Aquarius 20°: A large white dove bearing a message.

10:53, 02.10.2015, Aquarius 20°

#Hero://Zinn, Howard Zinn

pp. 261-262     AN ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA, by Dane Rudhyar (1973)

PHASE 320: (AQUARIUS 20°): A LARGE WHITE DOVE BEARING A MESSAGE.

KEYNOTE: The answer of spiritual agencies to through, sustained and victorious individual efforts.

This concludes most significantly this series of five symbols. The individual who has gone courageously and with indomitable spirit through his crucial crisis receives, as it were, a deep spiritual blessing from the Soul-realm: "Mission accomplished. Peace be with you." And in this blessing a secret prophecy of what it yet to come may be seen by the perspicacious and spiritually sensitive mind of the recipient. Every real spiritual step a man takes in his development is the result of a victory over forces of inertia or destruction. The Diving is totally "present" in the heart of all true victories.

This is the fifth and last symbol of the sixty-fourth series. What the "message" is depends on the particular situation, but the white dove always signifies peace; at the very heart of this peace is the CERTIFICATION of individual worth and victory.

Girlcapsule's #—2¢:

Here is a question for my fellow cosmonauts in consciousness studies: This kind of example—today's symbolic image that encapsulates in a microcosmic conceptual prism the keyword: CERTIFICATION?

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Aquarius 19°: A forest fire is being subdued by the use of water, chemicals and sheer muscular energy.

21:30, 02.09, Aquarius 19°

#ReplaceAMovieTitleWithGoat

p. 261     AN ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA, by Dane Rudhyar (1973)

PHASE 319 (AQUARIUS 19°): A FOREST FIRE IS BEING SUBDUED BY THE USE OF WATER, CHEMICALS AND SHEER MUSCULAR ENERGY.

KEYNOTE: The skill and courage necessary to bring under control the destructive potential of carelessness of karmic "visitations."

Forest fires may be caused by human carelessness, by lightning or by the by-products of modern technology. Every individual—at least once in his lifetime, if not repeatedly—may perhaps have to face spectacular reactions to seemingly insignificant acts. These are to be considered means to test his strength, ingenuity or emotional stability. Every faculty at his disposal must be made use of—emotional, mental, physical. He needs faith in himself and in superior Powers.

At this fourth stage of the five-fold series we are shown man in action in a crucial and potentially devastating situation. There is a need for total mobilization of energy and a deep sense of INDOMITABILITY.

Girlcapsule's—2¢:

As you can see, I have finally caught up after several days dedicated to moving from the East Bay to San Anselmo in Marin...mostly with sheer muscular energy.

Justdefy.

Aquarius 18°: A man's secret motives are being publicly unmasked.

20:58, 02.09.2015, Aquarius 19° (late posting)

pp. 260-261     AN ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA, by Dane Rudhyar (1973)

PHASE 318 (AQUARIUS 18°): A MAN'S SECRET MOTIVES ARE BEING PUBLICLY UNMASKED.

KEYNOTE: The difficulty for the modern individual to keep secret his private past or his deeper motives.

This symbol logically follows the two preceding ones. Today, struggle between the power of society and the rights of the individual leads in the end to the defeat of the latter. The media and innumerable governmental agencies are nearly always able to find access to remains or records of past actions; modern psychologists and psychiatrists are increasingly adept at penetrating the deepest secrets of a life through "analysis" and all kinds of more or less allowed techniques involving drugs and the subconscious reactions of muscles and nerves. The individual whose activities have to remain unrecognized is engaged in a constant struggle; he needs the help of higher Powers as well as of the protective agencies he may have placed at his services.

This is the third stage in the sixty-fourth five-fold sequence of archetypal images of the cyclic process. It refers to the UNMASKING of hidden motives and personal secrets. It may refer to the publicizing of past behavior.

Aquarius 17°: A watchdog stands guard, protecting his master and his possessions.

18:04, 02.09.2015, Aquarius 19° (late posting)

pp. 259-260     AN ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA, by Dane Rudhyar (1973)

PHASE 317 (AQUARIUS 17°): A WATCHDOG STANDS GUARD, PROTECTING HIS MASTER AND HIS POSSESSIONS.

KEYNOTE: The development of the capacity to protect oneself and to safeguard one's individual rights under complex social pressures.

What seems to be implied in this symbol, considering its position in the entire cycle, is that under present-day social conditions the individual person needs protection against the ever-growing encroachments of society upon his theoretically recognized right to lead a private life free from public interference. Seen in this light the symbol stands in contrast to the preceding one depicting the power of big business and the totalitarian implications of large-scale organization. At a deeper occult level of interpretation it also reveals the need to protect oneself against "astral" intrusions and perhaps "black magic," the more so as one ventures into supernormal states of consciousness. It is said that the Adept trains certain subhuman entities ("Elementals") to protect him. The Christian religion speaks of Guardian Angels in a related sense.

At this second stage we see the individual able to master natural energies which he enlists in his service, so he may pursue his individualized work of destiny in security. This is another aspect of the relationship of individual-to-society. Individuals of course do also seek to rob or injure other persons, but the state of affairs resulting from a society glorifying competition, ambition and success at any cost is largely responsible for individual violence. The more creative the person, the greater is his or her NEED FOR PROTECTION.

Aquarius 16°: A big businessman at his desk.

17:50, 02.09.2015, Aquarius 19° (late posting)




pp. 258-259     AN ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA, by Dane Rudhyar (1973)

SCENE TWENTY-TWO: MANAGEMENT
(Aquarius 16° to Aquarius 30°)

PHASE 316 (AQUARIUS 16°): A BIG BUSINESSMAN AT HIS DESK.

KEYNOTE: The ability to organize the many aspects of an enterprise involving a large group of human beings.

A great deal of what is glowingly written about the Aquarian Age is probably sheer glamor. The New Age should be one in which man learns to use the power generated by human togetherness and group interplay—that is, to use it harmoniously for the welfare of the whole of which all individuals are parts, humanity and the planet Earth. This has never been achieved and only vary rarely attempted. Mankind today must make a thorough and irresistible attempt, or be nearly destroyed—except for a creative "remnant" of seed-persons who would have to begin again from new foundations. In the field of big business, of huge war undertakings (like the Normandy landing in World War II) or of major national efforts (like the Moon landings) great results have been achieved, but the motive and the quality of the human interrelationships involved were neither of permanent significance nor invested with a truly harmonic quality. The character of techniques used were totally unsatisfactory from a "human" point of view. Nevertheless there is much to learn from modern large-scale management and systems analysis, even in terms of personal endeavors of very limited scope.

This is the first stage in the sixty-fourth five-fold subcycle. It introduces the concept of management which is basic at this period of the cyclic life process which the zodiac symbolizes, yet which needs to be totally reevaluated if mankind is to actualize the spiritual potentialities implied in the evolutionary transformation just ahead. ORGANIZATION should be the Keyword, rather than mere "organization"; for humanity now can and should realize that it is indeed an "organism."

Aquarius 15°: Two lovebirds sitting on a fence and singing happily.

17:42, 02.09.2015, Aquarius 19° (late posting)

p. 258     AN ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA, by Dane Rudhyar (1973)

PHASE 315 (AQUARIUS 15°): TWO LOVEBIRDS SITTING ON A FENCE AND SINGING HAPPILY.

KEYNOTE: The blessing bestowed upon personal achievements by the spiritually fulfilled consciousness of the Soul.

This symbol can be interpreted at various levels of significance, but it evidently suggests a state of being in which two complementary aspects of spiritual reality—however we may conceive them—are united; this union results in happiness or bliss (ananda). As the two birds are "sitting on a fence," and a fence separates two fields or gardens, the implication is that the separative consciousness of the ego can thus be blessed, perhaps as a spiritual reward for long-sustained and well-done work.

This is the last symbol of the sixty-third five-fold sequence which completes Scene Twenty-one. Inner happiness is seen to be the reward for all individuals who have made a valuable "contribution" to their community or to mankind as a whole. In its highest aspect this happiness is indeed BEATITUDE.

Aquarius 14°: A train entering a tunnel.

17:32, 02.09.2015, Aquarius 19° (late posting)

p. 257     AN ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA, by Dane Rudhyar (1973)

PHASE 314 (AQUARIUS 14°): A TRAIN ENTERING A TUNNEL.

KEYNOTE: The ability to short-cut the process of natural evolution by the exercise of will, mental skill and physical discipline.

In this symbol we see a condensation of what is implied in the three preceding ones. Man must be inspired by a vision of what is possible for him to achieve; he has to organize a schedule of necessary activities if the work is to be done in terms of successive moves, each requiring a specialized type of skill and strength (i.e. a hierarchy of functions); he has to find a propitious time for beginning the work. The end result is an acceleration of the evolutionary process, whether at the psychobiological level (that of a yoga and other similar disciplines) or at the social level, i.e. the level at which, in its external aspect, civilization proceeds.

This fourth stage symbol presents a picture of what can be achieved by a combination of social and cultural, and even personal, techniques. It implies the possibility of shortening the length of time needed for progress by cutting through obstacles and delays. The Keyword is

PENETRATION.