The potential for heroism exists inwardly in advance of its outer expression, and can be felt as a deep-seated need for recognition of one’s capacity for dedicated self-effacing service. Even though such behaviour often stimulates society’s need to raise up an individual to the rank of leader, strutting and proclaiming this potential is inelegant and avoided by the wiser individual.
Additionally, the time and energy spent in the process of gaining broader experience is an efficient method to stimulate personal growth, and this itself has the effect of gradually widening one’s social relevance to a certain level, which equates to one’s heroic station.
Such experiences also stimulate an awakening of a genius for dramatizing life’s possibilities. This calls forth a cornucopia of fruits and riches that point to the abundance that any individual might access by following the leader’s example of effective, creative, courageous, life management.
There unfolds in the individual a great resourcefulness to develop new areas of practical experience, which with continual effort, leads to social and political gains. However, we need to remember that an idealistic leader, who may well be completely integrated within normal humdrum society, will still always be measured and also challenged for position. It goes with the job, and helps to keep alive the very skills and wisdom that qualify the leader for the position.
Rising above the pack, one is exalted by one’s personal vision and character. Other concerns are subordinated, so that the compelling goal of living actually becomes nothing more than the demonstration and presentation of one’s values as a teaching to guide others.
Continual self-dedication is a life path that brings as its reward the burden of social stewardship. With it comes the opportunity to disclose a profound practical understanding of one’s fellows, their circumstances and challenges.
Recognition, which once was sought after by an immature youth yearning to find self-realization, is now understood to be a sword that cuts with two edges, the one self-serving, the other social; one cuts away external dross, the other cuts inwardly. And whereas the first award gave intoxicating unlooked-for joy, the second suggests that a third is to be expected in due course. The burden to meet expectations becomes a dimension heavier, the path a degree more serious.
Capricorn 23
Additionally, the time and energy spent in the process of gaining broader experience is an efficient method to stimulate personal growth, and this itself has the effect of gradually widening one’s social relevance to a certain level, which equates to one’s heroic station.
Such experiences also stimulate an awakening of a genius for dramatizing life’s possibilities. This calls forth a cornucopia of fruits and riches that point to the abundance that any individual might access by following the leader’s example of effective, creative, courageous, life management.
There unfolds in the individual a great resourcefulness to develop new areas of practical experience, which with continual effort, leads to social and political gains. However, we need to remember that an idealistic leader, who may well be completely integrated within normal humdrum society, will still always be measured and also challenged for position. It goes with the job, and helps to keep alive the very skills and wisdom that qualify the leader for the position.
Rising above the pack, one is exalted by one’s personal vision and character. Other concerns are subordinated, so that the compelling goal of living actually becomes nothing more than the demonstration and presentation of one’s values as a teaching to guide others.
Continual self-dedication is a life path that brings as its reward the burden of social stewardship. With it comes the opportunity to disclose a profound practical understanding of one’s fellows, their circumstances and challenges.
Recognition, which once was sought after by an immature youth yearning to find self-realization, is now understood to be a sword that cuts with two edges, the one self-serving, the other social; one cuts away external dross, the other cuts inwardly. And whereas the first award gave intoxicating unlooked-for joy, the second suggests that a third is to be expected in due course. The burden to meet expectations becomes a dimension heavier, the path a degree more serious.
Capricorn 23
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