p. 231 AN ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA, by Dane Rudhyar (1973)
PHASE 273 (CAPRICORN 03°): A HUMAN SOUL, IN ITS EAGERNESS FOR NEW EXPERIENCES, SEEKS EMBODIMENT.
KEYNOTE: A powerful yearning for whatever will increase the scope and depth of one's contacts with other living beings.
One wonders what the clairvoyant "saw" and said to the recorder of this symbol. How did she visualize a "human soul" or, as Marc Edmund Jones recorded it, its being "receptive to growth and understanding"? What is implied in the position of this symbol seems to be the strong drive in every human consciousness or will toward new experiences, whether they are constructive or destructive. Man may grow and gain understanding and wisdom through both types. Yet the yearning needs to be tempered by an instinctive evaluation of the end results of the experience.
This is the third phase of the fifty-fifth five-fold process. It shows us what is behind all uses of power, anabolic or catabolic: a strong DESIRE TO PROVE ONESELF.
Girlcapsule's Response:
I like that Rudhyar asks these questions about the clairvoyant and her process of visualizing the meaning of a symbol. I'm very curious about this process as well. My feeling is that rather than an impulse to be cryptic or confusing, these images are formulated to act as a prism through which one may find echo in their own experience. They are archetypal, which means they can manifest the same resonance or expression of meaning in a multi-valance of forms.
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