Sabian Symbol
Pisces 4: Heavy traffic on a narrow isthmus
Monomoira: Venus
The longest in the world is the Ponchartrain “bridge” in Louisiana. Singapore and Malaysia are joined by a causeway. Churchill had five causeways built - the Churchill barriers - linking the Orkney islands around Scapa Flow as defense against the German navy in WW2. Dykes in Holland are sometimes also causeways.
Pisces 4: Heavy traffic on a narrow isthmus
Monomoira: Venus
By the true causeway of imagination
You'll come to your destination.
You'll come to your destination.
A cause makes a way; a way may require a cause., or provide one. The word "causeway" derives from the Old English “causey way”, meaning a thoroughfare that has been “heeled” or “trampled” down. A causeway is typically a road raised above surrounding water or wetlands. Causeway" derives from the Old English “causey way”, meaning a thoroughfare that has been “heeled” or “trampled” down. A causeway is typically a road raised above surrounding water or wetlands.
The longest in the world is the Ponchartrain “bridge” in Louisiana. Singapore and Malaysia are joined by a causeway. Churchill had five causeways built - the Churchill barriers - linking the Orkney islands around Scapa Flow as defense against the German navy in WW2. Dykes in Holland are sometimes also causeways.
Consider the “isthmus of imagination” described by the medieval Sufi master Ibn 'Arabi. For Ibn 'Arabi, imagination is the isthmus (barzakh) between the ordinary world and the world of eternity, between body and spirit, and between being and nothingness.
To walk this causeway requires discipline, practice and discernment. On the way of true imagination, higher beings become visible and intelligible. Imagination has the power “to embody that which is not properly a body.”
Isthumus, Supreme
(Al Barzakh al'Ala). This is the Great Isthmus standing between Allah and nothingness. It is known by various names. Nondelimited Imagination, The Cloud, The Breath of the All Merciful, The Real Through Whom Creation Takes Place, The Universal Reality, Nature, The Reality of the Perfect Man.
Polarity Degree
Virgo 4:
A coloured child playing with white children
Monomoira: Jupiter
Yesterday I was shopping at the NQR Food Market and served by a young woman about 18 or 19 wearing a short-sleeved top which displayed her amazing array of tattoos; body art. She was like that Tattooed Lady at the circus and had a ring through her nose. What I found interesting is that her tattoos were old-fashioned, not the trendy tribal designs and they were beautiful and so colourful. I couldn't take my eyes off the red rose in fullbloom in her forearm. I wondered if she was a performing artist when she wasn't the register jockey at NQR (which stands for Not Quite Right). As I left, I was surprised that she hadn't been told to cover-up: to wear longsleeve shirts as used to be the drill in my youth. Heavy tattoos, face jewellery and other expressions of individuality are considered significant barriers to gaining employment within conservatively-minded workplaces. Clearly NQR is more accepting and doesn't judge a book by its cover.
My natal Chiron is at 4 degrees Pisces and meeting that young woman has given me a completely fresh perspective on these degrees. I am finding that applying Valens' Monomoira correspondences of the classical planets to the degree symbols is pulling me into deeper dreaming with the elemental archetypal energies of the Sabian Symbols.
Resources
Vettius Valens' Monomoira Table - Aux Mailles Godefroy
Almiraj Sufi and Islamic Study Centre, Broken Hill, New South Wales
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