Hunters shooting wild
ducks
Shown here
is the solar eclipse of 14th November at 21sc57 . Notice that by the
rules of mundane astrology it is significant for Delhi
The Sabian
symbol of the eclipse degree provides a clear answer about the lesson that
needs to be learnt from this unfortunate episode. Given below is Dane Rudhyar’s
commentary [2] for the symbol and requires no explanation.
PHASE 232 (SCORPIO 22°): HUNTERS
SHOOTING WILD DUCKS.
KEYNOTE: The socially accepted
release of an individual’s or a group’s aggressive instincts. What this symbol
clearly stresses is the socialization of man’s primitive instincts according to
a cultural ritual. Social hunting is a regulated seasonal outlet for male
aggressiveness — a safety valve for emotional pressures in human beings in whom
animal compulsions and bio-spheric values are still strong. In this second
stage symbol we find a strong contrast with the first. In the latter, the
individual proved himself truly “man” by refusing to accept the practices of
war imposed upon him by his society; in this symbol for Scorpio 22° it is
society that [must] willingly accept — and in accepting, ritualize and to some
extent refine — the aggressiveness inherent in most individuals. The Keywords
are SOCIALIZATION OF INSTINCTS.
Symbols integrate the separate
experiences of a vast number of men. They take events from the realm of the
fortuitous, the unprecedented, the unique and the incomprehensible to the realm
of "universals." They may suggest an answer to a problem, perhaps
until then but superficially understood.[3]
No symbol
should be considered inherently negative. Even if the image or scene presented
seems full of negative implications, these should be considered as a form of
teaching and thus perhaps as the via negativa which leads man to spiritual
heights by forcing him to experience a violent revulsion from the depths of human
misery and even degradation. [4]
Related post: The Rape of Medusa in
References:
[1] Venus
and Pluto: the Rape of Persephone
[2] Dane
Rudhyar, “An Astrological Mandala; the Cycle of Transformation and its 360
symbolic phases”
[3] Dane
Rudhyar, "Symbols and the cyclic character of human existence"
[4] Dane
Rudhyar, “The positive & negative approaches to human experience”
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