A Boundary Clarification to the Spiritual, As Well As, the Astrological and Clairvoyant Worldwide Community:
by Alixandra Sun
This is a note on scholarship to the Clairvoyant and Astrological community at large in the world. The reason for this note to all of you is that I know that excellent scholarship is crucial to respect, validation, and the acceptance of the work of our worlds.
My great-uncle, James van der Veldt, a white haired, light blue eyed, patrician nosed Franciscan monk, was at the Vatican, the best friend of the “good” Pope, a part of the Devil’s Advocate’s office, spoke seven languages fluently, multiple dialects as well, and had several Ph.D.s. He loomed large as a part of my childhood. When he walked into a room, everyone from the least to the most important person in the room, fell into a hush. He emanated power from every pore of his being. I, as a little girl, frankly adored this. It was quite a show. He didn’t do it intentionally, as a matter of fact he spent a great deal of his life working on his humility. But, his intellectual prowess, his phenomenal brilliance, and his steel-spined integrity could not lend him any other air. He was powerful, it was who he was.
Our integrity shows in our bodies, in our auras. It also is demonstrated in our intuitive clarity or lack thereof. When we are busy covering up dishonest acts, or borrowed work, our intuition suffers, it's simply karma. Karma is not complicated, it's like gravity, what goes up, must come down.
With several physicians, Ivy Leaguers, M.I.T. scholars, and other Phi Beta Kappas (my mother) in our environment, I grew up with a very healthy respect for scholarship.
I may live decades yet … I may die tomorrow. And, as I have been diagnosed and recovered twice from terminal diagnoses, I have a healthy respect for getting done that which I may not have tomorrow to get done.
My English is not perfect, for that I apologize. We spoke other languages at home. I learned English in kindergarten and from time-to-time my grammatical structure suffers from this, please forgive me.
Now, with the above preface out of the way, I would like to dive into this subject.
It is essential, it is crucial, it is the very most important thing you can do to lend credibility to your work and the world of your work to give credit where credit is due. And, you will be respected for it by the only people that matter.
Richard Tarnas and Robert Hand are probably the two most well-respected and shining examples of how essential this is. Both men, are very clear to give credit and to establish references in their work. Richard wrote the absolute essential text used today in thousands of universities around the world on Western philosophy: The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View.
This work established his reputation as an intellect and scholar. He followed that with his book on astrology. Because he had already established an absolutely untarnished reputation as a philosopher and scholar and written the compendium of the Western philosophy, he was able to have a much broader audience for his excellent work, Cosmos and Psyche, on astrology.
Likewise, Robert Hand, has translated and had translated a great deal of the ancient astrological works into modern day English. And, thank God, without Rob’s translation of Masha’Allah into English, most of my own horary predictive work in astrology would not be half as accurate as it now is. I must absolutely give both these men my undying gratitude and respect for laying such a brilliant and solid foundation beneath my feet. Without them, I would not be able to walk in the world of astrology as I do. And, if it were not for my great-uncle James teaching me the word “syzygy,” at the age of five with a twinkle in his eye.
While we are clearing foundational astrology work, I would like to give huge credit and thank you to Alice O. Howell who wrote many beautiful books on astrology when she and Robert Hand were the only two astrologers I could find in the bookstore aside from Linda Goodman. Alice wrote and founded the seminal work on astrological ages which many astrologers today use. And, when astrologers today tell me, “this is a mish mash of ideas, or an amalgam of ideas,” I say, “nonsense!” This work was written and founded by Alice O. Howell in her work, Jungian Symbolism in Astrological Signs and Ages.
Alice O. Howell, is the very soul of kindness. Now past her Uranus Return, she is one of the most loving souls on our Mother Earth and deserves, in her 80s, at the very least, to be recognized for a lifetime of dedication to the world of scholarship in Astrology.
Finally, although astrologically unpublished, she is a screenplay writer, Tashi Powers Grady brought the work of declination to the modern astrological world from its burial in the 17th century. This was confirmed once by a conversation I had with Rob Hand, a man of great integrity (Saturn in Air), and a Sagittarius.
So, with Pluto, the planet of depth, and Mercury, the planet of communication retrograde, I thought I would pen an article with scholarly truth. Pluto is once again traversing the Galactic Center which I wrote about earlier, and Mercury retrograde always brings the truth to the surface.
I have zero interest in gossip but I have even less interest in sloppy scholarship and “politically correct,” lies. Neptune conjuncts Mercury in my chart so, forgive the many names.
This article was penned with the MO conj MA - Leo, VE & ME cazimi Sun in Gemini. Enjoy!
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