
‘The Great Sacrifice’ the setting for Stravinsky’s ‘Sacred Spring’ {{PD}}
The New Moon occurs at 4:22 PM Pacific time on the 2nd at 10 Sagittarius 59: ‘Thanksgiving’. It forms a Grand Cross/ Grand Square with Earth and the opposition between Pallas and Chiron; the New Moon also semi-sextiles Pluto, trines Uranus, and sextiles Ceres. This suggests to me a new, personal ‘power arrangement’ in our world, one that arises from wisdom and healing, the use of unique skills, a certain amount of desire or willingness to take on the hard tasks, a sense of being uniquely suited to lead, to contribute to the group, and/ or to innovate, and an understanding of Nature and one’s position within it. In its essence, this NM is like a culmination, bringing together long-term developments within the individual Being and fitting them to a new role in the life situation—so that’s what’s born at this time, a new way of being and seeing ourselves, and this may come about through stress, conflict, a recognition of nature in our lives, or a need for unique Self-expression.
(A side note here: when I write of nature, our interaction with it and our role within it, I’m talking in large part about the way biology intrudes on consciousness; I’m talking about instances where a physical experience with a biological component such as learning one is pregnant, suffering a career-ending injury, or being diagnosed with cancer can change our way of relating to the world, can change our approach, our actions, our feelings, and even our beliefs)
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Great work, Julie. Stravinsky and a pagan rite?
Thanks, Jude. I don’t know, I just used the explanation provided with the pic. I imagined it as conceptual art for a stage production, maybe a progression through changing eras.
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An understanding of Nature and one’s position within it… beautifully said!
Your post coincides with an article I read about a scientific study (of mice) concerning the transfer of memories (especially trauma) from generation to generation via DNA. Is this also a DNA transfer of memory that humans experience? How much of what we think is us, is actually us?
Love the inspiration which explodes from your words like a firework!
Thank you so much, Upturned!
The transfer of ancestral memory within the DNA has been postulated for some time, and it seems to me this idea supplies a vital piece in the understanding of perception–a kind of ‘missing link’ between conscious knowledge and present-moment intuition. It would make sense, especially in an evolutionary framework, helping descendants avoid hazards by an inborn ‘knowing’. And as you say, this does bring into question how much of our perceptual viewpoint, our ‘memories’, is us?
Again, thank you! Glad you stopped by–
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