The esoteric science of Astrology, its knowledge and practice, has its foundations in direct, spontaneous perceptive seeing and in an accumulated understanding based in observation  of the workings of the five elements in the cosmos and in the human consciousness body and energy field .

Ether is the overall containing matrix of vast silent space of being.
Spirit hides in and as the emptiness and wideness of space and is the stage, the arena filled and occupied with manifest movements forms, forces, processes, creatures and worlds that are composed of the four elements air-fire-water-earth.
Formless spirit, our essential being, journeys and discovers and knows itself in thru and as the manifested elements.

First static, silent and indivisible space begets stirring movement of diversifying air. Movement, which is the very essence of air makes otherness and relationship possible.

As movement develops accelerates and becomes more complex  the concentrated more assertive and self directed quality of fire is born of it.

Forceful fire becomes ever more concentrated dynamic willful dramatic and consuming and life with all its passionate intensity is born of it. Then by some mysterious fiat of the involved spirit water is born of the Fire in order to contain it, be subjected to it and to be fire’s partner. Thus the ever expanding ever penetrating fire is received by flowing forming nourishing enveloping water.

At last, to complete the journey of the unmanifest formless spirit thru Ether Air Fire and Water 

Flowing soft dense and yielding water becomes formed hardened unyielding solid stable crystalline earth.

Thus we have

1. Open wide space

2. Moving relationally aware air

3. Determined forceful fire

4. Inwardly self-forming flowing water and..

5. Stable self-enclosed solid hard earth

All these as the prima materia of all that exists and the medium for essential unmanifest  being to express and experience himself, herself in and through manifestation .

The teachings of the tantra reveal to us the sevenfold descending and ascending involutionary/evolutionary   scale of the chakras that are subtle energy centers inclusive of the 5 elements as they are logically  ordered   with essential spirit from  which they issue and to which they return 

  Being 

Consciousness   THE SPIRIT

Bliss   Ether

Love   Air   human 

Power Fire animal 

Energy Water vegetable 

Matter   Earth  mineral 

Alchemical knowledge in astrology further reveals to the practice and experience   in the body, and to the observing conceptual mind,how the four elements air, fire, water and earth,within  the matrix of space combine precisely  in six pairs.

Air-fire, air-earth, air water, water-fire, earth-fire, earth-water

(graphic square of the four elements)

These six pairs subdivided into twelve pairs have each, one leading element and a second supporting element. For example, watery-Fire and fiery-Water. These twelve pairings of the elements are twelve states of consciousness with their corresponding frequencies of energy and conditions of matter. They are  the twelve astrological “signs” the twelve aspects of being that are operative within 

structure of the Merkavah or “chariot of intent” and also present as the twelve anatomical regions and parts of the human body.

Show chakras 

(show merkavah and show the twelve fold human body)

The Merkavah or “chariot of conscious force” is an intricate,logical,meaningful, and precise assemblage  of our human faculties and as  such, reveals to us how the dimensions  of  Spirit of LIGHT, of LOVE of POWER  of ACTION and of MATTER, form an interactive hierarchy by which essential being above and manifest being below, ascend and descend into each other.

The Gunas : the unified balanced combinations of the elements and the Doshas : the separate  imbalanced combinations   of the elements in Ayurveda and what polarity therapy attempts to  effectively restore .

The three universal Gunas 

In “Sattva” which means  complete conscious luminosity, there is

Ether 

Air  

Fire 

In “Rajas” which means Complete Energetic Intensity there is

Air

Fire

Water

In “Tamas” which means  Complete Material Density there is

Fire

Water 

Earth

The three universal Doshas 

In “Vatta”or incomplete conscious luminosity, which is the imbalance of distraction, there is only:

Ether and Air 

In “Pitta “ or incomplete energetic intensity, which is the imbalance of agitation , there is only:

Fire and Water

In” Kapha “ or incomplete material density which is the imbalance of dullness, there is only 

Water and Earth