“Hasta Lavista Baby.
I’ll be back.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator  

Symbols and Color

• Open Hand: Priest Set
• Vitruvian Man: Body Types Group
• Pharaoh: Exalted Orientation and noticeable
• Heart: Inspiration Axis
• Border Color: Violet – Priest Set

Implications of the Upright Position or Positive Pole

Buffalo Bill, high astride his horse, acted the part of the tough Western Cowboy. His shows took people on a ride of imagination and inspiration appealing to that American façade of the rugged individualist. This positive pole image reminds us that if one stands tall, and rides off into the sunset, he is a “real man.” A real man today means one that can withstand the onslaught, not
just of daily hardships, but a willingness to confront the long term challenges of injustice. Abraham Lincoln, physically the quintessential Saturnine leader figure, managed all of those qualities and shifted the course of not just this nation, but the history of the world.

Card messages in the Illuminated position.

+ Formidable

(Tough, rugged, statuesque, towering, erect, Adonis, strenuous, stature)

1. The rugged are suited for confrontation and project an air of command. Stature is the impression one exudes and is experienced by others. Show your mettle by standing up for yourself.
2. Having backbone one can contend with formidable conditions. Withstand hardship and abide your lot for the present time. Finances are core to this situation.
3. Leadership calls for strength and determination stand up straight and act with formidable love!
4. Rugged individualism is at the core of the American self-made-man mythology. Now is the time to reach deep within and become a force to be reckoned with. Beware becoming a bully doing so. The rugged are suited for confrontation. Project an air of command.
5. Abe Lincoln has a backbone of steel, they said. He had to contend with formidable conditions. He was they greatest leader of the 19th Century. He withstood hardship with stately grace and erect stature. He is the role model of equipoise and equilibrium you should follow.
6. Project an air of command. Any confrontation with be more likely settled on your own terms.
7. People are looking to you to lead. You have it within you. At least give the appearance of it.
8. Stand tall for a principle. This is the way of Inspirational leadership. Winning the respect of an opponent might actually help you win the day; or at least the argument.
9. This Body Type has several issues with the thyroid gland. If you are asking a question about health, this may be part of your issue. But metaphorically, it is about regulation and flows of your energy resources. If you are hyper, you are too controlling. If you are hypo – you are in need of support.
10. Sometimes you must be the father figure. If you have to remind someone: “Who’s your daddy?”

Quotes signifying the Overleaf in this pole

• “A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. ~ Nelson Mandela
• “Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.” ~ Barbara de Angelis
• “Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters. ~Jack Levine

Implications of the Reversed Position or Negative Pole

In the negative pole, the Saturn Body Type is not always strong or able to stand. Gaunt and emaciated, this survivor of the Nazi Concentration Camps of WWII, shows a man who was a strong enough to endure, but whose toll upon him was without question the extreme degree of harshness which the physiology of the Body Type attempts to endure. In the negative pole, Saturn suffering from this conflict or a lack of respect reveals its battle on the bones upon which its flesh hangs. Gaunt, emaciated, bedraggled, or riddled with arthritis, or other skeletal problems, their suffering is transferred to their appearance for all to see. Sometimes the reaction then reverses their natural aspiration for respect, as others then view them as hideous, pitiable or with contempt.

Card messages in the Shadow position.

– Gaunt

(Emaciated, harried, asceticism, gangly, rigid, stiff, harsh, broken, stark, unrefined, uncouth, neglected, punishing)

1. Drained of hope and spent of vigor, the shadow of this card looks gaunt, strained and emaciated from too much severity. Has stress made you hard or despondent? Forgive your own weaknesses.
2. Someone is posing for a statue of virtue. Rome was full of figurines with clay feet. Look behind the edifice to see if the pedestal they stand upon is hollow or built of the solid rock of principle.
3. Gollum was very tough! A bony version/side of the Saturn. But is was in a depraved, ragged, and broken way. Be careful not to become monstrous.
4. Famed Sociologist and Author of The True Believer, Eric Hoffer said that, “The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.” This aspect of the Priest Body Type is ready to believe in the worst of human nature before the best. Don’t give into ‘starring down’ at those you think beneath you. It might be true, but don’t let your superiority govern that assessment.
5. Zombies, gaunt and ghoulish, tear at the flesh of the living. Unconscious to what drives them; they roam on clumsily dragging their decrepit bodies in search of another victim. If your physical body has become a source of distain, then it is time to clean up! Look for the parasites in your energy field.
6. A living automaton is involved, driven by a blind hunger to survive. Metaphorically, you must crush the head of this monster by thoroughly destroying their ideas. Or, take a look at how you have joined the walking dead? (i.e. passively conformed to some mob psychology that you have no understanding of.)
7. Starvation only motivates so far. If you think withholding needed sustenance makes one more rugged or tough, then you’d better check for signs of malnutrition. When was the last time your fed your inner child?
8. You’ve been neglecting giving attention and love to someone or thing that is in your charge. Better reassess your stinginess, before they collapse. This could be a job, project, possession, or relationship. Whichever it is, there is a deficit being created that will come calling as collapse sooner rather than later.

Quotes signifying the Overleaf in this pole

• “The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.” ~ Eric Hoffer
• “They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.” Katherine Anne Porter
• “It was a very tall man, if, indeed, it might be called a man, for the gaunt bones were protruding through the corroding flesh, and the features were of a leaden hue. A winding-sheet was wrapped round the figure, and formed a hood over the head, from under the shadow of which two fiendish eyes, deep set in their grisly sockets, blazed and sparkled like red-hot coals.” Arthur Conan Doyle

Relevance in the Michael Teaching

The Body Type of the leader, Saturn is the god of greatest adoration to the Greeks: Apollo. His beauty rest in the eternal, as bringer of the Sun, his habits were precise and his countenance sharp, attentive and devotional to duty. This Body Type controls the pituitary gland which governs skeletal growth.

Essence’s desired use for height is secondary to the tendency of this type to endure great deprivation and exhibit a willingness to maintain personal discipline. Unlike, Passion Mode, another Overleaf sharing the Exalted-Inspirational Axis, this quality is strictly austere and generally reserved. Sometimes classy and other times clunky, their displaying such attributes, combined with a no-nonsense way of doing life; personalities prominent in Saturnian presentation tend to garner attention and even reverence wherever they go. Thus, it is very much in alignment with it’s Chief Feature of Arrogance and the Priest Role both of which exude a formal superiority in their dealings with others.

Contrast this to the Jovial (the Emperor) whose sense of grandeur is more about style and largesse. The Saturnian relies for more on substantive qualities than making a show of themselves. When Saturn plays its role, know that an internal see-saw battle between showing oneself with strength and determination conflicts with the tendency to act in ways that are callous, rigid, or failing any self control, even uncouth. The message always is: stand tall, hold your pose, and step out and lead with your own character.

In the negative pole, Saturn suffering from this conflict or a lack of respect reveals its battle on the bones upon which its flesh hangs. Gaunt, emaciated, bedraggled, or riddled with arthritis, or other skeletal problems; their suffering is transferred to their appearance for all to see. Sometimes the reaction then reverses their natural aspiration for respect as others then view them as hideous, pitiable or with contempt.

Famous Examples

Imam, Michael Jordan, all basketball players, President Abraham Lincoln, President George H.W. Bush, Uncle Sam caricature, James Franco +mercurial, Nicole Kidman +mars +solar,  Gary Cooper +mercury +solar, Missi Pyle +Uranus, Steve McQueen +mercurial, Grace Jones +venus +Uranus, Bob Dylan +lunar +mars, George Burns +mercury, Meryl Streep +solar,  Watutsi people of Africa,  Joseph Stalin +jupiter +Uranus, Will Farrell +mars, Mick Jaggar +Uranus, President George Washington +Pluto +solar, Eleanor Roosevelt +lunar +mars,  President Barack Obama +venus +mercury,  Mitt Romney +solar +mercury

Cultural Meaning

With height comes many expectations, favor granted, and with that stature forms the perception of strength. The Saturnian or Saturnine persona projects an air of confidence as it towers over others. Though beauty holds a decisive advantage in modern Western culture, approaching a close second is “tall, dark and handsome.” Accorded a free pass at many turns, height may be played as an advantage. But in some cases it may further emphasis the geek: Napoleon Dynamite, for instance.

But height alone does not make a good leader nor confer upon anyone who possesses a statuesque presence innate integrity, rigor, or a regimented way of being. No, that is something that is developed and maintained. When a person has tempered their mettle in the trial of hardship, they become fierce and rugged. They often do, “stand tall” exuding a dignity wrought from victory over adversity. In this regard, that euphemism translated, has meaning far more relevant that gaining esteem from others: it is demonstrating the self respect you have earned for yourself from surviving a gauntlet.

While both tall, President George H. Bush was not an Abraham Lincoln. The former, born into affluence and educated in the Ivy League, he needed handlers to shape him and direct his talking points. But the latter, Mr. Lincoln, was born into the throes of poverty and whose intellect was forged by continual reading and an ardent determination to learn. He handled real needs and those of his people! And when he spoke, his points were universal truths that hung in the air, like stars in the sky of eternal truths. The ascent of Mr. Bush was held aloft by privilege and membership in an elite class. But Mr. Lincoln seen as an uncouth hick rose with dogged perseverance rallying “the people” to his side showing: eloquence, sensibility, and a strident adherence to his principles. Principles, which kept a fractious nation together during a time when class, race, and moral zealotism would otherwise rip it apart. Then in the ultimate showing of inspired leadership, he proclaimed to the South these immortal words from his second inaugural address: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan – to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”. This is how a Just god, Apollo,  would appear on Earth! Contrasting these two presidents, perhaps you can feel the visceral distinction between a truly exemplary man, and a man who would act like a demigod; exempt from the trials and sorrows of the people he rules.

Attributes of this Body Type…

• Tall, lanky body – however even shorter people with this type appear taller (Mick Jagger)
• Long limbs
• Knobby joints like knees, knuckles, elbows, and feet
• Pronounced eyebrow ridge thrusting the forehead outward (the so-called Neanderthal ridge)
• Voice is often craggy or rough sounding

by Stephen Cocconi © 2023

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