"Love
is the astrolabe
of God's mysteries" Rumi
Astrolabe?
Astrolabe? God's mysteries? What's up with that?
To
our 21st century minds - the
above phrase conjures up very few images or clues as
to what the 13th century Sufi mystic and poet, Rumi, might
have been referring to...
First
off, it might help to know that an astrolabe was an ancient instrument
or lens used to observe the positions of the celestial bodies (planets,
stars, etc.).
However,
to further explain this statement, it's crucial to know that for
Rumi there
was a mystical experience known as the "True Fana" or the "true
passing away into the Divine."
True
Fana
According to archetypal author, John Haule (The Divine Madness),
in Rumi's mystical concept of "true fana" - human lovers served one another
as mutual lenses (astrolabes)
into the mysteries of the heavens that contained the
one true Eternal Divine Lover.
So,
in true fana - passing away into
the essence and soul of one's human lover was
simultaneously an experience of passing away into the mysteries of the
Divine Lover...
Actually
this Sufi concept appears to smack of the philosopher Plato's
influence...
Anyway...
alas... according
to Rumi, not all - or even most - love
shared between human lovers was
(or is) able to remain an experience of
"true fana." There
was also, alas, the experience of
"false fana."
False
Fana
False fana occurs either when we fall in love with an illusion or
when a love experience fades slowly, but surely, away into empty,
misty illusion...
and
our
yearning for the lost and missing ghost lover, that has abandoned
us, then turns into mindless obsession...
Our
obsession for the lost lover then leads us far, far away from the divine
mysteries, our journey, and our true destination...
Good
Lord, does all that sound a wee bit familiar or what?
Getting Along
Astrologer extraordinaire Stephen Arroyo has said: "astrology
is much better at explaining 'getting along' - than it is at describing
or predicting the divine mysteries of love."
In
depth psychologist Dr. Carl G. Jung's famous clinical astrological experiments,
regarding compatibility and married couples - Jung made the observation
that there appears to be no one, single traditional "signature" in the
birth chart that will faithfully predict who will (and who will not) fall
in love and then get married.
Jung
did, however, conclude there appears to be a case by case astrological
connection between the individual needs (complexes) of one person and
who that person ends up falling in love with and possibly marrying...
The
astrological birth chart cannot predict with total assurance who
will
(or
who will not) fall
in love, marry, and then live happily ever after...
Alas!
The bad news (and the paradoxically good news) is:
Astrology
does not contain
the secret of the
Love Potion!
If
the birth chart could faithfully predict the Love Potion, then
astrologers
would be among the richest and most powerful people in the entire
world! Thanks the gods that the Love Potion is wild and remains
untamed!
And
it ultimately chooses
to enter our limited world of time and space at moments of its
own reasoning…
The
Love Potion is Everywhere… The Love Potion is No where… Tell the truth…
You
really didn’t expect to discover the
truth of the Love Potion so
easily and for free on this web site… Heck, I’m a nice guy and I’m generous
- but
I’m not that nice or that generous...
Truth
is... if I did know the full secret of the Love Potion -
then
I’d
be selling it for a king’s ransom…
Hints
of the Potion:
5th
House:
There are hints of the Love Potion in the 5th house: the
excitement of the gamble, the risk, the pleasure, and the awakening
of new love…
7th
House:
There are hints of the Love Potion in the 7th house: the
house of partners and open opponents…
8th
House:
There are hints of of the Love Potion in the timeless 8th house:
the
house of sex, desires, passion and death... In French, the word for
orgasm is:
"le petit mort" meaning "little deaths"… (As the French might say: "Ooh
la la...") Did you think it merely coincidence that most murders
are committed as crimes of passion against someone known and loved by
the perpetrator?…
11th
House:
There are hints of the Love Potion in the 11th house: the
house of friendship, hopes and aspirations…
12th
House:
There are hints of the Love Potion in the 12th house: the
house of illusion, fantasy, imagination, romance, and redemption...
More
Hints:
There are hints of the Love Potion in the planets of Venus, Mars
and Neptune... there are hints of the Love Potion throughout
the birth chart! There are hints that help explain, in retrospect,
why
the attraction has occurred, if the attraction is potentially
strong enough to result in marriage, and hints that can point out
some of the inherent
strengths and weaknesses of a relationship…
Unwelcome
(and Unheeded) Conclusion
But the divine spark of the Love Potion will
always remain a mystery... the
Love Potion will always remain out of the control and/or predictions
of
mere mortals… and the Love Potion lovingly laughs at all our
feeble efforts to do so!
Dr
Z
"Let
the lover be disgraceful, crazy,
absent minded. Someone sober
will worry about events going badly.
Let the lover be." Rumi
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