Ascendent

Animals are protecting their territories and so are we.

A male bird occupies a certain area where he has his family: wife, eggs, chickens…. and a female moose also has her area where she protects her calf and if you get too close to her or the calf she will not at all be as cosmic and loving as the animals on facebook. She will attack you and she can be quite dangerous.

The wild animals understand each other and they know where they have each other. It is just we, people, who can usually not understand their language. Maybe I should say “we = the White Man”. We are afraid of the wolves while the Red Indians say that they hunt together with the wolves.

The animals have a perfect language that they understand and the Red Indians understand them so much that they (at least some of them) even have an “astrological map” with 12 animals symbolising the 12 signs. This must be a new invention after having seen the astrological charts, but it shows how you can use your knowledge about animals to understand the human psyche. Are you a deer, a falcon, a mouse or a buffalo?

For us it is not so easy to relate to these animals as we have maybe not even seen them. At maximum we know something about cats, dogs or horses.

Animals do not behave according to laws, written on papers, they have their laws written in their bodies, brains, hearts…. and I would say that an animal follows the fluctuations in the body´s electromagnetic field, which we can call aura or maybe “shield”.
These fluctuations automatically start reactions and body movements and these movements are also triggers to other animals, who instantly read the messages and react.
It is a perfect language for them, but we humans have a language that is so advanced that it is no longer expressing our wishes, reactions, moods and feelings in a direct way.

Well, higher animals can also lie and pretend and be tricky, but not as much as we do.

In the eyes of other people you are a very nice person and when you are home you are someone else. Maybe you smile to people and say that they are “so nice” while you think that they are just stupid, which is also what you say about them when they cannot hear it.
People will perceive you mask and not you. You will perceive the world by perceiving the reactions to your mask. Well, why not? Of course. You believe that they react to you, but they do not know you. They react to the triggers that you send out.

We can see our world as a theatre where we are having different roles to play and we get (take) a role that we try to master.
It means that in daytime we have to cease to be who we are inside. Instead of knowing more and more about our insides we know more and more about our masks.
We earn money from the fitness of our outsides, so the insides can wait! When I get older I will...

But we might feel lost earlier, empty (not a wonder!) and get depressed. So we understand that we have to discover our “true self” or “higher mind” or “God” or whatever it is that is hiding in the unknown.

But we don’t want a life-long training - it should be a relatively quick fix and some just grab the ssr-pills, while others go to a therapy.
But… why just be content with the second best? Why not go for the ultimate super goal? Illumination! If Buddha could I can too!
Just fill your life with new triggers like angels, candles, hearts, divine music and positive thoughts. Paint your walls white and play cosmic music. Well, why not?

You have a white dress, a crystal on your chest and white curly hair and you tell all people that you love them. Namaste! You have become love and no other emotion is ever allowed to enter your divine soul. You are free!

Now comes the tricky thing!

Our brain is created to perform a dance with all kinds of emotions, thoughts and feelings and we are still using the lower parts of the brain so our instincts are still there.
Instinct does not just mean food, fight or sex - it means an instant, unconscious reaction to a trigger.

If I have not really looked very deep into my psyche I do not know where the reaction comes from. Pof… suddenly it is there!

Usually we believe that such a reaction is “reality” in the sense of being something that is created by the outer world and by someone else.
But why did I react to that trigger? If not all people react to it - why do I?
Because I am so highly sensitive because I am so highly spiritual???
Hmm...? Indian gurus, who are kind of highly developed, are, as I have heard, less reactive to triggers than normal people.

Memories of triggers are in the genes, but also programmed by happenings in the past: we have learned to react to them. No matter how many angels, kittens and sunsets you put on your facebook page you will still have the dancers of the instincts in your brain, nerves and heart. Your inner planets cannot just be killed - they have to perform their duties and they can be active on both a lower and a higher level. They cannot just be educated by being suppressed, but they can be recognized and taken up to a higher level.

They are necessary for life and the more they get suppressed the more they get into opposition and search for more violent ways of being set free. They become the poor people in your universe.
They can turn into little demons if you start fighting them, and as they are parts of the brain they will win the fight.
Almost like the ego being an ugly guy if denied to much.

Seems like we try to do the same with Earth: if we kill all the bad and poor people we will just have the good and rich people left over and then the whole world will be good and rich! Yeah!

An animal defends his space and attacks an intruder, which usually steps back, unless his intension really is to take over.
We do the same. We lock the front door and often even put up a camera. We lock the car and we defend the kids and our belongings.
Even if the angelic person says that she loves everybody she would probably change her mind if ten gypsies also wanted to live in her apartment. Not even Mother Theresa took all the poor people to her home.

If you create an angel´s space around you, that is also a territory that you will defend, unless your angelic nature is totally natural, but then you probably have no need to show off with hearts, cosmic rays and crystals, so you have nothing to defend.

Freedom is another word for nothing more to lose.

The animals show their feelings immediately and get an immediate response and then the problem is over. But, of course, they have never decided that anger and Devil is the same.So they do not return a month later in the middle of the night for a planned revenge. 

When the Red Indian builds his Medicine Wheel he builds a territory and inside of this circle he has more power than outside of it.
Just take a dog or a cat and place this animal in another dog´s or cat´s territory and you will see what happens to it´s energy!
The dog shrinks and the cat disappears.

We are the same, but we get trapped in situations where we cannot fight and also not disappear like the cat, maybe at a job . So we just shrink. Or we find some space to take over, even if it is just a chair.

I think that the mask that we carry around to show other people is a portable territory.
Native people make it more obvious when they take on those fantastically coloured masks. A mask can be to frighten the enemy and it can be to get into symbiosis with any kind of spirit. If you dress up like something you will feel like being it.
If you dress up for the carnival in Rio it is more obvious that your everyday personality is not this mask.

Whoops! Now we have four different parts to choose between: the carnival mask, the everyday mask and the inner person and the Higher Self.
I get a feeling that the Art of Masks could be a life long study of both how to make them, how to use them and how to identify with this or that archetype, god, spirit, personality, symbol, animal or part of the soul.

Not to talk about the dances between them and how these dances could be used in psychology and therapy.

I get a sensation that this is what they did in the good old days. Maybe the spiritual origin of theatre was to “dance the gods awake”.

Today we just dress up and take on a mask of normality to fit into society and we call the mask “I am…” We learn a behaviour that should give us money and a good reputation. This behaviour, including the knowledge that it requires, is a little portable territory, identity and weapon, and the old, physical fight about the space on the ground, is now turned into a fight about a product, an idea or a mental concept. We fight with words, pictures and mind manipulations. (Yes, bombs also... I know...)

The planets represent different “energies” and when they are talked about as gods they are more like different masks. But not masks that cover their true nature. The opposite! Masks, dresses and outfits that are supposed to show their real nature.

This could be something to play with!
Let´s say that you have Sun in Leo and Ascendent in Gemini.

Make a radiant, golden mask and put on a big, yellow, mantle. Just feel how you radiate your divine energy and how all people look up to you as you are the king of the place. Now you are your Sun-sign (because Leo is ruled by the Sun, if you had been a Libra it would have been Venus).

Dress up like Harlekin and jump around and tell people the truths by making a lot of crazy jokes. Quickly run around between them all, sing funny songs and chatter about everything - soon you will also be the one who knows everything because you have been everywhere. Now you are your Ascendent.
So you are a Leo with AC in Gemini.

Inside you will feel that you are the best and you find it natural that people should pay attention to you and listen to you. If they just understand that they should have you as focus… then you will also radiate all your splendid energy on them.
But unfortunately they do not know that you are the king because they see the Harlekin jumping around like a crazy.
The Harlekin jumps more and more and makes better and better jokes, but cannot understand why he is not placed on the throne where he should be.

The opposite: You are a Gemini with AC in Leo.
You know that you have been everywhere and you have seen it all and now you can tell about everything and you can also make a lot of good jokes about it.
As you have AC in Leo people will notice you and listen to you. You should be on the stage, travelling around with your jokes. A new stage every day.

But if this Gemini has his AC in Virgo he steps down from the stage, because he thinks it is more important to get the basics in order behind the scene. He can check and catalogize the texts, keep all the masks in perfect lines on the shelves and also have a perfect registry of all the parts of the costumes and check every little detail everywhere.

I think the Ascendent is the unconscious mask towards other people and maybe not the mask that is carefully planned and even learned on a workshop about how to get successful.
Maybe we can make our behaviour more conscious by dressing up in various ways that we are not used to.
Only changing between quite normal clothes can give me a feeling of having changed personality.

Or maybe it is just enough to leave the iPhone at home to get a chock from having lost your personal territory?