p. 65 AN ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA, by Dane Rudhyar (1973)
SECOND LEVEL: EMOTIONAL—CULTURAL
PHASE 21 (ARIES 21º): A PUGILIST ENTERS THE RING.
KEYNOTE: The release and glorification of social aggressiveness.
Here we find potency glorified as muscular strength and will-to-power. Because it is potency operating at a harshly competitive level, it can and often does imply the possibility of defeat or disfiguration. In one sense the symbol translates into social terms the primordial struggle for survival of the fittest, adding to it an eagerness for social fame and social power (i.e. money). In another sense, the ring with two fighters in it can be referred to the Tai Chi symbol and the interplay between Yang and Yin. Each of the two types of energy wins in turn. Victory is always temporary in a dualistic world.
This is the first stage of the fifty five-fold sequence of cyclic phases. Potency and the two-fold possibilities inherent in any release of power are seen operating at the sociocultural and emotional level. The symbol reveals man's deeply rooted feeling of admiration and envy for whoever can generate OVERWHELMING POWER.
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