June 14, 2006
Clothespins, Femininity and the Age of Aquarius
Some mornings I just want to block out the horrors of the daily and turn my thoughts to larger spheres.
Yesterday I had a conversation with a friend about the coming of the Age of Aquarius. Although I am of the generation that anticipated the Age of Aquarius with great relish, I never paid much attention to what is actually meant by the phrase beyond the cliches,of course, of getting high and getting naked.
"Aquarius draws from the pool of unstructured energies / sum of all possible probabilities provided by the previous letter, Pay/Phay to create new structures in service of life, in process destroying the obsolete.
The key to both personal and societal development is the transformation of the feminine in both the individual psyche and women's roles and choices in society. Both depend on liberation from (often very primitively) conditioned patterns and repressive and exploitative environments. Female conditioning, resulting in the repetition of the same structure, must develop into feminine wisdom and choice."
Right. Did you know that?
Catya Plate, creator of the clothespin tarot says "The clothespin is generally associated with the woman's task of doing the laundry and hanging the clothes out to dry. By allowing the clothespin to serve more exotic and whimsical purposes our contemporary existence is scrutinized; a life, which overwhelmed with technology, has lost its appreciation for the small and unassuming."
Not to mention, the clothespin as a symbol of the sacred feminine trapped in the mundane and repetitive, transformed into the tarot, which is, when unscrambled, the pictorial version of the energies of the Hebrew Alphabet. There are those who say that the Hebrew Alphabet is the key to understanding the structure of cosmic energy, through existence into trancendence. But that's a subject for another day.
There are higher uses for the clothespin as well, both in symbolic representaton and dental analgesia.
Photo note: Notice that the clothes line of a dear friend has inspired many the loose association.
Posted by Dakota at June 14, 2006 06:34 AM