Aries - The Pulse Of Life- Part 2

In Aries, personality is still not quite separated from the act. It is contained in the direct immediacy of an activity caused by an irrational power which, at one level, is "instinct" and at another "God." Action here is straightforward; yet because a sense of inner insecurity tends to bend down to the soil the adolescent shoot buffeted by social storms, this type of action needs often a prop. The Aries person has, however, to glorify this needed form of sustainment; to make it impersonal, so that his own personality be not weakened in the eyes of others ? or in his own eyes. Indeed he knows, subconsciously if not consciously, what be lacks. He knows that his personality is hardly as yet a concrete fact; that it is only emerging from the subjective state. But this means also that it is as yet rooted in the immensities of the collective life, that it is filled with potency ? filled with ?lan vital, with the surging and formative power of universal evolution . . . which many men have named God.

In Aries, the "pulsing of life" ? of the creative Breath ? is felt. It passes through. It surges forth ? and is gone. Aries power is the power of the lightning, which descends from above, which strikes out of the darkness of the Collective Unconscious. It is the power of revelation; power of Destiny released, which burns and fecundates. Such a power, from whatever level it operates in fiery downflows, gives to the actions of an Aries person a peculiar pioneering, impersonal, perhaps cosmic and fateful strength. Indeed, in and through the noblest expressions of Aries power it is not an individual person who is at work, but humanity ? Man. At less exalted levels, a social or religious group, a nation, a race may voice their needs and state the solutions to these needs through such a person ? who is not quite a conscious personality and yet much more than an individual.