For example.
What I wrote above as to Mercury and the South Node and being of a personality type dedicated to mental pursuits and South Node are of domain subjectivity.
My True South Node is @ 06*
54' 10" and my Mean is @ 07*
24' 04"
The Sabian Symbol for my True Node is [from Dane Rudhyar's "An Astrological Mandala"]
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A CHILD IS SEEN BEING BORN OUT OF AN EGG.
KEYNOTE: The emergence of new mutations according to the great rhythms of the cosmos.
The ancient symbolism of the Cosmic Egg (Hiranyagharba in Sanskrit) out of which a new universe is born can be interpreted at several levels. Here we see
the appearance of a new type of human being who is not born from 'Ancestors' and who therefore is free from the inertia of mankind's past. He is a new product of evolution, a mutant. He constitutes a fresh projection of the creative Spirit that emanates from the cosmic or planetary Whole, and not from any local culture and racial tradition.
This second stage symbol is in contrast with the preceding one. It can be said to announce the
EMERGENCE OF GLOBAL MAN for the New Age.
The power of the whole is focused within him in perfect freedom from ancient standards of value based on local conditions." {underlined in Italics for emphasis by my hand. ptv}
I just love that Sanskrit word, Hiranyagharba. It is one of the twelve names of the Sun, btw...it means "That which contains everything"
A number of the members know that my M.C. and Part of Fortune are both in the 25th of Leo and that is symbolized by[ibid.] "
A LARGE CAMEL IS SEEN CROSSING A VAST AND FORBIDDING DESERT.
KEYNOTE: Self-sufficiency in the face of a long and exhausting adventure. " and was summarized by Rudhyar as: "
...completely self-contained emotionally; having absorbed the mental food which this old culture has given us, we are ready to face 'the desert,' nothingness, Sunya . . . until we reach the 'new world.' We need TOTAL INDEPENDENCE from our surroundings and utter SELF-RELIANCE."
They certainly seem like they go hand in hand , don't they. And the same sign and degree is that of the South Node of the USA's natal chart. That is what the first settlers of this land I dwell in presently that wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were...that was/is the United States karmic "past" [with acknowledgement and respect to the Native American peoples ...of whom my 7xs great grandmother was one, a full blooded native, of the Virginia region.]
...and that bit about the "Emergence of Global Man" ...sounds like the spiritual version of the N.W.O., doesn't it?
With such a makeup, it seems that i may have been born at the right time, huh? ...and I always thought that I had been born about 200 years too late. {although my clairvoyant friend, Clarisse, said I was my own great uncle in 19th century Pennsylvania, a Quaker...so maybe I just am that in my Soul?}
...as to my Mean Node in the 8th degree of Aquarius:[ibid.]
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BEAUTIFULLY GOWNED WAX FIGURES ON DISPLAY.
KEYNOTE: The inspiration one may derive from the appearance of Exemplars who present to us the archetypes of a new culture.
We are dealing here with the fixed symbols upon which a culture is based, with mental archetypes. They are kept and made available as patterns to imitate, or at least from which to draw new motives for inspiration. We are at the stage of vision: new forms are revealed to the consciousness, as well as new ways of meeting other people in social relationships.
This is the third stage in the sixty-second sequence of five symbols. In a sense the generic human past and the future are implied here. The wax figures are impersonal forms. The gowns constitute a static presentation of ideal patterns; yet they are the
PREFORMATION of what will be experienced in the culture being born. They herald new collective developments."
Well, my Hermetic Lot of Courage is @ 08*
04' 34" , and I am fairly convinced that my recorded birth time is a bit fast...and if I shave enough off it would be in the same degree as the Mean Node.
But as my Part of Positive & Helpful Change {Asc. +
-
} is @ 08*
21' and my Part of Higher Education {Asc. + Cusp 9th -
} is @ 08*
57" I know that it is only fitting that the Lot of Courage would be that which can be obtained through endeavoring to making a positive and beneficial change within my self and applying my self towards a "Higher Spiritual Education" {as all matters of Astro-Symbology are oriented toward the Spiritual and not the mundane...although they do provide understanding to mundane matters as well}
It would really take courage to act out the vision rather than to just draw inspiration from the same, don't you think?
I do.
...as the Sabian Symbol for the 9th degree of Aquarius shows, that's what it is all about:[ibid.]
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A FLAG IS SEEN TURNING INTO AN EAGLE.
KEYNOTE: The dynamic incorporation of new social values in individuals who exemplify the spiritual potential and greatest significance of these values.
This symbol nearly duplicates the one for Sagittarius 12°, but in this five-fold sequence it has a somewhat different meaning — especially since the last term of the mysterious transformation (i.e. the crowing of the eagle in chanticleer's fashion) is omitted. All that is implied here is the vitalization of a powerful symbol, its embodiment in a living reality, i.e. in a person able to fly in consciousness to the highest spiritual realm. The archetype is given living substance and wings. The Image has become a Power.
This fourth stage symbol, as usual, gives us a technical suggestion. To 'see' the new archetype, to perceive the new standard of value with one's mind is not enough. The seer must become the doer. The impersonal is dynamized and brought into focus. We have here the
ACTING OUT of the vision."
As my True Node is rather close to the cusp of the following degree, I'd say there is a little bit of the 8th deg. of Aquarius in my karmic direction ...but as my true Spiritual work is Astrology and it has only come to be so known to myself and other since the turn of the century ...just as the N.W.O. makes it's "power play" ... I'm pretty sure I can say with confidence it's the True Node of mine in the 7th deg. of Aquarius as to what I'm all about.
True Global Humankind will come about because of a better understanding of true Astrology... not only because of it...but it won't happen without it.
10' 22" ...thus I'm looking at 16* Scorpio.
