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1 Aquarius
Jun. 23rd, 2025 08:11 amStanding up for our lifestyle deepens our character and inspires in us a faith that we belong
An old adobe mission is a traditional image of a real, robust answer to the problems of how to survive and make a living – which is required because we live within a testing environment. What helps to ensure our physical survival as a species is the durability of what protects us as individuals – and, to offer such shelter, these missions were constructed to be strong and permanent. They were more than resources to support settlers materially; the spiritual side was also central to their purpose.
There is an unbroken continuity between the certainty of our material needs and the depth of our psychological needs – simply because we are at risk physically, we are vulnerable emotionally. So, as we invest our loyalties into a certain approach to coping with the physicality of life, we inevitably align with shared emotional realities too – such as having faith that we belong.
How and where we build our home and place of worship not only speaks about our loyalties, preferences, history and expectations – it determines a great deal of what we become. The heritage of our enduring ties stands as a reminder of what has continuing value to us, and which must be neither neglected nor underrated if we are to realise our individual potential.
A compelling depth of character arises from the respect we assign to our heritage. It is almost inevitable that we will, at some point, be called upon to defend and protect what we think of as home, family and community. If we have nowhere to stand, then we cannot really stand for anything.
This deeper approach to life’s established values actually also gives rise to an effective breadth of vision. The future needs to unfold within particular parameters in order to keep alive the tradition we have adopted, and which has adopted us. Our choices about direction are made with reference to the past since we understand that a rich and deep history can underpin a rich and deep future.
One thing we need to be careful of is that such a complete observance of old ways can easily lead to a total lack of ambition, and also a blind adherence to superficialities that have been crystallised into community values. This can be avoided if we are always aware of who we are, what we are doing, and why.
An aware person is tested to remember their own true spiritual state at all times; this is a necessity for both an overall orientation and an underlying stability in all personal existence. In a world of deceit and illusion, where nothing is ever completely fixed in time, this presents a prodigious challenge.
An old adobe mission
Picture
Commentary from Richard Grey
No - lasting forms | standing up for our lifestyle | physical survival | defence | choices
Hello - our psychological needs
Thanks - lasting values | emotional vulnerability | loyalties | shared emotional realities
Goodbye - the act of building | the decision about what to build (based on values)
Please - group endeavour (cooperation) | a testing environment | having faith
Sorry - blind adherence | awareness | avoidance (of superficialities)
Yes - respect | spiritual state
This is all about Thanks - Our Values. Those we choose and how we attempt to make them last or Endure into the Future.
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Aquarius 1. Deciding to die, a vampire walks into the sunlight. (Omega Symbol) Manifesting/Experimental
(Degree Angel: YEZALEL (YAY-za-LEL) Heaven on Earth, Fidelity, Loyalty, and Allegiance)
This degree is about the sacrificing of personal desires to a higher purpose. When a way of life has worn itself out, its time for a change. The energy of this degree is about overcoming the fear of change, and letting go of old patterns. It wants to bring whatever is hidden to light, and to find a way to fulfill true spiritual needs.
The Chandra Symbol for this degree is “A two-headed calf.” We all have two selves – the conscious, objective self and the unconscious, or feeling self. Or, on an other level, (as Eckhard Tolle describes it), the true self and the pain body. This degree recognizes the divisions that exist within the self, as well as the need to acknowledge and respect all the various aspects of one's being. Whatever parts of ourselves we reject we inevitably come into conflict with, and the only way to resolve this conflict is to reach across our inner divisions and accept every aspect of who we are.
This degree carries the message that completely opposite ideas can peacefully co-exist, and actually have the potential to enhance and clarify each other.
Pleiadian Symbol: In the desert a way station to comfort travelers.
Azoth Symbol: Little scavengers seeking morsels.
Seed degree: Aries 11.A hospital for birds. (Omega Symbol). The healing of our hopes allows us to expose all inner shadows to the spiritual light.
Sunlight illuminating dust in the air. (Chandra Symbol). Perceiving the complexity and uncertainty of the physical world gives us a basis for perceiving dualities and dichotomies at work everywhere.
Fulfillment degree: Aries 26. A man sitting at the bottom of a crater. (Omega Symbol). Clearing inner darkness we then become able to be focused and receptive.
The man in the moon smiling. (Chandra Symbol). Completely accepting the dualistic nature of our existence brings peace and fulfillment to our emotional self.
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Aquarius 1: An old adobe mission
In for the long haul...
Endurance is a characteristic of Aquarius 1. Think of the adobe missions built in the early settling of California. They still stand today.
As a human characteristic, endurance suggests that something worth pursuing is worth pursuing all the way. Looking to the fixed mate Scorpio symbol "A sight-seeing bus", we get the feeling of the expression, "You buy your ticket and you take your ride"... in other words, once you have committed to a bus ride, you tend to follow through on where it takes you.
Another thread of sense in Aquarius 1 is that of 'starting'. Indeed all 1st degree symbols point to a start of some kind. For Aquarius 30, the start is a 'mission'... something to set out for, to work on... that follows the decisions made in Capricorn 30.
So, imagine a powwow where a bold new policy or project is considered. Here in the 1st degree Aquarius, we find the resolve to get out there and make it happen.
An old adobe mission is a traditional image of a real, robust answer to the problems of how to survive and make a living – which is required because we live within a testing environment. What helps to ensure our physical survival as a species is the durability of what protects us as individuals – and, to offer such shelter, these missions were constructed to be strong and permanent. They were more than resources to support settlers materially; the spiritual side was also central to their purpose.
There is an unbroken continuity between the certainty of our material needs and the depth of our psychological needs – simply because we are at risk physically, we are vulnerable emotionally. So, as we invest our loyalties into a certain approach to coping with the physicality of life, we inevitably align with shared emotional realities too – such as having faith that we belong.
How and where we build our home and place of worship not only speaks about our loyalties, preferences, history and expectations – it determines a great deal of what we become. The heritage of our enduring ties stands as a reminder of what has continuing value to us, and which must be neither neglected nor underrated if we are to realise our individual potential.
A compelling depth of character arises from the respect we assign to our heritage. It is almost inevitable that we will, at some point, be called upon to defend and protect what we think of as home, family and community. If we have nowhere to stand, then we cannot really stand for anything.
This deeper approach to life’s established values actually also gives rise to an effective breadth of vision. The future needs to unfold within particular parameters in order to keep alive the tradition we have adopted, and which has adopted us. Our choices about direction are made with reference to the past since we understand that a rich and deep history can underpin a rich and deep future.
One thing we need to be careful of is that such a complete observance of old ways can easily lead to a total lack of ambition, and also a blind adherence to superficialities that have been crystallised into community values. This can be avoided if we are always aware of who we are, what we are doing, and why.
An aware person is tested to remember their own true spiritual state at all times; this is a necessity for both an overall orientation and an underlying stability in all personal existence. In a world of deceit and illusion, where nothing is ever completely fixed in time, this presents a prodigious challenge.
An old adobe mission
Picture
Commentary from Richard Grey
No - lasting forms | standing up for our lifestyle | physical survival | defence | choices
Hello - our psychological needs
Thanks - lasting values | emotional vulnerability | loyalties | shared emotional realities
Goodbye - the act of building | the decision about what to build (based on values)
Please - group endeavour (cooperation) | a testing environment | having faith
Sorry - blind adherence | awareness | avoidance (of superficialities)
Yes - respect | spiritual state
This is all about Thanks - Our Values. Those we choose and how we attempt to make them last or Endure into the Future.
======================================================
Aquarius 1. Deciding to die, a vampire walks into the sunlight. (Omega Symbol) Manifesting/Experimental
(Degree Angel: YEZALEL (YAY-za-LEL) Heaven on Earth, Fidelity, Loyalty, and Allegiance)
This degree is about the sacrificing of personal desires to a higher purpose. When a way of life has worn itself out, its time for a change. The energy of this degree is about overcoming the fear of change, and letting go of old patterns. It wants to bring whatever is hidden to light, and to find a way to fulfill true spiritual needs.
The Chandra Symbol for this degree is “A two-headed calf.” We all have two selves – the conscious, objective self and the unconscious, or feeling self. Or, on an other level, (as Eckhard Tolle describes it), the true self and the pain body. This degree recognizes the divisions that exist within the self, as well as the need to acknowledge and respect all the various aspects of one's being. Whatever parts of ourselves we reject we inevitably come into conflict with, and the only way to resolve this conflict is to reach across our inner divisions and accept every aspect of who we are.
This degree carries the message that completely opposite ideas can peacefully co-exist, and actually have the potential to enhance and clarify each other.
Pleiadian Symbol: In the desert a way station to comfort travelers.
Azoth Symbol: Little scavengers seeking morsels.
Seed degree: Aries 11.A hospital for birds. (Omega Symbol). The healing of our hopes allows us to expose all inner shadows to the spiritual light.
Sunlight illuminating dust in the air. (Chandra Symbol). Perceiving the complexity and uncertainty of the physical world gives us a basis for perceiving dualities and dichotomies at work everywhere.
Fulfillment degree: Aries 26. A man sitting at the bottom of a crater. (Omega Symbol). Clearing inner darkness we then become able to be focused and receptive.
The man in the moon smiling. (Chandra Symbol). Completely accepting the dualistic nature of our existence brings peace and fulfillment to our emotional self.
=============================================================
Aquarius 1: An old adobe mission
In for the long haul...
Endurance is a characteristic of Aquarius 1. Think of the adobe missions built in the early settling of California. They still stand today.
As a human characteristic, endurance suggests that something worth pursuing is worth pursuing all the way. Looking to the fixed mate Scorpio symbol "A sight-seeing bus", we get the feeling of the expression, "You buy your ticket and you take your ride"... in other words, once you have committed to a bus ride, you tend to follow through on where it takes you.
Another thread of sense in Aquarius 1 is that of 'starting'. Indeed all 1st degree symbols point to a start of some kind. For Aquarius 30, the start is a 'mission'... something to set out for, to work on... that follows the decisions made in Capricorn 30.
So, imagine a powwow where a bold new policy or project is considered. Here in the 1st degree Aquarius, we find the resolve to get out there and make it happen.