Sabian Symbols: Girl's face breaking into a smile

Girl's face breaking into a smile

This universal idea is best expressed through planets in

Scorpio 16 (15° - 16°)

GESTURES OF FRIENDLINESS
A simple thing like a smile can change the way we attract relationships and experience warmth in our lives
"Seeing all things in life as a mirror of who we are"

Generally speaking animals do not smile, it is a defining human characteristic and it applies not only the ability but also the willingness to choose harmony and faith over fear and conflict. A smile is a very powerful device that promotes goodwill and the smoothing of the way.

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GIRL'S FACE BREAKING INTO A SMILE

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​Girl's face breaking into a smile

Acquiescence

Acquiescence is not self-betrayal when it reveals wisdom and promotes harmony
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We may try, through modesty or caution, to veil the mystery of our being, yet the truth will out. In essence, nothing remains forever hidden, so ultimately our value and our values must bubble to the surface and be revealed.
 
Humans are friendly by nature; it shows in how we respond to others and to animals. So, try as we might to hold our clench, there are social forces that compel us into dramatizing our inner need for sharing. Sometimes we simply have to allow ourselves to be vulnerable – and be seen as such.
 
Acquiescence is not self-betrayal when it reveals wisdom and promotes harmony: it is a giving of the heart. If wisdom is stubborn then it is not wisdom, and should not be accorded much value.
 
The core of oneself must be revealed in order to be examined for authenticity. Everyday life is certain to push us to dramatise inner truths, so that we come to be seen for who we are. All illusion and self-deception is at some point eventually exposed.
 
What dresses our essential being is the veil of personality. It is magical, and has an uncanny ability to conjure up the exact circumstances of our lives. This is charm. With charm’s powerful grace desire is realised.
 
Such a power is constant temptation. The problem is that we can so easily misinterpret our indiscriminate attractions towards pleasure as if they were a revelation of a deeper truth, whereas so often we have simply lost the connection to essence-self. To guard against this we need great sensitivity to the subtle intuitive clues of conscience that add depth to our realization of authenticity.
 
In the end we learn that nothing is ever truly hidden. Yet nothing can ever be truly revealed. So we can elegantly employ simple things to deal with great and complex obstacles, a smile that turns enemy to friend.

​Girl's face breaking into a smile

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 "Unveiling" is the Affirming principle.

The scope of Scorpio 16 is "Seeing all things in life as a mirror of who we are", and its means of expansion is Aries 20, " Being innocent and fearless in love". Its preferred path, Virgo 24, "The spiritual practice of innocence", leads to its principle challenge, found in Aquarius 28, "Expanding perception in order to see more deeply".

Awareness of its spiritual purpose is described in Leo 3, "Doing our own thing in our own way", which generates the feedback found in Capricorn 7, "Insights into what to expect of life" and thus the evolutionary gateway offered by Gemini 11, "Adventurous journey into the unknown". 

​​(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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