Aries 3 - sabian astrology in 7 words

Cameo Profile - Man in Outline of Country is the Sabian Symbol for the 3rd degree of Aries. Here it is described using the 7 Words System - a way of understanding the complexity of human interactions that can be applied to all aspects of self-awareness and relationship, so that you quickly change your perspectives and get to a deep sense of what to do to improve things.


Perhaps you have thought that your birth sign, whereas it may say quite a lot, does not especially describe you very specifically? At any rate not with an astonishing significance that formulates the whole of life so that it must acquire a different meaning. You may enjoy to have a glimpse at these Sabian Symbols – they could well make you see things differently! The Sabian approach certainly is somewhat unique.

What are the Sabian Symbols all about? The Sabian Symbols are 360 images – one for each point of the zodiac circle – that have been clairvoyantly derived by a female mystic, Elsie Wheeler, and deciphered by a leading American astrologer, Dr Marc Edmund Jones. Each presents a suggestion about the underlying importance of that single degree, which can unlock some very useful and provocative perspectives that you may find quite interesting.

It works even if it’s not your particular degree – and yet a lot better if it is. It’s best to allow yourself time to do it slowly, like a meditation. Let each of the short paragraphs sink in slowly and try to feel what it means, as well as using the mind…or just sit with the images for a while and use your power of imagination to create some playful stories around it. (You will find your own Sabian Symbol by following the link below)

Having come to some new realizations about the essence of who you are, there is another stage you can adopt – to decide to be different. You can influence a lot more of your circumstances than you usually do when you engage fully with the deepest part of your unique identity, by taking on the qualities indicated by your Sabian symbol.

Also if you are clearer about who you are, then you become a lot more certain about what you want out of life. You can set your goals according to an overall vision of the bigger picture, and that itself leads to a much greater chance of success. It helps with focus so that you keep your attention fixed on the required outcome.

Reading your own Sabian Symbol is a bit like getting a brother or sister to speak honestly about you. They know you well, with all your dark bits and your light, and although they love you, they’ll tell you the hard truth! It can be difficult to hear, yet useful for those who are trying to become better people. It may be necessary to reread it a few times and think deeply about what is actually being said.

There is so much we could do with our lives! Opportunities are endless and very diverse, each day bringing little clues and teases to nudge us toward a little more unfolding of potential. Saying No to this and Yes to that surely requires us to trust our feelings and surrender to the inevitable – that, come what may, we all end up being who we are: nothing more, nothing less.

Despite huge social pressure upon a person to obey the rules and do what is thought appropriate by conventional ethics and practice, some are capable of rejecting such bondage that comes from reluctant or unthinking conformity, and find their own way to relate to the community that supports them.

Although it may not appear so, reality is, in truth, personal. Each and every feeling, belief and opinion is an expression of this, and these all have ramifications in our life circumstances. Give full play to them!

Naturally, there are forces of empathy and familiarity that binds an individual to a collective reality that shows in culture and tradition. However – notwithstanding the benefits of a degree of acceptance of social norms – each of us characterizes our own take on this, as indeed we must.

By doing so, we necessarily dedicate ourselves and our lives to the best interests of the community of which we are part. We are part of the whole and, without us doing what we feel right, there cannot be full engagement.

This is in no way different from a personal imperative to dramatise our wants and needs through the group, as a path of self-actualisation. How could we be ourselves if separated from the context of our traditions and culture? Where is the meaning in that?

A real breadth of community involvement is therefore a sign of one who is truly self-oriented, having the wisdom and sensitivity to understand that each must serve the other if harmony is to emerge.

The individual is thus silhouetted against the background of his country, each exploiting the other in the process of expressing a general principle in specific terms. And if each would relax into this truism, then personal and communal interests would be more profoundly in accord.

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