by Robert Wilkinson
Over the past two days, we’ve been exploring the relationship of the various signs to each other, and why some signs do better with certain signs than others. This has major implications for how we work and play with other people.
Each sign has its “department of labor,” with its own methods and means of achieving its best function. Knowing what type of energy to bring forth in a given situation often determines the difference between “success” and “failure,” and most definitely whether we find ourselves in friction or harmony with another, or even ourselves.
For example, when it’s time to take the initiative, then we need to invoke Cardinal sign energy, and those who try to bring fixity before it’s needed will be obstructive rather than facilitative. When it’s time to stabilize a situation, then while the Cardinal signs can bring new directions and ideas, the Mutable (distributive) energy may be counterproductive to the stability we’re trying to establish. Again, the challenge to find the right type of sign energy is unique to each situation, which is why throughout our lives we are learning to apply the right type of energy to bring the best results that can be achieved in each moment.
I touched on some of these themes in an article I gave you in August, Astrology Class – Are You An Initiator, Stabilizer, or Distributor? Please revisit that post to refresh your awareness of the 3 Modes of expression, since by knowing whether to take the initiative, or consolidate and stabilize, or break up and distribute energy and/or forms in various situations, we can come to some level of “doing our Being” with expertise, wisdom, and awareness that whether anyone else knows it or not, we’re functioning exactly as we should.
All this information has a definite practical benefit. As I offered in that article, by knowing where the transits are working in your chart, we can see whether we're initiating, stabilizing, or fragmenting any given area of our lives. This can help explain why we are letting go of some things while other parts are moving along smoothly and other things are emerging. The trick is to see the whole picture so we are cooperating with our natural process rather than resisting it or fearing it.
I’ll end with something else I touched on in that article. While we may be inclined toward certain modes of expression under specific conditions, since we have all the modes of expression in our charts, we can definitely transcend the instinctive mode of expression of our planets. Some of this comes as a result of the progression of those planets out of one sign and into the next one, but we also transcend those modes through higher awareness. Anyone who would become an Arhat or Paramahamsa must become adept at using all the energies at their disposal at any given point in life.
While we may have our innate and learned tendencies of expression, we also are not bound to those forms. Our Eternal Self is always beyond the binding force of the material world, except as those binding forces show us Dharma as we live it within the Ring-Pass-Not. Even then, we may view all the modes of force as tools with which to express our Dharma and highest expression in that moment.
So from one point of view, we learn to be the expertise of our innate forms of expression while also learning to transcend the limitations of those forms of expression. By learning to use all the modes of expression on our path to Self-realization, we are able to use the appropriate type of energy to express the truth of what we’re there to BE and do in that moment. That can make life a joyous adventure in learning how to BE, whether the circumstances, be strange or familiar, frictional or harmonious.
© Copyright 2014 Robert Wilkinson
Can't wait for your articles about Saturn in Sag! Saturn in Scorpio has not been particularly fun. I feel as though I've had on a thick coating of people repellant!
Posted by: Diana | November 13, 2014 at 08:54 AM