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The Foundation Students Work In Progress Work in Progress: DKF Students share their work The
D.K. Foundation is now five years old and in that time many students have
been and gone and some who arrived early on are still with us, making real
progress. Each student featured in Work in Progress has made headway
because he or she has cleared a space in their lives to make room for
their astrological studies and worked consistently hard. In Work in Progress these students share their work and are willing to answer any questions that interested website visitors might want put to them, whether those questions are about their work, their experience of being with the Foundation, or about astrology in general. There is no party line. Students are encouraged to speak honestly about their experiences.
The
Zodiacal Signs part 2
The
Water Signs
CANCER
a -
experience
brought to the personality =
awareness of the past -
contribution
made through this sign =
new forms to bring through the past -
key to understanding
its energy = it is concerned with perpetuation Watery,
emotional nature -
Initiating quality - Personality focus Seeks to find
and gather nurturing energies in its shelter / sanctuary. Concerned with
the inner life. Opens up a gateway to a certain sensibility and
sensitivity. Emergence of
what is sensed / felt within and the need to protect and nurture it,
concerned with the way outside influences are met with from within. Need
for isolation, keeps things inside and hidden. General
characteristics (unconscious and conscious): -
Recognizes emotional
needs and seeks to find ways to meet them. -
Takes what she feels
into account, introduces feeling and sensitivity as an element of
importance. Relies on the instincts, reacts to situations from within.
Intuitive energy that is tuned into unconscious vibrations. -
Need to bundle,
concentrate the shaping energies of life, to obtain an impression that is
lucid and long lasting. -
Self-preservation and
preservation of what is considered as having (affective) value. Sustaining
life, survival. -
Finds it important to
create boundaries to establish a new position and starting place,
sometimes to the point of imprisonment. Thrifty energy. -
Fusion. Urge to become
a focal point for the life-energies. (Recurrent appearance of life in
form?) Seeks to identify and connect with the source. -
Deep desire to feel
for others, depth of feelings and vulnerability. -
Nurturing, caring
receptive energy that wants to help and lend an empathic ear or a shoulder
to cry on. Takes responsibility to respond to others in a caring manner
– sensitive and affectionate energy. -
Sees life from a
collectivist point of view. Matriarchal sign, needs to run the family and
clan. -
Awakening of
irrational, instinctive, biological forces, felt within, which gives birth
to the emotions. May disturb the personality and result in fear for
(personal) disintegration and anarchy in general, and the necessity to
contain those forces. -
Can be inclined to
ever changing moods, cyclic aspect. Can appear hypersensitive and be
easily hurt – can be self-pitying, clinging, secretive, self-pitying. If
deprived of the vital security, issues may border on the ridiculous,
giving lunatic behaviour. If insecure, can be smothering, possessive and
pampering. -
Attraction to that
which is old or has a history – that which has existed and survived the
trials of time, provides a feeling of security. -
Tendency to hoard
things because they have sentimental value – adds personal
(‘affective’) value to things. Reflections: · Takes
the own emotions into account, introduces feeling and sensitivity as an
element of importance and a criterion when making decisions. ·
Uses the sensation of
‘feeling at home’ as criterion for well-being and to choose her course
of action. ·
Attaches itself to
what feels like belonging to the self, lends it affective value. ·
Importance of
community structures (family, clan, nation) handed down through
generations, as a tool for managing this new type of energy. CONSCIOUS : ·
Integration of
inner values (as sensed from within) into outward actions. SCORPIO
e -
experience
brought to the personality =
understanding of the power of emotion -
contribution
made through this sign =
awareness -
key to understanding
its energy = the fear of defeat on the emotional level,
leading to rejection and suffering Watery,
emotional nature -
Persevering quality - Soul focus Fight against
the self, which most of the time leads to victory and results in an inner
balance. Then the self-destruction stops and the spiritual strength of
ones awareness / consciousness is able to reach a higher level, and one
rises above the self (eagle) Great courage,
steady and deep determination to struggle with the emotions that leads to
transformation towards a more mature and consciously developed sensitivity
and perception. Willingness to
work intensely with the raw and emotional nature of humanity to prepare
for and achieve a more subtle type of awareness and life. General
characteristics (unconscious and conscious): -
Descent into the
depths. Confrontation of the ideals with the personality at the deepest
possible level, need to get to the core of issues. Deepening of the
perception developed in Libra. -
This energy compels
the individual to free himself from the limitations of the self, to reach
the ecstatic condition where he rises above such limitations. -
Struggle of the
personality to release itself from the grip of lower desire. Reorientation
following the midway point, according to the findings of Libra. -
Death of the ego in
the traditional sense. -
Sexuality in its
social aspect, not its reproductive, the drive in each individual to join
in a complete union with other individuals to come to a greater organic
unity. The desire to be a separated individual is overwhelmed by the urge
to be more than just that, to loose the self and join with the larger
whole, but through the other, through a deep psychic identification with
the other. -
Romantic ideal of the
passionate union of two lovers, in which they break through their
self-centredness. -
Transcendence of the
mystic, who joins with their God, their master or simply life (the mystic
other). -
But also the
definite union and identification of the individual with the community so
longed for, which was envisioned in Libra. The energy involved is
civilizing because it finds its roots in the desire to identify the self
with the larger unity, humanity. Establishing right relations with the
environment. -
This rebirth as a
participant in community life, transformation by burning through
restrictions and limitations, leads to regeneration and prepares the next
stage, mental and spiritual. -
Spontaneous healing
powers are available. Powerhouse of the zodiac. -
Tendency to absorb and
identify with societal processes, and to be affected by the state of
society in general, positive as well as negative. -
The more negative side
to the energy released in this process, the darker side of civilization,
the greedy desire for social power and luxury, manifests in the individual
who, instead of joining in, attracts the energy and the resources of the
community for personal use. -
Sign of karmic
retribution. -
Concept of social sin:
the abuse of the results of social interaction like in financial
transactions, public authority, ... These individuals may come to
manipulate the fears and passions of others to gain social power, instead
of inspiring their community. -
Also the permanent and
unrestricted desire for sexual pleasure and satisfaction, where one uses
the available energy to stimulate the desire or where the longing to join
in the flow of energy is thwarted by other beings or groups. Luxury as a
result of a feeling of being defeated, a deep frustration. -
Destructive patterns
as a result of the perversion of the creative power by fears and
complexes, originating in useless ethic traditionalism or chaotic and
negative social surroundings. -
Resentment towards
society or even life itself, may unconsciously maintain a state of
violence that destroys all attempts at releasing those destructive
patterns and reaching the next step. (Social death leading to individual
death.) -
In this sense, the
personality may appear as ruthless, cruel, jealous, ambitious and
extremely destructive. -
Testing of the natural
predilections and tendencies of the animal nature (sex, physical comfort
and money as concretised energy), of the desire nature (fear, hatred,
ambition or desire for power) and of the lower critical mind (pride,
separativeness and cruelty). Reflections: ·
Can get stuck in the
‘marshes’ of the emotions, destructive emotional intensity, brings out
the worst in the individual, attracts and absorbs negativity. ·
Very inquisitive and
perceptive, able to scrutinize the motives of others and the way they deal
with each other, sometimes leading to (emotional) abuse. CONSCIOUS : ·
Very keen
perception of others and of what’s going on in one’s surroundings,
ability to pierce through veils to get to the core of even the most
deep-seated problems. ·
Perception of
the possibility of merging with others and with life that will be fully
achievable in Pisces. PISCES
i -
experience
brought to the personality =
merging with others -
contribution
made through this sign =
the higher vision -
key to understanding
its energy = the desire to escape personality consciousness
and merge with the soul Watery,
emotional nature -
Experimenting quality - Soul focus Mysticism,
silence, isolation, retirement, need to live ones life from deep within,
very profoundly and intensely, based on the inner life. Devotional and
compassionate. Sense of forgiveness and sacrifice, romanticism and
artistry. Much more
subtle sensitivity leads to mystic experiences. Blending of a
refined inner sensitivity and higher awareness, willingness and ability to
sacrifice the lower identity, to enter an ‘invisible and holy’
community. General
characteristics (unconscious and conscious): -
Impulse towards a more
universal consciousness, urge to let go of materialism, the life of form. -
Devoted and
helpful, preoccupied by service and pacification. Renunciation, chooses
compassion over solitary bliss. Able to share the abundance of her
existence with all other beings. Understands that, in truth and in
reality, there is no such thing as individual salvation. Belief in the
organic unity of humanity, but on a higher level also of all life. -
Deep faith in,
reverence for, surrender and dedication to life. Wise. Passive. Learns to
give where there are needs. -
Selfless, open and
empathic energy. Innate capacity to feel for others and sense their hurts. -
Mediator-ship,
capacity to relate the higher and the lower (expressions of divinity). -
Needs to give up her
trust in (social) structures that are no longer useful, and learn to open
up to the inner conscience and step into the unknown. Release from
captivity or bondage. -
Disintegration of that
which is rigid and opposes change, decay and end of established order.
Loss of stability and security and all that belongs to the past and gave
the impression of being valuable. -
Holy and saintly sign.
Energy that cleanses and purifies (fast, penance), makes impeccable. -
Confrontation
with the most mysterious and transcendent type of spirituality, that
requires total release of illusions, falsifications and appearances (final
death of the personality?) and a deep belief in service and simplicity. -
“They seek to bring
about the death of the form in its occult significance and the consequent
release of the indwelling lives into a higher state of consciousness.”
EA. -
Also heroic urge to
give in to the stream of energies that reaches the depths of one’s
being, and to become a beacon for others (positive aspect of martyrdom). -
Feelings can be larger
than life, oceanic and overwhelming. -
Sometimes shy and
sentimental, secretive. Self-pitying, fearful and hopeless when unwilling
to face this new and strange kind of energy. -
Can lead to isolation
and retreat from society, removed from other people. Permanent unrest and
a feeling that everything is futile and temporary, may result in a type of
selfish spiritual attitude which involves dreaming, fantasizing or
conceiving useless abstract concepts to fill up the emptiness. -
Unintelligent
receptiveness and intuition. -
Passivity and latency,
inhibited and hindered, emotionally sensitive, controlled by her form
nature and her environment. May still be too attached to material things. -
Need for help in
introspection to solve problems due to psychic energies that have been
introverted and have become rigid. This can be the result of individual
failure to accept and surrender, but also of destructive and deceitful
traditions of the family, religion or society. -
Concept that
generations may have to suffer and bear the consequences of collective
mistakes (‘sins’). Reflections: ·
Sensitive and
impressionable. Becomes too adaptive to social and external influences
instead of tuning in to a more subtle reality. ·
Hard to get to know,
mysterious, elusive, uses denial to avoid sensitive issues, especially
denial of the self in order not to look at her own flaws. ·
Escapist, may see
consumption of drugs as a way out of the reality of incarnation, a
negative and destructive ‘way’ to deal with materialism. CONSCIOUS : ·
Compassionate,
able to care for others without neglecting nor emphasising the importance
of her own life. ·
Able to go with
the flow of life as sensed from within. Instinctive sense of freedom, and
of the necessity to let go of useless conditioning and identification. Senses that the limitations of culture and tradition as well as society and civilization must be sacrificed to reach the next level. |
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