Aries discussion: tell the other person why they’re wrong,
get in a fight about it and don’t be seen to give any ground. Aries is the authority
on what is right or wrong, but it is often not their own authority. They are
the warrior serving the king or a ‘principle’. An Aries needs to find his/her
own authority; it’s a visionary thing that doesn’t have to be defended at every
turn.
We visit Pluto when we die. He is Lord of the Dead. When I
die I want a coin put in my mouth to pay the ferryman. He is also the death of
the old self when we go through a Pluto transit. And he is the ghosts we carry
with us that need to die. Like Jung’s ‘poison pill of science’, which his guide
Philemon told him he had swallowed as a child.
We swallow pills from our parents and from the wider culture.
To what degree are you living your own life, and to what degree are you compulsively
copying your parents? For some people, that’s fine, they are quite happy to
live the life laid down for them in quite an unconscious way. If you’re not
happy with that, then those blueprints become demons that need exorcising,
ghosts that need to be let go. If you invoke Pluto, he will help you, he will
show you how. Talking about it and willing it are often not enough. ‘The
unconscious’ needs to be activated through ritual and ceremony. Not living in a
traditional society, we have to invent our own rituals, our own ways of meeting
the gods. Again, the gods will show you how.
7 comments:
Top of the list of the five most common regrets of the dying is 'I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me' - which echoes what you've said.
(The second is I wish I'd spent less time at the office but we'll leave that for another day)!
Full list at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying
Interesting you should make this point, DR. I rebelled against my parents, who unwittingly provided me with a toxic upbringing. I forgave them years ago, but despite long periods of different kinds of formal and informal counselling and energy work, many of the unhealthy structures that I put in place as a small, over-sensitive child in order to cope with the emotionally hostile environment are still within me. Problem is, they are buried so deep within my unconscious that I can only see their results in my life, but not the actual causes. I spoke to an astrologer friend recently, however, and he said that change for the better might be on the way, at the hands of Pluto. This is because my natal Saturn at 6 degrees Capricorn is currently being blasted by Pluto (which of course is also being electrified by the Uranus square). He claims that Pluto will unearth and cut away the unwanted structures that my Saturn has been helping to uphold for many years. I am in excited trepidation at what the next few months will bring.
Good stuff, Dharmaruci. I can relate to it in a very personal way. I knew from the very beginning I was the outlier in my family and I was OK with that. But a heavy saturn in my chart was always telling me to cool it. Now as an old woman I have experienced the greatest success of my life by fearlessly being me.
"If you invoke Pluto, he will help you, he will show you how."
You got that right. Hit the nail on the head.
I did, and he is. I also invoked the Muses.
It works.
Durn! You're good!
Glad you are up and about posting!
Excelent post. We must be tapping into the same collective (unconscious?) wave length. Just this morning I was talking about this issue with my partner. Thanks for the light shared.
Cheers,
Nic
It isn't the feelings and thoughts and beliefs, we can get at those. It is the way we think, the doorways closed that aren't noticed. Therapy can't reach the former but seldom the latter. I agree that if the landscape has become dull, or the work isn't enough, a ceremony is in order. Demons in dreams I consider beneficial, the ones who bar the doors and threaten us with dire consequences for opening them also show us where they are.
"‘The unconscious’ needs to be activated through ritual and ceremony. Not living in a traditional society, we have to invent our own rituals, our own ways of meeting the gods. Again, the gods will show you how."
Thank you. I am quite certain I am not following my parents' lead to any degree, in many regards. I spent years in therapy working on childhood issues, but by accident as I entered therapy for an unrelated issue.
It was my therapist who guided me the way home, to self-determination. I feel very lucky as I've heard a lot of horror stories about therapy. I left with a new sense of confidence, determined to tap my inner strengths and bring them to the surface. Life is too short. Even if I wasn't living the way my parents demanded me, I was governed by fear and self-loathing which is just as damaging as being a sheep.
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