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Typing via the ‘mother’ of all cycles...

Posted January 9th, 2012 by Charles Bowling in notes from a sign reader

 

Hi All,
 
Seeing into the relation between cyclic activity and typing begins with understanding something basic about cycles. The ‘mother’ I'm referring to here is usually called the lunation cycle. It's the result of the dance of planetary motion that goes on between the Earth, Moon, and the Sun.
 
In its purest form a circle has no beginning or end. But humankind has developed in a way that's related to the unique position of the bodies in our solar system. This shows up clearly in the lunation cycle, each recurrence of which has a definite starting point. It's called a New Moon. This happens about once a month (months of course are derived from exactly this astronomical phenomenon.) It begins in darkness, and halfway through the cycle comes to culmination at the Full Moon a time of maximum light.
 
Halfway points occur between each beginning and culmination; they are the first and third quarters of the lunation cycle. So we have four very specific points, (there's a corollary between this and the four quadrants of AQAL.)
 
Advanced integral theory subdivides each quadrant into two, resulting in eight hori-zones. The lunation cycle can be similarly subdivided into eight phases. There is a mathematical way to delineate these phases. It's done through geocentric longitude. Where zero longitude is equivalent to a New Moon, and where each of the phases is established by adding 45° to zero and are defined by the appropriate phase angle.
 
A full exposition of these eight types is beyond the scope of a blog post. But what seems appropriate is to give some flavor of what is represented by soli-lunar phase typing.
 
Let's consider the case of someone born at or slightly after a New Moon; that is with a Sun-Moon phase angle from 0 to 45° of zodiacal longitude. As each New Moon marks the beginning of a new cycle, it can be thought of as an input of energy.
 
It happens I'm old enough to remember a child's toy called a top. It was usually made out of wood shaped in the form of an inverted cone with a metal tip at its apex. A string was wrapped around it, and with some practice it was possible to hold one end of the string and fling the top in a way to set it spinning. And if this was successfully accomplished the top would definitely spin, although it would wobble on its axis for a short period before it began to run true.
 
This is analogous to being born with a predisposition to accept new energies but it's not always easy to do so, and takes some getting used to until the energy settles into a pattern or groove.
 
And while I maintain that this patterning or typing persists for a lifetime it does allow for development. For example the energy input that corresponds with the New Moon type may at its earlier stages manifest as impulsiveness, later on it may well stabilize into spontaneity.
 
Those who are born at either the first quarter or third quarter moon are predisposed to deal with decision-making. At the first quarter it's a matter of deciding which of the options that are presented is optimal; while at the third quarter it is a matter of deciding which options to jettison, i.e. what no longer seems to be viable.
 
Perhaps it's worth mentioning that beyond these eight soli-lunar types are subtypes based on a given degree of the zodiac as represented by the precise Sun Moon phase angle at the birth moment.
 
I understand that this is all very theoretical sounding but it's possible to move it from just a head trip into something experiential. It's very simple, if a person is informed of the next recurrence of the Sun Moon phase angle that was extant at their birth, that is in the next 29+ days, and if the weather is clear and the moon is visible -simply note its shape, which will be somewhere from crescent to full. It is at such moments that something very basic to a given incarnation is recurring, and to the extent that we are informed and capable we can resonate with it.
 
This resonance can act as a real-world energizer; something that has a multiplier effect with the capacity to turn something mundane into something sublime.
 
Again, let's use KW's birth moment as example; he was born very close to the moment when the first sliver of a crescent moon becomes visible. (This is a very significant moment in the Islamic calendar, the sight of which marks the beginning of each month. Think the end of Ramadan, where some Imam must actually see the crescent to announce the end of fasting.)
 
However if we use this ‘mother’ of all cycles to examine the life of an annual plant, the New Moon represents the germination of the seed. Then in the three days afterwards the germinated seed will have been sending down a root and sending up a shoot. And at the time of the visible appearance of the crescent the shoot will enter a new element leaving the body of earth and entering the atmosphere and sunlight. Germination and incubation is over, and plant life begins; this is a true transformation; and I ask, is this not what KW's life has been all about?
 
-Charles
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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bad mothering

Posted January 9th, 2012 by Layman Pascal

You mention that a person can be born with a predisposition to new energies.  That must be partly a type of person but partly a symptom of health in any type.  My question concerns the opposite: Can pathology be astrologically anticipated?

 

Thanks, I've been...

Layman Pascal

 

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