Sabian Symbols: Two rabbits dressed in clothes and on parade

Two rabbits dressed in clothes and on parade

This universal idea is best expressed through planets in

Cancer 8 (7° - 8°)

​MODELLING OURSELVES ON A GUIDE
By copying a master's attitudes, beliefs, gestures and words we gain mastery ourselves

A time-honoured process for us to learn and develop is to imitate an established master of a craft in as much detail as possible. This method requires no wisdom or philosophy, we simply copy exactly all the physical processes of the craft and allow our own understandings to emerge as the skills take hold.

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A GROUP OF RABBITS DRESSED IN HUMAN CLOTHES WALK AS IF ON PARADE

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A group of rabbits dressed in human clothes walk as if on parade

Appropriation

The real is established as it is dramatised

The suggestion some might take here, in this image, is that rabbits have misappropriated better clothes than they are worth, that they are showing off to gain some little glory, and add a touch of glamour to their dull lives.

And yet the vestments of higher implication are always available for lower life to wear experimentally. A cat may look at a king, and even dress like one.

The values and expressions to which we aspire speak of an inner sense of unrealised self, which needs to be awakened first by recognition. By dressing up we ‘imagine up’.

In fact we can even question the worth of any event that does not stimulate us to reach upwards beyond our current situation to higher ideals. How else could life work? Reality itself is only ever established by forging things out of thoughts – so why ever would we not choose to bring our thoughts to the level of ideal? The real is established as it is dramatised, typically from idealisation to realisation.

It is therefore wisdom itself to project the highest ideals that we can imagine for our lives onto the situations we encounter, and make it known that we are doing so with unlimited assurance.

Of course we have to be careful that we are not ingenuously substituting affirmation for accomplishment. The upward reach of consciousness towards spirit is the glory of our species, yet to manifest heaven on earth we need to work for it too. Affirmation without appropriation is usually insufficient.

An important, if subtle, part of who we really are always lays dormant, waiting for us to grasp the form of it in the outer world of circumstances. This is appropriation – we must claim what is ours in order to make it ours – sometimes before anyone knows, and often by surprise. We can only do so when we trust our feelings of being worthy of our ideals.

​Rabbits dressed in clothes and on parade

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 "Growing" is the Reconciling principle.

The scope of Cancer 8 is "Finding a guide", and its means of expansion is Sagittarius 12, "Announcing our willingness to evolve". Its preferred path, Taurus 16, "Perpetual attempts to deepen and express knowledge", leads to its principle challenge, found in Libra 20, "Following traditional teachings".

Awareness of its spiritual purpose is described in Pisces 25, "Rid yourself of negative thought", which generates the feedback found in Leo 29, "Responding excitedly to the creative impulse" and thus the evolutionary gateway offered by Aquarius 3, "Refusing to comply with inappropriate authority". 

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