The dance with the Death is my first vision, when ever I think of Spanish Bull fight. It's in the human nature, how's it often said, when the killing of an animal comes to question. Some people are here to eat the meat, and some people aren't but unnecessary torture of animals or humans is very much of a taboo. Many issues are explained and mastered as "necessary traditions" and there is certain fear that culture and humans will die, if the killing ends. There are traditions, and there are traditions. When the animal is used totally and for good of the tribe, there is certain harmony found. There was certain point in the sacrifice of the Jesus, that "The Cross is enough" and there shouldn't be any more sacrifices. Is it the idea of sacrification, that is so hard to give up with people? Who is the one who needs the blood and who are those, who want to see the blood spread century after another?
Bulls and buffalos are the symbol of "meaningless and killing pleasure" as Europeans killed almost the Native American's culture at the same time when they killed herds and herds of Buffalos during the Gold Fever. It was in a way reasonable; railways were expensive, but the way the action was handled, was unnecessarily vicious and unconsidered. Thinking of the hunting tradition; why on earth didn't they pay for Indians for managing the herding somehow? Why just kill animals to rotten away? It was pure need of killing and waste of resources. In Finland the Elk hunting keeps the traffic in considerable safety level, there's no need to kill all of them "just for fun". Thinking about the "Bull fight" where bulls are at first tortured and then finally killed, as an act of mercy; I always think that this cat-mouse playing with the feast is unnecessary. Does it make the Death alluring and pleasurable, does the torturing killer seem "nice", when he's been badass at first? If the Death is necessary and inevitable; why should it be so ugly and show the worst part of human concsiousness at first? Why not just kill 'em all at once, if it was the meaning
For some Shadowy aspects the fun is in the torture, for some it's the killing itself. Representing and reflecting the threat, the Bull seems to be "beastious" and by it's size and horns gives the "justification" for fighting it. Deviousness of the human arises, when "anything can be done in the name of the good". Bulls represent Earth energy in the astrological system, they're witch-natured: loving pleasure and joy, connected to hard work and often domestic creatures. They like the order in their surroundings, sex and food - anything that seems to threat monastery vision of glorified non-attachmental idea of "world without the body". No wonder, that their wilderness of loving their body and humanity in all levels isn't appropriate for "common good".
It's interesting, how often humanity, loving and caring, bodily aspects and pleasure seeking, could push people to build the peace together - and how the denial of the body and making other humans "not-humans at all" but alike animals, gives the justification of torturing, raping and building boot camps in order to destroy totally their humanity.
What comes to the sacrification of the Goats, in the astrological level the goats represent the energy of Fire. In the killing process one "sucks the energy from the killed one" and it's not nice to face this idea in the karmic process. Work as an executor isn't the easiest one, and people tend to remember those, who have been "energy vampires" in the previous lives. In the ancient Egypt and in Inca culture the fear of "Sun never rising" the sacrification of people and animals, giving the fire to the Sun, was justified by "common good". God only knows how many people lost their lives. In the karmic positions many of those fighting against strangle family matters face the karmic memory of "being sacrified" for some reason.
Not just straight killing, but forcing to slavery and torture, pimping around family members and relatives, are also forms of "suffocation of the fire". It's not so visible, but many surrender it willingly, finding themselves comfortable in the position of the martyr. Some people find it very important not to live for themselves, but for others; giving their best away and finding the pleasure from reaching the meaning in other's pleasure. Finding out these karmic levels is not nice either; seeing later "oneself suffocated" it seems waste of Gift of Life. These energies are huge in the graveyards, especially earlier when women had very little power over themselves, when they were humped to mrriage or convent by serving someone elses' abitions, not because of their own interests.
Suffocated fire isn't always easy to light up again. Those who have long history of rapes, sacrification of the lives, being ictimized and killed for reason or another tend to seek the same lessons all over again. What's the point in it? Learning to not call the beasts, for smell of blood and fear attract them around. Or is it the matter of learning how to stand tall? Or lesson of re-creation; how to get over and create new life after wrecked one? Or the ultimate lesson of fighting for rights and forgivingness, in order to cut the energy chords to those suckers and suffocaters?
I was wondering the Medusa again yesterday. How come the Athene revenged the victim of a rape? What was the point; no wonder Medusa became monstrous figure of the rage; first male rapes and then the wife decides to judge and change the beauty to ultimate ugliness? Matter of Athene; did she feel herself unable to satisfy her spouse and that's why Poseidon took off-track with Medusa? Or did she get pissed when sex spoiled her temple, or did another woman's beauty make her second best? It's obvious that she felt herself a victim too; maybe some kind of feeling of "sacrifice"; giving her best to someone who doesn't know how to value, or can't express right way the worth of wife and family life. Athene was a goddess of organized, victorious war, wisdom and knowledge. She was well known about her abilities; and often used her skills for self protection. She had skinned Pallas in order to cover her (Lemminkainen did similar thing in Kalevala). Both snake and owl, another witchcraft symbols, are connected to her. So many of these issues about creative-destructive forces, knowledge against beauty, goddess against human - why on Earth did Athene feel herself threatened? Why couldn't she swing her hand and let Medusa walk away, and let Poseidon face the anger of womanhood, when in her temple a rape against women's common good was insulted?
There are many views when observing the torture. It's another thing, when one is forced to torture another one, against the active choice of the enjoy the pleasure of the torture. Then there is the matter of killing; when one is forced to kill, or when there is active choice of volunteer for killing. Then there is active choice of sacrificing other ones; and forced to do it. How about living in a situation, where one seems to face that "this situation is pure torture for me" and then, in the name of common good, continues to act the play? Nowadays people are free to choose, at least in western society, with whom one decides to sleep or work. Even after marriage, one isn't chackled to anyone; those feelings are only a mental structure, that aren't easy, but possible to break, if realized. If one decides to continue the state of self torture, then one is doing it by oneself, not because of the others' choices. Sacrificing ones' life over kids' needs or spouses best never brings a good outcome. One is well able to understand, that feeling good, respected and trusted, runs in the electric system to everybody. Feeling good is 10 000 times more powerful, than feeling bad. One needs to do severe thinking in order to hang on to negative images. Releasing negativity is empowering and brings good results for health too, because negative feelings have such herendous effects over health.
At least in Finland the structure of the Church Wedding is set in a way, that there is an active hope of the Blessing of the God over married couple for the rest of the life; that cannot of course be promised over God's will, and no date of the ending can be said. Listening to married couple's vows I came to thinking, could people face the fact, if they could find out when the blessing ended? If they could tell themselves, that "until this and this we were blessed and now it's time to move on", if couples could feel safe to divorce? That it's not God's will to continue marriage after it has turned from a Paradise to a living Hell; that there is God's promise to seek new love and new direction, when the old road one faces the end? That there are more Paradises, and that the new Paradise could be better than the previous one?
The battle between Athene and Medusa is another story; but roles of the slave, victim and martyr are quite different issues. One could choose also the joy, pleasure and happiness; why to carry on with these negative feelings? Why to continue these manners, that often run from father to son or mother to daughter? Why to enslave oneself just to keep up with the Joneses; why to grow bitter and hate the life that one has built to oneself? Why to revenge it all to the smallest - often the kids in the family are the channel where all of the anger and bitterness is poured. I think it's in the air because of the Child's Aquarius time has began; the social structures need shaking up, evaluation and family traditions, ideas of the good life need new bases, new constructions. Re-creation of the world is in people's hands; who to wait God or Jesus to come up and change everything? If I remember right, Jesus gave a mission to His followers; to change the world, for good to better one. Dramatic changes have happened in the most of the countries; life is a great deal different than it was, bout could we do better? I think we could and it's responsibility of everyone, not just those behind the border. People choose, if they want to battle, or if they want peace. People choose, if they want to run the blood or not. The people, if faced the lesson of th Bull and the Goat; the Earth and Fire in the human being - the bodily life's pleasures and joy as a common virtue.
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