You'll Love These Sun Sign Guides to Creativity
As a function, each sign of the Zodiac is a clue as to the notes we contribute to the symphony of life, to our unique expression as an Earthling.
"When you don't follow your nature, there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be." —Dane Rudhyar
MANY OF MY CLIENTS talk about feeling a loss of heart—overwhelmed by political, social, and financial uncertainty. In the old days (before the internet), the world was just as complicated—but we didn’t know about it every five seconds via 24-hour news cycles and hysteria-triggering social media.
But, sorry! None of those distractions will give us a pass for not participating. Creative expression is our birthright—a surefire way to maintain sanity amidst insane time. When your attention is invested in what you contribute to life rather than what you’re anxious about or deprived of, you take your seat in the natural order of things.
Most of our stasis (and suffering) is generated by the mind. If you stop right now and check in with yourself, you’ll note that, for the most part, you’re doing OK. In other words, you aren’t diving thousands of feet beneath the ocean toward the wreck of the Titanic.
But the mind persists—as it’s done since your mother first started calling you by a name—by projecting into the future and creating scenarios that may or may not come to pass. Consider that anxiety may be more malleable than your concepts about it.
“The soul is a circle.” —Plato
Before I run through the twelve signs, I will talk a little about the Zodiac because common conceptions of the Zodiac are inaccurate. The Zodiac is not a framework that floats up in the sky above the Earth. It is of the Earth—in fact, you and I are composed of it.
The Earth, as a living being, is radial—it radiates and sustains its biosphere. And each of us is born of the Earth’s body, like a flower that blooms from a plant or fruit from a tree. We are Earthlings. Your true parents aren’t your mom and dad but the Earth and the Sun because your mom and dad’s true parents are the Earth and the Sun. Alan Watts put it like this:
“The Earth is not a big rock, infested with living organisms, any more than your skeleton is bones infested with cells. The Earth is geological, yes, but this geological entity grows people. And our existence on the Earth is a symptom of the solar system and its balances as much as the solar system, in turn, is a symptom of our galaxy and our galaxy in its turn is a symptom of the whole company of galaxies; goodness only knows what that’s in.”
Within this corner of the infinite, we are each a living event—a continuation—a part of the dynamism that is the life cycle of the Sun, Moon, and Earth. The Earth's body, like your body, has organs—the equivalent of a heart, lungs, and kidneys—and energetically, those organs of the Earth are the Zodiac.
And like any organism, the Zodiac’s separate components work to sustain and contain the whole, although, as functions, the signs of the Zodiac have distinct essences. Grandad astrologer Dr. Marc Edmunad Jones explains these functions like this:
“The universe is made up of indeterminate factors which blend together in becoming actualities but of elements rigorously persistent in a process of continuing to be what they are. They co-operate with each other constantly in a circumstantial and functional relationship, but no one them can sacrifice its own nature and remain in existence. Everything encountered in experience is completely obsessed with its own business, and goes about its own affairs through every moment of time, no matter what its significance may be otherwise.”
As a function, each sign of the Zodiac is a clue or marker as to the notes we contribute to the symphony of life, to our particular ‘requirement’ as an Earthling. When we deviate from our mark or get fuzzy regarding our function, it’s usually because we’ve shifted into a state of low-grade hysteria (the mind thing again), which is the default function of the ego: Hysteria. That means our mind has become distanced from our hearts—the inner Sun that resides in each of us.
“Karma is not produced so much by a wrong kind of action as by the type of action which derives from a refusal to perform creative acts, when the need for them had come.” —Dane Rudhyar
We are spirit married to matter. Time is the process that awakens and ‘accommodates’ creativity. In his stunning book An Astrological Triptych, Rudhyar highlights the notion that to create is the pressing responsibility of the human spirit “because creation is simply the fulfillment, by the spirit, of the potentiality inherent in every moment of time.”
Think about it. You have an exciting idea for a project or design. What is the very next element you must engage with? Time. What we don’t realize is that our impetus to create is coming from time itself. If we miss time’s ‘call,’ we’re burdened by regret. We’ve evaded an opportunity. If we do this repeatedly, over time, we develop a sense of being weighed down or cornered by time. Soon time begins to feel like an adversary.
Creativity has myriad modes and expressions, and each planet in a birth chart expresses its unique contribution toward creativity. Ultimately, each component within a chart must find expression through the Sun—and the process involves a certain equation. The Sun + Saturn = whatever you are desirous of creating; a child, a book, a painting, a composition, an invention, a garden, a cake, and so on. In other words, the Sun—the motor of the imagination, must be married to Saturn, to time—to logic, structure, order, and linearity.
Here are impressions that might realign you with the creative expression that is your birthright. Your participation with and obligation to time. Your contribution as an Earthling.