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PHASE 295 (CAPRICORN 25°): A STORE FILLED WITH PRECIOUS ORIENTAL RUGS.
KEYNOTE: The use of cultural and artistic processes as a means to enhance personal comfort and appreciation.
Coming after the preceding symbol this one brings us back to the material, yet esthetic, aspect of the benefits a society can bring its members. A "rug" always implied to some extent that something on which a person stands or sits. It is a foundation for cultural "under-standing," and as such it can have a magical or sacred meaning, as in the case of prayer rugs. The "woman in a convent" probably knows only the bare floor, because her goal is one of transcendence, of surrendering comfort as well as cultural patterns. But to the social elite, or even to the oriental devotee praying to his god, society offers the relative comfort of beautiful rugs so he may meet the universe, not merely in terms of the support the natural soil gives, but protected by and securely established on the mental-spiritual as well as manual achievements of those who keep the cultural symbols alive.
This is the last symbol in the fifty-ninth five-fold sequence. It shows the beautiful products of dedicated and inspired group performance at the level of tradition. It emphasizes the value of RELIANCE ON TRADITION.
Girlcapsule's Response:
I have decided to contain my response, as an experiment, to include an additional dimension of a song. Meaning, I will give a sound-track to today's meditation. Why am I taking this strategy? I want the reader to be able to engage more deeply with me as I seek to find response within myself to a symbol such as today's.
If the reader can also have the experience of meditating on a symbol while listening to the identical song, then we might start discovering the ways in which our experiences overlap on deeper psychological levels.
Here's the song: #10_Hills—Master_Sleeps
Response in Image:
Explanation:
I allowed a very intuitive process to unfold as I went through the song twice and worked with my library and immediate resources. I thought of responding by choosing a color scheme by opening the Earthsong book on the left. The reds, oranges, and golds pop out. Also I had noticed a switch in the music that catalyzed a thought (~ 444 on the digital count-down.) I chose next to look up page #444 in my Taschen book Alchemy & Mysticism. Here's a clip:
The "Mysterium Magnum" is the fundamental duality in one God, the "ground' and the "unground", "from which time and the visible world have flown"
Also:
In his title engraving, Georg Gichtel interpreted the one duality of microcosm/macrocosm and Moses/Messiah: just as Moses was the representative of the authoritarian aspect of God for the small world of the children of Isreal, Christ is the incarnation of divine love for humanity as a whole
The trumpet-blowing angel of the end of time unveils the transfigured face of Moses, and Christ reveals himself in the perfect clock of the zodiac as ruler of the spiritual age of the lily.
Jakob Böhme's Theosophische Wercke of 1682 is mentioned as a resource for this information. Here's the image closer up; notice the golden and earth tones of the image:
Again the image of a dragon appears in our series:
And the echo of this dragon's white facial hair in the rhythms of the Earthsong landscape (p. 176):
Noam Chomsky's Rebel Without a Pause and The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying also got drawn into the mix.
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