Our final task for Actor archetype involved creating our own medicine wheel - a circle divided into 12 and a process of identifying 'heaviness' and 'remedy' - my interpretation - across the wheel. Feels like a very balancing idea and I love the way it invites me to make this journey six times - from heaviness to remedy or, as I might say, from extreme end of a continuum to a central balance point. That's what wheels always need, in order to roll, a hub and a direction.
So I've somehow - yet again - done it my own way and, in the process, delved deep into astrology, my own chart, trying for an embodied sense of what that might mean. It's still work in progress but, of course you know that there are 12 houses, 12 signs of the zodiac and that they are drawn in a 2 dimensional circle, just like a medicine wheel.
Carol held the constellation * in the context of my 3 dimensional / multi-faceted map of the heavens (above) and the underworld (below). Sorry if that doesn't make sense in words - I need to wave my arms around to show you the spherical nature of existence. And there's me, in the centre of it all. You in the centre of your sphere, too. Hence the crystal net of Indra.
I've started mapping across from the ascendant to the descendant - the horizon at the time of my birth, as a starting point. It's just another way of doing astrology and I'm sure I'll make huge errors and misinterpretations in the process. But my questions are:
1. What if the first house (personal identity) were to be the 'remedy' for the seventh house (one on one relating)? That one makes perfect sense to me, as I think about the learning we do in our various partnerships through life - the more I am myself, the better my relationships seem to flourish.
2. What if the opposite were also true? Of course - it feels obvious.
3. How does that work with the other houses? Am just starting on that one. Try it for yourself with the picture from the book I'm using, below.
4. What about the oppositions and connections in my personal chart? These are just lines drawn as if they are two dimensions, but they seem to align with the way my life has panned out in ways I can't yet articulate.
So I've somehow - yet again - done it my own way and, in the process, delved deep into astrology, my own chart, trying for an embodied sense of what that might mean. It's still work in progress but, of course you know that there are 12 houses, 12 signs of the zodiac and that they are drawn in a 2 dimensional circle, just like a medicine wheel.
Carol held the constellation * in the context of my 3 dimensional / multi-faceted map of the heavens (above) and the underworld (below). Sorry if that doesn't make sense in words - I need to wave my arms around to show you the spherical nature of existence. And there's me, in the centre of it all. You in the centre of your sphere, too. Hence the crystal net of Indra.
I've started mapping across from the ascendant to the descendant - the horizon at the time of my birth, as a starting point. It's just another way of doing astrology and I'm sure I'll make huge errors and misinterpretations in the process. But my questions are:
1. What if the first house (personal identity) were to be the 'remedy' for the seventh house (one on one relating)? That one makes perfect sense to me, as I think about the learning we do in our various partnerships through life - the more I am myself, the better my relationships seem to flourish.
2. What if the opposite were also true? Of course - it feels obvious.
3. How does that work with the other houses? Am just starting on that one. Try it for yourself with the picture from the book I'm using, below.
4. What about the oppositions and connections in my personal chart? These are just lines drawn as if they are two dimensions, but they seem to align with the way my life has panned out in ways I can't yet articulate.
* If you haven't experienced Family Constellation work (you probably are reading this from curiosity, not as a member of our Visionary Artist course), click on the link just above highlighted in (purple)