Rudhyar



For your consideration, the words of the venerable Dane Rudhyar (one of the most prolific astrological writers in history between 1935-1980) from the last part of his masterwork, “An Astrological Mandala”.


"The significance of astrology is that it can transform the profane into the sacred, the facts of astronomy into the revelation of a cosmic order manifest in the cell and the human person as well as in the solar system and the galaxy. To try to make astrology a “science” based on empirical facts and statistics is to deny its essential and ancient nature. Astrology deals with the mythos of the Sky. The elements it uses are archetypes. Therefore, to live one’s life in terms of the revelatory message symbolically implied in one’s birth chart is to live a life in terms of the “sacred” character of existence. It does not mean to feel oppressed by “bad” aspects or elated by “good” ones. It does not mean to avoid confrontation with existential facts and to escape into fanciful dreams of pseudo-occult transcendence. It demands instead that life be lived strictly on the basis of non-escapism - that is, an attitude of acceptance of what is, but an “is” that remains transparent to the “eternal.”
Alas, the words “eternity” and “eternal” have been made to refer to an escape from minds haunted by a desperate urge to transcend biological and intellectual compulsions, just as nirvana in its popular sense has been equated with a concept of negation and annihilation. These perversions are at the root of the deepest tragedies that mankind is now experiencing. An eternity is a complete cycle of time. The consciousness which can perceive things and events in their eternal nature is one which sees every happening as definitely related to a particular phase of some more or less vast cycle of existence."



"L'astrologie trouve toute sa dimension dans le fait qu'elle transforme le profane en sacré, les données de l'astronomie en la révélation d'un ordre cosmique présent tant dans la cellule et la personne humaine que dans le système solaire et la galaxie. Tenter de faire de cette discipline une "science" fondée sur des données empiriques et statistiques revient à nier sa nature profonde et immémoriale.

L'astrologie porte sur le mythe du Ciel. Les éléments auxquels elle a recours sont des archétypes. Dès lors, vivre sa vie en fonction de la révélation, le message symbolique, que comprend le thème de naissance revient à mener une existence qui réponde au caractère "sacré" de l'existence. Cette perspective n'a rien à voir avec le fait de se sentir opprimé par des aspects "mauvais" ou bien transporté par de "bons" aspects. Rien à voir non plus avec une fuite en avant dans une rêverie chimérique autour d'une hypothétique transcendance. Cette perspective demande au contraire que l'on vive sa vie avec rigueur, sans jamais s'évader de la réalité : autrement dit, accepter "ce qui est" comme le miroir de l'éternel."



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