Anybody remember the Yin Gate Configuration? There’s a picture of one isolated in the chart in the Edges 5 post. Did you Recognize the Yin Gate in this week’s chart…
It’s the big blue rectangle in the middle of the chart (Uranus to Orcus to Moira to Gonggong and back to Uranus), with a big red asterisk through it, and a green “X” in each half. The Yin Gate symbolizes a Mystery School, informing us that the central Opposition (Juno-Makemake Opposite Chiron) is deeper than our Left Brain is capable of Grokking. The “Left-Brain” interpretation of this Opposition is that in order to Expand our Consciousness (Juno) of our Manifestation Skills (Makemake), we need to Balance the Relationship between Being Present with our Discouragement, and Creating Miracles (Chiron).
Remember Poor-Sweethearting? We move from Discouragement to Miracles by first, Empathizing with our Discouragement, and second, Changing the Subject. After we Acknowledge our Emotions, if we don’t Divert our Attention from the Discouragement, we’ll continually Cycle Through the Thoughts that led to Discouragement, and nothing will Change. We could also Tap Out our Discouragement. To Tap Out an Emotion, we Acknowledge it – “Even though I Feel Discouraged, I Deeply and Completely Love and Accept Myself…” If we’re successful at Tapping it Out, then we’ll be left Feeling Neutral or “Better,” but it’s still Important to then Divert our Attention from the Content of what Discouraged us. We won’t Encounter Miracles until our Left Brain has forgotten completely about the Issue that Discouraged us.
That’s the Logical (Left-Brain) Process involved in using the Power of Discouragement or Despair to help us Manifest our Goals. As with any PIAVA, it’s critical to Avoid Thinking about Elephants, er, Mechanism. When you’re trying to PIAVA something you’ve never Created before, you’ve probably already imagined All Possible Mechanisms to make it happen, and rejected them as unworkable. In fact you’ve probably already tried many of them! To PIAVA something we’ve never Manifested in the Current Lifetime, we need to have 100% of our Attention on the Outcome we Want, and 0% of our Attention on Mechanisms that might make it Happen. Successful PIAVAs will always arrive via Unknown Mechanisms.
That’s the interpretation of the Contradistinction (Opposition) between Expanding our Consciousness around Manifestation, and Creating Miracles (Juno-Makemake Opposite Chiron). Remember that Oppositions are Dualisms, while the Universe is Multifarious and Unitary. Oppositions can never describe Reality, they can only describe our Thinking about Reality. The Map versus the Territory sort of thing. Language traps us into Confusing the two. However, Confusion is the First Step in Expansion of Consciousness, so image how we could Expand if we Learned to use Language in that way!!
Even though some of those notions may Open Doors for you, we’re basically still talking Logic – if this then that. The nature of a Yin Gate Mystery School is that it Transcends Logic. To Engage a Yin Gate we have to be Open to Paradox. We have to Embrace Cognitive Dissonance. Cognitive Dissonance is when we have two Beliefs that Conflict with one another. Take our Addiction to Sugar, for instance, or to anything else that we Believe isn’t particularly “Good For Us.” If you never Indulge in anything that isn’t Good For You, you need to Loosen Up – you aren’t even Living in two dimensions, you’re Living in one. Remember that Field that Rumi wanted to meet us in?
We have an Identity that really Enjoys our “Vice,” and an Separate Identity that Strives to keep it under Control, and we Alternate between wearing those two Identities because, unless we’re Enlightened or Catholic, we can’t maintain both Identities at the same time – it just puts us on a Helicopter Trip, where we’re going ’round and ’round, ceaselessly arguing with ourself. “It can’t be so Bad if it’s so tasty!” “Have I told you about Diabetes?” We’re in trouble before we start, because we’re Postulating that Joy isn’t Good For Us, which is ridiculous. We’re probably also swimming in Guilt, which isn’t Good For Us. We have to Introduce those two Identities to each other, so they can talk. Not so one can Win the “Battle,” but so they can both see what the Other Wants.
But we’re still talking about what the Left Brain can Understand. The Yin Gate Asks us to go Beyond that. Can we even conceive that such a Space Exists? We have to PIAVA it. Here’s part of Larry Korn’s attempt to describe one possibility (One-Straw Revolutionary: the Philosophy and Work of Masanobu Fukuoka, pp.22-23)…
“Natural farming sees the world as a seamless, indivisible whole. This perception arises without conscious effort when the world is experienced without intellectual interpretation. Mr. Fukuoka referred to this as non-discriminating awareness. Conventional perception, or discriminating understanding, sees the world as a collection of discrete parts. The individual is the observer, and the world is that which is being observed. It is a willful, intellectual process, which results in a fragmented and incomplete perspective.
“Here’s another way to look at it. The world is completely interconnected, flowing and unfolding within the present moment. It has no intrinsic qualities, it simply is. People, in their attempt to organize experience into a logical framework, break up this unity by seeing the trees as distinct from the shrubs, insects, minerals, and other things. These elements are further subdivided into types of trees, shrubs, insects, minerals, and other things, and they are all given names.
“Then concepts such as up and down, east and west, large and small, fast and slow, and self and other are added. Finally, values such as strong and weak, good and bad, beautiful and ugly, and primitive and civilized are also included. Before you know it, people have created an entirely new reality known only to them. In nature, none of these things exists. The is the way people have set themselves apart from and in opposition to the natural world. Today almost everyone relies on intellectual understanding to interpret and get along in the world. Before modern culture arose, no one did.”
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