ARTICLES OF ASTROLOGERS MAURICE FERNANDEZ « MERCURY AND ITS HIGHER OCTAVE URANUS »
ARTICLES OF ASTROLOGERS MAURICE FERNANDEZ « MERCURY AND ITS HIGHER OCTAVE URANUS »
The archetype of Gemini is concerned with the issue of integration into the environment as a survival necessity. The environment reflects the dynamics of life surrounding the soul in a particular time and space. This archetype is mutable by nature, which reflects the reality that life is built on a holistic foundation, meaning that every single component of life invariably relates to every other one. As a result the life of the individual is part of an enormous chain, and the individual learns to consciously integrate in that chain.
Understanding the holistic foundation induces the individual not to separate him or herself from the outside world. External events are interfering with the private reality even if the individual refuses to be part of those events. The soul incarnates as an entity; yet this entity is part of an existing framework. The individual lives and interacts with an environment regardless of personal choice.
For example as one drives a car into town, the need is to relate to the other vehicles. Personal actions impact on the traffic stream just as the traffic impacts on personal actions. Through Gemini the urge is to enter the traffic of life and to melt into it in order to participate in the existing dynamics. It is like stepping in the rhythm of a dance that has started before one came, and will continue after one leaves.
In other words the air that we breathe is shared by everyone and is everywhere. Ignoring the fact that each individual interrelates with the environment is like trying to isolate the air only for the use of the self. As a matter of fact, it seems that the first sign of integration in life is reflected in breathing. As one breathes, one enters the rhythm of life.
Life operates regardless of the individual personal rhythm; its pace is a mixture of everything that exists. Therefore life never stops and never concentrates solely on one particular thing; rather everything is always doing something all the time. The clock ticks continually as every living thing breathes without a pause. Life is a simultaneous phenomenon and all its components are synchronized with each other as they interrelate.
Part 1. Mercury ruler of Gemini
This again described in the car example, as one drives, one does simultaneous actions of looking in the mirrors, shifting gears, pushing pedals, listening to the radio station. All these actions are synchronized with each others just as the personal car is synchronized with the rest of the traffic.
The individual is in a state of deep shock facing the simultaneous, interrelating and synchronized reality. Everything is in constant movement and seems to happen so fast. Furthermore, one cannot stand aside and take a brake; one is part of the mechanism and therefore pressured to grasp as fast as possible the way to deal with it in order to avoid losing control and break down.
The condition required for integrating into the stream of life is knowledge. There is a survival need that pressures to learn how the mechanism works in order to be able to act accordingly and know how to use it. The more one knows the more one can regulate the interactions. The absence of knowledge would represent a reality within which the soul would be invariably involved in the dynamics of life without having any clue as to how to operate in it. The outcome would create a state of inner chaos as one would be dragged by external occurrences in every directions, ultimately leading to accidents, insanity, or death.
A common example to describe this dynamic is of a person visiting a foreign country. Landing in an environment that one is not accustomed with and not integrated into leads to a feeling of deep insecurity, it is a cultural shock. The language is foreign, the climate is different, the money has different value, the rhythm of life is altered, and so on. Unless this person is guided by tourist services or books to gather the necessary information and understand where and how to deal with the new environment, he or she cannot participate in it. In extreme cases again this person ' s life and sanity can be threatened as he or she cannot bridge with the life and elements of that place. A foreigner in England can be killed by looking the wrong way when crossing the street; to know is to survive.
The need to know reflects the need to understand, and the ability to understand is again based on life as being a holistic mechanism.
42 КАРЬЕРА АСТРОЛОГА | 2 2012