pp. 80-81 AN ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA, by Dane Rudhyar (1973)
SCENE FOUR: CONFIRMATION
(Taurus 16º to Taurus 30º)
FIRST LEVEL: ACTIONAL
PHASE 46 (TAURUS 16º): AN OLD TEACHER FAILS TO INTERST HIS PUPILS IN TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE.
KEYNOTE: The inadequacy of past knowledge in time of crisis.
During this Act One of the cyclic process the emergence of new developments is emphasized. In time of crisis––as, for example, the "storm" being braved by the man of the last symbol (Phase 45)––the type of wisdom learned from this past remains in the background to be revived later on in new forms; what is emphasized is change. Traditional concepts are not adequate to confirm the new conditions of existence. Thus whenever this symbol comes to a seeker's attention it indicates that even the most consecrated tradition does not have the real answer to the problem.
At this first stage of the tenth five-fold sequence of phases of the cyclic process a seemingly negative picture is shown. From the Zen point of view the mind facing trouble should not depend on past concepts but should repeat: "Not this! Not that!"––until the pure Void is reached. We might speak here of the principle of CREATIVE FRUSTRATION.
Girlcapsule's––.02¢:
Ok, today I thought of something as I was typing up Rudhyar's commentary. What I want to share is from Stephen Buhner's Ensouling Language:
Perception and cognition––and the creative act that writing is––depend on orientation of consciousness. And that reorientation of consciousness necessarily moves us from a mechanical frame of reference not one where everything is alive. That alone allows us to access the imaginal, and through it touch the mythic itself.
Rudyhar's "pure Void" could substitute for "mythic", or?
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