Red Arrow
During 2006 and 2007 the planet Pluto (a status incidentally rather spuriously under discussion) transits around 27 degrees Sagittarius, the position of our Galactic Centre and so if we were to fly off from earth to 27 degrees Sagittarius we would meet Pluto and if we continued for a very long time we would meet the super massive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy. What might this mean?
I have shown in my previous posts my enthusiasm for the Archetypal perspective – a view that I will endeavour to follow here. To begin with the archetype of Sagittarius, the Centaur, we find a creature part horse part man/archer in which the embodiment of the animal self and the human self (with its aspirational shot at the future) are combined. Here we find the correspondence to a state that Ken Wilber in his ongoing anatomy of consciousness aptly refers to as the ‘centauric stage’ in which the naïve persona has encountered shadow (that which it denies about itself) and in its initial dialogue with this shadow has begun to transcend initial limitations to forge a relative mind-body unity. Shadow, the absence of light through the intercession of a block, strikes a chord initially with the nature of Pluto, the Lord of the Underworld, the land where the light does not often fall.
To further meditate on the Archer/Centaur we find that from the union of man with nature celebrated in the form of the horse (the untamed spirit and nature co-operating with man as helper) leads to the archer pointing his bow to the stars, a bow-bough to the lights above. Here we see an allusion to natural laws that govern both animal and human life and also have a distantly perceived relevance in the events of the sky, the events of the solar system and galactic activity thus creating an interlocking of the micro and macrocosmic scales of life. In many so-called primitive cultures their own tribal and cultural life was based on their perceived relationship to the events of the sky, their own Cosmo-genesis (i.e. Mayan, Native American, Dogon and many more) in a sense embodying the different stages of life held in the cosmic Archer.
I draw from this an integrative view of all forms of life that we could name as having a basis within certain natural laws, a certain underlying structure of creation that may be intuited yet their investigation and explanation will take multiple and varied forms. It is my intuition that these natural laws include a moral element inherently, that life inherently has integrity. This stance may at times be beyond ‘good and evil’ in their simplistic duality and could itself be the subject of many and complex meditations however for brevity and clarity I offer the example that it appears to be a natural law that mother’s protect and nurture their young, this appears in seemingly all forms of life and is of course an inherent aspect of survival. However in more intelligent animal forms and human forms such survival instinct expands to include all sorts of more subtle expressions of what might at its clearest be called a genuine form of love. Such natural law may be contrasted with man-made law: it is a man-made law that children must be in school (without major exceptions) from age 5; this is an extension of a natural law into a societal law. Again this is at best a moral minefield but I would assert the felt sense that most people of a sufficient integrity can feel when something is right or wrong, a natural moral sense, which a media such a kinesiology taps into on an instinctual level.
From this point of view it is a natural law that man search for meaning (the Arrow sent skyward) it is a man-made law that says one book (Bible, Koran, Principia Mathematica) is sole arbiter of truth. The importance of man’s search for meaning can be found clearly in the work of Viktor Frankl. His moment of having his attachment to meaning came when a guard in the concentration camps found his thesis sewn into the inside of his jacket and destroyed it. For a while Frankl was inconsolable and his survival weighed in the balance. As he recovered he was able to clearly see that those around him would often give in and die when their sense of meaning was destroyed: we need to believe in something, we need hope.
As the Lord of the Underworld traverses Sagittarius we know that we may find worldwide issues and conflict around what is truth? As this alignment comes to the Galactic Centre (the meaning of which much must remain mysterious) we are reminded that such a struggle for truth is central to the experience of mankind within the Cosmos. It is the vision of truth that we have that we will manifest the world we inhabit from. It is from our inner sense of meaning and purpose that we will create the world. Whilst I will address further points of this line-up in our skies in a later post I would urge that whilst it is always true that our inner relationship to our-selves and to the Soul of the world predates the manifestation of external reality that we then perceive as what is happening to us…within the context of a two year transit to the Galactic Centre of one of the most powerful planets within an archetype that corresponds to the centrality of the search for meaning and the existence of natural laws…that we take seriously what we believe in for we create from that stance. In this sense I would suggest that mankind is far more powerful that as yet it has even begun to imagine. This power is not the deranged fantasies of those that are gunning for Apocalypse, far from it; this is the power of co-creating with life from a symbolic and psychic interplay with the other forces of creation. We can do this clearly only with regard to the extent that we have learned to stand in our integrity as a living part of this natural order. When we take our place, neither decadent usurpers of nature nor simple Rousseau-like peasants, when we realize that we our welcome here…a realization that may paradoxically stop us from stealing from our host…
In realizing that we create from our beliefs, and that are beliefs are based from a complex set of interactions of our thoughts, feelings and experiences we are really begin to say that everything we think and feel and do has an impact on this world. This is the ultimate insight of ecology. This is a realization that is somewhat shattering in its implications and yet contains multiple seeds of liberation. There is no-one else needed to begin to allow the impact of this liberation but yourself. Good luck.
Mark Jones
IMAGES: Dead Poet Borne by a Centaur by Gustave Moreau (1890), Plutó by Agostino Carracci (1592).
I have shown in my previous posts my enthusiasm for the Archetypal perspective – a view that I will endeavour to follow here. To begin with the archetype of Sagittarius, the Centaur, we find a creature part horse part man/archer in which the embodiment of the animal self and the human self (with its aspirational shot at the future) are combined. Here we find the correspondence to a state that Ken Wilber in his ongoing anatomy of consciousness aptly refers to as the ‘centauric stage’ in which the naïve persona has encountered shadow (that which it denies about itself) and in its initial dialogue with this shadow has begun to transcend initial limitations to forge a relative mind-body unity. Shadow, the absence of light through the intercession of a block, strikes a chord initially with the nature of Pluto, the Lord of the Underworld, the land where the light does not often fall.
To further meditate on the Archer/Centaur we find that from the union of man with nature celebrated in the form of the horse (the untamed spirit and nature co-operating with man as helper) leads to the archer pointing his bow to the stars, a bow-bough to the lights above. Here we see an allusion to natural laws that govern both animal and human life and also have a distantly perceived relevance in the events of the sky, the events of the solar system and galactic activity thus creating an interlocking of the micro and macrocosmic scales of life. In many so-called primitive cultures their own tribal and cultural life was based on their perceived relationship to the events of the sky, their own Cosmo-genesis (i.e. Mayan, Native American, Dogon and many more) in a sense embodying the different stages of life held in the cosmic Archer.
I draw from this an integrative view of all forms of life that we could name as having a basis within certain natural laws, a certain underlying structure of creation that may be intuited yet their investigation and explanation will take multiple and varied forms. It is my intuition that these natural laws include a moral element inherently, that life inherently has integrity. This stance may at times be beyond ‘good and evil’ in their simplistic duality and could itself be the subject of many and complex meditations however for brevity and clarity I offer the example that it appears to be a natural law that mother’s protect and nurture their young, this appears in seemingly all forms of life and is of course an inherent aspect of survival. However in more intelligent animal forms and human forms such survival instinct expands to include all sorts of more subtle expressions of what might at its clearest be called a genuine form of love. Such natural law may be contrasted with man-made law: it is a man-made law that children must be in school (without major exceptions) from age 5; this is an extension of a natural law into a societal law. Again this is at best a moral minefield but I would assert the felt sense that most people of a sufficient integrity can feel when something is right or wrong, a natural moral sense, which a media such a kinesiology taps into on an instinctual level.
From this point of view it is a natural law that man search for meaning (the Arrow sent skyward) it is a man-made law that says one book (Bible, Koran, Principia Mathematica) is sole arbiter of truth. The importance of man’s search for meaning can be found clearly in the work of Viktor Frankl. His moment of having his attachment to meaning came when a guard in the concentration camps found his thesis sewn into the inside of his jacket and destroyed it. For a while Frankl was inconsolable and his survival weighed in the balance. As he recovered he was able to clearly see that those around him would often give in and die when their sense of meaning was destroyed: we need to believe in something, we need hope.
As the Lord of the Underworld traverses Sagittarius we know that we may find worldwide issues and conflict around what is truth? As this alignment comes to the Galactic Centre (the meaning of which much must remain mysterious) we are reminded that such a struggle for truth is central to the experience of mankind within the Cosmos. It is the vision of truth that we have that we will manifest the world we inhabit from. It is from our inner sense of meaning and purpose that we will create the world. Whilst I will address further points of this line-up in our skies in a later post I would urge that whilst it is always true that our inner relationship to our-selves and to the Soul of the world predates the manifestation of external reality that we then perceive as what is happening to us…within the context of a two year transit to the Galactic Centre of one of the most powerful planets within an archetype that corresponds to the centrality of the search for meaning and the existence of natural laws…that we take seriously what we believe in for we create from that stance. In this sense I would suggest that mankind is far more powerful that as yet it has even begun to imagine. This power is not the deranged fantasies of those that are gunning for Apocalypse, far from it; this is the power of co-creating with life from a symbolic and psychic interplay with the other forces of creation. We can do this clearly only with regard to the extent that we have learned to stand in our integrity as a living part of this natural order. When we take our place, neither decadent usurpers of nature nor simple Rousseau-like peasants, when we realize that we our welcome here…a realization that may paradoxically stop us from stealing from our host…
In realizing that we create from our beliefs, and that are beliefs are based from a complex set of interactions of our thoughts, feelings and experiences we are really begin to say that everything we think and feel and do has an impact on this world. This is the ultimate insight of ecology. This is a realization that is somewhat shattering in its implications and yet contains multiple seeds of liberation. There is no-one else needed to begin to allow the impact of this liberation but yourself. Good luck.
Mark Jones
IMAGES: Dead Poet Borne by a Centaur by Gustave Moreau (1890), Plutó by Agostino Carracci (1592).
posted by Yourmindfire at Wednesday, July 05, 2006
2 Comments:
"if meaning is elusive, perhaps it is because consciousness itself, and therefore language, is fractal"
(Hakim Bey)
That's one take on the cosmic choreography we see in Pluto stepping in synch with the Galactic Centre, in such a Sagittarian quest as meaning usually is (complete with urge to convince others of our 'rightness' and the violence inherent in the singlepointedness of the arrow) perhaps chaos is more Sagittarian than we may have previously thought, certainly more Plutonic anyway? And interestingly, I think all human cultures have, often independently, invented the bow - with the exception of Australasian aborginal indigenous peoples who use the boomerang - and the bow has been seen as a universal symbol of culture, often carried by heroes, hunters and godforms... so, careful we don't stab ourselves in the leg eh? especially now our modern hi-tech military-industrial media-friendly arrows have morphed into nuclear tipped cruise missiles and ICBMs...
nice piece!
http://www.philipsedgwick.com/ - follow the link to an essay on Galactic Centre...
kx
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