Children
Playing - Jose Navarro
“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least
once.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
I have
two left feet, so I’m glad Nietzsche wrote metaphorically. With this quote, I
think he was saying something true and profound about the importance of play –
that it’s an essential part of living a good and balanced life. What I hope to
convey are some philosophical, scientific and personal reasons for why we
should all get serious about messing around. I hope that by reading this,
you’ll feel compelled to actually pencil in some time for more frivolity. June1
Pluto often brings us situations that contain issues of
power, in which we fear power greater than ourselves and thus we have to rise
to the occasion to make the inner power greater and stronger than the outer
powers. An example of this is the fear of outer authority and we must respond
to situations in which outer authority comes into our life and our inner
confidence or inner strength has to be stronger than the outer situations.
Once Pluto entered
Capricorn we have been shifting our focus toward the transformation of the
"structures" of the outside world; businesses and all of the
structures of success and accomplishment in the outside world. More
specifically, when Pluto entered the second half of Capricorn (15 Capricorn),
its message, that we need to break away from our subservience to work and
accomplishment and learn to enjoy ourselves, became even more strident. How is
that? Well let us look at the Sabian symbols[1] for the four degree span over which Pluto is retrograding
( Capricorn 17-18 to Capricorn 14-15) to
get the essence of its message.
14-15 deg Capricorn In A Hospital, The Children’s Ward Is Filled
With Toys
15-16
deg Capricorn School Grounds Filled With Boys And Girls In Gymnasium Suits
16-17 deg Capricorn A Repressed Woman Finds A Psychological Release In
Nudism
17-18 deg Capricorn The Union Jack Flag Files From A British Warship
The last degree (17-18 deg Capricorn) is a reminder of
what happens when you allow a power greater than yourself to “protect” you.
When Britain ruled its colonies, under the pretext of protecting them, it took
away their right to self-determination.
Interpreting the first three degrees, Dane Rudhyar
reminds us:
Phase 14-15 deg
Capricorn: “the exercise of
socio-political power can produce conditions which endanger the healthy and
spiritual unfoldment of a community, and especially its children. There is need
for tender care as well as skill to neutralize the destructive tensions of
social living”.
Phase 15-16 deg Capricorn: There is need for
physical activity and play . Adults often forget this under the pressure of
money making and other duties.
Phase 16-17 deg
Capricorn: Cultural pressures have created a sharp and unwholesome
division between the soul and the body. Society has provided strict codes of values regarding the play of
natural instincts and has glorified them under the name of “decency” and “modesty”.
The growing tendency towards nudism is a
protest against the depressing and neurosis generating Puritanism of the past.
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