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Astro-Kinetic Reflection 

Temporally Conditioned Reverberative Thoughts 

Resulting from Astro-Kinetic Contemplation  


In the heavens today Mercury, the communicator, conjuncts with Mars, cosmic masculinity in the house of Scorpio.  Today is also the commemoration of the Basilica of John Lateren. The liturgical sources are heavy with reminders that “the church” is a temple constructed of human bodies. When lined up with our sources this configuration symbolizes a communicative motion from the inner to the outer. The sacred building is an external structure, but inside this structure is hidden the true church, constructed with living stones.  The celestial pattern speaks to an inner masculine force that is revealed to the world.  

The Liturgy of the Word marks a progression from the external to the internal. In Ezekiel we hear a vision explaining the physical structure of the third temple.  Then the journey inward takes us to Paul who reminds us, “You are God’s building … Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”  The focus of the human body inside the building and the spirit inside of the body draws the reader into a further collapse from the body to the soul.  The soul is housed by the body and the body is housed by the temple.  Then in the gospel we are challenged with a task as we consider this twofold collapse.  Jesus enters the temple, just as he must enter our soul and “cleans house”.  All distracting elements are extricated as he tries to bring order to the interior so that the entire structure can serve its true function.  The conclusion of the gospel is a mandate to die to self and resurrect the temple.  In this “renovation” all elements are brought into harmony, the physical building, the physical body and the soul, which dwells in the interior.  Once this reconfiguration happens the temple of the body can signify appropriately.  This signification is reflected in the conjunction of Mercury and Mars; the inner is able to be expressed.  

Today we have two Saints that give us two different manifestations of inner masculinity.  They both start in a structure of corruption indicative of the fallen state of humanity.  They are soldiers who must conform their lives in accordance with the gospel.  Each soldier appropriates conforms and expresses their marshal nature in different ways. Each chooses a masculine path, but one chooses a dynamic path, and the other a passive one.

First we have Theodore Stratelates. Theodore was a Roman general (stratelates) and covert Christian during a time of persecution. Exposed as a Christian his inner self was revealed. A  military tribunal decided he was a good soldier who had made a mistake. vThey told him to reconsider and set him free.  He promptly burned down a pagan temple and was arrested again, tortured, and martyred.  Here we have the aggressive masculine that was honed in an institution for the purpose of destruction.  This good soul only knows how to visit destruction, thus his response to the situation is to eradicate the external problem, the pagan temple.  In the end, what he lived by, he died by, having his flesh torn from his body as the method of his execution.  He sacrificed the outer for the sake of the inner following Christ’s own path to martyrdom.

The second saint is Saint Pabo.  Pabo was the son of a Pictish chieftain. He was a soldier and warlord who gave up his sword to become a monk in Wales, ultimately founding a monastery.  He chose the path from chaos to order.  Rather than inflaming destruction he renounced destruction and channeled a different aspect of military life, rigid and disciplined order.  Pabo created an ordered community that results in an external manifestation of internal peaceful harmony.

Each of these saints expresses their experience of military life in a different ways.  The way that the inner masculine of Mars is communicated by Mercury will be different depending on how the individual is uniquely ordered in their inner life.  In this way each living stone of the church has a singular yet harmonious way to signify according to the entire temple complex.           


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