posted April 28, 2008 03:32 PM
(Was tea, now plutomaki.)Not sure if this was posted before (probably was), but I found this excerpt helpful. Hopefully, we won't end up completely bemoaning our hard aspects. Diamonds in the rough, really.
From Noel Tyl’s Synthesis & Counseling in Astrology: The Professional Manual
Realism
Aspects from Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto to the Sun or the Moon especially symbolize the absorption of demanding circumstances in life development. These are the controls, intensifications, bewilderments, and empowerments that make us grow. Understanding these aspects astrologically is not particularly difficult—just a few words can capture the archetypal image of potentials—but the corresponding registration of life lessons is often all-pervasive in quality, complicated in manifestation, and lifelong in significance.
When these planets make high developmental tension aspects with the Sun or the Moon (conjunction, square, opposition), 27 [SEE FOOTNOTE BELOW] the person takes on the significance of these aspects at the core of life orientation. The Sun’s energy flow is affected; the Moon’s expression of behaviors to fulfill the reigning need is affected. The course of life is affected. And the rulerships of the planets involved bring into the synthesis of changing energy important references to zones of environmental concerns within the developmental process.
27 Preponderantly in my work, I emphasize the fourth harmonic: the conjunction, square and opposition aspects. I am convinced that this is a valid parameter for teaching and for astrological interpretations for two reasons, both based upon lots of experience. The first is that Marc Edmund Jones one day said to me, “In all my experience, I’ve found that it’s squares that make things happen; trines and sextiles just keep things as they are!” The second is that the work of Witte in the Hamburg School (now Uranian Astrology) and the Ebertin work of Cosmobiology focus on this concept in the main. Indeed, the equations are formidable in their representations of dynamism and nuance, going much beyond the concepts of the Ptolemaic aspects, but the thrust is that tension makes things happen. Change is what life is all about.
Lindaland
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posted April 28, 2008 03:32 PM
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