WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 3am COULDN'T SLEEP

PICKED UP ALICE BAILEY'S ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Bailey ) ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY, opened it up randomly, and VOILA! looky what i found! from page 107:

"We have seen that Aries is the sign of beginnings-the beginning of the creative process, the first step of the soul(the microscosm of the already intitiated Macrocosm) towards incarnation, the beginning of recurring and constant cycles of experience, the beginning of the period wherein the soul changes it's direction, it's purpose and it's method, and finally enters upon that definitely defined process which we call spriritual regeneration and intitaion. There are four words of vital importance upon which we shall ring the changes, as we study the path of evolution or the progress of the soul around the great wheel, both as a personality and as a disciple, headed towards the final liberating process. These four words express the subjective impulses and motives and, in reality, introduce four different cylcles of progress upon the Path in it's various stages of individualisation to initiation. They are:
1. RE-CREATION in which the influence of Cancer, combined with that of Aries, produces the pull onto incarnation upon the physical plane.
2. REGENERATION in which the growing influence of the Fixed Cross, playing upon the Mutable Cross, produces those interior changes which eventually lead to
3. REORIENTATION or the great cycle of repolarisation which takes place through the influence of Libra(the Cardinal Cross) and the 'swerving of the Bull in mid-career', as it is called in the ancient books. This process of reorientation leads to a passage around the wheel in which, steadily and persistently, the inner subjective man comes into outer manifested expression and the personality recedes into the background. Finally, there come twelve lives wherein the final stage of
4. RENUNCIATION is experienced and the disciple or initiate renounces all for the love of humanity and it's service, and lays himself upon the altar of sacrifice. He achieves, as a result, the final liberation."



i was first introduced to Alice Bailey in the spring of 1974 by a premie named Ernie in Iowa City, Iowa, who had a Grand piano in his tiny studio apartment. over the years, i've collected almost all of her series. i've tried to read them from time to time. i don't know if she's for real or what, but, hey,if nothing else, it sure sounds cool!!!!!!

i'm not sure what exactly is meant by 'renunciation'. actually, i kinda stopped trying to figure it out many years ago. it seems to me, however, that it is most importantly a mental state, rather than a physical one. i just thought this was an interesting excerpt to read at this particular time (January 6), as the Sun, high in Capricorn, and Pluto, just beginning it's 17 year sojourn through Capricorn, are both being squared by Saturn, which is just beginning it's 2 year transit of Libra. and we just passed the Capricorn-Cancer Full Moon. Uranus will enter Aries in March, 2011, and July 2011 will be a full hosting a nearly perfect full-fledged Cardinal Square(Sun-Saturn-Uranus-Pluto. that sounds pretty significant to my astro-mind!!