Sabian Symbols: A large diamond not completely cut

A large diamond not completely cut

This universal idea is best expressed through planets in

Cancer 10 (9° - 10°)

TRAINING
To have any chance of realisation, the seeker must undergo serious, committed training in the hands of a good teacher 
 "Undergoing intense training in self-improvement"

We can copy experts and we can move forward intuitively but if we are to take seriously our journey from rough stone to polished, sparkling diamond, then we must be transformed at the hands of a master (if we can actually find a real one!). To become a master we need to be trained in mastery - and this typically requires diligence, tenacity, willingness to endure, and a healthy measure of humility.

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A LARGE DIAMOND IN THE FIRST STAGES OF THE CUTTING PROCESS

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A large diamond in the first stages of the cutting process

Latency

Our connections are supportive of our life progression.

A diamond appears as an uninteresting chunk of glass until it is cut by an expert, yet it carries extraordinary latency of influence and beauty. Power and beauty are so often intertwined. The process of cutting and polishing for bringing out the diamond’s inner flourish is valid – as indeed it is metaphorically for personality.

As the symbolic diamond of self is worked, so our personal reality is endowed with expanded dimensions of significance. All our connections and experiences are primarily supportive of our personal life progression – from what could be, to what is.

The skills and arts we develop have equivalence to those of the diamond-polisher. The world around us becomes somewhat dependent upon them as a means to bring to form that which otherwise only exists in its latent potential. Our values thus become an integrated aspect of our life by having a degree of influence over the circumstances of people we know.

With this level of awareness and attitude of approach we may become a shaping force – with a very effective gift for dramatising the potentialities of everything at hand. People around us change and grow.
Our journey through life is a pilgrimage as we encounter the lower planes of existence and, through some service, reveal the higher meanings we have ourselves come to understand and embody.

The justification of any person is typically sought through their impact upon the world at large and the people around them. Not only the extent of this, but the quality, is assessed as the ‘measure of man’.
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It is ultimately futile to lean upon any static version of self, counting honours and possessions as though the past is real. What we are at this moment is an unrealised powerhouse of spiritual potential that yearns to be known for what we are in essence.

A large diamond not completely cut

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 fifth degree of the Expression "Growing" is the Progression principle.

The scope of Cancer 10 is "Undergoing intense training in self-improvement", and its means of expansion is Sagittarius 14, "Reclaiming old teachings that pass the test of time". Its preferred path, Taurus 18, "Emptying the mind", leads to its principle challenge, found in Libra 22, "Expressing compassion whenever we feel it".

Awareness of its spiritual purpose is described in Pisces 27, "See your life as the fulfilment of desire", which generates the feedback found in Virgo 1, "Learning what is significant on our lives" and thus the evolutionary gateway offered by Aquarius 5, "Wise reconciliation of idealism and pragmatism". 

​(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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