Sabian Symbols: A woman suffragist haranguing

A woman suffragist haranguing

This universal idea is best expressed through planets in

Gemini 16 (15° - 16°)

PASSIONATE PERSUASION
A powerful mind can hold sway over others
​and win them over to a new way of thinking
"Being open to persuasion"

It is not effective at all to present new ideas in a dry matter-of-fact tone. The first step must be to win the attention of the group by persuading people that we have something of interest to say. An intrusive manner of speech is almost inevitable, probably backed up by hyperbole, drama and startling claims. Strong feelings are almost de rigueur - and to be felt not just acted out.

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A WOMAN ACTIVIST IN AN EMOTIONAL SPEECH DRAMATISING HER CAUSE

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A woman activist in an emotional speech dramatising her cause

Indignation

Mature adults assertively claim full involvement in shaping their affairs

Before the emancipation of women, it was accepted that certain categories of people were of lesser worth. These people – women – felt great indignation about this, and refused to continue to play along. They demanded full participation in life, as adults.

It is implicit that, for a community to operate effectively there must be mutuality in the exchange of opinions, so that each and every viewpoint is aired and heard.

In this way our life values are maintained both individually and as a community.
The responsibility, which goes along with this, is that we must desist from bias and bigotry and present our case in a reasonable and reasoned fashion.

This is how the worldwide reconstruction of situations unfolds without bloodshed. Diplomacy and democracy are attempts to resolve social stresses peacefully.

Unless all responsible members of a group have a franchise to exercise their perspectives and urges, then unreasoned conflict is inevitable, and the bloodletting begins. Opening up the power-sharing process eventually leads to benefits for all, in unimagined ways. All members of the community will enjoy an enlarged reach of privilege once false restrictions are lifted.
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Yet, realistically, we have also to remember that those in position are always reluctant to diminish their influence. Power must be taken, it cannot ever be given, and righteous indignation is the first legitimate step towards justice – often followed by demands.

A woman suffragist haranguing

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 first degree of the Expression "Participation" is the Affirming principle.

The scope of Gemini 16 is "Being open to persuasion", and its means of expansion is Scorpio 20, "Through the deepening of faith, opening up to an expanded future". Its preferred path, Aries 24, "Allowing higher forces to shape our lives", leads to its principle challenge, found in Virgo 28, "Honing the will to exceptional levels".

Awareness of its spiritual purpose is described in Pisces 3, "Read between the lines to infer whatever cannot be fully known", which generates the feedback found in Leo 7, "Knowing of the spiritual truth beneath the illusion of that which changes" and thus the evolutionary gateway offered by Capricorn 11, "Refining and beautifying Nature". 

​(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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