to be a faithful encoder, expressing the archetypal language that arises from some cellular or inter-cellular space to the best of my understanding.
The decoding of Venus Infusion has been another matter.
I have sought help from many sources I consider to be in tuned to this sort of
symbolic expression. Several individuals saw their present "in-the-moment" personal experience depicted along with the individual story that accompanies it. Karin DiGiacomo was able to give me an extraordinary alchemical summary. I have received some astrological associations. Poet Morgan Crowley wrote the following:
I see movement, centering and also shining outward, communication in the shining out, vital messages. A kind of explosive force, the wild feminine being spoken, yelled, howled out. Un-restraining.
For me this description rings pretty true except for one thing - the "wild feminine." Hot, dynamic, active, powerful, directive, radiant, commanding even, but not frenzied or out of control.
Taking a walk with my walking buddy JoAnne K. brought some light to my struggles with the series of the three Venus symbols flanked in the primary orbit around the central hexagon by bees.
JoAnne has always been helpful with references from the epic poem Savitri by Sri Aurobindo. Somehow much of my work resonates with imagery that comes up in that source, though I am personally unfamiliar with the text. In this case JoAnne brought up the Triple Soul-Forces met by the heroine Savitri as she traveled with her beloved Satyavan to met the god of death. The soul-forces she identifies with herself, she refers to them as "Madonnas" and recognizes that each is incomplete in themselves. She promises to return with their missing parts. They are Compassion without Power, Might without Wisdom and Light without a forward moving Inspiration. I could feel a bell ring as she described them.
This morning, in the shower, thoughts came flooding in. I now believe that Venus Infusion is a messianic message, though not in the way you may think.
As I stood under the shower flow my mind wandered to the number 6 and the hexagon. In my inner vocabulary, "Life" is 8, as in the eight-fold form of the Breath of the Compassionate. 6, in this case, is a subset of 8. It is messianic - from the Hebrew mei-si-ach, "the One who causes conversation to flow" - the same 3-letter root as ma-shi-ach with a repositioning of the dagesh from the right to the left (feminine) side over the SHIN.
Venus Infusion is about conversation, communication, the six-sided Holy of Holies; returning the work/worship (AVODAH) to the DIVIR - the spoken word.
Six is the water molecule - fluidity, fluency.
Six relates to the conjunction symbols that reside within the outer orbit: the alchemical symbol for conjunction, the Hebrew VAV and the Arabic WAW, both of which equate to the number 6 and express the great and.
Here the bee's waggle dance that points towards the Flower Source leads to the production of bee pollen and honey - delectable nurturance and the sustainability of the community.
The feminine force is infusing into the conversation - is infusing communication into the conversation. Communion. Community.
Here the bee's waggle dance that points towards the Flower Source leads to the production of bee pollen and honey - delectable nurturance and the sustainability of the community.
The feminine force is infusing into the conversation - is infusing communication into the conversation. Communion. Community.
Compassion with Power, Might with Wisdom and Light with Inspiration.
That is my best shot at decoding the ineffable.
