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Sabian Symbols: Winter frost in the woods

Winter frost in the woods
Winter frost in the woods
This universal idea is best expressed through planets in

Gemini 26 (25° - 26°)

​THE ESSENCE OF BEAUTY
Ridding ourselves of all non-essentials in order to know the absolute essential truth in its natural form
 "Ridding ourselves of non-essentials and finding truth in beauty"
Beneath all of our urges and feelings, which arise out of being incarnated physically, there exists the essential self. This is real in a way that all external expressions are not and we can only resonate that purest of vibrations when we are pruned of our dressing and naked of glamour. We can then see the most beautiful truth of who we really are.

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FROST-COVERED TREES AGAINST WINTER SKIES

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Frost-covered trees against winter skies

Splendour

Winter frost in the woods

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The true perception of beauty is a spiritual experience

Nature’s supreme power and beauty shows us how seemingly banal realities can in fact create the conditions for magical outcomes. For example, by nothing more esoteric than shifts in temperature and pressure to create hoar frost, she can transport even the most cynical materialist into experiencing wonderment. 

Magick is a normal demonstration of life that requires particular space and time constraints. Freezing the moment has cosmic significance and is a necessary and sufficient condition of the art. To bring about these magical moments, we have but to put aside our private concerns and become responsive to the great forces responsible for life’s never-ending self-embellishment.

Ordinary habits of home-building and feeding ourselves are for comfortable maintenance of the status quo, whereas the discovery of our full potential demands that we engage with the non-ordinary. We need to accommodate a continual process of self-purification which includes monitoring our own perceptions – only then will we be able to master the ‘here and now’ and create magical beauty as a life style.

It is Nature’s way to freeze to death that which cannot survive winter. Purification through these transformative moments enables old cycles to give way to the new. We have to adopt the same approach to our own situations – to cut away the dross so that we only ever have vitality in all we touch. Whatever is not passionate and full-on, whatever does not demand our complete attention is partly frozen and so life-denying.

Somehow the radical irreversibility of death deepens our sense of beauty, and raises it to spiritual levels. The beauty is incidental, a subjective human sentiment; yet is there anything more splendorous? Pushing involvements to their limit brings intensification; this leads to passion or death. Splendour must be passionate to be splendid.

Reborn after the death of winter, we are primed to see things with new eyes, eyes readied for new cycles and the inherent shift of perspectives. In this way and in accordance with our newly expanded vision, we create our worlds afresh by pruning out what does not have splendour.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This has become a cliché, whereas it hides an important esoteric understanding – that there is nothing absolute except the Absolute; everything which is not transcendental is subjective – and if it is seen as splendour, it is because we have learned how to look for splendour.

​Winter frost in the woods

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Commentary from Guin
Winter Frost in the Woods calls to mind Robert Frost's popular poem, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening. Light sparkling across a snowy landscape in the quiet of "the darkest evening of the year" is a symbol of winter solstice, and the sacred cycle of returning light. The jingle of harness bells, promises to keep, and miles to go on this snowy night elicit an image of Santa, who will enjoy quiet repose when his task is done and promises are delivered 'round the world.
 
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
By Robert Frost
 
Whose woods these are I think I know.   
His house is in the village though;   
He will not see me stopping here   
To watch his woods fill up with snow.   
 
My little horse must think it queer   
To stop without a farmhouse near   
Between the woods and frozen lake   
The darkest evening of the year.   
 
He gives his harness bells a shake   
To ask if there is some mistake.   
The only other sound’s the sweep   
Of easy wind and downy flake.   
 
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,   
But I have promises to keep,   
And miles to go before I sleep,   
And miles to go before I sleep.

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 "Evaluation" is the Affirming principle.

The scope of Gemini 26 is "Ridding ourselves of non-essentials and finding truth in beauty", and its means of expansion is Scorpio 30, "Allowing a measure of wildness reveals our darker secrets". Its preferred path, Taurus 4, "Being profoundly touched by beauty and imagination", leads to its principle challenge, found in Libra 8, "Expectation of assistance from guardian angels - whether they are people or spirits".

Awareness of its spiritual purpose is described in Pisces 13, "Develop sharpness of intent", which generates the feedback found in Leo 17, "Communion, devotion and connectedness" and thus the evolutionary gateway offered by Capricorn 21, "Group cooperation". 

​(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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