Sabian Symbols: Old bridge over a beautiful stream

Old bridge over a beautiful stream

This universal idea is best expressed through planets in

Sagittarius 28 (27° - 28°)

MAKING USEFUL THINGS BEAUTIFUL
We can consecrate our lives more by remembering to
​marry spiritual qualities with mundane needs
"Marrying up the mundane and the spiritual beautifully"

We are creative beings seeking to beautify our lives meaningfully. Were we not capable of transforming our environment, we would be little more than animals of the wilderness constantly in fear for our survival. Yet when taken too far, taming Nature results in ugliness, the desolation of the concrete jungles that big cities become, and environmental poisoning. The resultant inner desolation, depression and frustration that comes out as violent aggression or mindless conformity is evidence of the need to reconcile civilisation with Nature, making what is useful also beautiful.

Rudhyar: 
AN OLD BRIDGE OVER A BEAUTIFUL STREAM IS STILL IN CONSTANT USE
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​Old bridge over a beautiful stream is still in constant use

Conservation

All ideals and all people fit together to embody an eternal pattern of Nature

Old things, old ways and old ideas can be nothing more than outworn evidence of a total lack of initiative, or an inner lack of vitality or courage. Old isn’t necessarily good.

And yet, delightfully, old structures can also speak of the enduring stability of the world at large, hinting at an eternal sense of security and well-being that places us in the present moment, yet with firm and ancient worldly roots.

Humanity has built objects of stone and wood that last for generations and have seen the rise and fall of empires, fashions and waves of historical change. We come to depend more for our sense of rightness on what is built by masons than what is built by governments and culture.

Each person can attend to their own requirements by expressing their needs in form and function, and such objects that are thus made tend to last, and take on a special worth within our sense of goodness and beauty.

In turn, Nature has a way of integrating the best of these to enhance her already perfect beauty. Does the chipped, moss-clad, discoloured bridge diminish the scene? It does not; it seems to draw better attention to the loveliness of the stream it spans.

Each person can blend and integrate each other person – as do stream and bridge, which are in natural harmony, each enhancing the other’s essential features. All needs and ideals fit together to serve the eternal pattern, though only genius can see this.

What falls away, as ephemeral as dust upon the wind, is what does not serve and take its place usefully into this universal pattern of cosmic alignment.

​Old bridge over a beautiful stream

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 third degree of the Expression "Conscience" is the Reconciling principle.

The scope of Sagittarius 28 is "Marrying up the mundane and the spiritual beautifully", and its means of expansion is Gemini 2, "Belief in the universality of abundance". Its preferred path, Scorpio 6, "Finding the appetite to experience more abundance and life adventures", leads to its principle challenge, found in Aries 10, "Uniqueness in perception and attitude".

Awareness of its spiritual purpose is described in Virgo 15, "Wise reflection of positive and negative parental influence", which generates the feedback found in Aquarius 19, "Dealing with emergencies" and thus the evolutionary gateway offered by Cancer 23, "Learning the hidden language of image and metaphor". 

​​(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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