Oh my! So much can be seen with this symbol!
To understand its depth and breadth I started looking at where I’ve seen this symbol in everyday life.
My daughter was a colic baby. The only thing that soothed her was the rocking chair or the continual motion of a baby swing. In the process of rocking, we actually broke the springs of two rocking chairs. The last one to exist, old and shabby, she still rock on in her room. The rocking chair soothed and detached her from her pain.
I also saw my father in this symbol,
unable to cope with the turbulence of life, his brain silenced by Alzheimer’s. He lived in his own little world with no knowledge of present time. I remember when I used to visit the ‘old folks home’, I’d sit and listen to the many old stories…..stories that started with “When I was”, “In the past”, “I used to”. They were really incredible to hear!! I watched their eyes comes to life…they’d pull close so I could hear!! Their travels remembered….now a voyage to their souls.
When we contemplate something, e.g., a sabian symbol….our minds are drawn inward. It’s as if our curiosity starts us rocking (a gravitational pull?) to get the lower fire burning. In that calm, all the knowledge that we’ve gathered and accumulated is brought to life, coupled with our intuition and passion…..becomes fuel for the brain…..that turns like a weather vane…or rocks to and fro.
I bet this old sea captain spent years traveling the unpredictable sea, and learned the gift of self control. He was full of confidence, courage, hope and new beginnings. When waves were bearing down on his life, he appeared to others, at ease and surprisingly calm. He learned how to hold himself together in the greatest storms!!
In purple_scorp’s picture of this old sea captain, she also placed a book. Hmm, can he magically weave words, entertaining us with one story after another. His well read words, are full of passion, charm, and very hypnotic! Perhaps this is his time to reminisce about the past, to read, to grow and continue developing. I wonder if his soul has always been interested in doing things, ooh like anthropology, even poetry and most probably history. Sometimes all it takes is a thought or an idea to give us a new perspective to pull our docked ship back out to sea.
But if we stop believing that we always need to keep learning and understanding….we could close our eyes to many opportunities. Eventually we become static and isolated, living in a world we don’t want to change. We start to theorize too much…looking only at the things we understand. Hmm could this also be a fear of old age?
Retirement: is leaving something so we can move on to something else. We can now chart a course through the 'perfect storm'.
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