For
Children’s Sake
- Notes on astrological Saturn:
A Devilish Open-Eyed Approach to the Blind Old 'Gods' of-the-Past
When the notion of Parents functioning as food for their
Children is mentioned, it causes great uneasiness and distress – there is a
general tendency at present day to consider this as something “outrageous” and
to reject even a mere thought of it.
On the other side, the mythological imagery of a parental figure eating its own
children is not only accepted as quite “plausible”, but indeed – as some kind
of “natural” description of “how things work”; we can see this depicted
visually, in artistic manner, and read about it, seamlessly present all around
as part of the Established Culture, the Greek form of it existing for at least
some 4,000 years now; a bit different version of the same story, that of human
parental figure Abraham using its child as a trading-item with a creature
presented in that story as “divine”, in exchange for the “reward” of “Abraham’s
own seed” thus getting to proceed, equally seamlessly goes on being told and
re-told as something quite “normal”.
For a few millennia now, the human species has been taught these stories. What
in it easily at first encounter spontaneously comes across as plainly abhorrently
repulsive, indeed, from a simple Child’s perspective is quite openly
pathological, gets quickly explained-away to a young and daring inquirer: “oh,
but it’s *just* a myth!” – and the stories keep being told; with Values they
represent keeping their position as “values” – the stories being deeply
embedded into the collective subconsciousness of the species as a “norm” of
“how things work on a deeper level” (such level which the myths exist to
represent).
And the young inquirer goes on with their life – being carefully trained and
taught to continue the same core cluster-of-patterns which the parents of the
given child themselves have been operating-on, with evaluating own existence,
own worth and everything they perform (as the new-generation of species Homo)
by subtly-woven iron-threading of Ideas, stories and culturally accepted as
collective “general norm” (the parameter outside which one is not de-facto considered
a Human) basic ethical notions of the generations that came before, the
parents.
… It is one’s fighting-capacity, combined with Luck! – it’s basically just a
matter of chance, in the randomness of how things operate – go on these
old stories with their “explaining” – which is what gets one not-eaten by their
parental ruling-figure (- the Zeus/Jupiter theme); so, here you are, existing
and moving on planet Earth – you, obviously, got lucky enough to be thus - so
how could you possibly be as ungrateful as to “complain” about it?! … And so
the child goes on, living its “lucky” existence: with some slight variations in
surface expressions of it, perpetuating and continuing the exact-same basic
value pattern of its parents, the pattern based on notion that it is the New
Generation, the Future, the Next-evolutionary opening-up-step of the species
which exists In-Service-Of the Old, the past, the bygone, that which itself,
as such, is naturally destined to, during progression of time, get defunct
& become dead.
But: if not for the children, could an exemplar of a species be called a
parent?
Verily, it is the Children that make one into a Parent, and not – as
those stories would want us believe – the other way around!
That model, the propagation of the Past and what is destined-to-die as
something which in itself contains the Value which is eternally-adequate
to be taken as the Ultimate-Norm, observed from a purely natural, biological
evolutionary perspective is how the parasitic species keep themselves running:
the very-basic pattern (of the dependency-mechanism of being-attached-to,
necessitating a Vital host) does not change, it keeps being propagated and
remains exactly the same, while the external adaptive mechanisms keep shifting
– adjusting anew and anew, and in ways so that the entirely-unchanged very
basic operation-model, which is existing solely via the parasitic-attachment-to-a-host (while the host does not, for Life and own
existence, necessitate this species’ presence in any way – to say the least …),
gets to keep going-on, staying exactly-as-it-is .
…..
Along with these stories, the astrological Saturn has also been credited with
the following qualities:
It is the representative of the Reality-of-Life in very practical,
material sense; it is connected to the passage of Time; it
represents the figure of a parental-authority; it denotes the harsh
& heavy, and when prominent in chart, it is said to make the person
“need suffering” and stands for a character such that it can only thrive
when there is struggle, hardship, obstacles, frustrations etc.
If you have this planet placed in some way which makes it among most important
factors of your Natal chart, the “go-to” astrologers’ blurb (not only of
present day, but for a long long time now, across different “schools” and
“branches” of it) includes instruction on how to simply accept your own inborn
“desire-for”, an “intrinsic need” for misery and suffering! There’s nothing
much to “bang your head about”, or think of reflectingly deeply on it, it’s
just – so those stories go – how “by default” you are: you excel in
conditions of being beaten-down by life, and the more you suffer and more
misery you get to experience, the better off you’ll get to be.
Upon some open-eyed reflection, we see how seamlessly the root-pattern which is
against-Life got itself attached here, via the myth-based stories and various
similar Value-reproducing means, to what is by itself Neutral (neither “good”
nor “bad” as such; and not by any kind of “natural default” indicating some
“necessity for suffering”):
within the cluster of ideas related to this one same astrological planet, we
see the concept of Reality as such being put together with the notion-ideas
of suffering-as-virtue and misery-as-value; the Time is attributed to
Saturn, and how it is being 'explained' is by using a self-enclosed-circle,
simply a Loop, as image of “eternity” (the What’s-to-be can only, solely,
exclusively Be within the framework-patterns of the What-was).
…..
The concept and phenomenon of limitation, of definition, of “framework”
generally speaking is by itself a natural one: a cell has its membrane, as the
physical “border” which defines the space which is (as distinct from that which
isn’t) its own body. There is nothing inherently oriented to suffering, to
need-for-struggle, etc., in this; it’s a simple phenomenon of Nature: in what
we know as Reality of our everyday existence, all appearances – as long as they
are individual, specific appearances – have their own peculiar “borders” their
“definitions”, the “limits” within which they as such are.
And each being, quite spontaneously and naturally (when there is not some kind
of abusive interference with its natural functioning and growth-tendencies),
tends toward operating exactly in-accordance-with and within-the-framework-of
these “limits”.
When this process is not being intruded-upon in an unhealthy way, the
operations of each “cell” go smoothly, and the Whole to which it belongs functions
in a harmonious, happy way.
Within such circumstances, as an overarching environmental-conditions’ main
patter, even the beings (species) whose nature is parasitic do not endanger the
process of Life’s further existence, the continuation of Vitality of the Whole
as such: they get to not spread as much as to overtake the whole, but
only to a degree which is inherently balanced so that they themselves may keep
existing; they themselves can’t go on existing for long without the full
healthy functionality of the Whole, while the vice-versa doesn’t stand, so,
from the perspective of the Whole, it’s a matter of either
fine-point-of-tolerating, or of entirely exterminating, this type of beings.
It may come as challenging at first, but it is worth the persistent
conscious effort to gradually get into the habit of approaching the
astrological planets in way which is devoid of the debilitating,
demise-oriented, damaging for our Growth and Vitality itself, this kind of
stories, with the notions and ideas which they got to be connected-to over time
– as gradually and subtly as this happened, and with taking hold as deeply,
within the realm of our Subconsciousness (collective and individual alike) as
it did.
The first, perhaps even the largest, step is to let go of the tendency to
perceive Nature as something which is “inherently” oriented toward any of Her
being’s (human or otherwise) experiencing-perpetually/existing-in suffering,
misery, need-for-conditions-of-perpetual-problems (unresolvable!), and
similar such pathological, loopy notions.
Such an approach, presenting an astrological factor as something somehow “by
itself” oriented-toward what’s essentially pathological (for example: expecting
that a certain combination of planets, such as, say, Mars-Saturn combo, or
Saturn-Pluto combo, or Neptune-Mars, etc, has an “inherent tendency” toward
some-something which “inevitably leads the Native” into a
behavior-pattern/character-development which is not-healthy) is simply: using
the astrological factors as convenient “objects” to project onto them the
Responsibility-faculty for one’s own behavior and choices, and instead of:
observing these factors, so that over time an Understanding about them emerges
( = true Insight into Nature’s operations, qualities and rhythms), based on
actual Knowledge about them and the related increased Knowledge about our own
selves and Life as such – instead of this, we keep staying within the same-old
circles of blindness, avoiding to take a nakedly-open, direct Look into our own
actions, choices and the actual patterns of behavior, with acknowledging
properly our Responsibility in the development of conditions (for each of us
individually, as well as what-thus-gets-accrued, appearing eventually as a
seemingly overwhelmingly-huge for any one specific individual/group to “deal
with it”, collective condition), and just “blaming” these astrological factors
for this or that such-&such appearance in human’s own chosen (and
accepted as “normal”) way & manner of: language, symbols &
imagery-use; approach-to-Nature, behavior-patterns on everyday-level, and in
general, our chosen, by blind-habituation-established, course of
activity.
…..
The ideas at the base of many of world-spread religious movements today, which
are essentially Ethical and represent Values that train the human psyche to
perceive the-past as the value-defining-framework for all-potential-as-such
of the-future, found their way into getting tightly-attached-to the in
themselves entirely Neutral (devoid of any ethical connotation as such)
concepts related to actual natural phenomena which have emerged to our awareness
over time as related to astrological factors.
The notion, for example, of human life on Earth being simply by some “default”
in itself “a condition of misery” (such as: the very fact that you are born
indicates “you’re a sinner” – you must be “paying off” some “debt”, or/and
performing some very specific operations of devotion to a specific “divine
form” so that in this way, not while living on earth, but as soon as you die,
you get to experience Harmony & Joy; or, another version: “the earthly existence
is inherently suffering”, it is so and can not be anything but this, and in
order to somehow “deal with it”, you need to first simply fully accept
that this is so, and then proceed by working on gradually
psychologically bringing yourself into condition of getting “above it”,
“mastering” it via specific sequences of practices which enable to proceed
being present-to-it, whilst you’re “over it”, via having attained to such
lofty, saintly condition…) is the most deeply-ingrained one, spreading in its different
surface form-expressions through manyhood of religious central Value
cluster-stories.
…..
What is at the base of all clusters-of-ideas and stories of this kind
(invisibly holding the whole outer structure of it still, however now shakingly,
standing, despite it lacking any actual natural Vital Root, a proper
Foundation) is the notion that Nature in Herself has some kind of “inherent”
tendency/orientation toward torturing, molesting, debilitating, and so forth,
an individual human being (or humanity as such).
Or in other words and in brief: Nature, often quite very subtly, but
persistently, keeps being represented as an Enemy:
She’s depicted as somehow, by Herself as She is, “intent” toward “destroying
you”, and you’re taught to fight against Her, or otherwise perform very
specific operations of engaging with her in a struggle/conflict/oppression/suppression-of-Her-tendencies,
etc. manner, i.e. an dominance/over-powering, master-slave dynamic of
interaction; or, if struggle/conflict/suppression is not plausible in an open
direct manner as such, than via gradually cajoling, “training” Her to be
operating solely & exclusively in ways which some given human
culture-group’s intellectual or other similar, partial & very limited
capacities, perceive as non-frightening-for-one’s-own-self way.
-- Among the oldest recorded very clear and plain examples of such stories ( -
and this one with that basic harmful, poisonous message put out rather explicitly!)
we have the Enuma Elish, with its peculiar and as detailed as it is plot-depiction
related to Tiamat.
So deeply habituated as “normal” are these kinds of stories – the essential
Value-patterns they keep, promote & perpetuate, and via which they hold
the psyche of our collective, and of the individuals, tightly loop-enclosed –
that after the first actual initial, daring step of moving-out & away from
the seeming “safety” of their all-pervading walls, it requires a prolonged,
piercing steadfast continuous conscious effort to proceed, with openly,
directly Observing, oriented toward anew & anew Seeing-Through the
various veils of the thick, heavy layers and aspects of the charade that (with
ferocious gulping hunger, and heavy inertia in it) keeps being presented before
our eyes, on all sides, through all aspects of what’s the currently still-yet
mostly considered as “normal” global Culture.
… No, easy this is not! It is quite Saturnine, that’s for sure – and, by
Saturnine here is meant: with such unblinkingly-open stare of the Eye directly
into the face of What-Is as-it-is, that all the veils fall aside,
disappear, and the naked Beauty of it emerges eventually before one’s sight –
bringing the heart, anew and anew, thus as one goes, to burst into vivacious
Laughter! - just as the astrological Saturn has shown itself to be the
representative of the Humorous – with all the sordid, sublime and exalted of
the Rapturous of it.
…..
It is, by present-day way of time-counting, year 2023 “after the birth” of one such
parasitic-loop-oriented Value-perpetuating mythological figure. ( -- Other,
different ways of how we count the time, and account for what we know as
History and Pre-History of Homo species, will come to emerge, but this is not
the place to go into specifically addressing that subject.)
We have been now collectively for so long keeping the most basic of the old,
defunct patterns – via the stories and the myths, along with practical
operations aligned with these malignant forms – that the actually damaging
aspects of it, in quite simple terms of our Reality of
exiting-within-environment of this planet, have become beyond obvious, fully
impossible to somehow “not notice”:
She whom we have been treating as an “enemy” and approaching in blind, fearful
and selfish, personal-merit (of a group; of a species) oriented, whilst suavely
manipulative, manner – is showing us openly what Irreversibility-of-Time,
the Limitations & the Law-of-Balance (concepts pertinent to
the astrological planet Saturn) means; there’s no need to go into any kind of
special “philosophical debate” about it – the condition of the living
environment on Earth, not only for human species but the whole ecosystem, as it
is today, speaks for itself.
This planet, while we as generation-living-today on it, exist, along with ourselves
and our approach to what we know as Natural Environment (this does include the
“inner” as well as the “outer” aspects of it, when the human being is
concerned) – is not here “for the past generations”.
What we are Doing in our time, in this Now, is the Service we perform
(it’s all we can do, really) for the Children: for the Future
Generations – those yet-to-come – not as replicas of the past-patterns,
but as the New Springing of Life itself.
Granted we truly do feel authentic care for what we know as Life-on-Earth,
and desire for Human to not merely “just proceed existing”, however-long-it-may-get, in whatever-condition-possible, regardless of how of it or of any
effects of that for the Ecosystem of the planet Earth, but we truly feel Love and do care for the Homo species
as well as feel desire for Life on this planet to Go On in harmonious, the
utmost-best-way --- it is our Duty ( - yet another among the
Saturn-related themes!) to let-go-of, and to thoroughly purify (-
and yet another of Saturn-related themes) within the our thus-far habituated
patterns-of-operations from its still-existing main, central cluster-chunk the old, defunct stories, and the Values these carry-on.
This is the best, and only actual, real service we can be of ( - consider
this in light of the concept of Service being one of the main themes related to
Saturn, and such that it’s essentially devoid of ethical “coloring” and solely
rooted in actual, practical utmost-functionality; start with: from the
perspective of our-planet-Earth-as-an-organic-Whole, and then proceed with gradually
expanding this, via considering how the Earth itself is a part of the
wider-Whole of the Body with-not-defined/known-limits of the time-space-continuum
we call the Universe …) :
This is Service to Life itself, and it is an activity of true respect
for all those generations-past, of all the species which this Earth brought-forth
into emergence so that eventually Homo as well could come to be, gradually as
it has been getting to move toward its own growth, into unfolding of its
open-ended, continual-evolution-oriented, capacities – not otherwise but with
& within the context of the specific diversified & harmonious Ecosystem
of this planet.
…..
This is what is meant by the “Parents functioning as food for their Children”:
Each currently-living generation bringing itself and own operation-patterns
into such Balanced, such actually-harmonious, devoid of manipulative
patterns-&stories, within-own-adequate-limits condition of Being &
Behaving, that what it gives to the Next generation is of utmost-best
“nutritive value”: it does not “give” so that in this way it could engage in a
kind of a trade (“I give something, so thus I expect to get
something in-return”), it gives-whole-of-itself so
that it Nourishes adequately the Life that Yet-Is-Not, and is Just-Emerging
– not “for the sake of one’s own self”, or of “keeping an established pattern/tradition”,
but gives itself fully, wholly, without any desire to thus get a one’s-own-gain
or “reward” via this -- truly gives-serves so that the New-Stemming
of Life Itself emerges into its Own potential -- to Go & to Grow
in accordance with its own unique, new, to the past-generations entirely
unknown, thus-far-not-yet-having-existed, nature/qualities.
“Our” Children do not belong-to-us; it is in truth us that belong
to them. And it is our duty to, instead of heavy-load-of-poisonous-waste
which blocks their own healthy, happy, joyous Emergence-Into-Being & Further-Movement,
ourselves Do and Be in such ways that, at each step to-our-utmost-possible-best,
fully and wholly give all that we are to enable Them to emerge into --- for
us in actuality entirely-unknown, and with us as parental-generation fully open
to, on-the-go, be Learning from It what-to-do & how-to-be so
that we can serve It best --- their own Unique-Being.
What is Reality gets
defined and redefined anew in this movement. The at-each-next-step perceptible horizon-line,
circular-shaped as it appears, is recognized for the gate-realm-area
that it is: there to, by its existence, support the movement, not to demark
its “final enclosure line”.
It is a movement that requires leaving behind, step-by-step, steadily yet
decidedly, all of the defunct circus-charade imagery of the past of the
“holiness of ouroboros gulping its own tail” kind, and, with pitch-pure
focus of being navigated by stellar Beauty & Joy, wholeheartedly, &
with our minds and bodies attuned, fearlessly Going Forward -- just like the
Milky Way does -- while in-these-physical-bodies-on-Earth, and with-the-Earth,
in the ever-expanding, open-spiral movement – and with, in this, nothing
uncertain about the “defined” destination-direction: ever-toward the Next-Newly-Emerging,
in continuous-dancing-Presence with its Unknown to learn-from, into the vast-openness
of Infinity.
