Symbols 181 to 270
***THIS REFERENCE MATERIAL IS ARRANGED WITH DANE RUDHYARS ANALYSIS- ABOVE. DR.JONES' -BELOW - & BEGINING EACH TIME WITH: * WHEN POSITIVE. THE CAPITALIZED SABIAN SYMBOLS ARE THE INTERPRETATION OF DANE RUDHYAR.
LIBRA__13__THE SPAN OF EXPECTATION
181__(1°)
PIERCED BY A DART OF LIGHT A BUTTERFLY IS "MADE PERFECT" The symbolical death that is initiation into spiritual reality and wisdom. Sudden awakening. Craving for inner light.
___*When positive, the degree is man's awakening to the need for some more whole-souled focus of character, and when negative, the loss of all true selfhood by a needless surrender to the world and conformity to its ways.
182__(2°)
A SYMPHONY IS PLAYED DRAMATIZING MAN'S HEROIC ASCENT Inspiration through creative identification with the large sweep of cycles. Spiritual expansion. Renewed encouragement.
___*When positive, the degree is the imaginative sweep of man's vision and eagerness to execute its promise, and when negative, a loss of reality in an infinitely regressive otherworldliness or a total lack of all practicality.
183__(3°)
A NEW DAY DAWNS, REVEALING A WORLD UTTERLY TRANSFORMED Transforming power of periods of silence and darkness, which lead to stirring revelations. Real touch with cosmic process.
___*When positive, the degree is man's insatiable appetite for experiment and continuing self-discovery in every possible area of human experience, and when negative, inability to catch the challenge of living in even the most trivial matters.
184__(4°)
PILGRIMS GATHER ROUND CAMP-FIRE, IN SILENT COMMUNION Fellowship of higher ideals that sustains the individuals on their arduous path to Reality. Mellow participation in life.
___*When positive, the degree is special skill in building an everyday morale and in sustaining an effective structure for further and greater objectives in life, and when negative, a lazing away of opportunity and an idle dependence on others.
185__(5°)
INSPIRED DISCIPLES LISTEN TO THE WORDS OF THEIR TEACHER Knowledge and experience put to the test. Greatness calling its own to itself. Ordered seeking. Distrust of appearances.
___*When positive, the degree is a genius for understanding and calling out the underlying realizations by which human character comes to know itself at its best, and when negative, fatuous pride in the self's acumen and subtle or underhanded attempts to dominate everyone.
186__(6°)
IN A TRANCE, A PILGRIM BEHOLDS HIS IDEALS MADE CONCRETE Inevitable confrontation with the concrete results of one's ideals. Lessons to be learned from it. Willingness of heart.
___*When positive, the degree is power through the full employment of imagination for the discovery and development of human potentiality, and when negative, self-defeat through inadequate expectation and superficial allegiances.
187__(7°)
WITCH FEEDS CHICKENS FRIGHTENED BY A HAWK SHE HAD TAMED Control of natural forces by the higher intelligence. Taming the strong, uplifting the weak. Transmutation through service.
___*When positive, the degree is a high competence in administering the duties of normal experience and a very special skill in protecting the self's real interests, and when negative, a complete personal ineptitude in the face of life's everyday and recurrent complexities.
188__(8°)
A FIREPLACE BLAZES MYSTERIOUSLY IN A DESERTED FARMHOUSE Constant presence of unseen, sustaining agencies in every worthwhile activity. Great depth of initial effort. Providence.
___*When positive, the degree is an exceptional gift for enlisting both men and the natural forces of life in the service of self and its dominating vision, and when negative, a witless dismissal of all affairs to their own devices.
189__(9°)
THREE "OLD MASTERS" HANG ALONE IN AN ART GALLERY Efficient cohesion of the three "souls" of man; of mind, feeling and instinct. Integrated wisdom. Sagacious behaviour.
___*When positive, the degree is a gift for bringing people and events together in high appreciation of the greater values of life, and when negative, idle worship of tradition and destructive self-contemplation.
190__(10°)
A CANOE LEAVING NARROW RAPIDS REACHES CALM WATERS The reward of all sincere and daring outreaching of self in life. A sure Destiny. Reliance upon skill and circumstances.
___*When positive, the degree is conscious and skilled resort to the course of action which leads most surely to success, and when negative, a primitive love of adventure and a wholly unintelligent faith in sheer good luck.
191__(11°)
KINDLY OLD PROFESSOR IS TEACHING A CLASS OF YOUNGSTERS Cooperation of genuinely superior agencies with beings less evolved. Glad willingness to assist and protect. Kindliness.
___*When positive, the degree is a quiet mastery of events through a developed insight or depth of understanding, and when negative, a joy in depreciating others and compelling their sub-servience.
192__(12°)
MINERS ARE EMERGING FROM A DEEP WELL INTO THE SUNLIGHT Depth of participation in the world's work. Whole-souled giving of self to service; or inability to bring self to effort.
___*When positive, the degree is inexhaustible resources of self with a consequent uncompromising strength of character, and when negative, complete inability to develop personal potentials or rise above dull nonentity.
193__(13°)
CHILDREN ARE BLOWING SOAP-BUBBLES AT A YOUNGSTERS’ PARTY Healthy stimulation through play and joy of human intercourse. Creative fantasy; spinning of idle dreams. Relaxation.
___*When positive, the degree is a consistent simplicity of character which enables anyone to maintain his touch with a transcendental magic of being, and when negative, a constant and idle daydreaming.
194__(14°)
RICH LAND-OWNER TAKES A SIESTA IN HIS TROPICAL GARDENS Proper adjustment to the rhythm of nature. Faith in the ordered scheme of things; injudicious dependence upon others.
___*When positive, the degree is an incisiveness of thought or reaction and an effective directness of act, and when negative, a fundamental and self-defeating disinterest in life.
195__(15°)
A STACK OF MACHINERY PARTS; ALL ARE NEW AND ALL ARE CIRCULAR Perfect and effortless participation in the universal order. Smooth approach to self-expression; inert self-satisfaction.
___*When positive, the degree is a rather extraordinary facility in self-adjustment or practical reorientation, and when negative, a tendency to think in circles and to lose all perspective in inconsequentialities.
LIBRA__14__THE SPAN OF REVELATION
196__(16°)
A HAPPY CREW IS RESTORING BEACH PIERS WRECKED BY STORMS Constructive results of apparently destructive forces; stimulation to new accomplishment. Glad response to needed work.
___*When positive, the degree is a joy in bringing every self-competence to the recurrent emergencies of life, and when negative, frustration as an excuse for inaction.
197__(17°)
RETIRED SEA-CAPTAIN IN UNIFORM WATCHES SHIPS SAIL AWAY Vicarious or mellow participation in life. Transfer of activity from physical to mental; or self-involvement in the past.
___*When positive, the degree is an utter fidelity to the lessons learned from experience and a consequent unshakeable poise in embarking on any new enterprise, and when negative, idle contemplation of past achievement.
198__(18°)
TWO MEN PLACED UNDER ARREST ARE BEING BROUGHT TO COURT Responsibility of individual to society in terms of normal behavior. Return to values. Obligation to face objective facts.
___*When positive, the degree is a heightened challenge to every special talent, and when negative, total inappropriateness of impulse and act.
199__(19°)
ROBBERS ARE HIDING, READY TO ATTACK HEAVILY ARMED CARAVAN Protest against the perpetuation of unearned social privileges and wealth. Repudiation of bondage. Challenge to custom.
___*When positive, the degree is alertness to every threat against a true individuality, and when negative, abnormal mistrust of everything worth while.
200__(20°)
OLD RABBI SITS CONTENTEDLY IN ROOM CROWDED WITH BOOKS Interest in permanent rather than transient values. Accumulation of ancient wisdom brought to use. Competent service.
___*When positive, the degree is the extraordinary insight which comes to those who are able to stand on the shoulders of the giants who have gone before, and when negative, an unhealthy sense of self-superiority.
201__(21°)
HOT SUNDAY CROWDS DELIGHT IN THE COOL SEA BREEZE Fundamental popularity of natural values. Communion in objects of real and universally recognized worth. Association.
___*When positive, the degree is naive assurance and a basic delight in every possible aspect of human relationship, and when negative, a look to others for fulfillment without any willingness to give at all of self.
202__(22°)
CHILD LAUGHS AS BIRDS PERCH ON AN OLD FOUNTAIN, AND DRINK Intuitive understanding of simple souls in spiritual matters. Youthful life-enjoyment. Fresh grasp of the soul's needs.
___*When positive, the degree is the creative concern for others by which any individual comes to experience his own immortality, and when negative, superficial effort for transient popularity.
203__(23°)
CHANTICLEER SALUTES THE RISING SUN WITH EXUBERANT TONES Capacity for self-refreshment at the inner sources of ever-reviewed life. Anticipation of opportunity. Security in Self.
___*When positive, the degree is a fearless self-affirmation which gains a sympathetic attention and wins immediate allegiance from the hearts and minds of everybody, and when negative, ill-starred conceit and ineffective bombast.
204__(24°)
A BUTTERFLY SPREADS ITS WINGS, SHOWING AN EXTRA LEFT ONE Potentiality of new forms and opportunities in every life. Instinctive expansion of self; or submergence in the not-self.
___*When positive, the degree is an idealistic originality and a high facility in quick analysis, and when negative, an interest in the worthless or an obsession with the improbable and ridiculous.
205__(25°)
FALLING GOLDEN LEAF TEACHES LIFE TO REBELLIOUS SCHOOLBOY Discovery of deeper elements of wisdom after intellectual knowledge wearies. Growth through awareness of basic meanings.
___*When positive, the degree is spontaneous adaptability and an unswerving and instinctive fidelity to ultimate goals and meanings, and when negative, fascination with the trivial and delight in unbridled fancy.
206__(26°)
AN EAGLE AND A WHITE DOVE CHANGE SWIFTLY INTO EACH OTHER Necessary cooperation between mind, will, spirit and heart, love. Power of psychological balance and compensation. Unity.
___*When positive, the degree is unusually effective self-discipline, and when negative, unhappy vacillation between ultimate ideals and momentary desires.
207__(27°)
A SPOT OF LIGHT IN CLEAR SKIES, AN AEROPLANE SAILS CALMLY Dwelling above the normal stress of existence. Superior mental vision. Calm objective observation; quiet inner strength.
___*When positive, the degree is high effectiveness in self-adjustment or real skill in meeting the crises of life, and when negative, complete inability to get down into immediate realities.
208__(28°)
A MAN IN DEEP GLOOM. UNNOTICED, ANGELS COME TO HIS HELP Spiritual sustainment given to him who opens himself to his full destiny. Slow realizations of betterment. Unsolicited help.
___*When positive, the degree is a complete spiritual fellowship with human kind, and when negative, self-stultification through wishful thinking.
209__(29°)
VAST MASSES OF MEN PUSH FORWARD REACHING FOR KNOWLEDGE Intense desire to overcome the blind life of passion and to uplift others. Intellectual vision. Tense mental outreaching.
___*When positive, the degree is a gift for every inspiring or unusual contribution to human well-being, and when negative, an egotism which belittles or defeats even normal accomplishment.
210__(30°)
A PHRENOLOGIST DISCOVERS MOUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE ON A HEAD Ability to read spiritual meanings in concrete objects. Objectification of abstract truths. Cleverness in understanding.
___*When positive, the degree is a perfected integrity of self and an exceptional gift for furthering all progress, and when negative, a fatuous pride in mere intellect.
SCORPIO__15__THE SPAN OF RETENTION
211__(1°)
SIGHT-SEERS IN A BUS STRAIN TO SEE CROWDS AND BUILDINGS The perspective which leisure gives to everyday affairs. Appetite for larger things. Seeing life as whole. Social Intercourse.
___*When positive, the degree is a basic impersonality which capitalizes on the opportunity of the moment and helps reorder the situation whenever there is difficulty or dissatisfaction, and when negative, a genius for avoiding any and every actual expenditure of self.
212__(2°)
FROM A BROKEN BOTTLE TRACES OF PERFUME STILL EMANATE The fine scent of deeds well done as it persists in the memory of men. Stimulating recollection. Spiritual immortality.
___*When positive, the degree is persistence in creative effort and utter fidelity to the inner essence of selfhood, and when negative, witless dissipation of every resource of self and society.
213__(3°)
HAPPY HOUSE-RAISING PARTY AMONG WESTERN PIONEERS The constructive sharing of experience which builds social values. Interchange of efforts. Necessity to learn cooperation.
___*When positive, the degree is an exceptional power of accomplishment through a consistent success in winning the good will and enlisting the services of others, and when negative, a complete inability to fit into any pattern of shared relationships.
214__(4°)
YOUTH CARRIES A LIT CANDLE IN HIS FIRST CHURCH SERVICE Beginning of spiritual participation in the world's work. Sustained inspiration. Conscious linkage to inner realities.
___*When positive, the degree is an unquenchable and irresistible confidence in the goodness and integrity of all things, and when negative, a simple-minded impracticality if not a very unhealthy self-obsession.
215__(5°)
A MASSIVE ROCKY SHORE UNCHANGED BY CENTURIES OF STORMS Revelation of absolutely stable elements in all life. Strong confidence born of fundamental perception; or spiritual inertia.
___*When positive, the degree is a poised spirit and a firmness of personality which enable every individual to prepare himself and his fellows for any possible contingency, and when negative, blind stubbornness or unreasoning conservatism
216__(6°)
CALIFORNIAN HILLS: THE "GOLD RUSH" SHATTERS THEIR PEACE The passionate quest for universal values, destructive of cultural ease of living. Leaping to opportunity. Avid seeking.
___*When positive, the degree is instinctive self-dedication to the unseen potentials of everyday existence, and when negative, a lack of practical discrimination and an irresistible desire for easy money.
217__(7°)
DIVERS OF THE DEEP SEA ARE BEING LOWERED INTO THE WATERS Purposeful, daring plunge into life-mysteries. Fulfillment of individual selfhood through study of unconscious energies.
___*When positive, the degree is a persistent penetration to the very vital core of human motive and make-up, and when negative, fundamentally unsocial instincts and a resort to wholly absurd escapism.
218__(8°)
A HIGH MOUNTAIN LAKE IS BATHED IN THE FULL MOONLIGHT Illumination of the soul by transcendent wisdom. Quiet touch with cosmic strength; or wayward moody effort at greatness.
___*When positive, the degree is an absolute and usually unsuspected mastery over the forces and exigencies of life and nature, and when negative, witless joy in the sheer vagaries of imagination.
219__(9°)
A DENTIST IS REPAIRING TEETH RUINED BY CIVILIZED HABITS Mechanical inventiveness and control over nature needed to balance man's emphasis on mind and self. Applied creativity.
___*When positive, the degree is a creative ingenuity brought to a real service for others, and when negative, a thoughtless acceptance of life's makeshifts and an unhealthy admiration for artificiality,
220__(10°)
A FELLOWSHIP SUPPER REAWAKENS UNFORGETTABLE INNER TIES Companionship rooted in past performance. Group-personality emergence. Fraternity of ideals uplifting individual efforts.
___*When positive, the degree is an effective channelling of personal aspirations into the commonplace grooves of a shared experience, and when negative, a surrender of individual distinction and exaltation of naive animality.
221__(11°)
A DROWNING MAN IS RESCUED, BROUGHT BACK TO THE CROWD Outreaching warmth of human character. Saving power of social restraint for too emotional souls. Humanitarian ideals.
___*When positive, the degree is the inherent courage which constitutes a protection from the vicissitudes of life, and when negative, a tendency to hysteria on the least occasion and a lean on transient excitement for all self-realization.
222__(12°)
HIGH OFFICIALS ARE GATHERED AT AN IMPORTANT EMBASSY BALL Social recognition of accomplishment as the substance of a ritual of human association. Certification of rank. Ambition.
___*When positive, the degree is an absolute stability of self as a contribution to group integrity, and when negative, a smug demand for special privilege.
223__(13°)
IN AN IMPROVISED LABORATORY AN INVENTOR IS NEAR SUCCESS Driving power toward achievement, as featured in all benefactors of mankind. Self-sufficient activity. Clever outwitting.
___*When positive, the degree is a capacity for accomplishment beyond all normal expectation, and when negative, a superficial dawdling over things to be done and futile dreams of great genius.
224__(14°)
WORKERS PUSH A TELEPHONE LINE ACROSS FORBIDDING RANGES The will to association regardless of time and space. Linkage of separate realms. Spiritual living "in spite of" nature.
___*When positive, the degree is an effective penetration of human competence into each pertinent complex of everyday living, and when negative, unnecessary concern over the affairs of others.
225__(15°)
LAUGHING CHILDREN PLAY UPON FIVE MOUNDS OF WHITE SAND The world of the five senses as the playground of God and Soul. Honesty in self-expression. Bondage to sense-patterns.
___*When positive, the degree is a gift for a continual discovery of new and effective facets of selfhood, and when negative, wholly purposeless ineptitude.
SCORPIO__16__THE SPAN OF APPRECIATION
226__(16°)
A GIRL WITH ARISTOCRATIC FEATURES SMILES ENTRANCINGLY Fervent outreaching of self in moments of the purest beauty. Leaping to meet the potentialities of life. Blossoming forth.
___*When positive, the degree is man's ingratiating gift for employing the simple things of life for surmounting any momentary obstacles to his self-fulfillment, and when negative, self-betrayal through a lack of all discrimination.
227__(17°)
WOMAN, FECUNDATED BY HER SPIRIT, IS "GREAT WITH CHILD" Fullness of self-reliance and individual destiny. Cooperation between spiritual and material agencies. Pure self-revelation.
___*When positive, the degree is an illimitable self-potentiality with effective spiritual or ideal as well as practical or everyday orientations, and when negative, a characteristically anarchistic self-sufficiency.
228__(18°)
A WINDING ROAD LEADS THROUGH GLORIOUS AUTUMNAL WOODS The light which transfigures the soul after passions have faded away. Revelation of inner wealth. Radiant consummation.
___*When positive, the degree is high success in every area of true self-interest, and when negative, a perverse delight in permitting worth-while things to go to seed.
229__(19°)
A WISE OLD PARROT REPEATS THE CONVERSATION HE OVERHEARD Dependence upon inner or outer environment for the substance of understanding. Transmission of knowledge. Channel-ship.