Astrology's Present Moment by Barry D. Cowger - HTML preview

The 7 Semi-Septile, Below The Horizon Orb @ 177.50-179.99 Degrees of Separation, or 27.50 to 29.99 Virgo

Chapter 7's "Below the Horizon" Definition

We have reached Chapter 7 which consists of two parts. This bifurcation is necessary because the 7 Semi-Septile falls almost exactly on the original 180-degree horizontal line and is splitting it. Considering orb, this aspect portal appears on both sides of the horizontal line, requiring interpretations for "Above the Horizon" and "Below the Horizon." In terms of phase, when two celestial bodies are between 177.50 and 179.99 degrees apart in any sign, or when one celestial body between 27.50 and 29.99 degrees in Virgo, the interpretation for "Below the Horizon" is needed as explained below. Additionally, the smaller Virgo symbol next to the "7" on the Graphic indicates that Chapter 7 may incorporate information from Chapter 6, as they both share "Virgo" by nature. However, because Chapter 7's "Below the Horizon" condition is unique, its information can not be exported or transferred to Chapter 6, even though they share the same sign as shown. I would have preferred to avoid these adjustments but they were necessary based on birth chart feedback.

Limits of a Divisive Mind

Recall the feeling of being on the cusp of a desired goal such as, "Are we there yet?" Now extend that anticipation indefinitely and consider how it would feel as a persistent anxiety or focus. This is the unique essence of this half of this aspect portal. Excitement, hope, anxiety, and doubt, all blend together in a fleeting mental and emotional mix that craves resolution. This aspect portal compels these individuals to take action to resolve these thoughts and emotions. This is a high priority. However, the crucial realization is that it's not about fulfilling a personal need, like getting an ice-cream cone at the anticipated destination. The concept of a separate self is being cleaned out or dismantled. These individuals are preparing for their role in serving life or work they are meant to do. Some Virgos can get away with not making their vehicles so fine tuned. These "individuals" have no such wiggle room. Crisis will lead them to a deeper relationship to what that service may be. The intricate web in which they are entwined or "caught" or enmeshed is their lot. They are not meant to free themselves from it because that would be the roots by which they feel most alone or separated. Awareness acts as the field or web that is not a spinning of the mind but does compel them to serve. It is this awareness that propels towards the ideal or perspective that's just beyond the current horizon of each moment enabling them to realize the connection they yearn to serve, like the ice-cream cone they want to taste. This is a difficult yoga, as it may lead them to profound depths in order to address issues that the finite mind with its control mechanisms, are ultimately helpless to solve or cannot resolve. Health is the central theme or the center of the web that resonates throughout on many levels or strands. It is a delicate balance that demands practice, and listening in awareness. When their finite mind starts "doing too much past or future" the spiritual web they rely on is weakened, becomes more fragile or brittle and susceptible to disintegration, potentially resulting in a health crisis or condition they will need to prioritize toward its repair. For them, present-moment awareness is intended to help these "individuals" maintain these subtle and essential relationships.

Real Sunrises

These happen when the Earth rotates on its own axis or when a mind is not seeking a future on its own terms. Something will always feel off when it arrives because it was fabricated or not authentic to begin with. The best or most beautiful sunrises, or perhaps the only genuine ones, happen when these "individuals" are fully present and not actively seeking or trying to mold them in their mind's eye. They are simply in service to the moment, whatever it may be. When their web is healthy in those very moments, they know they have truly served. It's the small events that happen that make the biggest difference, and that happen all the time. In the big picture, it's what they do in the world, in whatever that world or sunrise looks like in the eyes of others through their work, service, or sacrifice in awareness.

Fateful Crossings

Some crossings, but not all, occur when the traveler, seeker or "individual" has become so broken, crestfallen, exhausted, and defeated that it only happens on its own schedule following near absolute felt hopelessness. There is so much suffering and it's everywhere. An essence of the web in which they participate will cross when it seems there's nothing else to lose, which is precisely the point. Up to such moments, it may happen in a sense or feeling of descent, as if slipping off an edge into an unknown from a non-act of surrender. Whether by incremental progress or all at once, some fateful crossings are made when no one makes them, or when no choice is given. These are the paradoxes of the nature of crossings that the finite mind cannot make but that some non-thing survives nonetheless. These crossings are their awakenings.

Geometric Phenomenalism as a Teaching Process

These individuals may also posses a natural capacity to visualize or hold detailed patterns or objects with exceptional clarity. The capacity to realize an image of significant complexity or dimension during meditation or heightened awareness can feel oddly comforting and reassuring. Through their understanding, or knowledge, information may be transferred instinctively applied towards improving emotional or mental well-being, social connections, purpose, or spiritual insight. Geometric and other unrelated imagery may hold meanings that are not products of the finite mind but are strangely familiar nonetheless. While some pictures are worth a thousand words, polyhedral or other symbolic images are a thousand words that require no translation, much like a graphic mandala. Meditation or prolonged reflection on any revealed imagery may bring about solutions or perspectives, bypassing rationality without fully comprehending how problems may have been resolved on their own in hindsight. Certain shapes and symbolic imagery may hold more significance for some individuals than for others, like a key unlocking the right image as its resolution.

The 7 Semi-Septile, Above The Horizon Orb @ 180.0000000001-182.50 Degrees of Separation, or 00.01 to 2.50 Libra

Chapter 7's "Above the Horizon" Definition

We have crossed the horizon line and are now more than halfway through the circle. At this phase, it means that two celestial bodies are separated from each other by 180.0000000001-182.50 degrees in any sign. As a sensitive point, the orb allowed for a celestial body may range between 0.01 and 2.50 degrees in the sign of Libra. Both qualify as "Above the Horizon" conditions. Additionally, please notice the smaller Libra symbol next to the "7" on the graphic. This indicates that Chapter 7 may incorporate the information outlined in the following Chapter 8 because both chapters are essentially "Libra" in nature. They share this commonality. However, due to Chapter 7's unique "Above the Horizon" condition, in nearly all cases its information can not be transferred to Chapter 8. On the other hand the information from Chapter 8 can be integrated into the "Above the Horizon" interpretation below. I would have preferred to avoid these adjustments and complexities in both cases, but it was necessary based on feedback. Thank you for your understanding.

The "What" of Essential Relationship

In awakening, the differentiation between subject/object has no experiential meaning. The true meaning lies in the "what" that experiences that non-relationship. In awakening, spacetime is not often a distinct thing, object or layer that is somehow not happening or paused for the duration of a moment or awakening experience. Sometimes it is momentary, while at other times it can last for hours, days or even weeks. By default, the distinct individual to whom this experience happens has been subtracted because spirituality defines what's true for everyone. In this experience, individuality is irrelevant. It is an artifact or filter that awakening doesn't need, or has no necessary relationship to it. Interestingly, the actions can still occur. Prior to an awakening experience of this kind, time is typically a factor in the experiential equation for things to occur. However, awakening through this aspect portal challenges this notion. Noodles are being stirred, or activities are happening but the distinction between subject and object is united or unified and time does not pass, or the "individual" performing the action is not a necessary part of the experience. "What is happening?" is not only the usual inquiry following this experience but may also be the only most accurate statement about the experience. This statement best encapsulates the truth of the experience. This aspect portal awakens that which is non-individually distinct, shaping their definition of spirituality moving forward. The "what" that is happening is not confined by the "who" of subject/object or temporal distinctions between the present and the past, or now and then. The experience occurs in paradoxical simultaneity, existing in a continuous and unending sense of "now." Now they understand. This moment marks a pivotal realization or tipping point for the 7 Semi-Septile "Above the Horizon" individual. Utilize this aspect portal's house axis, signs and celestial bodies to further describe how such an experience would unfold. For Chapter 7 "Above the Horizon" individuals, this fundamental experience points to the broader world of all relationships in which they always participate and to which they are always connected, despite the finite mind's inability comprehend such nonsense. Lingering post-awakening effects may persist, as a new relationship paradigm is established. This new found awareness also allows them to discern or sense the thoughts and emotions of others, or to deepen any current relationships, with humans or with other life forms. Through this heightened awareness, the distinction between subject and object is more of a hallucination than reality, as their awakening experience was more unforgettably real than anything they had ever experienced. Awakening experience reveals that they are always participating in what appears to be a distinct or separate subject/object temporal world, which is no longer true, confirming their new relationships to everything and everyone. This marks the fiction from which they are awakening. They now bring a new value to their meditations or contemplations, recognizing the common thread among individuals that drives events beyond "states." When this occurs, they will witness events unfolding and will understand they, or the entire situation remains "balanced" in that very awareness.