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I can now look back on past relationships
and events and understand the
evolutionary meaning in the words of this
poem. The Gods as the ancients called
the planets are the archetypes which are
alive inside of us. Instead of thinking the
planets are doing something to us which
is a misrepresentation of the psychological
discipline of Astrology, the planets describe
who we potentially are as part of one
unified organism that is unfolding — the
Cosmos. This was first described as man,
the microcosm is a miniature reflection
of the greater macrocosm by Paracelsus,
physician and alchemist (1493-1541).
None of us expresses all of the potentials
in our birth chart and paradoxically it is
all there as the blue print of our psyche
from the first moment of birth. Knowing
ourselves is both a life-long challenging
responsibility and also ultimately a joyful
experience.
The relationships that we attract into
our lives, for better or worse become
instrumental to our self-awareness and
self-actualization — becoming whole —
what Carl Jung called individuation.
This poem says give all to love — lovers,
friends, family, our creativity, our
resources, our purpose in life, a muse who
inspires us, etc. All of this fully embraced
will involve us in the experience of our own
expressions of love. The word Eros means
to create, to connect, to relate. Eros is the
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