Point Seven

THE PRIMITIVE IMPULSE

The dragon's tail represents BETRAYAL in the sense that the self at this point in the horoscope is drawn out of itself and away from its basic womb, or is encouraged to repudiate or betray the familiar and to seek essentially new and variant contacts with the external realities. An awakening to the ever-fresh potentials in everyday self-expression is one of the most important factors in both the achievement and the continual and necessary regeneration of any definite personality. In its ultimate form the quickening becomes a response to the individual's actual spiritual opportunities, but by the same token it also may be his regression to some lesser state of being and a self-betrayal of a different or irrevocable sort. As a tendency to the dissipation of the real resources of character or the deliberate debasement of personal promise it is simple self-undoing. Thus the moon's south node indicates what perhaps may be the greatest inner strength or most superficial weakness of every chart. In this INDICATION it joins with the dragon's head in charting the rhythm of individual relation with the great collective reservoir of experienceable potential shown on the plateau of the moon's FEELING. Here is the fundamental balance of individuality in its own depths, and the phase of it shown by the tail is the participation in everyday events through a total of momentary loss of self in uninhibited [360] impulse. Whether this will tend toward self-exhaustion or self-exaltation and ultimate ecstasy depends on the integration of the being, and the general course of action whereby the potentialities of the chart are neglected or utilized.

For a practical or everyday understanding of the characteristic primitive impulse of Prince Charles it may be noted that his dragon's tail lies in the HOUSE of HOME, the SIGN of CREATIVITY and a degree symbolized by a youth holding a lighted candle. In the reduction of this horoscopic formula to a statement that is both accurate insight and simple explanation, in the framework of the over-all perspective, the astrologer may observe that the NATIVE will (1) in CIRCUMSTANCES tend to rest securely in the cradling of his special position as established from birth, (2) in FUNCTION act or react consistently out of the wholly individual stirrings of his own pyramiding self-completeness, and (3) in every passing or recurring focus of the moment seek to contribute something of himself to those around him even if in frustration his expression of himself may degenerate in a demand for personal or petty adulation. All this can be summarized by saying that the prince at best is likely to develop a radiant aplomb, and at worst a brazen impudence.

The extent to which CIRCUMSTANCES will tend to leave the NATIVE free to throw himself into his experience more or less according to the fortuitous whim of the moment, or in the alternative case will channel his actions and reactions for him rather rigorously as a consequence of his instinctive conformity to the prevailing ideas and customs of his own particular milieu, is revealed by the [361] EIGHTH HOUSE. Here an individual's regeneration is charted astrologically, affording valuable and necessary supplementation for the testimony of the dragon's tail. In the NATIVITY of the prince the HOUSE contains no PLANETS, and so in general it may be seen that the affairs ruled by this mansion are not likely to become much of a problem in his life. By now in the analysis it is obvious that his horoscopic destiny leans more to an original self-creation than to any remaking on his part of whatever he might find himself to be at base. The LORD of the EIGHTH is found in the SECOND, and hence what there may be of radical refinement of character will probably end up as a very practical accretion of personal assets. The CUSP of the EIGHTH lies in the SIGN of LOYALTY and in a degree symbolized by a big bear sitting down and waving all its paws, and thus testimony is to the fact that if the NATIVE shapes himself at all to any external ideals it will be to those in which he finds his own aspirations well and worthily established, and that in his own self-expression he always will tend to relax comfortably in the womb of his potentials and thereupon yield joyously to every real impulse of his being. In reducing the interpretive formula for the HOUSE to clear and sensible statement it can be said that Prince Charles is little likely to be disturbed or inconvenienced when his acts or conclusions are challenged.

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