Caveat Reader -- a bit of biography included!

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Charles is one of the western astrologers that came into my

consciousness at a very interesting time when I was exploring

astrology fully open-mindedly and in as eclectic a manner as

possible. Anyway, he had a good knowledge and understanding of

astrology (the soul of it which is beyond sidereal and tropical

applied math and technique kind of mindset) and who described

divination as a bird with two wings, logic and intuition. The vivid

imagery of a bird with wings on one side chopped (only logic or only

intuition) going endlessly in circles and never really managing to

take off towards the skies, as is its birth karma -- wow!!

 

He introduced me to Dane Rudhyar. Here is a passage from Rudhyar:

 

"When people seem to complain that they have to read twice my books

in order to really understand what I wrote, I always feel like asking

if they would expect to be a concert pianist by at most playing twice

a passage, or to solve problems in calculus after reading once a

textbook on mathematics. Living a life of self-actualization and

transcendent development is the most arduous process there is in our

materialistic and competitive society dominated by profit values and

ideals of personal self-aggrandizement at others expense.

It is evident that many astrologers in any epoch of history

mainly think of astrology in terms of conformism — if not to the

goals of financial profit, at least to popular expectations and the

wishes of their client's ego. I believe instead in an astrology of

transformation — just as I believe in a philosophy, a music, a

psychology which essentially aims at the transformation of human

beings. Entertainment has it place; superficial curiosity may lead to

an eventual desire for new points of view; everything has its place

and can be valid, if it stays in that place and does not claim to be

something else, using crude or subtle forms of glamour to hide the

difference."

 

No comments needed, friends! If you enjoy, keep it within yourself,

and process it within your soul. If you find it irritating, please

keep that irritation and frustration within your soul too, because

where else can it go? ;-)

 

RR