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THIRD LEVEL: INDIVIDUAL-MENTAL
PHASE 266 (SAGITTARIUS 26°): A FLAG BEARER IN A BATTLE.
KEYNOTE: The nobly accepted subservience of the individual to collective values and goals.
A flag symbolizes an organized collectivity of human beings, a nation or even a social class. In the old-fashioned type of battle, whoever carries the flag has to feel himself the representative of the integrity and unity of his group. His personal life and his welfare should therefore be totally submerged in and identified with the welfare of the "greater Whole" of which he carries the standard. In certain circumstances, every person can act as a conscious and responsible agent for mankind. In substance, the symbol asks: Are you ready to assume this role?
This first stage of the fifty-fourth five-fold sequence presents a picture of what social consciousness can mean in its highest implications. The flag bearer is unarmed, defenseless; yet he can be the rallying point for the total effort of a large collectivity. This is a symbol of CONSECRATION TO AN IDEAL.
Girlcapsule's Response:
I decided to provide a visual of a peek into another topical branch of my personal library as a run-up to responding to today's symbol.
See Bill Ayers' book in the middle? Fugitive Days. Something fell out of it: a card in a tiny envelope. The card is one that came with a geomancy related tool called a pendulum, more specifically a Chakra Pendulum. Below is another cross-section stack of the authors and thinkers who inform my thought, and therefore this exploration of the daily Sabian Symbol.
Notice the symbol of the horse at the top of the pyramid. This I experienced as a linking point. One playful thought experiments that I find myself adventuring more and more back to is ask myself about my assumptions regarding certain moments of consequence. For example, Nietzsche and the horse suffering a beating that caused the unhinging of Nietzsche's mind, though his body remained alive for another 12 years.
Here is, perhaps, a grok-able synchronicity—though the depth of meaning to be assigned to this I am still quietly anticipating. Here is the image form:
Ok. Now, find patience to hear through this Jabber-wokian acausal logic that brings this image to you: This card made its way to me in order to demonstrate something about this system-based holistic meditation. Remember yesterday's symbol phrase: A CHUBBY BOY ON A HOBBY-HORSE.
Bhadda-boom, bhadda-bing: Magic. That's my soap-box.
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