A we mentioned in Boundaries, “Other, of course, isn’t just Other Hupers.” We’ve been writing about Libra and Pallas for several days without realizing till now that Other and Boundary are really the same concept or word, just seen from different Perspectives. Without a Boundary there wouldn’t be an Other, and without Other we’d never have the notion of Boundary. It’s all about Identity, which is a lot more Fluid than we usually think. And about Duality, which is a lot more Limiting than we usually think.
We Hupers usually think of the Veil between us and the Other Side as more of a Limitation than a Boundary, but Boundary it is, and the Other Side is as much an element of Libra as your paramour.
“He was not wakened again by Alder, but he had a bad dream of his own.
“He was standing by a wall of stone near the top of a long hillside of dry grey grass that ran down from dimness into the dark. He knew he had been there before, had stood there before, but he did not know when, or what place it was. Someone was standing on the other side of the wall, the downhill side, not far away. He could not see the face, only that it was a tall man, cloaked. He knew that he knew him. The man spoke to him, using his true name. He said, ‘You will soon be here, Ged.’
“Cold to the bone, he sat up, staring to see the space of the house about him, to draw its reality about him like a blanket. He looked out the window at the stars. The cold came into his heart then. They were not the stars of summer, beloved, familiar, the Cart, the Falcon, the Dancers, the Heart of the Swan. They were the Other stars, the small, still stars of the dry land, that never rise or set. He had known their names once, when he knew the names of things.
” ‘Avert!’ he said aloud and made the gesture to turn away misfortune that he had learned when he was ten years old.” (Ursula Le Guin, The Other Wind, pp.12-13)
“We who have true names keep them when we die, it’s our use-name that is forgotten… This is a mystery to the learned, I can tell you, but as well as we understand it, a true name is a word in the True Speech. … When my master Aihal died, my wife was there with him; and as he was dying he said to her, ‘It is changed, all changed.‘ He was looking across that wall. From which side I do not know.” (ibid, p.45)
“Kalessin said: ‘Long ago we chose. We chose freedom. Men chose the yoke. We chose fire and the wind. They chose water and the earth. We chose the west, and they chose the east.’
“And Kalessin said: ‘But always among us some envy them their wealth, and always among them some envy us our liberty. So it was that evil came into us and will come into us again, until we choose again, and forever, to be free. Soon I am going beyond the west to fly on the Other Wind. I will lead you there, or wait for you, if you will come.’ …
“Then Kalessin said, ‘Once we were one people. And in sign of that, in every generation of men, one or two are born who are dragons also. And in every generation of our people, longer than the quick lives of men, one of us is born who is also human. Of these one is now living in the Inner Isles. And there is one of them living there now who is a dragon. These two are the messengers, the bringers of choice. There will be no more such born to us or to them. For the balance changes.’ ” (Ibid, pp.167-68)
We can also compare our day-to-day Experience with that of Daphne Charters and her friends (Forty Years with the Fairies, pp.260-61)…
“This work, in which we all assist, is known as a transformation. We seek and find a lost soul whose astral body, as well as the physical, has died, leaving no trace to normal Astral eyes. However, because we cannot see a ‘dead’ person, owing to his faster rate of vibration, it does not follow that he has no body. So it is with those whose vibrations have sunk through the years until only the Great Ones know where they lie.
“We find these people by their vibration, however slow and, although we are unable to see them when we reach them, we mark the spot and direct rays of power and love upon them until their vibrations are sufficiently raised for the bodies to become visible to us. This is the first stage in the rehabilitation of ‘lost souls,’ as much power has to be directed to them over sometimes long periods before consciousness returns.
“In order to achieve even the first part of the transformation, it is necessary for many hundreds of people from the Astral to gather together. By passing power through their bodies, it becomes sufficiently coarsened to be effective amidst very slow vibrating matter. This is where Daphne is of use to us, for her physical body vibrates slower than those of us who live on the Astral, a higher plane, thus power which is passed through her coarsens the whole.
“Unless you are clairvoyant, you will not have seen a display of power so you cannot know the magnitude of the volume, or the intensity of light. Fairies can naturally see this power for it is their life’s work to distribute it, but normally they know only the quantity which they can collectively produce in their own group. Our own fairies, who always help us, are ever amused at the never-ending supply so we were interested to see how the delegates would be affected…”
“How different is the power which we witnessed today to that which is known by the same name on Earth. Man ever seeks for power to overcome his neighbors, to add to his possessions, or to acquire authority over more people. Today we were privileged to see the essence from which all these petty misnomers have their being.
“But this true-power, in its purity of purpose, performed a deed so wondrous that if men were told of it, they would not believe. If only those who sought to misuse it understood the condition in which they will find themselves when their ridiculous, puffed-up physical bodies and accompanying personalities are no more, perhaps they would then use it to lift up instead of to crush, to comfort rather than exploit, and, in the happiness which they would at last know, they would find the key to a better world.”
So, I was Wondering about the Other planet in Libra, Makemake. And it turns out that, at least for now, the Bottom Line of Makemake in Libra is that If we Want to Manifest What We Want, we have to Seek Out and Revert our Victim Postures. Drawing up the Makemake chart for the moment when Juno enters Gemini – ie, when we are likely to be due for substantial Consciousness Expansion (8:30 pm PST 10 February)…
…Reveals two big Challenges (T-Squares)…
♥ A Challenge to Manifestation itself (Makemake) between Making it a Value of ours to be Fully Responsive to our Survival Instincts (Venus-Pholus-Quaoar) and Choosing Consciousness over Fate (asteroid Moira).
♣ Fate is what happens To Us when we’re not Conscious of what’s going on. It’s not about Why but rather about What. What’s the Pattern? When our Repeating Bummers happen, what Precedes them? When “bad luck” befalls us, there’s a sequence of events that leads up to it. We aren’t talking Cause & Effect – that’s a left-brain dead end. Useful if you’re Stuck in the 3D Dynamic Masculine Creative process, but Obfuscating if you want to use 5D Magnetic Feminine Manifestation methods.
PIAVA that you become aware of What Precedes your Self-Sabotage. If you already knew what it was you’d have fixed it long ago. It’s behind your Blinders, and you won’t see it without enlisting the Cooperation of the Unconscious – that is, using PIAVA. For instance, “Lord Ganesh, Please Remove All Obstacles to my Realizing How I Stumble into Self-Sabotage.” Once you get Conscious about these Patterns, you can Choose otherwise. https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/category/manifestation/piava-review/.
♣ We’ve been working with Responding Fully (Pholus) to our Survival Instincts (Quaoar) – ie, Disallowing our Yes-Buts that try to Protect our Routines – for a long time. We’re running out of Excuses. It’s past time to Accept this as a basic Value.
♥ The second Challenge is about Reframing the Beliefs Created by our Victim Postures (Vesta-OR10-Nessus) between Ego Death (Nemesis) and Sustainability (Ceres).
Like our Survival Instincts, we’ve also been working with our Abuse Memories for a long time now. First we have to Retrieve them – or Allow them to Retrieve us (OR10), and Acknowledge their Reality. Then we have to Empathize with our Real Victim, Revert any Blaming-the-Victim behavior we indulged or encountered, and Deal with our Real Emotions. That usually takes a lot more than a few hundred Poor-Sweethearts, though they can be useful. https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/category/poor-sweetheart/.
People talk a lot about Forgiveness, but in a real sense what we need is the Opposite of Forgiveness, as our original Tolerance was a form of Forgiveness to begin with. We don’t Forgive; we Discover that we’ve Forgiven. It’s an Observation, not an Action. As with Self-Sabotage, we need to Discover what Preceded our episodes of Abuse, so we can Learn to Recognize the Pattern before it turns Abusive, and Choose Otherwise. While Sharing all this increases the Pain, it’s often very difficult to do alone.
♣ Yes, just about every step in the process of Clearing Abuse – Recall, Acceptance, Self-Empathy, Embracing our Real, Explosive Emotions, Opening to the Patterns – requires an Ego Death (Nemesis). Our Resistance to Ego Death must be Reframed, so we Recognize when it’s happening and Learn to Celebrate it as the fastest route to Living a Better Life.
♣ And as we move through Abuse, we have to Recognize that we’re likely to be Abused in some ways every day. Every “trivial” unkind remark, Intentional or otherwise, can make us Feel Less-Than. So we have to get very good at Recognizing it, Owning and Healing our Reactions, and approaching Ego Death as we would a Latte, in order to make this whole process Sustainable (Ceres).
♥ And Sustainability-Ceres is the kingpin of the whole chart, as it is the head of a Kite that connects the two T-Squares. A Kite is a Grand Trine (three planets equally spaced around the Circle) with a fourth planet halfway between two of the three. The fourth planet – Ceres – becomes the Focus of the substantial Dumb-Luck Blessings served up by the Grand Trine.
So we have a Golden Opportunity to bring these Challenges – Cleaning Up our Manifestations by Choosing to Support our Survival Instincts, and Rooting Out the Limiting Beliefs that our Abuse History has left us with – into Resolution, where they Serve our Deepest Desires rather than Sabotaging them.
The three corners of the Grand Trine, or Big Grace, are Manifestation (Makemake), Ego Death (Nemesis), and The End of Karma (asteroids Atropos and Karma). We’ve actually been working on the Death of Karma for a lot longer than we’ve been working on Abuse Memories or Responding to Survival Instincts. The Realization in the Western World that Karma is about Inertia rather than Retribution has been with us since Alan Watts’s books in the 1950s.
A corollary is that Karma does not Grasp us, we Grasp it. Like our Other Challenges, Letting Go of Our Karma involves Noticing when it’s recurring, Reverting our Belief that it’s Inevitable, Discovering the Patterns that led up to it, Noticing when those Patterns Begin the next time, and Choosing an Alternative. The Death of Karma is a Given in this Drama; it’s not something we’re being Scheduled to work on, it’s something that we can use as a model for the Abuse and Survival Issues we are working on.
Dragon, of course, is a synonym for Karma, and as we saw, Dragons have gone to fly on the Other Wind.
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