Maturity and Universal Law
MATURITY AND UNIVERSAL LAW
The other day, I wrote a piece on “Maturity”. I’m glad it resonated with so many people.
I want to make a few key distinctions from my view.
“Maturity” is not code for “responsibility, or sovereignty” aka rugged individualism.
Maturity CANNOT and does NOT happen in a vacuum. It happens in an ecosystem.
Something I don’t want to contribute to is hyper independence. My son saw hyper independence as maturity. They are not the same. One understands the importance of interdependence . The other does not.
Equating maturity to ideas of hyper independence, or rugged individualism would be a misinterpretation of what I wrote. In fact I was pointing to fractures in systems that occasionally prevent maturity from coming online because the systems themselves have become dysfunctional. Rogue even. My writing was not meant to be an indictment of all systems.
Early after Tanner’s death, I wrote about a concern I have with specific words. I’ve been playing around with how words are getting codified in the collective, and/or in my community. And the potential detriment they have when our ideas around them becomes crystallized rather than staying fluid.
For instance the word SOVEREIGNTY
from my lens…
I see sovereignty as being in the realm of individuation. Having a somewhat distinct sense of self.
I say “somewhat” because, in a way, this is a misnomer. We cannot ever really know ”self” without “other”. Without taking our ecosystem into account.
Sovereignty is being able to disentangle ourselves from the matrix just enough to have a sense of who we are and what we value, distinct from others.
It’s the recognition of our individual soul and it’s path.
It allows us to see where we fit inside the vast web of interlocking networks we exist inside of.
If we hold everything paradoxically, this is a healthy robust view of “sovereignty”.
I’m somewhat concerned about continuing to use this word because it’s often collapsed with “rugged individualism”. Which cannot exist. It’s a fallacy. An unhealthy one at that.
Humans need balance. We need love, community, and relationships to flourish. Not just with people, we need these things in our environment as well.
Apply many of these same things to ”responsibility”. Yes we are responsible for ourselves. But we are ALSO responsible TO larger communities, networks, and even systems, and in turn they are responsible to us.
This is how societies are created. This is how humankind functions. There is no going it alone. Ultimate freedom is a fallacy. We are meant to negotiate life together. The act of “negotiating life TOGETHER” is precisely how we mature.
I love astrology because it is a holistic system that maps onto what I’ve laid out here. The planets do not exist in a vacuum. They work together through a complex network of relating.
As an Astrologer, I am keenly interested in universal laws. The law of correspondences is an important one. “As above, so below, as within, so without”, or said more accurately…
“That which is above is like that which is below and that which is below is like that which is above, to accomplish the miracles of one thing.”
TO ACCOMPLISH THE MIRACLES OF ONE THING
Pointing to the fact that we are all alike and interdependent on each other. The macrocosm mirrors the microcosm and vs versa.
Maturity itself is can be mirrored in the aging and fermentation process of wine.
It is a complex, chemical and microbial process, of inter species relating and change.
In other words. We need each other. We need to both work symbiotically, and we need to bump up against each other in a way that occasionally causes friction, heat, breakdown, and decay, all in service to mutual transformation and ultimate flourishing.
