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crimsoncurrentVirgo 22 (21° - 22°)
RESPONSIBILITY OF HIGH OFFICE
For there to be a noble lineage, each generation must throw up exemplars of the dignity of the community's highest sense of itself
"High-level responsibility"
Aristocracy in the political sense is the worldly reflection of the condition of an elevated soul. Kings were once the genuine spiritual leaders of their countries, and even today royalty is accorded heightened respect partly because of the sense of nobility and spiritual integrity that they are thought to carry. As we progress spiritually we tend more and more to take on the burden of being an example to others to conduct themselves with such integrity. To do so requires that we consistently resonate at the aristocratic level of soul consciousnesses.
Rudhyar:
A ROYAL COAT OF ARMS ENRICHED WITH PRECIOUS STONES
Watch the videos
A royal coat of arms enriched with precious stones
Prerogative
A royal coat of arms
With age, we gain greater inner authority; this speaks to us of the eternal aristocracy of self
In order to have a coat of arms, a family has to have impressive ancestry – and through this they assert authority and claim the prerogative of special importance. Right is being dramatised as a privilege worthy of sustainment, and is demonstrably sustained in this emblem of high aristocracy.
So often, unfortunately, the position is abused for the subtle manipulation of the unwary or the disempowered. We see examples in history, and even today, wherever the power-possessors keep the people down by making claims of self-importance.
And yet, for all its dangers and the questionable implication of inherent inequality between people through accident of birth, the establishment of royalty brings great dignity to the experience of life. This dignification process is enacted by and through the customs and laws by which the community conducts its affairs.
The observance of these rules and values has to be enforced by an elite body whose committed function is social stewardship – and, in this example, that falls to those of a particular bloodline. Times and places change, and royalty is perhaps put aside in favour of presidency, yet the principle is eternal – someone needs to accept the burden of responsibility to maintain standards.
It is inevitable that the elite group of stewards will have the duty and gift to bring together all in common purpose and united stability. This projects a future of betterment, a vision of hope and prosperity for all.
In older, simpler communities, this function fell to the elders. They were custodians of the common-sense regulation of life, and were treated with great respect for their wisdom, their knowledge of old ways, their suffering and their achievements.
This hints at a subtle mystery – that just by staying alive, each of us gains greater and greater authority. Our own station as elder, our own emblems of position, and our own inner sense of knowledge of past and future, speak to us of an eternal aristocracy of self.
A royal coat of arms
Advanced Level: Elven Star Analysis
Although we can find relevance in some way to all 360 degrees, each degree resonates particularly, and mysteriously, with the 6 other points of its Elven Star and clues, from the 7 Words System, and the Sabian Journey, are shown in the text below. This second degree of the Expression "Responsibility" is the Contrasting principle.
The scope of Virgo 22 is "High-level responsibility", and its means of expansion is Aquarius 26, "Measurement and study of how things work". Its preferred path, Cancer 30, "Respect for tradition", leads to its principle challenge, found in Capricorn 4, "Group responsiveness to collective emergency".
Awareness of its spiritual purpose is described in Gemini 9, "Focusing the mind through mastery of self", which generates the feedback found in Scorpio 13, "Seeing that everything is connected" and thus the evolutionary gateway offered by Aries 17, "Seclusion as a way to deepen self-knowledge".
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Virgo 22. A fruit whose seeds always produce a new and different type of fruit. (Omega Symbol) Interacting/Sensitive
(Degree Angel: SEHEIAH (say-HAY-ee-YAH) Soul Mats, Longevity, Releases body and mind from negative emotions)
You are highly aware that nothing is ever the same, that, as Heraclitis says, one can’t step into the same stream twice. This means that you bring into this reality a sense of utter freshness that is always and instantaneously renewed. How liberating this can be to people! All you need do is share yourself and your insights, and everyone is renewed.
The Chandra Symbol for this degree is “ A woman writing with the tip of her fingernail.” No tool such as a pen or a pencil stands between the self and the writing, meaning what is communicated is direct, as close to the self as possible. This degree is capable of great sincerity, and self expression that is vivid, pointed, and acute. There is a great ability here to make oneself heard, to make one's point. The only thing needed is to clear the self so that the point is undistorted by egotism or any other inner darkness.
Pleiadian Symbol: On a stone gate an insignia on which is found a gryphon, a snake, and an apple.
Azoth Symbol: Bowls of nuts, fruits and grain offered to the Goddess.
Seed Degree: Sagittarius 18. A satyr chasing young maidens who are laughing and screaming. (Omega Symbol). When we give in to our own joy, we are forever surprised at the beauties and wonders that can grow out of it.
Rose petals scattered on a path. (Chandra Symbol). Allowing love to draw us forward in our journey, we discover a wealth of information and guidance coming from within.
Fulfillment degree: Cancer 15. A man in an air-conditioned space suit crossing the desert. (Omega symbol). When we are attentive to our needs and how they change, we are able to be impervious to those forces which attempt to slow us down from fulfilling our destiny.
A boarded-up doorway that leads to another realm. (Chandra Symbol). When we allow the messages inside us to come forth, we are always carried toward those inner regions which need exploration and redemption.
Oracle
To enter into seeds he had to first make himself small, to return to the seed from which he grew, and then to become even smaller, so that he might enter the seed's world. It was a way of looking at what would grow out of different seeds, of assessing what might might serve his needs and hence be planted, and what might be left to other forces.
These particular seeds, though, were different. When he descended into one he found himself in a galaxy where myriads of new seeds, each one different, floated. As he gazed into this kaleidoscope of potential he realized what he'd found: the fabled Seed of Seeds.
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VIRGO 22
A woman writing with the tip of her fingernail.
Sharply attuned. Self-consistent. Always telling the same story in variations--autobiography. So much to say, such a lineage to articulate and reveal. Being brilliantly tuned in to every nuance of your own superfine sensibility and not missing a stitch. Eerily intent upon staying on course and witnessing how it is done, why it is done, with dispassionate gaze. Selected by destiny to be the one to exemplify the way it should be done. Willing and able to do this forever and do nothing else. So straight and narrow that it becomes idiosyncratic and Self-referential. The name of the game is to call the shots, to stay on top of the situation and to tap every level of intelligence to make your way purely and precisely where you were intended to be, in the master plan being followed utterly.
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Virgo 22: A royal coat of arms
Blazing...
A royal coat of arms signifies the armourial bearings of a noble heritage, place, and position. This expresses the way well-centered being can have far-reaching influence.
Imagine a knight riding to far off lands displaying a coat of arms that at once identifies who he represents, who he is, where he hails from and what he stands for. The higher ideal here suggests that energy can radiate out from a central point casting light and influence through undiscovered or unknown realms.
Every 22nd degree symbol echoes every 7th degree symbol. In this case, we can glean much from Virgo 7, "A harem", for understanding Virgo 22. The harem degree indicates a major theme of character compromise... or the issue of an uncompromising character. If you sells oneself, prostitutes oneself, for perceived comforts , advantage or privilege, there is a price to pay.
Clearly choices can be made to be uncompromising with regard to higher principles or to higher instincts, just as one could compromise oneself to satisfy lower instincts.
Aries 7, "A man successfully expressing himself in two realms at once, also indicates an awareness of how higher and lower principles, instincts, work together. The two-fold awareness sharpens focus on what is worthwhile and how one is to proceed in the world.
In the sequence Virgo 21, Virgo 22, the rules of the game may be an issue.... Virgo 21 "A girl's basketball team". There may be inequities. Perhaps there are hierarchies where some are deemed more valuable than others. Perhaps an issue of some who are not proceeding by the rules or by the principles of honourable action.
Then, in Virgo 22, we find an awareness of the need to blaze a new path, to carry the higher principles of honour and worthiness to new lands, realms where such values can re-establish their influence.
Blain Bovee
RESPONSIBILITY OF HIGH OFFICE
For there to be a noble lineage, each generation must throw up exemplars of the dignity of the community's highest sense of itself
"High-level responsibility"
Aristocracy in the political sense is the worldly reflection of the condition of an elevated soul. Kings were once the genuine spiritual leaders of their countries, and even today royalty is accorded heightened respect partly because of the sense of nobility and spiritual integrity that they are thought to carry. As we progress spiritually we tend more and more to take on the burden of being an example to others to conduct themselves with such integrity. To do so requires that we consistently resonate at the aristocratic level of soul consciousnesses.
Rudhyar:
A ROYAL COAT OF ARMS ENRICHED WITH PRECIOUS STONES
Watch the videos
A royal coat of arms enriched with precious stones
Prerogative
A royal coat of arms
With age, we gain greater inner authority; this speaks to us of the eternal aristocracy of self
In order to have a coat of arms, a family has to have impressive ancestry – and through this they assert authority and claim the prerogative of special importance. Right is being dramatised as a privilege worthy of sustainment, and is demonstrably sustained in this emblem of high aristocracy.
So often, unfortunately, the position is abused for the subtle manipulation of the unwary or the disempowered. We see examples in history, and even today, wherever the power-possessors keep the people down by making claims of self-importance.
And yet, for all its dangers and the questionable implication of inherent inequality between people through accident of birth, the establishment of royalty brings great dignity to the experience of life. This dignification process is enacted by and through the customs and laws by which the community conducts its affairs.
The observance of these rules and values has to be enforced by an elite body whose committed function is social stewardship – and, in this example, that falls to those of a particular bloodline. Times and places change, and royalty is perhaps put aside in favour of presidency, yet the principle is eternal – someone needs to accept the burden of responsibility to maintain standards.
It is inevitable that the elite group of stewards will have the duty and gift to bring together all in common purpose and united stability. This projects a future of betterment, a vision of hope and prosperity for all.
In older, simpler communities, this function fell to the elders. They were custodians of the common-sense regulation of life, and were treated with great respect for their wisdom, their knowledge of old ways, their suffering and their achievements.
This hints at a subtle mystery – that just by staying alive, each of us gains greater and greater authority. Our own station as elder, our own emblems of position, and our own inner sense of knowledge of past and future, speak to us of an eternal aristocracy of self.
A royal coat of arms
Advanced Level: Elven Star Analysis
Although we can find relevance in some way to all 360 degrees, each degree resonates particularly, and mysteriously, with the 6 other points of its Elven Star and clues, from the 7 Words System, and the Sabian Journey, are shown in the text below. This second degree of the Expression "Responsibility" is the Contrasting principle.
The scope of Virgo 22 is "High-level responsibility", and its means of expansion is Aquarius 26, "Measurement and study of how things work". Its preferred path, Cancer 30, "Respect for tradition", leads to its principle challenge, found in Capricorn 4, "Group responsiveness to collective emergency".
Awareness of its spiritual purpose is described in Gemini 9, "Focusing the mind through mastery of self", which generates the feedback found in Scorpio 13, "Seeing that everything is connected" and thus the evolutionary gateway offered by Aries 17, "Seclusion as a way to deepen self-knowledge".
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Virgo 22. A fruit whose seeds always produce a new and different type of fruit. (Omega Symbol) Interacting/Sensitive
(Degree Angel: SEHEIAH (say-HAY-ee-YAH) Soul Mats, Longevity, Releases body and mind from negative emotions)
You are highly aware that nothing is ever the same, that, as Heraclitis says, one can’t step into the same stream twice. This means that you bring into this reality a sense of utter freshness that is always and instantaneously renewed. How liberating this can be to people! All you need do is share yourself and your insights, and everyone is renewed.
The Chandra Symbol for this degree is “ A woman writing with the tip of her fingernail.” No tool such as a pen or a pencil stands between the self and the writing, meaning what is communicated is direct, as close to the self as possible. This degree is capable of great sincerity, and self expression that is vivid, pointed, and acute. There is a great ability here to make oneself heard, to make one's point. The only thing needed is to clear the self so that the point is undistorted by egotism or any other inner darkness.
Pleiadian Symbol: On a stone gate an insignia on which is found a gryphon, a snake, and an apple.
Azoth Symbol: Bowls of nuts, fruits and grain offered to the Goddess.
Seed Degree: Sagittarius 18. A satyr chasing young maidens who are laughing and screaming. (Omega Symbol). When we give in to our own joy, we are forever surprised at the beauties and wonders that can grow out of it.
Rose petals scattered on a path. (Chandra Symbol). Allowing love to draw us forward in our journey, we discover a wealth of information and guidance coming from within.
Fulfillment degree: Cancer 15. A man in an air-conditioned space suit crossing the desert. (Omega symbol). When we are attentive to our needs and how they change, we are able to be impervious to those forces which attempt to slow us down from fulfilling our destiny.
A boarded-up doorway that leads to another realm. (Chandra Symbol). When we allow the messages inside us to come forth, we are always carried toward those inner regions which need exploration and redemption.
Oracle
To enter into seeds he had to first make himself small, to return to the seed from which he grew, and then to become even smaller, so that he might enter the seed's world. It was a way of looking at what would grow out of different seeds, of assessing what might might serve his needs and hence be planted, and what might be left to other forces.
These particular seeds, though, were different. When he descended into one he found himself in a galaxy where myriads of new seeds, each one different, floated. As he gazed into this kaleidoscope of potential he realized what he'd found: the fabled Seed of Seeds.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
VIRGO 22
A woman writing with the tip of her fingernail.
Sharply attuned. Self-consistent. Always telling the same story in variations--autobiography. So much to say, such a lineage to articulate and reveal. Being brilliantly tuned in to every nuance of your own superfine sensibility and not missing a stitch. Eerily intent upon staying on course and witnessing how it is done, why it is done, with dispassionate gaze. Selected by destiny to be the one to exemplify the way it should be done. Willing and able to do this forever and do nothing else. So straight and narrow that it becomes idiosyncratic and Self-referential. The name of the game is to call the shots, to stay on top of the situation and to tap every level of intelligence to make your way purely and precisely where you were intended to be, in the master plan being followed utterly.
-------------------------------------------===
Virgo 22: A royal coat of arms
Blazing...
A royal coat of arms signifies the armourial bearings of a noble heritage, place, and position. This expresses the way well-centered being can have far-reaching influence.
Imagine a knight riding to far off lands displaying a coat of arms that at once identifies who he represents, who he is, where he hails from and what he stands for. The higher ideal here suggests that energy can radiate out from a central point casting light and influence through undiscovered or unknown realms.
Every 22nd degree symbol echoes every 7th degree symbol. In this case, we can glean much from Virgo 7, "A harem", for understanding Virgo 22. The harem degree indicates a major theme of character compromise... or the issue of an uncompromising character. If you sells oneself, prostitutes oneself, for perceived comforts , advantage or privilege, there is a price to pay.
Clearly choices can be made to be uncompromising with regard to higher principles or to higher instincts, just as one could compromise oneself to satisfy lower instincts.
Aries 7, "A man successfully expressing himself in two realms at once, also indicates an awareness of how higher and lower principles, instincts, work together. The two-fold awareness sharpens focus on what is worthwhile and how one is to proceed in the world.
In the sequence Virgo 21, Virgo 22, the rules of the game may be an issue.... Virgo 21 "A girl's basketball team". There may be inequities. Perhaps there are hierarchies where some are deemed more valuable than others. Perhaps an issue of some who are not proceeding by the rules or by the principles of honourable action.
Then, in Virgo 22, we find an awareness of the need to blaze a new path, to carry the higher principles of honour and worthiness to new lands, realms where such values can re-establish their influence.
Blain Bovee