“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save
you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth
will destroy you.”
― Gospel of Thomas
A
Spanish bullfighter has died after being gored during a festival in southwest
France.Ivan Fandino, 36, caught his feet in his cloak and fell to the floor,
where he was gored by the bull. He suffered a lung injury and died on his way
to hospital from a heart attack on Saturday (June 17), French media say. Fandino,
who was taking part in the Aire-sur-l'Adour bullfighting festival near Pau, is
reportedly the first matador to die in France in a century. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40317709
The ancients believed that the whole heavens is the ultimate
or "overall" pattern in the concept of "cosmic order". And
that each constellation has its own unique clusters of symbolically related concepts that express themselves
through events on earth. Cosmic order relates to the Hermes Trismegistus' axiom
"as above, so below"; the harmony between the heavens and the earth,
the earthly order corresponding to the cosmic order.
For example, shown here is the chart for the Last Quarter
Moon of June 17 drawn for Aire-sur-l'Adour, France where the tragic incident
occurred. Notice that the
Sun-Mercury-Moon-Saturn form a T-square that straddles the meridian and the
horizon axes making it very significant for the place.
The Sun and Mercury are conjunct the stars Al-Hecka, zeta Tauri
and El Nath, beta Tauri, the Southern and Northern Horns of the Bull. El Nath was referred to as the “butting or
goring one”. Diana Rosenberg [1] adds
that there is also a tradition that El
Nath is called “Wounded” or “Slain”.
Opposite Sun and Mercury is Saturn which in turn is conjunct
the star Lesath upsilon (υ) Scorpius, Lesath, along with Shaula, lambda (λ)
Scorpius; are at the tip of the tail of the Scorpion and right on the sting.
For this star Ebertin writes, “assaults from rabid or infuriated animals”.
The moral of this tragic story is summarized in the
quotation above from the Gospel of Thomas. There is an animal inside us which
we must take out as gently as possible, failing which we fall prey to animals
outside.
The ancient Chinese story
[2] of the ox and oxherd, aims to help understand the dilemma better. The ox
symbolizes the ultimate, undivided reality, the Buddha-nature, which is the
ground of all existence. The oxherd symbolizes the self, who initially
identifies with the individuated ego, separate from the ox, and who intially fights it but who, with
progressive enlightenment, comes to realize the fundamental identity with the
ultimate reality which transcends all distinctions.
[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg; (v.1,
p.315-17)
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