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other by helpfulness, creativity and fine sensitivity. <strong>The</strong> Greeks attribute to<br />
the centaur both the wantonness suggestive <strong>of</strong> its feet being in the mud <strong>of</strong><br />
material attachments and the finer sensitivity <strong>of</strong> artistic and spiritual<br />
awareness, like Arjuna shadowed by doubt in spite <strong>of</strong> the divine guide being<br />
with him. <strong>The</strong>se symbols for Sagittarius do not merely show the interplay <strong>of</strong><br />
the two opposing forces <strong>of</strong> materiality and spirituality, they arc also<br />
important as a transmuting impulse. <strong>The</strong> horse in man is the libido, which as<br />
creative energy immersed in ignorance, expressed as animal passion, needs<br />
transmutation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> arrow aimed towards the spiritual heights is the most revealing feature<br />
<strong>of</strong> Sagittarius. <strong>The</strong> arrow stands for the urge towards radical tranformalion.<br />
This urge which alters the nature <strong>of</strong> the centaur and makes it like wise<br />
Phobes and Chiron requires the sublimation <strong>of</strong> sexual passion into universal<br />
love and the direction <strong>of</strong> the yogic perfections, siddhis, attained under<br />
Scorpio toward the good <strong>of</strong> all. This transmutation begins with Sagittarius.<br />
In the emblem <strong>of</strong> Sagittarius, an arrow with a cross attached to its base, the<br />
cross stands for matter, and materialization <strong>of</strong> the creative energy which<br />
brings material affluence and the pleasures <strong>of</strong> life t. <strong>The</strong> cross attached to the<br />
arrow refers to the urge towards liberation from the thraldom <strong>of</strong> this<br />
involutionary immersion. When material pleasures exist inwardly while one<br />
is attracted towards the higher goal, there is great dissatisfaction. <strong>The</strong><br />
intensity <strong>of</strong> the struggle increases as the aspiration for the Real deepens. This<br />
impulse leads the individual on his spiritual pilgrimage. As a result <strong>of</strong> it,<br />
there is an upward movement. On this path, the material propensities<br />
entrenched in the individual psyche begin to unfold their spiritual content.<br />
This heralds a new beginning, a new way <strong>of</strong> life based on a different<br />
understanding <strong>of</strong> the significance <strong>of</strong> life. In this upward movement and<br />
unfoldment <strong>of</strong> new intelligence is an inner change which takes the individual<br />
closer to perfection, which is <strong>of</strong>ten considered as occuring through the grace<br />
<strong>of</strong> God.<br />
How the urge towards liberation is aroused depends upon the maturity<br />
gained by the soul and the experiences undergone by it. But, once the vision<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Ultimate Reality has been received, the aspiration toward the final<br />
goal becomes irresistable. Following such peak experiences, the individual<br />
reorients his efforts towards this realization. This is the stage represented by<br />
the shooting <strong>of</strong> the arrow. It indicates the transformation <strong>of</strong> the physical,<br />
libidinal man into a spiritual entity. At this phase <strong>of</strong> the divine pilgrimage, a<br />
bridge is made between the lower quaternary <strong>of</strong> the physical, etheric, astral<br />
and concrete mental bodies and the higher triad <strong>of</strong> the inner Self(Atma),<br />
intelligence (Buddhi), and abstract mental parts <strong>of</strong> the soul. At this stage,