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Sabian Symbols: Grande dames at tea

Grande dames at tea
Grande dames at tea
This universal idea is best expressed through planets in

Virgo 27 (26° - 27°)

RITUALISED MUNDANE LIFE
Tradition is revered and the confused mind is centred by
practising normal everyday functions in a ritualistic manner
"The pursuit of excellence"
There are rituals carried out in society, especially high society, that relate to the manner of dress, of conversation, of taking food and of celebration. These hold in place certain qualities that are otherwise lost - such things as dignity, elegance, respect for tradition and hierarchy, and such like. They also expose rebelliousness and dissension and so help protect the status quo and support the pursuit of excellence.
 
Rudhyar:
A GROUP OF ARISTOCRATIC LADIES MEET CEREMONIALLY AT A COURT'S FUNCTION








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A group of aristocratic ladies meet ceremonially at a court's function

Aplomb

Grande dames at tea
May future generations always have better prospects than we ourselves inherited

Selfhood is the current, momentary focus of attention that we claim as our inward orientation. It is a highly concentrated set of values and experiences, and it derives as much from inherited racial assets as from anything uniquely personal.  

The traditions of one generation are always available to structure, underpin and strengthen the next. This does not deny our uniqueness of individualism; it merely helps to explain and enhance it.
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The grande dames are no doubt raising china cups to drink their tea, pinkies fashionably angled to display their social status as upper middle class, with their precious aplomb perfected by repeated practice. They learned all this from their mothers and ancestors, going back before time. And they will pass on their values through their offspring, assuring themselves of an effective continuance throughout the ages.

We all do this, although perhaps not in such an effete manner. However, unless we decide to be, we are not actually constrained by this background continuity of how reality should be interpreted and projected. The threshold of aliveness is in the instant we awaken to the controversial discovery of new ways to take tea.

We must endeavour to pass on to future generations more than we have received, and our gains need to be captured and presented to posterity. We have more to experience in life than the karmic payback of past indiscretions and services rendered, and are here to be creative and further the range of human articulation.

Special privileges can so easily be squandered and selfishly enjoyed – but a person of aplomb will administer their inheritance for the greater good of their people, whether this is measured in material or spiritual terms. They do so as the foundation for further progressive elaboration in generations to come.

Even apparently common experiences like taking tea contain a volume of information about humanity’s evolutionary history. It is for us to make our own common experiences speak as eloquently about the future, and use our traditions mindfully as the springboard for new ways to express human potential.

​Grandes dames at tea

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 "Perfecting" is the Contrasting principle.

The scope of Virgo 27 is "The pursuit of excellence", and its means of expansion is Pisces 1, "Exchange ideas, goods and services mindfully". Its preferred path, Leo 5, "Seeing things in the larger context", leads to its principle challenge, found in Capricorn 9, "Being in tune with love, harmony and beauty".

Awareness of its spiritual purpose is described in Gemini 14, "Exceptional connectedness and rapport", which generates the feedback found in Scorpio 18, "Freeing ourselves from patterns of limiting beliefs" and thus the evolutionary gateway offered by Aries 22, "Optimism, synergy, sharing and abundance as life principles". 

​(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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