Aquarius 23º: A big bear sitting down and waving all its paws.

14:55, 02.18.2015, Aquarius 28º (late posting)

p. 263     AN ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA, by Dane Rudhyar (1973)

THIRD LEVEL: INDIVIDUAL—MENTAL

PHASE 323 (AQUARIUS 23º): A BIG BEAR SITTING DOWN AND WAVING ALL OF ITS PAWS.

KEYNOTE: The self-discipline which results from an intelligent development of individual faculties under proper training.

What constitutes the proper training of children or animals is like a complex and much-disputed problem. The symbol seems to state simply that powerful life energies can be trained adequately–the implication or extension of the idea being that no training is really successful unless it leads to the realization of the value and power of self-discipline. We are constantly faced with situations which, whether we are aware of it or not, are in fact training situation; God or the Soul is the trainer. Much depends on the attitudes we assume in these situations.

This is the third symbol in the sixty-fifth sequence. We see in it the outcome of what is suggested in the two preceding ones. Character and a warm "under-standing" of what is involved in the process of growth and overcoming of emotional heaviness can be taught. We can learn to discipline our natural impulses and to use them for a more-than-personal purpose. This is DISCIPLESHIP in the true sense of the term.

Girlcapsule's—2¢:

I feel that this archetype of calling someone's individual opinion their (his/her) "two cents"
has a kind of life of its own.