Cycle Phases
This concept of bodies, how they are made and unmade,
is important. We are used to thinking of a body as a
physical body: the body of a cat, of a dog, a person, etc.
And yet, we often speak of a body of knowledge or a
body of thought. We may feel that this or that idea
embodies our hopes and dreams, and so on.
These alternate uses for the word 'body' are very
important in our work with astrology. It is important to
recognize that there are many different kinds of bodies;
that bodies are created with the mind as well as
according to the flesh, and, that these bodies (all bodies)
hold together for a while and then gradually come apart.
Everything under the sun only lasts so long and no
longer. How long something lasts depends on how well
it was made or put together—for instance, a well-made
guitar outlasts a shoddier one. Learning to see these
many kinds of bodies in our lives, in their creation and
formation, in their duration, and, in their eventual
dissolution, can provide instant access to difficult to
understand concepts such as re-incarnation, karma,
and the like. If you have always wanted to understand
re-incarnation, then this approach is a key help for such
understanding.