Capricorn 2010

The Tibetan Mas­ter calls the sign, Capri­corn, the most mys­te­ri­ous of the signs. One of the rea­sons is hid­den in it’s sym­bol of the moun­tain top. In climb­ing toward the top, there is so much mys­tery that will be revealed. But it is a dif­fi­cult and treach­er­ous climb.

All of our striv­ing through the pre­vi­ous signs leads us just to the base of the moun­tain. Then the real work begins. This is because now we have to let go of all that pre­vents us from liv­ing as a real, spir­i­tual being. We can’t pre­tend anymore.

In arriv­ing at the base, we feel the mountain’s power. We look up and see it ris­ing beyond the clouds. There is a tremen­dous amount of ten­sion that engulfs us when we start to climb. This is grav­ity, the pow­er­ful pull of mat­ter. If we have not pre­pared our­selves and strength­ened our body and mind, we can­not with­stand this force of grav­ity, and we will not climb very far.

We have all seen that image of a group of moun­tain climbers con­nected to each other by a rope. If one or more of us is not pre­pared for the climb, and still attached to some­thing at the bot­tom of the moun­tain, we hin­der the rest of the group.

Capri­corn is one of the great trans­form­ers in the Zodiac. All the changes that are tak­ing place in the world today shows us that this is a time of major trans­for­ma­tion and that the old rules no longer apply. We have to adapt to the higher alti­tude, if we want to survive.

If we want to advance spir­i­tu­ally, then we need to put our­selves within the pow­er­ful ten­sion of this climb. The moun­tain is the mys­te­ri­ous pas­sage from one level of con­scious­ness to a new and lofty one.

Capri­corn opens the door to the guid­ing Teach­ers of the planet, the Spir­i­tual Hier­ar­chy. Like the gods of Mount Olym­pus, they are con­tacted at the top of the mountain.

When we decide to climb this moun­tain, we are insist­ing that we want this con­tact and that we need a new van­tage point. The climb can only take place when we are sick and tired of putting all our ener­gies into main­tain­ing the illu­sion of a life attached to the earth.

This climb takes us from the lim­ited per­spec­tive of self­ish liv­ing to a super-state of uni­ver­sal aware­ness. It is the climb from dark­ness to light.

M.M. says:

Ver­ily one should accept the sym­bol of the Sum­mit as the goal in the ascent of the spirit.

Fiery World III, #22

I hope that we all have this goal on our New Years’ “to do” list.