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Astro-Kinetic Reflection
Temporally Conditioned Reverberative Thoughts
Resulting from Astro-Kinetic Contemplation
Yoday in the heavens we have events in two houses that present “pairing”. The Moon resides in Gemeni, the twins. Their pair, as an air sign, implies exchange of ideas and interpersonal interaction, especially through language. In the Square with the Moon is Jupiter in the house of Pisces. In the pairing of Pisces is a deeper intuitive subconscious and creative pairing. In order to create, one must combine uniquely, in order to effect intuition, one must bring the hidden to the manifest. The square relationship implies conflict in which the planetary bodies are either weakening each other's strengths or accenting each other's weaknesses. The planetary bodies speak to a conflicting dynamic, the Moon as a personal interior and Jupiter as the social systematic organizing principle. This heavenly configuration speaks to the nature of postlapsarian reality, where all facets work in a tension, which causes suffering.
This configuration may evoke despair, but it is to be remembered that such tension is brought to fulfillment in Christ. With the fall, the cosmos were seemingly disordered by the desire of the first parents to have knowledge of good and evil. They already knew good, but by grasping for the fruit they attained the knowledge of the lack of good, we call evil. Evil as a lack of fullness is experienced as suffering. But the gaping void is also an avenue for expansive growth. The complete development of that growth will be observable in the difference between the nature of Eden and the nature of the Eschaton. But at present we abide in the process of that development on a personal, social, and cosmic level. This planetary configuration wakes us up to this process in our own lives and asks us to take stock of such tension.
But, in turn, the Office of Readings offers consolation. In the Office of Reading today, Athanasius portrays Jesus and the Cosmic Alchemist. “He who is the good Word of the good Father produced the order in all creation, joining opposites together, and forming from them one harmonious sound.” Athanasius portrays Christ as the cosmic agent of the union of opposites in such a way that brings harmony and order. He came into being in order to facilitate the process of harmony that will be fully realized in the Eschaton. But even though our experience of the process entails suffering, the Office of Readings reminds us in Sirach 42:24-25, “All things go in pairs, by opposites, and He made nothing defective; The one consolidates the other, who can ever be sated with Gazing at his Glory.”
Our task is to read the signs of the heavens and reflect. Where in our lives is the inner intuitive conflicting with the social systematic? How are the communications between these breaking down? How is this breakdown causing suffering or discord in one’s life? This discord has two uses. The first regards will. Such discord can be pedagogical if we remember Sirach’s dictum, all is created good by God and if we can learn to navigate a balance we can marvel in the glory of God’s creation. The suffering wakes us to the need of this task. The second use is to foster faith. We cannot, simply by our will, bring perfect balance to our own life, much less society or the cosmos. Athanasius reminds us that Christ as the Cosmic Alchemist accomplishes these things by his incarnation and glorification. We can place our trust in his plan and live our lives as best we can according to our understanding of his plan.
--For more Astro-Kinetic Reflections see the Astro-Kinetic Reflections: Date Log
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