Sabian Symbols: A radical magazine

A radical magazine

This universal idea is best expressed through planets in

Gemini 5 (4°- 5°)

GOING BEYOND ESTABLISHED LIMITS
​Discovery leads to an unwillingness to accept the status quo
"Going beyond established limits and collective opinions"

Any sustained push in one direction must inevitably trigger a push-back of equal intensity; such is life at root. However much the powers of civilized authority require conformity, there will always be those who choose at whatever cost to reach beyond the boundaries to discover what lies there. Almost by definition these are the law-breakers, the marginals and the weirdos, who tend to be feared, ridiculed and scapegoated.

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A REVOLUTIONARY MAGAZINE ASKING FOR ACTION

​A revolutionary magazine asking for action

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Tangency

Through the tangential touch, we link to everything else

Personality effectively puts its stamp on everything it touches, even if the touch is merely tangential. This is because personality is a co-created form, a characteristic of relating, and is shaped as it shapes.

​A radical magazine touches our world with opinion and information about things right at the very edge of our awareness. Through such processes, we are linked to all and everything, and even the most subtle and hidden potentialities of our lives are introduced as real and functional aspects of our experience.

We are often tempted to quarrel belligerently with those whose world view is radically different from our own. This is perverse behaviour and is unhelpful, particularly if it does not sponsor the raising of awareness.

It is for us to come to terms with others who share very little of our perceptions and issues. Even if there is some confrontation, eventually a settled position must be reached.

On occasion, the introduction of new ideas is entirely necessary to stir us at the deepest level in order to raise something important in our lives to a high degree of self-expression.

The principal under review is finding an appropriate balance between inner and outer compulsions, with a clear sense that whatever stirs us deeply in our feelings has special worth in defining who we are.

It’s worth remembering that change is the essence of all existence, so it is necessary for us to allow a significant element of adjustment and evolution in our interactions. This requires us to be exposed to viewpoints that challenge at root the status quo, and threaten our easy composure.

​A radical magazine

Commentary

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 "Freshness" is the Progression principle.

The scope of Gemini 5 is "Going beyond established limits and collective opinions", and its means of expansion is Scorpio 9, "Being helpful in solving others' problems". Its preferred path, Aries 13, "Sincere, if naïve,  steps towards self-perfection", leads to its principle challenge, found in Virgo 17, "Release of emotional blocks".

Awareness of its spiritual purpose is described in Aquarius 22, "Practising kindness as a spiritual path", which generates the feedback found in Cancer 26, "Power, responsibility and impermanence of social position" and thus the evolutionary gateway offered by Sagittarius 30, "Living as a trans-personal symbol, representing an ideal". 

​(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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