Sabian Symbols: A barn dance

A barn dance

This universal idea is best expressed through planets in

Gemini 22 (21° - 22°)

CHANNELLED RELEASE OF EMOTION
Emotion is a normal aspect of being human and therefore has a proper place in the natural order of life
"Sharing our feelings within our community"

The industrial city life with factories, and therefore worker unrest, is contrasted by the pastoral village life where it is normal to celebrate the swings and roundabouts of our feelings, which are more in tune with the seasons and rhythms of Nature. As a healthy society includes both cities and villages, so a healthy person includes both intellectual and emotional drives and values.

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​DANCING COUPLES IN A HARVEST FESTIVAL

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​Dancing couples in a harvest festival

Gregariousness

Our values, ideals, aspirations and prospects depend on community exchanges

A compelling motivation for us all is to obtain satisfaction through being exactly what we are – whatever circumstances we find ourselves engaged in. This delivers self-assurance and its attendant sense of confidence and appropriateness.

As we emerge out of the self-centredness of early childhood, we learn that we need to balance give and take in how we connect with others. Exchanges take place on the level of trade and social interactions, and these must have both parties feeling fairly treated for the relationship to last and flourish.

At a barn dance we meet various members of the community – some close to us, some more distant – and the success of the event is assured by everyone’s willingness to share this rich experience. We should not take gregariousness for granted; it speaks to a general background atmosphere of security, trust and openness towards strangers.

The event shows of our own willingness to participate in society, and enjoy the fruits of an easy division of labour. Some prepare food, some play music and some are there just to dance.

This is just one example of how it is sometimes entirely appropriate to plunge into life’s opportunities for the joy of communal involvement. Though we so often forget, we depend upon society for everything we are and everything we have – including as a matrix that gives form to our ideals and aspirations.

It is inappropriate therefore to engage at only a superficial level and only put our petty indulgences out into the world. We are encouraged to share passion, to reveal our nakedness of feelings, and the vulnerabilities and strengths that give us our special characteristics.
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If we restrict what we offer, we necessarily limit what we can receive. It is pointless and self-defeating, raising caution as greater than trust, fear greater than love.

A barn dance

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 "Clearing" is the Contrasting principle.

The scope of Gemini 22 is "Sharing our feelings within our community", and its means of expansion is Scorpio 26, "Trusting that we can find whatever we need wherever we go". Its preferred path, Aries 30, "Practising worldly competence as a spiritual principle", leads to its principle challenge, found in Libra 4, "Spiritual communion within a group of peers".

Awareness of its spiritual purpose is described in Pisces 9, "Be determined to succeed", which generates the feedback found in Leo 13, "Reflection and depth assimilation of our experiences" and thus the evolutionary gateway offered by Capricorn 17, "Freeing yourself from unhealthy prohibitions". 

​(This list will differ slightly from your Elven Star points unless your degree is exact, such as Taurus 15:00 not Taurus 15:39)

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