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From: Astron <astron1@...>
Subject: GROUP/ Libra Full Moon
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Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 10:02 PM



From: Olav Sydow - Berlin, Germany <mailto:osydow@...>

Libra Full Moon

Sunday October 4, 2009

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Exoteric ruler: Venus - 5th Ray
Esoteric ruler: Uranus -7th Ray

The 3rd ray is transmitted through Libra.

The sign Libra is one of peculiar interest, but in a most paradoxical manner,
for much of its interest is based upon the fact that it lacks spectacular
interest of any kind - except in the case of disciples or those nearing the
Path. It is a sign of balancing, of careful weighing of values, and of achieving
the right equilibrium between the pairs of opposites. It might be regarded as
the sign in which the first real vision of the Path appears and of the goal
towards which the disciple must ultimately direct his steps. This Path is the
narrow razor-edged Path which runs between the pairs of opposites and which - if
it is to be safely trodden - requires the development of a sense of values and
the power to utilize rightly the balancing, analytical faculty of the mind. It
is also the sign of intuitive perception ...

Libra can also be spoken of in terms of the meditation process as taught both in
East and West. It can, therefore, be regarded as the "interlude between two
activities," which is the explanation given to that stage in meditation which we
call contemplation. In the five stages of meditation (as usually taught) you
have the following: Concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination and
inspiration. These five stages are paralleled in the five strictly human signs
of the zodiac:

Leo - Concentration - Soul life focused in form. Individualization.
Self-consciousness. Undeveloped and average man. Human experience.

Virgo - Meditation - Soul life, as sensed in man, the gestation period. The
stage of the hidden Christ. Intelligent man. Personality, as hiding the Christ
life.

Libra - Contemplation - Life of soul and form is balanced. Neither dominates.
Equilibrium. An interlude wherein the soul organizes itself for battle and the
personality waits. This is the probationary path. Duality known.

Scorpio - Illumination - The soul triumphs. Experience in Taurus consummated.
Astral glamor dissipated. Soul light pours in. The Path of Discipleship. The
Disciple.

Sagittarius - Inspiration - Preparation for initiation. Soul inspires
personality life. Soul expresses itself through personality. The Initiate.

I would here remind you that, though initiation is taken in Capricorn, the man
is an initiate before he is initiated. This is the true secret of initiation.

You have, therefore, the activity wherein the personality grows and develops,
and yet at the same time it veils and hides the hidden "man of the heart," which
is the Christ, within each human form. You have then the interlude wherein the
point of balance is reached between these two and neither is dominant. The
"scales tip back and forth" in either direction or - as it is sometimes
expressed - man swings between the pairs of opposites. Hence the importance of
this sign in the life expression of the man and hence also its peculiar
difficulty; it provides the curious see-saw experience which proves so
distressingly bewildering first to the man who seeks to be entirely human but
finds within himself impediments and urges which drive him on to something which
is higher than the human and, secondly, to the aspirant or the disciple. His
focus of interest and his aim is soul life, yet he finds within himself that
which seeks ever to draw him back to the old
  ways, the old habits and
the old desires.

This sign is sometimes called "the place of judgment" for it is here that the
decision is made and the die is cast which separate the "sheep from the goats"
or those constellations ruled by Aries (the Ram or Lamb) and those ruled by
Capricorn, the Goat.

There is therefore the individual experience in Libra of the balanced life
wherein experiment is made and the consequent tipping of the Scales in one
direction or another until either desire or spiritual aspiration weighs the
balances down sufficiently so as to indicate the way that the man must go at the
time. There is the experience of humanity in Libra in which the same adjustments
and experiments are being made, but this time the entire race of men is involved
and not just an individual.

It is because of this balancing quality in Libra that this constellation can be
associated more specifically with the problem of sex than can any of the others.

For most aspirants in the early stages, sex does constitute a fundamental
problem. Esoterically, however, it is in Libra that the whole question comes up
and will increasingly come up for answering, and it is in Libra that the
balancing of the pairs of opposites must take place and reach solution through
the activity of the judicial mind and the establishing of a point of equilibrium
between the male and the female principles. This again (for it is a piece of
recurrent symbology) is the problem existing basically between the Sheep and the
Goats, between negative and positive, and between those who blindly follow
either instinct or custom and those who climb freely where they choose and are
self-directed in conduct and attitude. This self-direction may lead them in
either direction upon the wheel of life, following either selfish desire or
spiritual aspiration, but the point to have in mind is that, judicially and with
intent and after due reflection and
  balancing of the vario
us ways, they then do as they will and as seems to them right and desirable.
This is of itself of a basic usefulness and thereby they learn; for all action
produces results and the judicial mind weighs cause and effect more correctly
than any other.

When the basic "sex" relation is finally established and soul and body (positive
and negative) are permanently related in the lives of the world aspirants, then
we shall see the right handling of the world teaching on the subject of physical
sex. This teaching will come from the merging and synthesis of the best views of
all the spiritually minded teachers in both hemispheres, embodying the
experience of the East and of the West, and of the mystical and the scientific
approaches to a mystery which is both physical (requiring scientific
understanding) and mystical (requiring spiritual interpretation). It will
involve the aid and conclusions of the medical profession in order to give the
needed wise, physical instruction and the aid also of the cultural knowledge of
the yogis of India in connection with the energy flowing through the centers -
in this case the sacral center. Finally, through the intelligent activity of the
judicial and legal-minded men of
  the world, the search
for a balanced and desirable point of view will come to an end.

Libra, as you know, governs the legal profession and holds the balances between
so-called right and wrong, between negative and positive and also between East
and West. This last point of adjustment may seem to you to be a meaningless
phrase, but when the true and right relationship is established between the
orient and the occident (which is not yet the case) it will come about through
the activity of Libra and the work of the legal profession.

Libra has been the "sponsor of the law." Legislation has hitherto been engrossed
with the enforcing of those negations and those attitudes of fear which have
been preserved for us in the Mosaic code and imposed through the medium of
punishment for infringement. This has been a probably necessary stage for child
races and for the preservation of a "nursery regime" for men. But mankind is
reaching maturity and a different interpretation of the purposes and intents of
Libra through the medium of law is now required. The law must become the
custodian of a positive righteousness and not simply the instrument of
enforcement. Just as we are attempting to eliminate force out of our national
relationships, and just as it is obvious today that the process of drastic
penalties has not succeeded in preventing crime or in deterring people from
violent selfishness (for that is what all crime is), and just as the social
attitude (in contradistinction to the anti-social
  position of all law-b
reakers) is being regarded as desirable and taught in our schools, so it is
beginning to dawn upon the public consciousness that the inculcation of right
relations and the spread of self-control and the growth of unselfishness (and
these surely are the goal, subjective and oft unrealized, of all legal
procedure) are the needed approach to the young. The influence of Libra should
be imposed in childhood along spiritual lines. Crime will be stamped out when
the environing conditions in which children live are bettered, when physical
attention is given in the early formative years to glandular balance as well as
to teeth and eyes and ears, to right posture and correct feeding, and when there
is also a more proper apportionment of time; when esoteric psychology and
esoteric astrology give their contribution of knowledge to the bringing up of
young people. The old methods must give way to the new and the conservative
attitude must be dropped in favor of
  religious, psychic and phy
sical training and experiment, scientifically applied and mystically motivated.
When I say religious, I do not refer to doctrinal or theological teaching. I
mean the cultivation of those attitudes and conditions which will evoke reality
in man, bring the inner spiritual man to the foreground of consciousness and
thus produce the recognition of God Immanent.

In this transition period through which the world is now passing and in this
interlude between two activities - that of the Piscean Age which is passing and
that of Aquarius which is coming in - Libra will eventually rule, and the end of
this century will see the influence of Libra steadily coming into pronounced
control and into a position of power in the planetary horoscope. There is,
therefore, no need for real anxiety.

A certain relationship or configuration of stars - of which one is the star
Regulus, in Leo - will bring about a situation wherein the reorientation of the
attitude of the legal profession will take place; its functions and duties will
be centralized for the purpose of world usefulness, and in this process
legislation for children will assume great importance and be the motivating
power. This legal step will be primarily advocated by Russia and endorsed by the
United States of America. Before 2035 A.D. such legislation will be universal in
its sphere of influence and control.

All this will come about because Libra rules the present interlude and might be
regarded as "the master of no-man's land," as one of the Masters of the Wisdom
called it lately.

Uranus is the esoteric ruler and is of supreme importance in this sign for the
seventh ray works through this planet and is the embodiment of the principle of
concretion and the materializing of that which is in need of objective
manifestation, through the bringing together of spirit and matter. It is here
that the whole mystery of money lies hid and the creation and production of
money. I would like here to point out to you that it is with the third aspect of
divinity and the third aspect alone that the creative process is concerned. It
is through the relation of the three aspects of the third divine manifestation -
law, affinity and concretized energy - that money is created.

It is here that many mystics and world servers prove futile. They work from far
too high a level and from the standpoint of spiritual incentive. They normally
and naturally (because that is where their focus of consciousness is placed)
work from the standpoint of the second aspect, whereas it is the third aspect
(equally divine and equally important) which must be invoked and evoked. Ponder
upon these words. It is not the bringing together of spirit and matter as
occultism understands those terms but the relating of physical need and physical
supply and the bringing together of two tangibles through the power of the
creative imagination. It is for this reason that so many schools of thought
prove so successful in materializing that which is required and why other
schools of thought so signally fail. They work from too high a plane and have
not the ability to carry through. I have here given you hints which can be
fruitful of result if interpreted
  correctly and acted upon from
  right motive, in group formation and with selfless purpose.

The words or keynotes of this sign are so clear and plain that any elucidation
of mine would serve but to confuse the issue. They speak straight to the heart
and without obscurity. To the average man with no developed spiritual
consciousness, the word goes forth again and again throughout the aeons:

"And the Word said: Let choice be made."

The response eventually comes back as a result of the evolutionary process and
from the soul:

"I choose the way which leads between the two great lines of force."

(Source: Alice Bailey - Esoteric Astrology)

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