pp. 242-243 AN ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA, by Dane Rudhyar (1973)
PHASE 292 (CAPRICORN 22°): BY ACCEPTING DEFEAT GRACEFULLY, A GENERAL REVEALS NOBILITY OF CHARACTER.
KEYNOTE: The realization that one may grow through defeat as well as, and perhaps more than, through success.
While the preceding symbol referred to the drive toward success in culturally organized collective endeavors, this one presents us with the possibility of turning apparent external defeat into an inner spiritual achievement. We have recently seen how totally vanquished nations (Germany and Japan) have leaped forward and achieved great economic success. Much depends on the quality of the will and the inner integrity of the person.
At this second stage we find what seems to be a paradox, but the spiritual life is always paradoxical. The great sinner can become the most renowned saint, and a medieval Pope a criminal. What matters most always is INNER STRENGTH.
Girlcapsule's Response:
Graceful defeat, inner strength: a revelation of nobility the duly judged character. These words seem to turn their own meaning purposefully inside-out in order to demonstate something that goes beyond paradox, beyond polarities—on out into the infinite cosmos. Where in our primal-timeless form, we are safe as bunnies.
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