posted March 05, 2007 03:04 PM            

Anyways, so here we go!

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SOLARIZATION

PLANET: The Sun
AS GIFT GIVER: To charge and revitalize.
To push into active manifestation.
To encourage.
To support..
AS THIEF: To eclipse.
To overwhelm.
To dominate.
To burn out.

You are the first astrologer who ever lived. There is no astrological tradition on which to fall back, no preconceived notions about any of the planets, nothing but raw, direct experience. The King appoints you to invent astrology-and offers to cut off your head if you're not suited to the job. With that kind of encouragement you quickly get very creative. The King's first question is, "What is the Sun's significance?" You have three days to answer. You reason: summer is green and full of file; winter is dead and dreary. Cloudy days are sad days. Sunny ones are happy. Plants turn towards the Sun and wither in the shadows ... you have your answer: the Sun significes the life force itself.

Now, ten thousand years later, no astrologer would disagree with you. The sun still means life. It is the purest, simplest symbol of vitality. Energy. The gasoline in your existential tanks.

In synastry the Sun floods the contacted planet with a tidal wave of energy. Spotlights it. Pushes it into dramatic development.

Is this always an unalloyed good? Not necessarily. Sometimes the Sun's force is overwhelming. Think of it this way the electricity fails in an unfamiliar room. You need a bit of light to help you find the candles. You fumble in your pocket for a match. All you find is a small nuclear warhead. Now, that'll make a flash, but maybe a bit brighter than what you had in mind. That's exactly the danger with solar interaspects. The impact can be powerful--too powerful.

At its best, solarization can boost the contacted planet to a new level of energy. One who solarizes Uranus, for example, brings out your natural Uranus qualities--your independance, your capacity for creative, divergent, thinking, your free-spirited ability to lead your own life. You'll likely share some distinctly Uranian experiences--like winding up in Paris at two in the morning drinking Pernod with Madonna, when you thought you were only stepping to buy a birthday card for Mom.

All that Uranian excitement can be wonderful, if you can handle it. The dark side is that maybe the framework of your psychic structure is simply not sturdy enough to cope with this onslaught of boosted (solarized) Uranian rebelliousness. What happens then? The dark side of the planet begins to dominate your behaviour. You become eccentric, cranky, unrealistic, stubborn: Uranian disorders.

The rule of thumb across the board with all solar interaspects is that the healthier a response you are making to a planet in your own birthchart, the happier will be your experiences with someone who solarizes it. Why? Because the sun's action is to vivify, to empathize, to bring out--and it makes no distinction between your virtues and your blind spots. The Sun simply forces your hand. Maybe that's a gift; maybe it's the work of the Thief, stealing your balance and good judgement.

Sun is identity. Ego. When solarization occurs between two people, one person's ego is imprinted upon some aspect of the other person's individuality. Something of the solarizing person enters the other one. Thus, there are two critical dimensions to the process of solarization. The first, which we have just expected, is that the solarized planet is simply pushed to the forefront of an individual's behaviour, for better or worse. The second dimension is that the natural qualities of the solarized planet is not merely emphasized; they are also somewhat distorted, taking the qualities of the solarizing person. Something new, something alien, even unnatural, is added to the normal operation of that planet. A new voice, new values, new motivations appear. Thus, to allow one's self to be solarized is to allow another person into one's life in the most central and intimate of ways. That individual's impact, especially in an intense, committed relationship, will prove to be huge. Life-shaping. Something of his or her individuality enters you and stays there.

What if you don't like it? Then minimize contact with that person. Other than your making a more conscious response to your own solarized planet, there is no other defense. Mere contact guarentees impact.

In our society we are taught to value independance and personal freedom. And yet love inevitably implies a lowering of defenses, a merging, a willingness to touch and be touched. Solarization--this loving acceptance of another's identity into the fabric of our own being--in an act of ultimate trust. We are changed. The path of our life is turned. Positively, as we internalize our partner's solar identity, our own life-process is fertilized, saved from the kind of psychic inbreeding that occurs if we never learn from anyone, never allow anyone to inspire or surprise us. Negatively, our partner can so dominate us that we lose track of our own course. We can be eclipsed. Humiliatingly, we can be reduced to a mere clone of the other's personality. A puppet.

If you are solarized by someone you love, learn from him/her, trust her/him. Let that individual into your heart and mind. Don't worry if you find yourself picking up certain of that person's characteristic gesture or turns of phrase. That's a normal part of solarization. But guard your freedom too. Find a middle course. Listen to yourself as well as to your lover. Let yourself learn. Let yourself be changed. Then make that learning and those changes your own.

If your find yourself in a relationship in which you solarize the other person, be gentle. You probably don't fully comprehend the power you wield, and that makes you extremely dangerous! Recognize that however egalitarian your ideals might be, you still have a vast infulence over your partner's destiny. The planet you touch in that individual is almost like clay in your hand, ready to recieve your imprint. Take that responsibility seriously. Imagine yourself to be quietly guiding of the development of that dimension of your partner's life. Be a good guide. Not too dominant. Not too stultifying. Not too stultifying. Not too convinced of your own infallibility. And if your partner seems to be defensive, putting up mile-high walls, consider the possibility that he or she senses the overwhelming solarizing danger in you and is instinctively undertaking a process of self-preservation. Honor that instinct, and back off.

Antonio Banderas solarizes his wife Melanie Griffith's Sun, Uranus, Ascendant, Moon and Saturn. She solarizes his Sun, Uranus, Moon and Jupiter. Their Suns are conjunct in Leo. Here's a grand solar gesture: when she shooting one of her movies, he sent a white rose to her on the set every forty-five minutes.

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