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

The 8 Tri-Septile @ 205.71 Degrees of Separation, or 25.71 Libra

Interactive or Cooperative Present-Moment Awareness

Awareness is not a quality that one experiences as their own, as the common phrase suggests, such as "I need to get into the moment." It is not something that anyone has to fight for: it has always been there, even before the realization of awareness itself. This is worth reflecting or meditating on at length. Additionally, awareness has never heard of "balance" or knows what it means because it has never been out of balance. This is a great starting point for developing a cooperative, dynamic and living relationship with the present moment. Our bodies participate in many relationships. When we are hungry, sleepy, overheated, or cold these bodies will alert us or let you know. They have mechanisms of awareness to address all extremes to keep us functioning. However, there is another aspect or field to awareness in which these individuals are always participating and to which they need to feel connected. These individuals are continually broadcasting, receiving, exchanging and responding to both local and non-local fields of social or environmental information. The finite mind struggles to comprehend this subtlety. It seeks so-called objective or commonly agreed-upon facts or events to address the value of "participation" and what to do about it, or how to approach and solve problems about it. Non-tangible fields purported to be more real than real sounds more like hocus-pocus than fact. They obviously don't have this aspect portal in their birth charts. This is not about trying to do things differently in order to achieve balance or establish a coherent relationship with what appears to be functionally real compared to many others around them. Their present-moment awareness is to realize a much more subtle relationship or depth to this field in which they participate and can contribute. They need this more than anything else. They know this experience and what it feels like when it happens to them. It's like magic when this social fabric begins to weave itself through them, or their lives. This experience is the basis for all relationships that will follow. At its best, when given the opportunity, this field in which they yearn to realize is capable of manifesting itself as an awakening in the middle of synchronistic, simultaneous, and real-world, social "heavy-lifting" as meaningful participation without them trying to arrange or lift anything.

Ants, Bees, Flocking Sparrows, Musical Groups and Team Spirit

This aspect portal is the dissemination of Consciousness, like dandelion seeds in the wind. Imagine the near-infinite computational "heavy lifting" of such an event that nature expresses, beautifully, profoundly and effortlessly. Being captivated by beauty is an awakening that must become a part of their lives or define their lives. There are environments, fields, or spaces where this is more likely to occur or constitute itself than not. Birth chart particulars will point to those players or environments. While in Egypt, floating up the Nile in a traditional felucca or sailboat at sunset, I had an experience or a moment that made an impression. Sparrows, known for their social behavior, often gather in large flocks, especially during migration or foraging. When in flight, these flocks can be mesmerizing, with hundreds of birds moving in simultaneous unison. This phenomenon is not so much about individual birds in flight reacting to one another, but more about the field or environment in which they express their nature. Imagine what these birds must know and feel when they are in flight, being true to "themselves." Awakening is experiencing a similar connective sense or feel in any commonplace context or environment. Individuals have also been known to travel around the world for this unique experience. They participate in and become part of a collective relationship synergy experience. Athletes in high-functioning teams understand these out-of-body moments and what they feel like. Members of bands or musical groups also know this feeling, as the music being played transcends any individual member or audience member. Boundaries blur as players and listeners merge into one field where separate individuals no longer exist, and the question of whom is playing to who cannot be determined. Ants, bees, flocking sparrows, high-functioning team sports members, and performers all experience this peak present moment through their respective mediums. Meditation or experiential being is a direct way to access nature's non-state. The thing about nature is that it's always "in" every moment and nowhere else.

Not Too Close, Not Too Far

When the mind is too close, too active or held too tightly, feelings of loneliness or disconnect can become far too real. Similarly, when gazing out over a vast distance or being far away, we may experience the same sense of disconnect or that we're also not making any meaningful contribution. Magnets in terms of their properties and behaviors can serve as useful metaphors for individuals to emulate. When they are too close or touching, their dynamism is lost because the mind, acting as one pole of a magnet in that field, has fully imposed its definition or collapsed the field itself. There is no longer room for any discovery or what could come next. The field's potential has been brought to an end and feels stuck to it. When magnets with opposing poles are too far apart, it feels like nothing is happening as in non-participatory indifference. The sweet spot or "close enough" to keep things going, or the magnets that continue to interact is the awareness of the field in which they always participate, and to which they are always connected. The present moment is that balance or sweet spot. When at this "right" distance, you can "make" the other attractive magnet go across distances in cumulative present moments that the finite mind collapses, or will never know or could never traverse. The present moment is the continual participation in non-local fields that span all space and all time, as no-space or distance and as no-time but "now." This thought experiment is worth contemplation or meditation in terms of finding that balance in awareness, that's not necessarily found in the mind's definition of action toward that concept.

Unknown Yet Consequential Participation

The winds blow, carrying dandelion seeds that scatter or disseminate as far as they can. It's all a matter of action and reaction. But in terms of fundamental Consciousness, its fields are non-local and equally real to all individuals, but to these individuals specifically. The good they may want to be a part of is also happening because they contribute to that good in their awareness of it. They continuously "send it" without needing to step outside their front door to participate. The two celestial bodies in this aspect portal phase, based on their signs and house positions, will provide the missing information about what they are doing and where they have their "effect" that they do. Put differently, all particles become paired or entangled when stripped of their individual status as they become engaged in what they do or where they go in the non-local field of awareness or awakening.

Open Plan "Houses"

In terms of fundamental Consciousness, objectivity does not exist. It's all about relationship, which is to say it's all relative. An excellent metaphor is the open plan house where the boundary between itself and its garden or "outside" can inspire the experience that there is no boundary at all, or that it fundamentally exists in "no space" confounding the mind once again. Open-plan houses, spaces, or environments are designed to promote this paradoxical awareness. Non-dual or direct experience in which there is nothing between them is what doesn't happen in awareness, and this environment does a good job of illustrating that. Open-plan houses can also appear, or fear that they are haunted because there's no apparent boundary within them or between their rooms and the living. The best open-plan houses are nature's own where one can live or participate in them and where ghosts of the mind have no "other" place to appear.

Equanimity and Authenticity vs. Social Survival or Existing

Feel the difference between the finite mind seeking an image of equanimity and present-moment awareness that is given no time and requires no time to fashion such things. Present-moment awareness has never sought equanimity. It doesn't know what it is because it has never tried to construct it from any other place it has been by comparison. Any manufactured image or feeling, including equanimity, can be exhausting and self-defeating because it takes energy to maintain any image beyond the present moment. Social skills are useful and we need them. However, let the image of equanimity go. It does happen and we do see it being expressed, but it flows into behavior from awareness, and that can be defined as equanimity, or authentic present-moment awareness.