Sabian Symbols: The ocean covered with whitecaps

The ocean covered with whitecaps

This universal idea is best expressed through planets in

Sagittarius 2 (1° - 2°)

POWER OF UNCONSCIOUS ELEMENTS
Accepting the need to flow around obstacles that are
​beyond our capacity to influence
"Avoiding being overwhelmed by the elements"

​Notwithstanding our sense of having power to influence the future, we are quite puny on the physical level, and forces of Nature plus forces of Spirit are overwhelmingly more influential in shaping outcomes.

​The ocean of our unconscious drives is energised into dynamism by the winds of change that arise inherently out of the breath of life itself. We must learn that we are subject to the forces of higher and lower energies, super-conscious and unconscious, spiritual and animal aspects of self, and these are dominant streams of evolution that we can hardly control. Our task is to become subtle enough to surf the waves of change and stay with it all.

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WHITE-CAPPED WAVES DISPLAY THE POWER OF WIND OVER SEA

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White-capped waves display the power of wind over sea

Irrepressibility

Our appetite for experience tests our resourcefulness of spirit

There is a constant restlessness of spirit in any truly alive person, especially children for example. The white horses on the breezy ocean are both energetic and beautiful – and are clues to the inner condition of our basic vitality.

This ceaseless activity is easily accommodated in our lives – we can never run out of new experiences to absorb every ounce of our energy for living.

The extent to which we can call upon this life force, through a self-quickening process, is the extent to which we prosper in terms of both a spiritual and material sense of abundance.

This is because such an appetite for experience brings with it a naive delight in finding answers to problems. When we are in normal good health, we enjoy the challenges of everyday life.

The soul’s essentially attractive force anticipates the feeling of enjoyment it will have when it has attracted, identified and dealt with yet another puzzle, to test its resourcefulness.

We know when we have taken this too far because we start to get signs of irritable exhaustion.

Still, even then, a truly alive person is irrepressible and will always bounce back, stronger and perhaps a little wiser.

​The ocean covered with whitecaps

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 "Hopefulness" is the Contrasting principle.

The scope of Sagittarius 2 is "Avoiding being overwhelmed by the elements", and its means of expansion is Taurus 6, "Building bridges to end separation". Its preferred path, Libra 10, "Poise and calm reflection", leads to its principle challenge, found in Pisces 14, "Protect yourself from unwanted, intrusive energies".

Awareness of its spiritual purpose is described in Leo 19, "Spending time unconstrained by polite society", which generates the feedback found in Capricorn 23, "Recognition of the heroic efforts of others on different  paths" and thus the evolutionary gateway offered by Gemini 27, "Stepping into involvements that enable growth". 

​​(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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