Tehelka is an Indian weekly
magazine, founded by Tarun Tejpal. Started as a news portal, tehelka.com in
2000, it transitioned through a printed newspaper format until it became a
magazine in 2007. In November 2013, Tehelka founder Tarun Tejpal was accused of
sexual assault by a female colleague leading to his resignation.
The solar
eclipse of 3 Nov. highlighted in Delhi
Symbolically,
the centaur; half man, half horse represents the complete domination by baser
influences, instincts, the unconscious uncontrolled by the spirit. The man-beast
combination illustrates the conflict between man’s lower animal nature merged
with his higher nature of human virtue and judgement, the struggle between the
savage and the benign. In the picture above notice that the centaur is shown
carrying a spear that impales a wolf. The wolf – a despoiler of flocks,
rapacious, cruel, crafty and bloodthirsty – has long been a symbol of evil. In
Christian art, animals impaled on lances often allude to vices that must be
overcome. A lance exemplifies valor, virtue, war, power, strength and victory
over evil. A lance, however, has an earthly character, in contrast to the
sword, which is celestial. [1]
One the
Ascendant of the star Algol often depicted as Medusa – the violated woman. Meanwhile,
the descendant conjoins several potent stars including Beta Centauri, Beta
Lupus and the Nuclear Galaxy AP Libra. The theme in this few degree band of the
zodiac is about doing what ever it takes in assertive physical action to claim
our mastery over the powerful forces governing life and death; to ensure our
evolutionary freedom from perpetual entrapment in these forces.
The opportunity potent AP Libra offers is found in
the stellar themes of all of these conjoining stars. Here carnal forces coalesce to create whatever type of scenario is
required to challenge us to master these forces and free ourselves from any
patterns and naiveté that may perpetuate our entrapment.
Beta Lupus and the Irregular Galaxy of the
Chameleon bring the ability to morph, to shapeshift, to change as the situation
requires. In its lower order expression however, this can be used to avoid what
is required to claim one's true self-mastery, or to manipulate a situation. In its higher expression, used in
self-mastery, it brings the ability to work with primal and carnal (incarnate)
AP-Lib forces in a way that accesses the transformative power they or a
situation offers. In this octave, we are relinquishing a lesser form or
human mold for a refined, more empowered form that is in tune with the natural
creative forces of life and death, intimately participating and merging with
them. It is this that the mythical image of the Centaur placing Lupus the beast
with conscious deliberation upon the Altar of the Centaur (Ara) articulates.
Nuclear Galaxies of the BL Lacerta Category, of
which AP Libra is one, exude powerful primordial forces. AP Libra is a part of
the southern chelae (claw) of the Scorpion, reaching from the Scorpion’s head,
via Brachium (Sigma Libra) to Zubenelgenubi of Libra--the south claw--the
karmic seat for incarnating souls.
AP Libra forces can lure us into intense carnal and
karmic-based scenarios. However, these experiences provide the transmutational
force that serves us to claim our self-mastery in the incarnate world, to free
ourselves from lower-order patterns of behavioral and from our past karmic
entrapments by learning to master those forces.
AP
Libra forces are only entrapping when we are naive about them due to our lack
of experience with them. The forces here are however very active at the
physical, psychic, and carnal levels, and it requires the physical clarity and
empowerment only gained through carnal experience that leads to our personal
empowerment and subsequent attainment of evolutionary freedom--gaining
spiritual prowess over such forces. AP Libra is a radiant
powerhouse of primordial forces holding us in the entrapment of the Scorpion’s
clutches until we gain this mastery, until we awaken from our naiveté about the
power of such forces. [2]
To better
understand the issues here let us take a break from the astrological jargon and
look at what Friedrich Nietzsche says in his Beyond Good and Evil:
After the fabric of society seems on the whole
established and secured against external dangers, it is this fear of our neighbour which again creates
new perspectives of moral valuation. Certain strong and dangerous
instincts, such as the love of enterprise, foolhardiness, revengefulness,
astuteness, rapacity, and love of power, which up till then had not only to be
honoured from the point of view of general utility—under other names, of
course, than those here given—but had to be fostered and cultivated (because
they were perpetually required in the common danger against the common
enemies), are now felt in their dangerousness to be doubly strong—when the
outlets for them are lacking—and are
gradually branded as immoral and given over to calumny. The contrary
instincts and inclinations now attain to moral honour, the gregarious instinct
gradually draws its conclusions. How much
or how little dangerousness to the community or to equality is contained in an
opinion, a condition, an emotion, a disposition, or an endowment—that is now
the moral perspective, here again fear
is the mother of morals.
The other
significant cosmic event that occurred on the very day (7 Nov.) that the Tejpal sexual assault case happened
is that the centaur Nessus stationed
direct.
Like all of the Centaurs, which are a bit rogue,
rebellious or unconventional in their approaches and retreats, are also
teachers, aids, or liaisons for those willing to awaken to a greater path of
exploration in self-mastery. Nessus inspires our need to radically sever from
the conformity of the past and pierce our veils of illusion, to relinquish our
denials, and to enter new realms of vision and creativity.
Melanie Reinhart relates Nessus to issues
surrounding sexuality, death, revenge and jealousy. Although Nessus may appear
to have a disrespect for morality, a bit on the wild side, it also seems to
teach us about embracing our sensual and sexual nature, to enjoy this abundance
in life, rather than denying it or shutting ourselves down to it due to righteous
or erroneous beliefs of wrongfulness or emotions of unworthiness. [3]
[1] Secrets
of the Ancient Skies, Diana K. Rosenberg
P.S.
A query for
readers. Can you discover a pattern with other events connected to the centaur
eclipse?
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