prana-bodydraftschool: modern· Frawley — Astrology of the Seers

The three bodies (physical / astral / causal) and the birth chart as astral-body map

sthūla-sūkṣma-kāraṇa-śarīra

also: three-bodies, astral-body, causal-body, sthula-sukshma-karana

pra-three-subtle-bodies

Definition

Frawley's three-body model used to locate what astrology reads: the PHYSICAL body, the ASTRAL body (= the mind: memory, imagination, intellect, reason — formed of stellar/planetary influences, visible as the aura), and the CAUSAL body (the soul, relating especially to the Sun). The birth chart is "something like a photograph of our astral body"; astrology is "naturally the astral science, the science of the astral body", elevable by higher perception into a causal science that reads the soul's movement life-to-life.
Modern

Prāṇa relevance

The astral/causal body doctrine is where Frawley's "what astrology actually reads" sits — the mind and soul, not directly the prana. He notes the daily expansion (waking→dream→deep-sleep) and the death-transition through the same bodies, and the Moon/Sun as the astral/causal gateways (see graha patches), but he does NOT thread the five vayus or the breath through this — it is a consciousness model, not a pranic-sheath (pranamaya-kosha) model. The gross↔ subtle↔prana gap noted in the Medical theme recurs here. Not traced to prana.

Sources

  • txt-frawley-astrology-seersAstrology as a Spiritual Science (book pp.36–37)Modern✓ verifiedastral body = mind, formed of stellar/planetary influences, visible in the aura; birth chart = photograph of the astral body; astrology = the astral science; causal body relates to the Sun and can be read by higher perception
  • txt-frawley-astrology-seersbook p.35Modern✓ verifiednightly/death expansion of awareness physical→astral→causal; the astral body when developed 'contains the entire physical universe'

Other attributes

System Of Origin
vedanta
Location In Body
physical = gross body; astral = mind/aura (encompasses the whole physical universe when developed); causal = soul (encompasses physical + astral, relates to the Sun)
Function
the chart maps the astral body (mind); higher perception reads the causal body (soul); at night/death consciousness expands physical→astral→causal
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