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.But as Death says in "Death and the Maiden":"I am a friend and do not come to punish".Many of the foregoing characteristics, especially those concerned with the maintenance ofsocial and economic security, and accepted standards of logical thinking (the collectiveconscious), are recognised as predominantly masculine preoccupations, and as the domain ofthe father in the context of the family.The mother and the feminine are naturally associatedwith a personal rather than social orientation, and with nurturing, the home, and the moreinstinctive and unconscious sides of life.This is the Moon-Saturn polarity in astrology, rulingthe signs of Cancer and Capricorn, the signs of the summer and winter solstices, and of theNadir and Midheaven of the horoscope, representing home, the inner world and the emotionsat the Nadir, as opposed to function and status in the outer, social world at the Midheaven.Mother and Father are psychological functions and realities, independently of the actualparents, who may or may not adequately embody them in practice.They are the two poles ofpsychological development of the child, just as their spheres of influence are represented bythe two poles of the horoscope.The planets ruling whichever signs occur at the poles of theindividual horoscope often represent the actual parents, while Moon and Saturn, ruling thepoles of the Natural Zodiac, represent the parental functions as such, in combination with andas part of the whole range of meanings included in these archetypes.Saturn is the archetype offatherhood, not in the biological sense of Mars, but in the sense of paternal law, and asdelegate of the social polity, in which he is also the family's representative.The OldTestament Saturn is Jahweh, the relentless law-giver, and scourge of Job, the origin of God asa father-figure.This is the external law, as laid down by the collective consciousness, and alsothe law of Fate, or Karma, laid down by Time, and not the "moral law within" to which Kantrefers, echoed by Beethoven, for this is the spirit, or the solar principle.The polarity of Sun-Saturn is that of inner self (conscience) versus establishment (consciousness), and theprerogatives of these may be and often are in direct opposition.The objective or outer father is Saturn, who represents consciousness.Jung refers to "a humanfather (i.e.consciousness)".Consciousness here means consciousness as we know it,conditioned by Matter, and Space, and limited by Saturn, that is, where time is represented asmovement in space, and a succession of foci of consciousness.When we associate Saturnwith consciousness we mean the conditioning and structuring of consciousness by time, bothin the broad sense as a Kantian category of consciousness (the solar system within the orbit ofSaturn), and in the narrow sense of an individual time-cycle.We are primarily conscious asindividuals, and we look out on the world from the subjective point of view of our own egos.The ego is defined as the centre of consciousness, or "the structure of the field ofconsciousness" (Rudhyar), and this includes the limits of that field in individual experience.While Saturn symbolises limits, and therefore separateness and individuality, the individuallife, as a cycle within cycles, is as we have seen measured out in its stages by the actual cyclesof Saturn.The ego follows these stages, since they are the primary psychological and bodilyr"!les in which it sees itself."By ego", writes Jung, "I understand a complex of ideas whichconstitutes the centre of my field of consciousness and appears to possess a high degree ofcontinuity and identity.the ego is only the subject of my consciousness, while the self is thesubject of my total psyche, which includes the unconscious".28 In Plotinus the ego is "afluctuating spotlight of consciousness", a description emphasising its variability and lunar,rather than Saturnian pole.Perhaps the clearest description of this ego is to be found inRudhyar, in An Astrological Study of Psychological Complexes (p.14):115At the level of the consciousness of a particular person the structuring function of the self isassumed most of the time by the collective patterns of the society and culture in which thechild is born.These patterns control the development of the consciousness of the infant, andtogether with the influence of the parents and of the environmental conditions of life theymold, directly or indirectly, positively or negatively, what we call the ego of the child.Though in its most obvious aspect the ego can be called a social construct, it also appears tothe consciousness as its centre, its ruling principle.Yet it has only a very relative degree ofpermanence and it can easily become identified only, or mainly, with some function oremotional reaction of the organism-as-a-whole.A man says 'I', and by that refers in most casesactually to the ego, and not to the fundamental power which sustains and guides thedevelopment of his total being - but which does so at an unconscious level.The 'individualselfhood' of a man exists, most of the time, only at that deep level.What appears on thesurface of consciousness - somewhat related to this essential individuality, yet usurping itstrue function without being aware that it does so - is the ego.The ego and its urge to be different should be referred mainly to Saturn, for Saturn is theprinciple which builds everywhere boundaries isolating the inside from the outside.butSaturn also brings consciousness to a focus.Saturn needs the Moon in order to act; for while Saturn is form, the Moon represents the lifecontents gathered within, and structured by this form
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