A-K R: 6.11.21

Astro-Kinetic Reflection: 

Temporally Conditioned Reverberative Thoughts 

Resulting from Astro-Kinetic Contemplation 

Today the Sun and Mercury are transiting out of a conjunction in the house of Gemini.  We generally interpret the Sun as the cosmic masculine, and Mercury is the communicator.  They abide in the house of Gemini, the house of mutual regard.  This brings the question, who is cosmic masculinity regarding and communicating with? We can use this connection to move into the next house, Cancer, there is a hyper-concentration that includes the cosmic feminine (Moon) as well as the personal masculine and feminine (Mars and Venus).  The alignment of Mercury and the Sun can be interpreted as a communication between cosmic masculinity and the interrelated nature of personal gender duality through the cosmic feminine.

All this brings us to the solemnity today of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  When Margaret Mary Alacoque first promoted her vision the concept of the Sacred Heart met great resistance from a culture that was invested with a litigious rigorism. This culture focused on outward expression, objectively observable by rubric, and code. In short, it was a masculine approach to spirituality and Christian practice. This practice is opposed to (but compatible with) an inner emotional, intuitional, and intentional spirituality that is feminine oriented. In this time Christian society’s view of Christ leaned hyper-masculine, focusing on Jesus as the just judge.  In this role, Christ ruled through reason and observation that we are sinners and deserve damnation. In response, we seek to please him by acquiring merit and approval through the applied discipline of virtue ethics.  These are the social structures of applied masculinity. They are valuable, but left unbalanced can lead to unhealthy rigorism.

Saint Margaret received a vision from Christ that began the communication of a change in culture to a more balanced expression of Christ as the perfect human, a person who, though male, possessed a true and unique balance of masculinity and femininity. Her visions were not visions that focus on the rigor and reason of masculinity. Rather they culminated in her being allowed to rest her head on his chest. In them, we come to know Jesus phenomenologically as an emotive being who desires to love us, even through suffering and compassion. This spirituality was not immediately accepted. It was seen as controversial even as it was used by the Jesuits in combating Jansenism, a spirituality that tends to rigorism. 

As we look to the heavens today, we should remember that this man, Jesus, walked the Earth as one of us in all things but sin. He is a man, but like any man, he has feminine attributes. Today especially, we should seek to experience Christ under a feminine model through his desire for us, for our friendship, for our love. Through this, we can connect to him beyond simply seeing him as the just judge.  We can connect to him through respite, comfort, and intimacy.