Systems of Nature. Venus into Taurus 3/16/23

Mother nature is a natural system who makes  more natural systems. You are such a natural system; individual and unique yet a part of the enormous system of nature. The more you can sense your uniqueness the more strength you can draw from the whole of nature. 

She is pregnant, so to speak, with all of us. We are still inside of nature’s unity. The only chance to be born is to become increasingly aware of our dualistic nature. We are part separate and free and part connected and bound.

She would never dream of taking away our power to make choices, that is why we are free. But she would never turn her back on us either, that is why when we make choices that are true to our unique natures, she sends up surges of new strength and energy. We are free to create yet bound to respond. 

Natural systems have parts or aspects that use a set of laws to make up a coherent whole. 

In our freedom to create, we can create our own laws. But these laws must be real to us so that we can respond truthfully by our bound-nature.

Mother nature doesn’t turn her back. She produces bounty and she supports you, whether you are aware of it or not, in your own productive living.

Taurus is the second sign and it represents the ultimate duality in a world that also has unity. The unity is made of love, and love never forces or coerces. The only way for love to grow in a world of individuals is in granting the freedom of choice. When choice aligns with love then the unity reveals itself. When choices have no footing in one’s nature and no regard for the nature of others, not only does unity not present itself, but fragmented reality keeps splintering like a house of mirrors in the end of Orson Welles’ Lady from Shanghai. 

Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles in The Lady From Shanghai, 1948

Unity, love and a homecoming is always right around the corner, like the bounty of springtime. All that is needed is to feel your freedom of choice within a world that waits for you to choose well, a world that cares about your choices and communicates directly back to you.

Abandoning this freedom, or giving it up to someone else cuts you off from the richest dialogue; that of you and nature, or your nature within all of nature.

The torus (aka Taurus) is a self organizing system that creates more systems. The cells, organs and nerves that comprise your body are little systems within a bigger one. You are a little system within a bigger one. Just as your liver or brain is not truly separate from you, you are not truly separate from all of nature, i.e. the universe.

Your brain and liver serve a purpose in your body. You also serve a purpose within this greater tapestry of the universe. What purpose? Only you can know. Only you can listen to the feedback of mother nature in response to every free choice you make. Only you can know if you are allowing her to raise you right. 

Connection is where we are bound as seen in the lock of a good hug. Connection is where the earth currents run through our bodies and bathe our nervous systems in the same substance of a sunset or a field of lilies. 

Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss, 1907-1908

The solid ground is that of your own fortitude. In your choices, in your knowledge of what binds you, in your new discoveries of what calls or speaks to you, in the new laws that you create for your system, you stand on solid ground. You stand in nature as a smaller nature with access to all of the bigness through the power of choice. This is how the universe lovingly supports us and helps us grow.

Living systems grow and sustain themselves by extracting energy from their environment; like food, sunlight and water. But there are other sources of energy for the human species: art, books, ideas, other people, rituals and so on. The environment is large and full of possibilities. The potential for new energy is endless. In the quality of the connection to these energy sources, lies the potency of the energy. 

Someone who doesn’t really like art museums will not be as ‘charged’ after a day at the Met than someone who does (unless of course the person surprises themselves by realizing “I really did enjoy myself). The enjoyment, the satisfaction of connecting with the source of potential energy is personal. There are so many things that can get in the way of this sacred energy transfer, a bad mood, for example.

Archetypes are symbols that carry charges of meaning. The zodiac consists of twelve supercharged archetypes. They won’t barricade down your door seeking connection, they are part of nature, and in being part of nature they answer to the loving principles of nature that exists in a world of free choice.  As Venus moves into Taurus on Thursday, 3/16/23, you may stumble upon the archetype in your enjoyment (Venus) of an aromatic cup of tea (Taurus). Depending on the richness of your connection, you will receive new energy. This new energy that streams in from your environment works to organize your system, as new energy does with all living systems. 

In a fast paced digital society, the options for energy sources are increasing but the seriousness and personalness of connecting tangibly to something so that the real earth currents move through us is lessening. 

Allow this deluxe transit of Venus through Taurus to bring you back to your system, within the big system; back to your access to bigness through the richness and realness of true connection.

Venus will be travelling through Taurus until April 10, 2023 when she sets off in Gemini.

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Polarity and the Sameness of Opposites

What happens if I make myself a hot cup of tea and then leave it on the counter and forget about it?  A couple hours later is it still a hot cup of tea?  No it’s not.  It’s a cold cup of tea.  The question is: at what EXACT point did it change from hot to cold?

Hard to pin point isn’t it?

Notice I didn’t even include the description of “warm”.  This is because we are talking about opposites, for example, hot and cold, light and dark, old and young.  So what are opposites then if not two extremes of the SAME thing.

In Hermetic Philosophy this is the principle of Polarity, one of the 7 Natural Laws

What turns the hot tea into cold tea is it’s DEGREE, like the paragraph above states.  The tea is “identical in nature, but different in degree”.

At what point does this small elephant turn big?

When does young become old?

Big and small, old and young, hot and cold, these are all examples of opposite ends of the same CONNECTED POLE (like a North and South Pole), and they meet somewhere in the middle where they are indeed the EXACT SAME.

And what’s more interesting is that these opposite forces WANT to meet in the middle!  They WANT to discover their SAMENESS.

Opposite magnetic poles attract (like poles repel)

Beauty and the Beast is a tale that will continue grace the public eye because it illustrates this timeless and perfect truth of opposites needing to meet in the middle and know their sameness.

King Kong is another tale that will never get old.  This principle is hard-wired into our human souls.

and it’s so romantic!

In the zodiac there are twelve signs.  Applying what we have just learned we can break these twelve down into six poles, each having opposite ends.  Understanding these six poles will give you a much deeper grasp on the zodiac then you would get by merely memorizing the the twelve various traits.

And six is less than twelve so it’s easier!

Let’s start at the beginning with Aries.  But now, we will not consider Aries without it’s opposite, Libra.  How can we deny it’s opposite?  They are the same.

John Lennon is in fact a Libra (with Aries rising) and his quote above summarizes the bond that Aries and Libra share.  Aries FIGHTS for peace (what else do people really fight for if not to restore some form of equilibrium?) and Libra needs JUSTICE so bad that it will fight for it (as displayed by the sword in the Lady Justice’s hand).

Moving on to Taurus, and that includes it’s opposite, Scorpio.

Taurus wants to celebrate physicality, relishing in it’s beauty and comforts because it knows that death is out there (Scorpio).  Scorpio seeks to destroy the physicality that has become too stagnant (Taurus) so that new life can emerge (as in the example above of the Berlin Wall).  That is why Scorpio is esoterically represented by the Phoenix, who is reborn through fire.  Da Vinci (a master in the depiction of physical beauty) is in fact a Taurus.

Bob Dylan isn’t the only Gemini in that photo thanks to Allen Ginsberg’s cameo.  Both are icons in Gemini’s style of collecting words, moments, and fragments and putting them together to form thoughts, stories, songs and poems.  From the various FACTS that Gemini gathers comes the broader structures of meaning (Sagittarius), which encourage us to take leaps of FAITH (Sagittarius), like the little dog to the right.  And vice versa sometimes we need leaps of faith, and a broader perspective in order to establish new facts.  E didn’t always equal MC squared!

Early life brings on impressionable emotional reactions that stay deep within us (the realm of Cancer), often acting unconsciously and have a profound connection to what it is we decide to do in life (Capricorn), or better described, how we choose to master our physical worlds.  And on the other side, our mastery of our physical worlds bring us into a deeper emotional center, a true “home” deep within our souls.  Elvis, a true Capricorn (the King!) had a famous devotion to his mother Gladys, and is an excellent example of this polarity.

Leo KNOWS his radiance because he also knows that it is in EVERYONE ELSE (Aquarius).  Fire is meant to be shared.  It is the only substance that GROWS the more you give it away.  Celebrating our differences (Aquarius) and understanding this connection of the eternal flame (Leo) is key to a harmonious culture of life.

Virgo seeks to attain PURITY so that it can let all it’s cares and worries resolve by means of FORGIVENESS (Pisces).  The ever-renewing stream of Pisces washes away our perceived imperfections, restoring us with lasting peace.  If Virgo doesn’t forgive him/herself enough the result is emotional suffering (Pisces), and vice versa,  if Pisces doesn’t apply enough earthy discipline to life’s details it will get swamped in a mire of pesky tasks to deal with (Virgo).

So there we have it!  All six polarities to ponder and reflect upon.  Remember, the goal is that they WANT TO KNOW THEIR SAMENESS.  An imbalance on one side is CRAVING a better understanding of the opposite.

One fantastic way to reflect upon this is to seize the next opportunity in which you find yourself in a bad mood!  Look at the placement of the Moon (any astro-site).  Try to understand the sign in it’s WHOLENESS, meaning it’s whole polarity.  I guarantee it to be an interesting and helpful thing to do.

Take advantage of that next bad mood rising!

Until next time!