"What makes life meaningful?"
This is an open-ended question asked in a 2021 survey by Pew Research Center to 17 advanced economies. Analysts found that while many people find meaning in their surroundings, both in terms of society and nature, some also mentioned religion.
As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the following graphic, religion and spirituality was mentioned more frequently among US adults, compared to those living in other advanced economies.
This information is no surprise to anyone who cares to look at the US chart. The US national chart - the Sibly has the zodiacal sign Sagittarius rising. In his book The Astrology of America’s Destiny, Dane Rudhyar wrote:
I contend that America on the whole has found and should find the path to self-realization — that is, to who she is as a collective person — through the kind of religious approach characterizing the sign Sagittarius. The Puritan ideal is at the very root of national life, and few nations have stressed as much the realization of divine guidance and the tendency to indulge in religious mass demonstrations — as even today Billy Graham, "Jesus freaks" and many ashrams led by Hindu yogis can testify.
Dane Rudhyar had rectified the US Sibly to give [13sa] rising as opposed to [10sa] rising. This places the Ascendant very clearly in the second decan of Sagittarius. The Minor Arcana card assigned to this decan is the Nine of Wands. About this card, Karen Hamaker Zondag writes:
The card shows a wary man with a belligerent attitude, which has already earned him a broken head. Nine emerges here as a movement that is too much in one direction: that of springing into action and starting a fight without considering that other responses may be possible.
Zondag’s account clearly points to America’s ‘foreover wars’ all over the globe. The keywords in the image above provide additional food for thought.
Finally, we note that the current transit of the newly discovered centaur Rhiphonos over the Sibly MC offers an opportunity for a change in attitude. About Rhiphonos, Benjamin Adamah writes:
In the Rhiphonos process there is at first a notion of being stuck or an impasse, then an awareness of a farce, dead end or dormant state or wrong turn that was taken earlier in life, followed by a decision to take the leap to another course, another attitude, by means of which a different actuality, life situation and future is created.
Rhiphonos either brings a refreshing liberating energy for those who believe in the old credo “God helps the brave” or a shameful and weak moment for those who are afraid and let a good opportunity to change their life for the better pass - often with severe consequences in later life like a smoldering feeling of shame over one’s own cowardice that permanently poisons one’s own remaining life or that of others and perhaps even worse: missing the goal and essence of one’s current incarnation.
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