Sabian Symbols: Drilling for oil

Drilling for oil

This universal idea is best expressed through planets in

Gemini 6 (5°- 6°)

ZEALOUS APPETITE
​Insatiable ​questing for information and knowledge takes us into emotional process and the uncovering of dark secrets
"Zealous appetite for knowledge"

In the same way that some people are greedy for wealth and power, others seek to penetrate deep into the hidden realms in pursuit of knowledge. Whereas material trappings of success are the most popular goals, a more awakened soul knows that knowledge is a higher achievement. Gemini is as interested in delving deep into the dark unknown realms of the unconscious (oil) as they are to pursue the higher wisdom of spirit (refining).

Rudhyar:
WORKMEN DRILLING FOR OIL

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​Workmen drilling for oil

Speculation

Progress is mostly about taking risks as we follow our urges to enrich our experience of life
Drilling for oil requires a great degree of specialisation by which we concentrate our sense of self-motivation single-pointedly.
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We are motivated by the wish to broaden our reach and availability of resources. Yet perhaps we are going too far in areas of self-exploitation – it is speculative; it carries risk.

We are naturally inclined to endow each and every life experience to the fullest extent. We seek to optimise our wealth – including wealth of experience – and this is not a safe process, nor without core-level challenges to our sense of self and self-worth.

The pursuit of this life direction, as with any other, can stimulate us to evolve an indomitable strength of effort. It is no easy task to exploit the earth’s hidden wealth and requires us to dig no less deeply into our selves. The outer effort clearly reflects the inner.

We never really know what to expect. We have clear hopes for this enterprise to reveal its abundance and repay our efforts – but typically, as we pursue uncertain objectives, we have to be open to the revelation of new dimensions of life and of self, which may or may not fulfil our desires and expectations.

The process itself is the true reward. The utmost depths of potential in character are revealed to us but not without effort and active participation in the furthering of life experience. The participation, not the outcome, is the most rewarding part of this equation.

None of this is available to us unless and until we accept the need for risk. Essentially, personal and species evolution is mainly about speculation.

​Drilling for oil

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 "Appetite" is the Affirming principle.

The scope of Gemini 6 is "Zealous appetite for knowledge", and its means of expansion is Scorpio 10, "Enjoyment of friendliness". Its preferred path, Aries 14, "Recognition of the sacredness of relationship", leads to its principle challenge, found in Virgo 18, "Deep and mysterious intuitive self-awareness".

Awareness of its spiritual purpose is described in Aquarius 23, "Demonstration of self-control", which generates the feedback found in Cancer 27, "Facing crisis philosophically" and thus the evolutionary gateway offered by Capricorn 1, "Observing the effects of unrestrained personal power". 

​(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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