Journey around the Sun
15.2
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Moving along with and being moved by
As we have seen, it is to these four transitional moments that Euktemon (1.2) anchored the Cardinal Cross of the Tropical Zodiac.
The points where the Sun crosses the Equator he called 0°Aries and 0° Libra, and the Solstitia of summer and winter he called 0° Cancer and 0° Capricorn.
At these points on the Cardinal Cross, something remarkable occurs amongst Earth’s human inhabitants: The conjunction of one of these four Zodiacal points with the Sun is regarded in many traditions as an auspicious moment in the year: Our ‘moving along’ with the Earth is apparently felt as ‘being moved by’, as an inner experience. At Christmas (15.2.a), even cannon fire falls silent for a while in many parts of the world. These facts seem to add an extra dimension to the Cardinal Cross.
No field for development
Looking back on the end of our journey over Earth, we encountered a situation at the North Pole (13.8) in which the rotation of Earth’s axis ceases to generate a Self that manifests itself outwardly. On the North Pole, no objective field can be cast out any longer; the Self didn’t have a field around itself any more for its development (6.2).
A second centrifuge
Returning to our journey round the Sun, we now see that even though at the North Pole we may have come to a complete standstill relative to Earth’s circumference, yet in our motion round the Sun we are again subjected to a (much larger) centrifugal force that also has an effect on us. Even though we find ourselves here on Earth’s central axis and therefore in our own Center, unable to project ourselves any more on the circumstances, still this movement round the Sun will inevitably fling us towards a new circumference, a new field around us. So apart from our self-cast field of personal and cultural projections, we now discover a second field of experience in which we take part as well, together with Earth as a whole.
A second field of experience
So apart from the world of our personal and socio-cultural projections, we also take part in a second, larger and more universal sphere serving as a second field of experience for us. Here the emphasis is not so much on the individual's place in his social environment, but on his or her awareness of being connected to, and participating in, a context that transcends the personal, cultural world in which we are embedded. This larger field of experience applies to Earth as a whole, and is given form by the religious traditions of many cultures. The forms that are used for this show undeniable similarities all over the world. (*) This is a second remarkable fact.
This would suggest that humanity, as a collective, goes through certain experiences in this larger field, which may be expressed in different ways and forms by different cultures and religions, but still are grafted onto the same global root. In contrast to the contracted, concentrated individual Self on the North Pole, we see a global, interconnected principle of oneness emerging here.
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