Post by Sowelu on Sept 30, 2007 6:01:08 GMT -5
Sept. 29 | Notes From New York (upstate)
Dear Friend and Reader:
I almost forgot it was my day to do the blog. I've been occupied most of the past couple of weeks getting established in the United States, all those details that feel so much more meaningful now that I am home. While I loved living in Europe, there is always that stress of being an outsider, slightly unwelcome, always a tad suspect -- that is my experience, anyway.
New York has been an exciting and heart-warming experience of feeling welcome, both among old friends and the people who have been reading my work since the mid-90s.
I have lived in about five countries and 10 different regions of the world since leaving New York in 1998, but I've constantly invested energy into this community. And it is coming back to me precisely as community, one of the things that makes all the difference in quality of life (especially if you have an Aquarius Moon).
Today's aspects all involve the transpersonal or outer planets. One of those is Jupiter on the Great Attractor, which is the third exact pass for this 12-year cycle of Jupiter. The GA is a fixed point deep in Sagittarius; nobody understands what this point is, but it pulls things toward it -- things as in a million or so galaxies at the rate of 24 million miles a day. The Great Attractor is where we are all going. Think of it as the anti-Big Bang.
Today, Jupiter is aligned with this point, which will either magnify its effect, or soften it. The main effect of the Great Attractor is polarization. It tends to push people one way or the other, and be associated with distinct or even extreme opinions.
If you know someone who half the world thinks is a saint and half the world says they're an asshole, chances are the person has something meaningful aspecting the Great Attractor. [It just happened that in the process of stealing several hundred CDs from a friend who stole them from another friend who I can't mention because they are respectable individuals] I got into looking up the chart of Frank Zappa, who has the Great Attractor rising; that is, it's at about 13+ degrees Sagittarius when he was born, and his ascendant is 15+ Sagittarius. Zappa was someone widely revered as a genius who about half the world thought was a useless, offensive SOB.
Today as a world transit we have Jupiter, in one of his home signs, Sagittarius.
In this sign, we have the archetype of wisdom, of expansion, of excess; of the love and pursuit of knowledge for its own sake; and of someone always looking toward the light, not seeing the long shadow that is cast behind them. That is likely the dichotomy of Jupiter and the Great Attractor, surely a legacy of our society, and for many people who don't have contact with what is called shadow material. In other words, you could say, a failure to understand one's own pain; a failure to admit or even notice what has not yet been processed.
The long shadow of the knowledge of the Western world -- its science, its information technology, its profusion of artists and writers -- is that we don't use that knowledge. We create knowledge, and we ignore its implications. This is true in public policy that favors profiting from sickness over creating health; and in the mind of science that claims it has no business dabbling in philosophy.
As individuals, there are countless examples every day of when we fail to employ our experience, wisdom and hard-earned learning.
As one guru I know was fond of telling her students, "Action is the fruit of knowledge." As my old therapist Joe Trusso put it, "Use what you know."
Catch you next week with another note from New York; subscribers, I'll see you Monday with part one of Libra birthdays. Thanks for dropping in.
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