Charts, Art and the Way of the World

My childhood vision through my "artist's eyes"

Acrylic on Wood  1994

ART and all it's forms can be related to human survival and expression. 

The purpose of much of humanity's ART has been to serve our need for expression and our need for survival.

An historical visionary component of ART can be linked to our ancestors' desires to create a form or expression of something that they perceived or felt, something that they were currently experiencing, or something in their future/present/past, that they desired, conceived or perceived.

The idea of casting a Natal Horoscope carries with it the desire to see what may pass, what is, and what has been . It is easy to read what we "want" to see in a CHART, as opposed to what "is" in a CHART. A natal CHART is very much like a piece of ART, as it holds a story, a perspective, graphics, color, a vision, a history and concepts. 

And a Natal CHART is also very much a "piece of ART" in that it's interpretation lies in the eyes of the beholder. 

Now, the beholder may be a rather clever fellow, who is well versed in the history, techniques and lore of astrology. 

OR, the beholder may be a lay astrologer, even a novice, who is still learning the skills of the ART of reading a CHART.

Whoever the "beholder" is, the interpretation is still open to INTERPRETATION!!

And the Way of the World is also open to interpretation. 

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Which brings me to the point of this whole article - Charts, Art and the Way of the World.

Below is the link to some work by a very wise man, whose writings I stumbled serendipitously across over a decade ago. 

His work opened my perceptions to the Way of humanity, and the Way of humanity's vision. I cannot quote him, because I do not have a copy of the particular writings here, that I wish to talk about - but it goes something like this (my interpretation)..........

.....Just as the artist of bygone ages painted, wrote, sang, talked, danced and played visions -  so artists of the world, right now also create visions.

These visions can have a deep, permeating, transforming and inspiring effect on humanity.

In a world led by forecast of global crisis on all levels, from the more localised economic, health, and quality of life picture, to the actual threat of mass extinction, the role of the visionary artist carries an incredible weight and opportunity. 

This opportunistic weight is one of giving life and humanity meaning. A future hope, to carry it through what may be very hard times indeed.

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 Shining the light of creative love, harmony, courage, compassion and wisdom on the future, by artistically creating a "picture" for others to step into, artists all over the world can help shine the light to a safer haven amongst the uncertainty of global crisis and human mass consciousness dichotomies and run amok egos.

Putting it another way:-

•  if you cannot see through the car windscreen, how can you see the road and where you are going, if you shut your mind off from empathy and compassion, how can you view the world in love? 
  
• If you darken your thoughts with fear of loss, misfortune and anger, how can you shine a light on peace? 
  
• If you see only the destructiveness and greed of man , then how can you follow in the goodness of humanity. 
  
• If you see only that mankind will destroy the planet and himself, how will you find that place in time and space where it doesn't happen that way. 
  
• And if you shine a light on the way to find that place of humanity's survival, spiritual growth and the re-establishment of the"garden" on earth, then others , too, can see the way, and take heart.
  

And so, today, I see the most important role of artists, world wide, to combine, unite, create and lead, in a visionary capacity, to the way out of the current "crisis" predicament.

It is time to go directly to love, and keep washing and bathing your visions in love until, all other particles of earthly bondage fall away, and only love stays. This IS the ultimate creative force of our time, and IS the Way of the world

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The Future of Immortality and Other Essays for a. Nuclear Age. New York: Basic Books. 3. Lifton, R.J. (1991, February).

R J Lifton  - Wikipedia