Pisces 01º: In a crowded marketplace farmers and middlemen display a great variety of products.

15:53, 02.21.2015, Pisces 02º (late posting)

pp. 268-269     AN ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA, by Dane Rudhyar (1973)

SCENE TWENTY-THREE: FEDERATION
(Pisces 01º to Pisces 16º)

FIRST LEVEL: ACTIONAL

PHASE 331 (PISCES 01º): IN A CROWDED MARKETPLACE FARMERS AND MIDDLEMEN DISPLAY A GREAT VARIETY OF PRODUCTS.

KEYNOTE: The process of commingling and interchange which at all levels demonstrates the health of a community.

In any twelve-fold division of a complete cycle (for instance the 12 zodiacal signs and the 12 Houses of a birth chart) the twelfth section often has been given a negative significance. It can refer to oppressive conditions as it represents a "closing of accounts," a final evaluation of the harvest of the cycle a man reaps what he has sown. But it may also be honors, social prestige, the interests of well-managed wealth. In this twenty-fourth scene what is stressed is the coming together, in a final experience of community, of all factors previously experienced; this means constructive interaction and an interchange of the products of social activity. In a practical sense, the symbol, whenever it is found, emphasizes that the time has come to take full advantage of the social opportunities to bargain and to trade.

This is the first stage of the process related to the sixty-seventh five-fold sequence of symbols. It refers to all that can be gained from social interplay and especially, in the broader sense of the word, from COMMERCE.