CHIRON MUSINGS 6

Alan Watts was a British-American writer, philosopher, and speaker celebrated for introducing and popularizing Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy in the West. Listening to his teachings really helped me to see what I needed to see in regard to my own Chironic healing and awareness. Reflecting on what Alan speaks about, and Carl Jung, can very easily be related to Human Design keeping in mind this was said well before its inception in 1987. The founder of Human Design, Ra Uru Hu, came across the information but only started to share it with the public in the early 1990s. Ra was a 5th line Personality in Human Design called the Heretic – here to give unconventional information, outside of the norm. The catch is he needed to be practical, pragmatic so he had to thoroughly investigate what he was told before he would share it otherwise, he would be burnt at the stake for heresy. Human Design was explaining conditioning, group dynamics, sociology that were governing our world at an individual and collective level long before its birth. It just gave a mechanical explanation of why things are the way they are, which we knew about and felt but could not put it into words. Returning to Alan saying that YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS, he was able to explain that we broadcast or transmit our emotional frequency to our environment, which becomes our reality. If it is consistently good or bad, this is considered to be coherent and will manifest in your reality. This then gets mirrored back and then we believe our external environment is happening to us. If you are triggered by external events, look within yourself to ask what is it within me that makes me triggered? This shadow is what needs to be integrated in order for us to heal. Now looking at Alan’s chart, he had a defined Solar Plexus (yellow triangle). He would have been very familiar with his emotional wave over his lifetime that carried an element of tribal sensitivity orientated around need and support, but he also had this contrary moodiness, this fickleness in his individuality that would have made him not want to socialise. Not only that he had the Incarnation Cross of Individualism that was about self-empowerment and nothing to do with supporting the Tribe. This would have left him indecisive and in two minds of what to honour. He would have figured out over time that making spontaneous decisions around anything of importance was never wise. He would have seen himself as the issue here particularly when conflict arose. These two very different energies were consistently a part of his fluctuating life force, but the body knows when and what to do as correct for him. So being a role model and true example of this individualism, he also would have figured out that the nature of opposition is not about being against anyone or anything but preserving his uniqueness in his transpersonal interactions with others. He would have been interested in the authenticity of relationships – there being real love and real truth. He would have also needed to be a hermit outside of this and wait for a calling to come out again if it was correct, just like he had a calling to this type of work. Alan ending up passing away in 1973 at the age of 58. He ended up becoming an alcoholic and suffered from depression. For a man to know all that he did and to help so many people, he still had his frailties, his demons. Such is the human condition, none of us are immune. We are all helpless when it comes to the trials and tribulations in this life. It is the not-self mind and Ego that thinks it has control and then finds out quickly at any moment, life can pull the rug from underneath you. The only thing that endures in this life is change, the unexpected, while the mind seeks comfort in the known and the status quo. Here lies the dilemma the mind will inevitably face. The question is who is in charge, your mind or your body?