Astrological Equations: Toleh: Aries
Here, at the beginning of the zodiac, we have the opportunity to read the familiar signs from the inside out and to let them describe themselves, and their place in a complex, hyperlinked semantic web of interrelated meaning. This way of understanding the planets and signs of the zodiac might be called "formative," or "yetziratic" astrology, because it is concerned with the basic, abstract principles behind the construction of the manifest universe we live in and our place and role in within it. The Sepher Yetsira describes the zodiac as the edges of the Cube of Space -- 12 active environments for the impersonal energies of the 7 planets which form the faces and center of the cube. The "equations" of the zodiac describe these environments as a two-way developmental sequence, or 12-stage cycle which turns in two directions: the direction of evolutionary, biological structuration of energy and the involutionary direction of the development of consciousness. It is one thing to know Aries as a beginning, and it is another to know it as the end.
Hay, 5, symbol of archetypal life, initiates the zodiac as a structural and evolutionary process dealing with biological energies in different states of organization. When read according to its inner meaning, the zodiac describes the itineraries of physical and psychological energies, both personal and collective, through twelve stages of structural evolution or involution. The traditional zodiac of astrology, with the signs arranged in a circle, is the outer form or manifestation of an inner zodiac arranged on the cube of space, with the planets on the axes and the signs on the twelve edges of a three-dimensional cube, and the psyche in the center. Suares poses four different readings of the zodiac, in two different directions. Two of them start and end here in Toleh/Aries, where physical energy begins and psychological energy may someday rest. Since we are here, at the beginning, it's important to remember that there are no zodical "types." The signs of the zodiac are containers or active environments (or structural stages). They are specific states described exactly by their equations, in this case Tayt-Lammed-Hay, a concise formulation of a primative living cell. Energy is born into a biological process in Toleh/Aries, and will continue its physical development through Sagittarius. As was the case with the planets, the formative letter announces the theme, and is embedded in the structure of the energy. Here, Hay (5), archetypal biological life, has as its agent in the structural universe, Toleh, which is responsible for the first formation of life and all beginnings. And it is in this particular structure that Meadim, our symbolic future, formed by pointed Dallet, 4, is Olet, Aleph-Waw-Lammed-Tav, and finds its furthest cosmic projection. Olet means, of course, folly or madness. We will find that the Sepher Yetsira (Yetzirah) describes the zodiac as a circular, two way current of energy, with different itineraries, or developmental stages, for both physical (outward) and mental/psychic (inward) energies. Each sign will describe a different state or stage of the relationship of two fundamental energies, Aleph (beyond thought) and Tav (ulimate resistance to Aleph, sanctuary of energy). These energies will have different fates, according to their path of building up or dissolving structures. The first five signs, from Toleh/Aries to Arieh/Leo, all represent archetypal energies, and carry us from the Hay forming Toleh to the Tayt forming Arieh, the journey of the cell into physical existence, achieved only when Yod, 10, Existence, forms Betolah/Virgo. 
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