Let’s look at the web of interactions between Oaths (Vows, Promises, Decisions) and Karma (Habits, Patterns) from a different angle. In Tarot, the twelfth card in the Major Arcana is the Hanged Man. This dude is Hanging neither from his neck nor fingernails, but Hanging from his heels…
The plan being that his or her Perspective will Change. The Hanged Man card is referred to as the “Pattern-Breaker.” There is no Tarot card for Pattern-Making or Punishment-for-Breaking-an-Oath. While we might swear Oaths to ourself to try to Control our own Addictions, most of the Oaths that Orcus (Greek Horkos) Punished were Oaths of Allegiance to Others – Abdications of our Self-Sovereignty – around politics, war, economics, and servitude. The Romans and Greeks were Hyperpatriarchal Cultures, and Vows of Marital Fidelity were not part of the Oath equation…
“A real man dominated in the bedroom as he did on the battlefield. He would have sex with his slaves whether they were male or female; he would visit prostitutes; he would have homosexual encounters even while married; he would engage in pederasty; even rape was generally acceptable as long as he only raped people of a lower status.” —https://www.challies.com/articles/3-awful-features-of-roman-sexual-morality/
If you haven’t noticed the Persistence of this propensity in current Western Culture, you’re probably in Denial. Orcus’s mother, by the way, was Eris, symbol of Revelation of What’s Been Denied. You’ve probably noticed that Tolkien’s Orcs were spawned by Orcus’s visage as a Punishing – Devouring even – Monster…
The Socio-Sexual connotations reflect the Greek-Roman program of demeaning the Matriarchy – Betray your Oath as a Man [to Obey your Male superiors and Use or Ab-use Females] and you’ll be sucked back into the Toothed Womb, in the Patriarchy an Emasculating Fate worse than Death [loss of everyone’s Respect, the equivalent of Banishment]!
But, back to the astrology…
The astrological Twelfth Harmonic is the “Unx,” the Angle which Separates two planets that are one Sign apart. In the current Ixion-Pholus-Quaoar Station chart (https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/tumultuous-week-1/), eight of the twelve possible Unxes are present. The implication is that we have a better-than-usual Opportunity to Let Go of Karmic Habits around each of these eight planetary Relationships. We should be able to, for instance…
- Step into a New Personality wherein we have Dropped any Manifesting Habits that were not Self-Loving (Haumea Unx Sappho-Makemake).
- Step into a New Personality wherein we have Dropped any Health Practices that did not further our EnLightenment (Lachesis-Varuna Unx Klotho-North Node).
Remember that Karma is Dead. When a situation arises where you’re Invited to Indulge a Self- or Health-Deprecating Habit, it will Feel perfectly Natural to Step right Into it. Just like Developing a physical muscle, it’s Repetition that Reinforces Habituation. Every time we go ahead and Step Into a Karmic Pattern, we Strengthen it. Karma is actually a Choice, once we’re Conscious of it. Each time we Choose to Step Into a Health-Promoting or Self-Loving alternative, we weaken the Karmic Habit and Strengthen our Physical and Moral (ie, Self-Love vs. Self-Abuse) Health.
Let’s take another example. It’s fairly widely Believed that 5G at least exacerbates our Experience of the Coronavirus, if not contributes directly to it. If we follow this line of thought, perhaps Nature is training, or as Darwin would put it “naturally selecting,” our Electromagnetically delicately-tuned Bodies for a Future with far greater Electromagnetic Radiation. If you’ve ever stood in a Lightning Storm, you know that few Energies are more Electrifying than those symbolized by Uranus. Uranus is in Taurus – Soul Descending into Flesh. And what could be more Electric than Soul – Invisible, Energizing, Dangerous (to the Ego), “Bottled Lightning.”
In the current chart, Uranus is joined by asteroid Eurydike, which symbolizes Trust (Initiation Exact at 11:53 am 30 March in 6 Taurus, “A cantilever bridge across a deep gorge: Overcoming separatism through group cooperation,” with Ixion Stationary!), Initiating a four-year Cycle wherein Collaboration is emphasized. Several friends, while Empathizing strongly with the Physical, Emotional, and Financial Suffering, have been Embarrassed to admit that they find current events to be Compelling and Exciting – they are indeed, without Realizing it, Trusting that Flesh will be Quickened or Electrified by Soul as we work through the seven years of Uranus in Taurus.
Another Energy in the current chart is the Revision of our Values (Venus) brought about by shifts in our Unconscious Beliefs and Limitations (asteroid Vesta) through Converting Fear to Power (dwarf planet Sedna). We’re certainly being given plenty of Opportunities for the latter. Remember your Kegels and Tapping – the sooner you Notice Fear in your Emotions or your Thinking, and Convert it to Power, the more you Weaken your Fear Karma and Strengthen your Power to Manifest the Future you Want to Live in.
These two Energies…
- Trusting that Flesh is being Quickened by Soul, and
- Revision of our Values through Converting Fear to Power
…are one Sign apart, an Unx Angle, promising that we can more Easily Let Go of any negative Karmic Patterns in how the two Energies Relate. For example, a very common Ego-Value is to Contract, or Circle the Wagons, in the Presence of Fear. Another common Ego-Value is to React with Fear to Strange Sensations in the Body. In other words, we tend to Energetically Collapse around Strange Sensations. “Something is Wrong! We Gotta Fix it!” is the immediate Reaction, corresponding to an Energetic Contraction. What if it was “Something is Different! Isn’t that Curious!” instead – where of course we’d prefer Awe-Wonder-Fascination Curiosity over Gotta-Figure-it-Out Curiosity.
What if Strange Sensations in the Body Enlivened us the way Traveling in a foreign country can. Strange-Sensation symptoms of dis-ease are productively considered to be the result of the Body Restoring Balance – a runny nose as mucus dispelling virus for example. And of course unreasonable fatigue is just a Somatic request for more Rest. Healing is greatly accelerated if we Open to those Sensations (increasing Blood flow to their location) rather than Closing around them (which restricts Blood flow, inhibiting the Immune System’s white blood cells). That would greatly alter our Tolerance for the Vulnerabilities of Physicality, and tilt our Emotions toward Joy more often.
The Unx Pattern-Breaking Angle between Trusting the Present (Eurydike-Uranus) and Embracing Fear (Venus-Vesta-Sedna) opens the door to Life-Changing Transformations like this. Maybe Opening Lovingly to Unfamiliar Physical Sensations is a prerequisite for Ascension to 5D. But we need to Respond to the Opportunity. The nature of Karma is Inertia – we move toward what’s familiar, toward our Training. We need to Consciously make the Choice to move toward an Alternative instead. That by itself will Enliven us, though it will be Uncomfortable at first, till we get our New Patterns Habitualized. (What a “coincidence” – in the 7 April Full Moon chart, the Moon [Instincts] is Unx to asteroid Moira [Consciously Choosing Alternatives to Fate].)
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