p. 57 AN ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA, by Dane Rudhyar (1973)
THIRD LEVEL: INDIVIDUAL-MENTAL
PHASE 11 (ARIES 11º): THE RULER OF A NATION.
KEYNOTE: The power resulting from the formal integration of the collective desire for order.
At this stage of the cyclic process this symbol refers to the appearance of the (personal) ego as the central manifestation of a type of "order" which transcends and seeks to rule the emotional and instinctual drives of the individual person. Actually the ruler at this social-political and mental level of integration is often the one who is being ruled by collective pressures. Nevertheless, a desire for a larger type of integration has now emerged. It is no longer biological-impulsive (Aries 01º) or emotional-personal (Aries 06º), but social-collective and institutional. At this ego level, laws and the restrictive power of a police force are dominant features. Psychologically speaking, this means that the integrative principle is the limited, more or less narrow "I am" realization. It manifests itself as the personal ego exerting its will to control the reactions of the bio-psychic organism.
This is the first stage of the third five-fold sequence of the cyclic process. It indicates a CENTRALIZATION OF POWER as the level of a rigidly structured consciousness.
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