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Noel Tyl |
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Sharing Knowledge
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Knowledge is no longer a hobby. In order to develop, in order to fulfill ourselves in life, we must know more, now, than we have ever needed to know before. It is clear that we become in life what we know about life.
Think about that: as we learn, we find out about ourselves, why we exist, how we can learn more to exist more meaningfully. That knowledge is ordered in so many different ways; it reveals process and it reveals purpose.
Knowledge tells us that we are not alone: for us to have identity and meaning, we must relate to someone else, to an idea, to a cause; aloneness is hostile to the human condition. Jung said it well, "One is always in the dark about one's personality. One needs others to get to know oneself."
So, what we know helps us know others and ourselves. Knowledge becomes a medium for cooperation and support. There's the sense of being together in the challenge to reach the sun, and that togetherness is essential.
The astrologer knows that the Sun-sign of one's birth means little in itself; it is just a piece of information, "I am a Capricorn, etc.". The light of the Sun-information is so bright that it can flood, burn, blind. The birthday Sun-sign -one's life energy-becomes meaningful, becomes known individualistically, only through its reflections upon the Moon and, to one degree or another, upon every planet in our Solar system, the symbols of all our psychological needs and behavioral faculties as they are distributed and focused in our horoscope. -Just as a president will say, "My fellow Americans", so each of us must feel and say "we're in this together, we're all related, let's help each other."
This essence of helping -sharing specialist information-- is what inspires the healing professions in particular, including practitioners in all spiritual modalities, all teachers, all artists. -We are in this together. When we say "Let me help you with what I know", we are sharing the light; we are introducing ourselves to others and appreciating their response.
Knowledge and Time
The fascinating vitality of knowledge in part emerges from its being time-dependent for existence. For example, if we see a tree, know it is a tree, a particular Elm tree, we are also acknowledging the time it took for that tree to be seeded, to grow, bloom countless times, and project further growth. The rings within the tree trunk will tell us the growth history in extraordinary detail, what was going on in the tree's environment over time, its health in relation to changing climate conditions, and even the invasion of lightning or man's machetes and saws.
When we go to a doctor for a "check-up", trusting in the doctor's knowledge to be helpful, we turn over a history of ourselves; we record serious health concerns in times past; operations, medicines, allergies, etc. The doctor needs to know the past in order to appreciate the present and project the future for us.
The astrologer or psychotherapist appreciates the astrological portrait or life history in many avenues of social development, especially in early home behavior dynamics with our parents. Understanding developmental time past supports projection of reaction patterns into time ahead. Oh so often, patterns of frustration and detours of learning are spotted, isolated, discussed objectively, and adjusted for improvement in the quality of life. -That's the sharing of knowledge.
When we discuss the affairs of our spirit, we must appreciate from what knowledge we have emerged, the doctrine that was first provided to us, our comfort with or questions of it now, and our hope for meaning to be clarified more and more as time goes on.
The primary meaning of the prefix meta is [from the Latin or Greek] "among, with, occurring after or in sequence." Then, it has the meaning of "changing or transcending, or transforming. " The two concepts work together: we grow as meaning accumulates; knowledge accumulates transformatively over time. -Meta-Arts indeed.
Holistic Learning
To share our knowledge to be helpful to others, we must appreciate past knowledge, share present knowledge, and orient that knowledge to the future in the process of becoming. Religion exists by explaining present and future through faith based on the past. A particular promise for the future is framed, justifying, ennobling our existence now.
Astrologers study time cycles past, translated into planetary movements during development. This is considered in relation to the natal horoscope imprint -the planets within. We then project the patterned knowledge into the future, framed within reality projections by the individual.
Spiritual studies are at their best if they are eclectic in their formation and sharing, gathering understanding from many different sources from many different times and focusing it all through the individual's lens of need.
I think there are few practitioners dealing with the meta-arts --working with transformative knowledge-- who are effective, fulfilling, successful if they claim to present the one and only "true" way. Our times now are extremely well informed; we can not discard that which was known before in any quarter; we simply must understand it all better and adjust it, transform it, in terms of the life we are living now for the life that lies ahead. In this way, we learn much, we understand a lot more, and we avoid criticism, argument, and negative judgement in the process.
The magic of knowing is not from the sharing of information, but from the individual's mind and spirit, the use of the knowledge, the internalization of it, and its influence on behavior. When I gain information from the doctor, I follow the advice within it, and I am all the better for it. "You want to lose the weight put on over the past -for one reason or another-well then, change your lifestyle this way."
The key, though, is to extend to others the knowledge we have, offering it with grace to be helpful, respecting the development in past time and then reflecting that development through a fresh lens, all beamed into individual futures. As an astrologer, this is how I have learned to approach the sharing of specialized knowledge … through the experience of some 22,000 cases! Let me reflect with you on who you are, in relation to your development to date, and project behaviors that will enrich the future just ahead. -I think this is the way of the Meta-Artist, and it will be the way of this "magazine" column as it develops.
Noel Tyl
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Noel Tyl,
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Noel Tyl (no-ell till) is one of the foremost astrologers in the world. His twenty-nine textbooks have led the teaching of astrologers for two generations.
Tyl has written the professional manual for the field, the 1,000-page text "Synthesis & Counseling in Astrology" that has securely placed astrology in pace with the most sophisticated disciplines of humanistic studies extant today.
Mr. Tyl is a graduate of Harvard University with his degree in Social Relations (Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology), lectures throughout the Western world, serves his clients from his office in Phoenix AZ, maintains perhaps the most sophisticated astrological teaching website on the web, noeltyl.com, and leads his highly esteemed Master's Degree Certification Correspondence Course throughout 16 countries.
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