In the chart that’s in the previous post – and all such charts – the red triangles indicate Stress, Challenge, Relative Difficulty, while the blue lines indicate Grace, Ease, Blessings. Because Stress, Challenge, and Difficulty are what produce Wisdom, people who have Learned to Respond to Stress Productively will regard such Challenges as Invitations to Add to their Experience and Wisdom. The astrological Perspective is particularly Valuable for its ability to Illuminate what might otherwise escape our Notice.
For instance, for the last several days I’ve been Impatient, and Feeling overloaded, even though I’ve actually been under less deadline pressure than I usually am, and even though I’ve been letting some of my lower Priorities slide completely. That’s a common side-effect of Saturn astroevents like the 19 May Saturn-Nodes event – The Most Important Thing rises to take up most of our Attention, and all of our other Priorities recede. I have to conclude that Paying Attention to my Irritation is The Most Important Thing facing me at the moment.
We don’t really know when something that seems trivial to us is actually a Window that will open into a Whole New Universe.
So let’s look more closely at this chart. The first thing we Notice is that the astrological symbol for Compulsion (Pluto) is Merged with (Conjunct) Saturn-Nodes. So this is something we’re unlikely to be able to circumvent; we ignore it at our peril. We’re also simultaneously Fated (asteroid Moira) to Attend to our Mission (North Node).
Moira means Fate and Choice both because in the Unconscious there is no Direction, there is only Dimension. Like the Reality that it is, the Unconscious is Unitary and Multifarious – it’s Fractal or Holographic – its Essence is repeated at any and all scales. Many of us see the Universe only through the mind, which is Dualistic. In the mind it’ll never be anything except Fate versus Free Will. But they’re two sides of the same Coin. In order to appreciate the Coins instead of just seeing the Sides, you need to Transcend the mind.
So we’re Compelled here to see the Coin that unifies our Karma with our Mission in the Lifetime.
And the Nodes (Karma and Mission) are Challenged by (Squared by – the red lines indicating right Angles) the astrological symbol for our Unconscious Limitations.
So were Compelled to see how our Unconscious Limitations, our Karma, and our Mission, are really One Energy, but One Energy that can be seen Differently from many Different Angles. Sit for a moment in the Center of that Bubble, close your Eyes, and Notice what happens.
What about the blue lines? The Nodal Axis is Challenged by Vesta and Unconscious Limitations, but it’s Graced by Neptune. Neptune represents Material Confusion but Spiritual Clarity. That was most likely your Ego that was sitting in the Center of that Bubble. Now send your Soul into the Center of that Bubble instead, and notice what happens.
But wait. Neptune is also the focus of a second T-Square of its own, across the Duality between Expansion (Jupiter) and Epiphany about How to Break Patterns (dwarf planet Asbolus = Intuition, Conjunct asteroid Lachesis = Changing Timelines).
The two T-Squares Resolve one another – the Challenge of one is the Easy Path (blue lines or Trine Bridge) of the other. Neptune will teach us How to Break our Karmic Patterns and Liberate us from our Limitations. Neptune symbolizes Everything that is Larger than we are – Everything that is Larger than the Ego. So to Transcend the Ego we need to Ask for Advice from the Unknown, we have to PIAVA (Pray, Intend, Ask, Visualize, Affirm, Wonder, Command, etc).
The long green lines (the Quincunxes, or five Signs) tell us where the Mysteries lie, what to PIAVA…
“I Wonder How I might Expand (Jupiter) into Choosing (Moira) my Mission (North Node).”
“God/Goddess, Creator of All That Is, I Command that I Intuit (Asbolus) How to Rapidly, Completely, Effortlessly, Lovingly, and Gently Let Go (Lachesis) of my Karmic Patterns (Saturn-South Node); It Is Done, It Is Done, It Is Done; Show me.”
But now we need to Change the Subject. If we don’t Change the Subject, the old Duality of our current mental Concept Set will reassert itself and stick our Karma right back “where it belongs.” That’s what the mind Believes, that what’s always been True (in its Limited Purview) is what will Keep us Safe. So we need to Busy the mind elsewhere for a while, as our PIAVAs bake…
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