If we temporarily de-emphasize the Grand Octile and just look at the same-Degree Angles to the Sappho Station…
…we can see that a Challenge around Action (Mars T-Square, the red triangle) pops out, and that Action is somehow an Easy Alternative (Trine Bridge, blue lines) to our Growing Pains (the Sappho-Jupiter Divide) and Spiritual Challenge (Neptune T-Square). Before we sign up for a Yoga class (to Actively Stretch Into Expanded Self-Love) though, we may need to deal with the Action Challenge (Mars T-Square).
That Challenge is about how much we Realize that we have Choice (Moira) around the suggestion that The Most Important Thing (Saturn) is Transcending (Bee-Zed) our Need to Please Others (Hylonome). Codependence is a very easily Defended excuse for postponing Self-Love because we were Programmed to Believe that Pleasing Others was Noble. How old were we – maybe 2 or 3 – when we were taught to Share?
Which brings up an interesting point about those who never were taught to Share. Could there be Epiphanies for them around their Control issues? Probably not, but we can hope.
All of which suggests that perhaps we should Choose to Share more, with Trusted friends, around our closely held secrets and our most cherished possessions. Boundaries are clearly involved in this Dance (Pallas-Haumea). If there’s any Guilt (Nemesis) involved, Sharing more of ourself, when it’s Safe, would be even more Powerful. And which suggests that it would behoove us to Stop Giving Away our Power, and Stop Giving Away anything else that Triggers our Scarcity but which we feel compelled to Share because we Should. In fact, maybe…
The Bottom Line around Self-Love is always about Examining our “Shoulds.”
Any discomfort in our Shoulders would underline that (Sappho Station in Gemini). Then we can do that Yoga class (Saturn-BZ-Hylonome in Sagittarius) to start making it a Body Memory.
It may be useful to Remember that the Physical Dimension is just another Perspective on the Unitary Wholeness of Life, along with the Emotional, Spiritual, and Mental Perspectives. Switching between these Perspectives – for instance, into the Physical to address an Emotional conundrum – often creates what appear to be Miracles.
The Call to Action (Mars T-Square) has two Easy Alternatives (Trine Bridges) – one to Breaking Oaths (Orcus) and one to Surrendering to Spirit (Neptune). In fact the two of them make what’s called a Golden Rectangle (the big blue rectangle – it’s called “Golden” because the ratio between the long and short sides is the Golden Angle of Sacred Geometry fame).
We interpret a Golden Rectangle by Dancing with the diagonals. We’ve already discussed the Choice-Shoulds (Moira v. Saturn-BZ-Hylonome) diagonal; the other is about Oaths and Sprituality (Orcus-Neptune). The Key to this may simply be that Either/Ors are always Political; it’s Both/Ands that are Spiritual. Sure, Religion can Inspire the Spiritual (Awe, Wonder, and Respect for All Things), but Religions, except in their Esoteric forms, usually boil down to a set of Rules, and often Require an Oath of Allegiance to these Either/Or Rules.
When we make a Promise or Vow or Oath that’s Either/Or, and if we don’t Betray it, we gradually Internalize it. It becomes an Integral part of who we are, and we Accept it as a Value, forgetting that it derived not from the Heart but from the mind. It becomes a Karmic Limitation for us in subsequent Lifetimes. Stretching our Values (Venus-Jupiter) is part of the Sappho-Station/Total-Lunar-Eclipse Global Epiphany (Grand Octile).
Well, maybe not quite Global; the Eclipse is only visible from the Western Hemisphere, so maybe it’s Western Civilization and Colonial Supremacy that’s scheduled for Epiphany.
Truth Resides in the Compassionate Heart, not the Dualistic mind, and Truth is different for every person. When we try to run our Life from Either/Or Values that we Learned from someone else, rather than from Both/And Values that we Discovered were True for us, we Live Falsely, constantly Betraying our True Self. We’ll never find Self-Love there.
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