website. If you would like a hard copy but are not able to print it off from the website; order it when ordering Cosmokrator model, just click on the the box provided. (see under How to Order).

(Note: The A5 Getting Started Guide and A4 Leaflet ) are in Adobe PDF Format.

a) The A5 Guide is set up to be printed in back to back double sided format. The Getting Started Guide

Print the odd pages first, then reverse these pages in your printer and print the even pages.

b) The A4 Guide printed in standard A4 layout, and can then be bound as you wish. The Getting Started Leaflet

Further paperback books are proposed to help you get the most out of Cosmokrator, consisting of roughly 100-150 pp text with up to 30 illustrations each. Initially we intend them to come to you in downloadable form from www.cosmokrator.com as they become available, but we hope that they will eventually be published in hard copy versions later.

The Spanner or Veil No. on the table below relates to the increasing number of divisions in the universal waveband under consideration, and its character within the band taken as a whole (notable ones are colour, musical notes or linear divisions in geometry which manifest further in other subjects such as atomic structure, compounds, biology, architecture and other arts). These increasingly complex octaves are gradually introduced and discussed up to Book 13.

The last three books give an overview of the Female - and Male - dimensions of religion, and indicate opportunities to apply Cosmokrator's spiritual principles - none of which conflict with any of the established religions.

	*title*	*CONTENT*	*NUMBER OF PARTS TO THE WHOLE* *introduced*	*INTRODUCTION OF APPROPRIATE* *spanner or veil no.*
0	*INTRODUCTION TO cosmokrator*	Overall coverage and purpose	0	1
1	*SOUND, LENGTH AND COLOUR*	Music – the Octave as sound and line length	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8	2
2	*THE VESICA PISCIS AND GEOMETRY*	Natural proportional geometry	Irrational ratios	3
3	*ATOMS & THEIR NOTES*	Harmonics of particle physics
4	*THE NATURE OF PLANTS*	Organic geometry	7, 19, 27, 28, 29, 30, Moon
5	*MOLECULES AND MUSICAL ANGLES*	Platonic solids, 3-D orchestras
6	*ANIMAL-HUMAN SYMPHONIES*	3-D organic cosmic resonators
7	*COLOUR AND ASTROLOGY*	Weave of number and colour correspondences on the 12 semitones	12, 13, 14, 15, Fortnight	4
8	*TAROT and the ALPHABETS*	Complexification of correspondences with the 22 shrutis	20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, Day	5
9	*THE 36 DECANS AND ANCIENT ASTRONOMY*	The sexagesimal microtones and their derivation from astronomy	6, 36, 360/365, 2200, Sun	6
10	*GREAT PAINTINGS*	Use of these laws of correspondence in sacred art
11	*ARCHITECTURE: FROZEN TIME*	Implication of the harmonics of astronomy as built into architecture
12	*HARMONY ANCIENT & MODERN*	Systems of proportion then and now	10 and the Tetraktys: a non-octaval binding agent
13	*THE SEVENTH VEIL AND THE GRAND SPIRAL OF LIFE*	The Pythagorean Comma and the Octave’s tiniest increments	49, 50, 51, 53, 56, 301 and 26,500	7
14	*NORMS AND THE ABNORMAL*	Using the Spanners/Veils for personal transformation	9, 27 – the nuptial number of Plato
15	*THE UNIVERSE AS A GOD*	Anthology from ancient texts & works of art	Totality at the centre
16	*THE UNIVERSE AS A GODDESS*	Anthology from ancient texts & works of art	Totality at the circumference

For the latest full version of Asia's books and articles go to www.spectra.me.uk

The Author

This is author Asia Shepsut’s third publication, for the first time accompanied by a novel invention accessible on the world web - Cosmokrator. Her first two books, on calendar festivals and about priestesses in the ancient world, were published by HarperCollins.

Tutored by many notable experts, she has degrees in Art History and Archaeology, is a teacher of those subjects, and has travelled worldwide in pursuit of her researches for a doctorate on the canon of ancient near-eastern art – much of the Cosmokrator findings are side-products of this work.

The Cosmokrator project also draws on the many sources commonly pursued by alternative groups in Britain from the 1960s onwards, and its books refer to some of the debates and publications that achieved cult status at the time, notably Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game (always available in Vintage paperback).

This means that Cosmokrator and all it has to offer embraces the history of a hidden facet of the so-called baby-boomer ‘hippy generation’ (now in their 50s and 60s) who set out on their individual quests for lost forms of philosophy and spiritual knowledge, once it became clear that conventional sources of spiritual instruction were sadly failing them.

Organized religion has clearly lost so much of its former knowledge of the universal languages of colour, music and geometric harmony that, using ancient and modern sources, we have made Cosmokrator in order to revive them for you within one extraordinary instrument.

Your Feedback Site

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Send your e-mail to the author and we will post as many as we have room for here on this page.

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