Sabian Symbols: Old fashioned woman and up-to-date girl

Old fashioned woman and up-to-date girl

This universal idea is best expressed through planets in

Leo 6 (5° - 6°)

IMPERMANENCE OF VALUES
​What is thought important, moral or even courteous changes very quickly from one generation to the next
"Being indifferent to fashions of morality and values"

The mirroring within society, of personal growth, is to be seen as changing social values. These changes are cyclical and evolutionary, or even revolutionary. They express as style, as belief and so on, and it is almost always youth that confronts the conservative, older social leaders demanding change. And change in the end always comes, since nothing is permanent - not even our sense of right and wrong.
 
Rudhyar:
A CONSERVATIVE, OLD-FASHIONED LADY IS CONFRONTED BY A "HIPPIE" GIRL

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A conservative, old-fashioned lady is confronted by a "hippie" girl

Contrast

Awareness and wisdom arise through differentiation

The dynamic of life is provided by the constructive tension between opposites as they interact with friction. The old woman and young girl are always in contrast to each other, and yet their very competition is somehow cooperative. Each is somewhat defined by the other.

Conventionality and initiative are a continual stimulus to each other, as we see all around us in every aspect of everyday life, and all the roles in our society. The old woman tends to overemphasise her individual traits; the younger has a degree of psychological reticence, under-statement of self. The one holds alive and protects contributions of the past, the other administers the promise of the future.

As we see, it is the actual contrast between two contrary forces that brings with it greater awareness, and the resultant perfecting of wisdom into our ordinary lives.

Personal achievement is optimised through a creative appreciation and adaptation of the values established previously by others. The young girl’s timid personality is made stronger by adapting to her current circumstances the understandings she inherits from the older woman. Each of us somehow has to accept the best of its wisdom even as we rebel against the status quo.

Projecting our own aspirations, we find ourselves simultaneously both emulating and rejecting our parents’ values.

At a higher level of symbolism, we see that the soul and the ego are themselves a pair of contrasting polarised forces. The soul’s eternal knowledge is both inspiring and threatening to the ego’s need – to accommodate its lust for immediacy and pleasure, while pursuing some deeper meaning within life’s mystery.

This is how we learn the dance of struggle and surrender – changing only what can be changed, and accepting all else.

​Old fashioned woman and up-to-date girl

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 "Impact" is the Affirming principle.

The scope of Leo 6 is "Being indifferent to fashions of morality and values", and its means of expansion is Capricorn 10, "Radiating peaceful harmony". Its preferred path, Gemini 14, "Exceptional connectedness and rapport", leads to its principle challenge, found in Scorpio 18, "Freeing ourselves from patterns of limiting beliefs".

Awareness of its spiritual purpose is described in Aries 23, "Creative assertiveness towards furtherment of potentials", which generates the feedback found in Virgo 27, "The pursuit of excellence" and thus the evolutionary gateway offered by Pisces 1, "Exchange ideas, goods and services mindfully". 

​(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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