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Linda Knight's avatar

Fantastic! I have been reading your essay instalments to my husband - we stop and comment and proclaim at various points. Such a keen intelligence and compassionate heart. Thank you.

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Peter Webb's avatar

Thanks David for another good piece of thought provoking reflection. For us all this story goes back a long way and the nuances or threads of connection between our light and dark sides are part of many historical myths. I feel that we have been told this story in many different eras and each, like a layer in an onions' skin touches into the seeds we have all been given and inherited.

Any moment to reflect upon this is valuable, but as you say, the planetary ages in their ever so slow progression are bringing a view of our challenge.

How do we move forward when we find that we too are the 'enemy'.? How much of our 'soul's already been sold or committed because we HAD too ? Or because our home environment and society imprinted almost indelibly, untruths which we swallowed and presently regurgitate unexpectedly when we are pushed too hard, frustrated, cornered, afraid, angry, despaired.

It's like spring cleaning our house; what do we keep and what do we give away and what do we throw out ? Can we keep the light (Aquarius) without having to negotiate our own darkness ? No, not possible (Saturn) Personal stocktaking and training in letting go of judgement.

Goethe teaches that color arises at the meeting of dark and light. Can we hold them together as we look at ourselves in the mirror as both? The practice of Aikido and Tai Chi, have much to teach us symbolically about our human incarnation. Darkness is implicit in the light, but I think that consciousness can help them to relate.

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