Sabian Symbols: ​Cupid knocking on the door

Cupid knocking on the door

This universal idea is best expressed through planets in

Sagittarius 7 (6° - 7°)

STIRRING UP OF EMOTION
​There's always something going on to keep us from giving up and losing our appetite to stay involved in life's ups and downs
 "Being receptive to the stirring of emotions"

In direct contrast to group consciousness, most people also experience the emotional intensity of falling in love, a temporary condition during which period self-centred feelings dominate and our concern for social approval is often minimal or absent. There is a huge challenge to somehow bring the balancing force of consciousness and reasonableness to bear upon the situation without denying the high degree of intensity of emotional experience, which keeps the life force operating strongly within us.

Rudhyar: 
CUPID KNOCKS AT THE DOOR OF A HUMAN HEART

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​Cupid knocks at the door of a human heart

Allurement

A visionary person follows their dream motivated by optimism – because they know that life is bountiful

Life is abundant. With the correct attitude of expectation and focus, we can inevitably draw deeply upon the resources that are all around, and receive rich blessings.

To do so it may well require constant renewal of our relationship with others, an individual willingness to change or refine anything and everything in our nature and circumstances, as an exercise in self-quickening.

There is an incurably romantic aspect to humankind that is brought to life in relation to others, time after time, notwithstanding frequent and repeated disillusionment. This surely speaks to us of hope and optimism. However often Cupid strikes, we always get caught again next time.

Seeking out an unattainable ideal and vision of self-fulfilment, we can go through unending social renewals, forming and then breaking the ties of association with fellows, ever moving on towards the allurement of a dream.

There is no limit to the horizon of our appetite for new experience. It is as fundamental a motivation as any other; it is creative, liberal and far-sighted.

Through this process, the integrity of our spiritual self is made known, since it is entirely necessary to become self-aware and sensitive to the needs and constraints of whatever and whoever we meet en route.

Unbridled desire, cupidity and self-exaltation are never far away, and can bubble up to take prominence at any time, yet – in all innocence – we seek only to consume and be consumed within the intimacies of involvement with whatever life offers us.

​Cupid knocking on the door

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 "Training" is the Contrasting principle.

The scope of Sagittarius 7 is "Being receptive to the stirring of emotions", and its means of expansion is Taurus 11, "Constructing a beautiful personality". Its preferred path, Libra 15, "Serene realisation of the cycles of creation and destruction", leads to its principle challenge, found in Pisces 19, "Participate in the transmission of love and knowledge".

Awareness of its spiritual purpose is described in Leo 24, "Giving attention only to what matters", which generates the feedback found in Capricorn 28, "Awareness of signs and subtle metaphors in life" and thus the evolutionary gateway offered by Cancer 2, "Expanding our perception of what is and what could be ". 

​​(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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