The astrology we practice is largely inspired by the studies of Luc Bigé, Stephen Arroyo, Liz Greene and Jacques Berthon. You will frequently see small excerpts from these authors whom we consider to be pioneers in their respective astrological practices.
There are several approaches to astrology:
We appreciate certain points of the so-called karmic practice of astrology. The psychological approach also speaks to us, but we are undoubtedly inspired by the practices of so-called transpersonal astrology as well as astromythology and it is these that we seek to share centrally. The other methods listed above are aids that we consider valuable to a broader understanding.
However, by transpersonal astrology we do not necessarily mean to distance ourselves from the person. It is not about being someone else, but rather about becoming aware of who we are beyond the veil of the persona (the mask that defines us in the outside world). Becoming aware of, accepting and going through the different facades behind the mask of our representations is the first step towards self-knowledge.
To this, and depending on one's experience, we consider that certain behavioral therapies are necessary to promote personal development. That a method of therapy such as that advocated by the Alexandria therapists raises us to the dimension of listening, listening to the breath of life that runs through us. To let peace and tranquility come, that space deeper than our suffering, beyond our wounds, to abandon ourselves to the grace that dwells within us.
But also, to become aware that we have become deeply narcissistic with a fear of suffering and death. To know ourselves is also to recognize our narcissism which places itself above the living, which seeks immortality by transhumanist means of Promethean technology, by a small self which takes itself for God. Knowledge is revealed in the space of the heart and it is from this space that we can perceive the transcendent meaning of the Self.
The narcissistic pathology represents the dark side of the myth of Narcissus; on the other side of the pathology remains a luminous part of the myth with a strong potential of self-knowledge.
Let us quote Luc Bigé,
Modern man is not yet able to move from the psychoanalytical sense of narcissism to the mythological sense of sublimation of his fear of suffering. Suffering is precisely this process of renouncing our ego, because only the ego suffers. It is a detachment from our own identifications, from the identifications of our own belief systems that seek perfection of the body, eternal youth and immortality. Narcissism is also insensitive to the suffering that its desire for omnipotence inflicts on all living things. Old age is hidden away in specialised homes and death behind the walls of cemeteries. Our society values youth, moving bodies, celebration and entertainment, while our old people are just tired teenagers. In other times, in other places, they were "elders" to whom we went for advice, advice born of a long maturing life where suffering still led to a form of wisdom. If humanity, in its involution, succeeds in accepting suffering as an essential key to the myth of Narcissus, life will allow it to make the difference between its idealistic search for a lost paradise through a superman ideology and the great silence that allows it to get in touch with its being behind the veil of its illusions.
Excerpts from the article Transhumanism and post-humanism by Luc Bigé on https://reenchanterlemonde.com/2021/03/17/transhumanisme-et-posthumanisme/ reenchanterlemonde.com
Transpersonal astrology
focuses on assimilating and integrating the processes of transformation and evolution by listening to the cycles of life. It is about paying attention to what lies beyond our Persona, in those dimensions that allow us to cross the boundaries defined by our ego (1). The ego is not an obstacle in itself, but it is the identification with its mechanisms that produces patterns of illusion and distances us from our true nature. However, we must welcome our Mayan patterns and sometimes cross them to accomplish our soul's project.
The astrological archetypes are bearers of meaning and symbols that reveal the experience. They hold the power to understand why and how to get out of the traps in which we find ourselves or, on the contrary, to encourage the realization of a latent potential. Astrology is not a therapy, but a vehicle for opening our consciousness which, if we are sufficiently interested, has the capacity to guide us towards a creative evolution of ourselves. Astrology remains a means of acquiring an important support on which we will build a greater dynamic of our expression.
Transpersonal astrology can provide predictions but it is essential to assimilate our vision of prediction?
Unlike prediction, which is generally fatalistic in the insignificance of the radicality it evokes, forecasting is based on potentiality.
If the subject of the consultation is the fear of losing a loved one and the person's attention is frozen in this fear, the liberation of this fear can only be done after an understanding of the behavior and the beliefs hidden behind the person's fear. It is often in this way that a painful event can become, through the awareness of its mechanisms, the assimilation of a new potential and that a new, more gratifying orientation can be realized because something in us has grown and brings us inner satisfaction.
The concept of giving advice
If it is very difficult for me to not fall into the trap of giving advice, it is rarely effective. Why? Because people seeking an astrological interpretation should be confronted with the facts at their disposal. Advice is often a projection of the astrologer's own experience and cannot be completely objective. On the other hand, if the astrologer tells a story represented by the consultant's birth chart without giving advice, the consultant will be able to recognise in this story what belongs to him or her. In this way, the consultant can acquire a responsible attitude towards himself and give himself appropriate advice. The quality of the consultation has dimensions designed to individualise the consultant and not to make it childish.
In this case, responsibility for the evolution of our destiny lies in our intention to listen to, welcome and accept the laws of existence. It's not a question of resigning ourselves to suffering, but of letting life flow through us and being active, intentional and compassionate observers of it, so that we can develop a growing capacity to act at the right moment. The universe periodically opens doors of perception for us, and it would be advantageous for our evolution to be vigilant in integrating them in their full potential.
SatyamAstro
1) Excerpt from a definition of Transpersonal
The Transpersonal is the overcoming of the person, of what is considered in the individual as personal, egoistic, and conditioned by man, in order to give a dominant place to the Universal Self. It is a question of passing from the ego to the Self, to spirituality, to the meeting of the sacred or the divine. It is a recent term (1930) which defines a reality shared by ancient spiritualities such as shamanism, the Vedas of India, Taoism, Buddhism and Sufism. It is therefore a direct access path to spirituality, to faith in an ideal, to superior forces, to the divine and the sacred.
Anne-Laure PACCOUD
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