We are pleased to announce the release of the first installment of The Zodiac, a new poetic series from Integral Magic that dives deep into the mystery of astrological degree symbols. The inaugural offering contains 30 sacred poems for the 30 degrees of Capricorn, each inspired by two visionary sources: the Sabian Symbols and the Lonsdale Symbols.
These symbols—each a surreal snapshot, a fragment of myth—have long been used in astrology as gateways to insight. But in The Zodiac, they are reimagined as a daily liturgy of embodiment, soul-vision, and contemplative magic.
Each degree is brought to life in poetic and artistic form, with one stanza interpreting the Sabian symbol, another interpreting the Lonsdale symbol. And in many of the pieces, a third voice emerges—the synthesis, the silence between traditions, the nondual invitation.
We won’t yet say exactly how this series fits into the larger framework of Integral Magic, or how it connects with The Kalendar or Lingua-U. That will come in time. But we can say this now:
The integration of two streams of visioning from the Soulful Mind reveals something neither could offer alone.
The Origins of the Symbols
The Sabian Symbols were born in 1925 through a collaboration between astrologer Marc Edmund Jones and clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler. In a single day in Balboa Park, San Diego, Wheeler—despite being disabled and confined to a wheelchair—received 360 vivid symbolic images, one for each degree of the zodiac. Jones, a former Presbyterian minister turned occultist, recorded and codified these visions without interruption. The name “Sabian” was chosen to evoke the mysticism of the ancient Mesopotamian star-gazers.
Each symbol came spontaneously, with no foreknowledge of the degree. Wheeler worked blind to the chart’s structure, bringing forth a stream of imagery that Jones would later interpret as spiritual seed-ideas. Their process remains one of the most extraordinary channeling events in modern astrological history—an act of pure receptivity to the imaginal field.
Many decades later, astrologer Ellias Lonsdale (with contributions from Sarah Spilsbury) offered a new set of symbol-phrases—also one per degree—in his mystical text Inside Degrees. These were not revisions of the Sabian Symbols, but rather channeled impressions from what Lonsdale described as a higher dimensional soul-being. Less archetypal and more intimate, the Lonsdale Symbols read like fragments from a dream-journal of the world soul—earthy, dissonant, devotional, strange.
