LIBRA/SCORPIO LETTER PART II___3478
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LIBRA/SCORPIO LETTER PART II
Since the Libra full moon there have been significant events in the
world that have coincided with the activation of the two eclipses that
were mentioned in previous letters – those of 22 Jul 09 and 22 Sep 06.
The Mars activation of the July eclipse took place on the 15th of
October just passed. I stated at the time of writing about that
eclipse that it was not a happy one and would bring upset and possible
violence with it. On the 17th, two days after the Mars conjunction
with the eclipse point, Pakistan began the South Wazaristan Offensive,
sending 30,000 troops into that region of their country in an effort
to rout the Taliban, who had taken stronghold there. That conflict is
still ongoing. When Mars came within orb of that eclipse point around 8 Oct 09 an
asteroid or comet fragment exploded high in the atmosphere above
Indonesia. It was roughly 10 meters in diameter and had been
undetected by telescopes. Had it been larger it would have done major
damage in the region with huge losses of life, similar to what
happened with the Tunguska Event early in the last century. The
Indonesian asteroid exploded with the force of 50 kilotons of TNT,
about four times the size of the Hiroshima bomb. The asteroid blast
was registered at monitoring stations as far away as 16,000 km,
although it caused no loss of life, largely due to the fact that it
exploded approximately 15-20 kilometers high in the atmosphere.
Shortly after Mars moved off the eclipse point, about a week later,
two large bombs were set off in Baghdad, the largest since 2007, with
a loss of 155 people and 500 wounded. Some sixty members of Iraq’s
security forces have been taken into custody over the matter. On the 23rd of last month Saturn came within a 1º orb of the 22 Sep 06
eclipse point, but its influence has probably been in effect since
before then. On the last days of September there were two large
earthquakes in the South Pacific, one in Samoa on the 29th, causing a
tsunami and loss of 189 lives and the next in Sumatra, Indonesia on
the 30th, causing the loss of at least 1,100 lives. Indonesia’s
ascendant is the first degree of Libra, so the quake there was likely
the activation of the 22 Sep 06 eclipse by Saturn. Saturn will pass
over that eclipse degree two more times – once in mid-April of 2010
and again in mid-July of that year. Both times it will be accompanied
by an opposition to Uranus to the same point. Uranus will be
activating the eclipse point from April through September of next
year. I would expect to see significant seismic activity and changes
in power structures throughout next year, but especially when Saturn
is involved. So, we have some things to be mindful of in the coming
year. On the 23rd of October the Sun moved into Scorpio, commencing the
Scorpio interval for the year. Scorpio brings in the energy of
‘beneficent conflict’. On the lower turn of the spiral (in other
words, when one is worldly-focused) the key phrase for Scorpio is “Let
Maya flourish and let deception rule.” The deception referred to is
that of self-deception and as seeing ‘this unbearable prison of cyclic
existence as a pleasure grove’, as Buddhism puts it. On the higher
turn of the spiral, when the Scorpio is spiritually focused, the key
phrase is “Warrior I am, and from the battle I emerge triumphant.” The
victory referred to is the victory over one’s lower nature and the
warrior is one’s own higher nature. The choices made in Libra,
figuratively speaking, set the stage for the battle in Scorpio, and
without fail that battle comes. So, we have made choices, set a path for ourselves that will see us
doing well in the next and future lives and hopefully have not created
enemies in the process. What happens next? Scorpio rules a class of
lives called ‘The Human Hierarchy’. The term is misleading, however.
What is actually represented by this class of lives is the ‘cream’ of
humanity – the great Teachers and Initiates of the world, most of
which are not incarnate but work rather beyond the veil of matter. The
Human Hierarchy is the Solar Angels of Theosophical writings – the
true Soul or Ego. Any true spiritual Teacher is one who has subsumed
his/her personal life completely into the spiritual. There is no
separation between the two. They function through the personal life
rather than having the personal life as the main or sole focus. The
body to them is simply an instrument of service and an anchor in this
world. The emotions are aroused only in order to effect change in or
to inspire their students. The mind is in a perpetual state of
meditative equipoise. We are talking about rare personages here, great
compassionate and wise beings. That is the true nature of the Soul,
the combined functioning of atma-buddhi-manas. The members of the Human Hierarchy are the end result of the struggles
that Scorpio brings. Look at the Scorpio types you know. How many of
them have lives where there is no struggle of some sort? Scorpio is a
sign that engenders conflict. Its old ruler, Mars, is the planet of
conflict and self-empowerment. Its modern ruler, Pluto, is the lower
octave of Mars (yes, lower octave, esoterically considered) and rules
over all major endings and separations. Scorpio rules ‘the parting of
the ways’. It is a priori the sign in which the dissolution of the
personal life and the ending of personality control over one’s
spiritual development takes place. Now, we are not saying here that
all Scorpio types face their own personal Armageddon, although that
can happen. What will happen in the lives of all Scorpio types is that
a point in life will come where there is some intense inner struggle
wherein something is trying to find the light of day in a spiritual
sense. In fact, the Light that Scorpio confers is indeed ‘The Light of
Day’, the united functioning of the light of the form, the light of
the soul and the light of life itself. Scorpios cop a bad rap in astrological circles and they are constantly
looked at askance for their brooding nature and supposed ‘antics’, to
use a polite term. In fact, most of the Scorpios I know are down-to-
earth and fun-loving, but there is the sting in the tail if you cross
them. Actually, the happiest Scorpio types I know are those who do a
fair amount of volunteer work. It is intrinsic in the nature of the
higher Scorpio types to be of service and to be selfless. The ‘death
of the personality’ that is commonly associated with Scorpio in
esoteric astrology refers exactly to that – subsuming the personal
life into a life of service and generosity – exactly what one gets
from a true spiritual Teacher. What actually takes place with the
Scorpio type is the conflict between the Soul and persona and the
mastery over one or several of the bodies or aggregates. There will be
some aspect of the Scorpio type’s nature that will be undergoing
subjugation to the higher impulses within their nature, and that
inevitably involves inner turmoil and struggle. It is the nature of any aggregate or body to want to maintain its
sense of comfort, its habits and its continuance – in other words, the
status quo. It is the nature of the higher Self to run counter to
those instincts. Hence, there is inevitable struggle between spirit
and persona. If you do not think that is true, then earnestly take on
a new spiritual practice and see what happens. Every reason under the
sun for not doing that practice will come to the surface and will seem
perfectly valid and logical at the time, although the whole point in
the early stages of any spiritual practice is to become consistent and
regular in it, acclimated to the practice and in learning to be joyful
in it. So what if one’s old social activities or favorite TV shows
have to take a back seat? So, spiritual practice is uncomfortable to
start with? You hear it is not supposed to be uncomfortable? Well, we
have all heard the old saying, “No pain, no gain.” Getting the
physical body into shape involves effort and discomfort. Why would it
be any different at any other level when one tries to bring, say, the
mind and emotions under control? The spiritual path is the road less
traveled and it is hard at times. Every Scorpio type knows this
somewhere in their nature. A true Scorpio will relish a good inner
battle and emerge victorious. It is not in the nature of the sign to
fail or to give up. With the Scorpio interval every year, then, we have a situation before
us: Where do we feel struggle in our lives and why? If there is
struggle, are we on the right path with it? If there is no inner
struggle, why have we not created the conditions that will precipitate
it? From what do we shrink away or not wish to see? Where is the ‘dead
wood’ in our circumstance? What do we need to do to clear it away?
Maybe in the Scorpio interval a good bonfire made from all that dead
wood is the order of the day. If you have one, invite your friends
around and enjoy the inferno. Or, maybe sit around with huge pots of
tea and have long discussions about Dante’s Inferno and how you find
reflections of it in your own life. Kidding aside, always with the
Scorpio interval there is something trying to come to Light within us,
and always there is something trying to keep that Light hidden, that
‘something’ being an aspect of our own nature that simply does not
wish to change. The long and the short of the preceding are: What do
we want to bring forth as a higher quality in our lives this year and
how do we go about it? With that, let us have a look at tomorrow
morning’s full moon. The full moon for the Scorpio solar festival this year takes place on
3 Nov 09 at 5:14 AM AEDT (6:14 PM UT, 2 Oct 09). The symbol for the
solar degree in the full moon in the Scorpio figure reads: “A drowning man is being rescued” 11 Scorpio This symbol is indicative of the humanitarian instinct. The ‘drowning
man’ is anyone floundering in the morass of their own emotional storms
or misconceptions. It is all of us at one point or another throughout
life. What or who saves us from drowning? Ultimately, it is our own
higher Self. Initially, however, it is the spiritual friend, one who
has been on the Path a bit longer than us and who can show us the
ropes, as it were. This term ‘spiritual friend’ is not well understood
in the West. In the East the spiritual friend is the guru, the
exemplar of the path to enlightenment and great and utter devotion is
given to that person. We are not so inclined to guru devotion in the
West and are more given over to self-effort along those lines,
shunning most things that smack of guru devotion. Yet, the guru, if we
have one, has ‘been there’ with regard to drowning and has crossed the
seas of boundless existence onto the far shores of enlightenment. They
are the Victorious Ones, the ones who have prevailed over the lower
nature and stand as Dragons of Wisdom, omniscient and omnipotent over
the lower forces. Their story is ultimately our story. They show us
how to save ourselves. In a sense, the world is drowning in a sea of distraction and
materialism. We have marvelous technology, but we get lost in it more
often than not instead of turning it to use and having it help to give
our lives meaning instead of amusement. We want everything in sound
bites now, quickly, easily, no fuss or bother. The thing to ask
ourselves in this interval is what will matter to us in five months,
five years or five decades? The latest and greatest is no substitute
for the tried and the true. There is a good reason why certain things
last and others do not. If we live in a throw-away world, what we
eventually end up with is a huge pile of junk. I was speaking with a
friend of mine the other day about food, speaking of the tried and the
true, and how people had not nearly the same levels of disease four
decades ago. Why? People had to cook for themselves. There was little
in the way of fast food or additives. Food was simple, was prepared
with care and was eaten at a leisurely pace, usually around the family
dining table. Remember the dining table? Not a television in sight,
just good conversation and food with loved ones. We were healthier
then. Now at dinner time we have inane TV shows or violent news to
ingest with our meals – not all of us, mind you, but I see that in
most houses I go to, especially with kids in the house. If we want to
save ourselves, maybe a good place to start is in the kitchen. Our
bodies become what we ingest. The symbol for the lunar degree in the figure reads: “A woman watering flowers in her garden.” 11 Taurus This symbol speaks of care and nurturing. What do we want to see
flower in our lives? What brings us beauty and connects us with our
environment? There is water in both of these symbols. In the first one
a man is drowning in it. In the second it is giving life to the
woman’s garden. The Moon reflects what is needed. The Moon in any
horoscope highlights what the needs are. What sustains us? When we
think of a garden we get a sense of peace. We reconnect ourselves with
nature. We cannot do better than nature for beauty. Getting back to
food, a lot of people cook straight from their gardens, too. A garden
is many things to people. It is a place of rest and enjoyment, a
respite from the day’s cares, a place of reflection and a place of
recharging. Gardens are full of nature spirits, too, especially old
gardens and ones with a lot of verdure. They tend the plants and they
respond to us. When we ‘commune with nature’ we come into contact with
those lives. The ones in large trees are particularly amazing –
supreme silence and peace. We thus have two scenarios before us with this solar festival: Where
do we struggle to breathe, figuratively speaking, and how do we
nurture ourselves instead? In the figure for the full moon we see the
‘drowning man’ straight away in the t-square pattern involving the
full moon axis and the Mars apex. This is a fixed t-square, indicating
challenges around possessiveness, fixed desires and willful emotions.
The apex Mars highlights the need to be a bit more yielding and
adaptable than usual in one’s dealing with others. It also indicates
headstrong individuals who are sent to test us, and it will show us
where we are resistant to change, largely because we will be
challenged to change in some area of our nature. If this t-square
impacts on one’s own chart, then the lessons will surely come. The ‘woman watering flowers’ from the lunar symbol is indicated
beautifully in the chart by the trine of Venus to the Chiron/Jupiter/
Neptune conjunction. This is a highly idealistic and romantic aspect.
What sustains us in times of difficulty if not our ideals and the
power of love? We need to find that which is of lasting and sustaining
beauty in our lives in this interval and in the year following. Venus
is at the bending of the Nodes, indicating a change toward more open
communication and shared ideals. The Sun and Moon are both quintile to
the nodal axis, which was apparent in the last full moon figure,
showing that certain gifts or higher qualities can be unlocked if we
are willing to go through the fires to get to them. We also have a
septile triangle formed by the Sun, Mercury, Neptune and Pluto, a very
transformative aspect pattern and one that can open one to higher
possibilities. Pluto is the focus of the triangle, which is about
removing the obstacles to our wider view of things. It is squared by
Saturn, showing that people in authority and old ingrained patterns
are the things that will challenge and try to block us from seeing
things anew and revealing the Light of Day to us for this year. In short, then, there is a fair amount of conflict indicated for the
Scorpio lessons this year, but much of beauty can be discovered and
nurtured as a result of any conflicts. Scorpio does, after all, render
the energy of Harmony-through-Conflict most effectively. We will be
asked or forced to let go of old entrenched desires and feelings of
possessiveness – in other words, our own self-grasping. People in
power and powerful people will be the catalysts that provoke
conflicts, but the key in any conflict in this period is to stick to
one’s highest ideals and prevail upon whatever is of beauty in our
lives as a solace and point of retreat, meant in the sense of
contemplative retreat. There is no need for us to succumb to the
trials of life. Help is always there. All we need do is to prevail
upon it, or even simply recognize it. There is an indomitable spirit within each of us. It is always there
and always seeking to be expressed somehow. If we feel conflicted,
then we can be sure that something of real and lasting strength is
behind it. All we need do is first to identify what is actually
seeking to arise, embrace it, and then to follow through with it. If
we make a change for the better then there will always be the naysayer
and loved ones who do not wish for us to change. There will be forces
within us and outside who would wish to see us fail in our quests and
efforts, but they are usually silenced easily enough if we persist.
Once a new order is established, it usually quickly becomes the status
quo and people will generally come to accept things. The thing is
there is always room for improvement. There is never any sitting on
the sidelines or the fence where affairs of spirit are involved.
Nature never does things in a half-hearted manner. I found that out
when I went back to the States in 1999. If the proper conditions are
put in place and nurtured, then nature will rebound, and sometimes
with a vengeance. It is the same in human terms, too. Back in the 90s the government saw fit to introduce measures that
would ensure the wildlife returned. It was an urge to better
conditions. People balked at the time and grizzled, but they adapted
and now think little of it, except for the geese muddying up the ponds
and leaving their droppings everywhere and the deer eating away the
gardens. Frankly, so long as the animal life is in balance, I prefer
to have the geese and the deer around. It tells me the environment is
in a pretty good place. And when it comes to personal matters,
frankly, in terms of friends and family taking on things that better
their lives and those of their loved ones, I say more power to them. I
can adapt and do and they have been pretty accepting of me. So, if you
see something that needs to change in order for the betterment of all
concerned, by all means do it if it is feasible and causes no real or
lasting harm. You never know what it might open up for you – or for
those close to you. I hope you enjoyed your trick-or-treat candy. Blessings,
Malvin
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