04-26-2018, 10:43 AM
I wonder if there's any significance to the positioning of the pulling. The females are attempting to move the male's orientation, but they do so by pulling on an arm on the opposite side of the direction they seek to turn him. Does this imply anything about the character of transformation, I wonder? Like maybe we polarize STO through the use of our left hand catalyst and vice versa?
I dunno, just speculating. I try to keep in mind that this is a stylized representation of an ideal. It's rarely going to directly map onto our conscious experience, when we would recognize the "resonance" of the archetypal mind.
In fact just what this representation actually represents beyond "you know, an archetype", which is a kind of tautology, is rather elusive. For example, when we think of transformation, we probably picture in our head something going from one state to another. That's what "transformation" means. But this seems to be capturing the very concept of transformation itself, without an end state and arguably without a start state, just that middle condition of "in progress". It's not the feeling of "man I need to choose" or "yay, I chose", but rather "which will I choose? I dunno. I feel this way about this, but that way about that" kind of wishy washiness -- which of course is a way of describing the "rocking back and forth" those of Ra describe.
In fact, I think that rocking back and forth -- the flirtation with one polarity, then the other, then back -- is actually the essence of transformation; it pinpoints the exact feeling of being swept along into a new self, one where choice is something that feels like it's happening to you as much as giving you a choice.
I dunno, just speculating. I try to keep in mind that this is a stylized representation of an ideal. It's rarely going to directly map onto our conscious experience, when we would recognize the "resonance" of the archetypal mind.
In fact just what this representation actually represents beyond "you know, an archetype", which is a kind of tautology, is rather elusive. For example, when we think of transformation, we probably picture in our head something going from one state to another. That's what "transformation" means. But this seems to be capturing the very concept of transformation itself, without an end state and arguably without a start state, just that middle condition of "in progress". It's not the feeling of "man I need to choose" or "yay, I chose", but rather "which will I choose? I dunno. I feel this way about this, but that way about that" kind of wishy washiness -- which of course is a way of describing the "rocking back and forth" those of Ra describe.
In fact, I think that rocking back and forth -- the flirtation with one polarity, then the other, then back -- is actually the essence of transformation; it pinpoints the exact feeling of being swept along into a new self, one where choice is something that feels like it's happening to you as much as giving you a choice.
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