Originally posted by
Rebel&Rocket
DF, you've called me back. I decided the whole forum thing was probably something I wasn't either ready for or made for, but I've kept up on your thread and I wanted so badly to continue this journey with you...Thanks to staff for allowing me to return. And....as I'm just about to post, I see you have a bunch more stuff posted! Hope all this isn't relevant now before I read your new stuff.
I spent so much time last night processing Part 9, looking at several things (like my own birth chart, which I hadn't looked at in ages) because I was having some thoughts on why these characters/archetypes are female and why they're all about the same age.
First, age...Late teens/early 20s is the time in life when we begin to recognize our separateness. We begin to look at and question the "truths" we've been given by our parents, families, teachers, etc. Those who were once "God-like" in our little realities are suddenly just people with faults and false truths. We start to have our own experiences that may solidify those beliefs for us, or may send us off looking for our own answers. Only in our full realization of separateness can we understand our oneness - which is "Christ Consciousness." (I still have so much trouble with that phrase, as ridiculous as that sounds. My brain just wants to reject it because of religion, and the air of exclusivity - which is a complete oxymoron considering that Christ Consciousness is defined as recognition and actualization of Oneness with all that is) You and I have both written here about our own experiences of this realization of separation at this age - which is a natural course in human development (to differing degrees for everyone, of course).
I ran my birth chart for the first time in years last night, and instantly upon seeing the wheel and the lines drawn to each of the aspects, I had this major "wow" moment, and a processing of the significance that I don't remember ever really having in the many years of looking at my birth chart (not that I ever had any deep understanding of it - just that I have always looked at it in its individual pieces, as if I have never seen the forest for the trees before now). I have 5 planets in Scorpio and 2 in Taurus. My wheel has all these lines running straight from one side to the other, so significantly dissected into 2 halves because of all of the opposition. It's almost funny to see. But as I continued to look at it, all I could think was "Persephone." Scorpio - all that is deep, dark and mysterious - the underworld. Taurus - practicality, security, strong ties to earth. Wow. Guess my life path is pretty obvious. Trying to balance energies?
I feel like Persephone may be a very strong archetype for all of this - particularly with all of these stories set in dystopian environments. Persephone is taken by Hades to the Underworld to be his Queen, where she is captive half of the year. When she returns to the surface, she brings spring - fertility, crops....she literally enables harvest. Isn't that what these "divergents" are essentially doing? Emerging from the Underworld to bring spring?