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It is only in crises that we can know the real self of our best friend or associate. But we actually come to know this self not so much by what the person achieves outwardly as by the way he approaches an emergency, by the quality of his response to lack and defeat.
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Selfhood and relationships are the two poles of one single fact. Birth demands of us that we come to know ourselves, what we are. But it calls upon us also to seek to discover the why of our existence; this discovery can never come to us fully except through human relationships.
The symbolism of astrology can help us understand how the kind of security ancestral roots and "home" foundations used to provide can be replaced by a new kind of inner stability. What we need to do is to consider carefully what is meant by the fourth house in the birth-chart.
In the twelfth house you meet the results of your social and professional failures or frustrations, as well as of your successes and wealth.
Everyone is born to live the truth one is. Alas, often one finds oneself surrounded by social lies and personal fallacies. As a person matures under such conditions, not realizing what he is, the person will not know his real contribution to society.
It is in the eighth house that the solution of the problems attendant to the practical working out of one's life purpose through human associations is to be found.
You can relate yourself to people and things in your immediate daily surroundings in a great variety of ways. Your problem, as an individual, is to find the best way for you to exteriorize and prove to others that which you essentially are as an individual — your true self.
The deeper function of astrology is to lead individuals to a sense of participation in a universal order of which the visible sky and the motions of planets and stars are significant manifestations.
Many people do not really care to demonstrate their individual selfhood or their individual sense of value. Indeed, they very often cannot be said to "use" their possessions; it is the possessions which use them!
Success or failure can be used imaginatively and creatively only if you have not become identified entirely and blindly with your struggle for achievement.
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