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Symbols and Color

• Crown: King Set and Self Determination
• Vitruvian Man: Body Type Group
• Pharaoh: Exalted Orientation and broad scope
• Astrological Symbol for Uranus – The great disruptor!
• Border Color: Gold – King Set

Implications of the Upright Position or Positive Pole

When Big Ideas change the way we think, the effect is like a cascading river that cuts new tributaries into other parts of our thinking. Charles Darwin is used as the symbol here because of the world altering effect his book, On the Origin of Species, had on every aspect of human thought. For those who are “students” of the orthodox Michael Teachings (OMT’s), many will be able to identify with this assertion, for we equally hold that the meta-view of reality is as remarkable in its exploration of the spiritual determinants of existence; not just the physical mechanical principles Darwin so elegantly laid down. Streams of influence happen concurrently. Open your mind!

Card messages in the Illuminated position.

+Mutation

(sudden turns, independence, invention, surprises, liberation, emergence, awakening, rebellion)

1. Your situation feels charged like a lightning strike, throwing off your plans with because of totally unexpected changes. Improvise and hang on, you’ll find it exhilarating; maybe even fun.
2. Spontaneous mutation spawns new evolutionary variations for the TAO to explore. This card beckons you to vault into originality of the highest order, now!
3. Think out-of-the-box and destroy the old box while doing so. Otherwise, become an extinct relic.
4. A sudden change is coming and will liberate you from the mundane. Embrace the unexpected.
5. Of all the Body Types in this system, we see mutations generated in the human body. In each case, our perception of what is acceptably human is driven to the extremes. One is forever changed by the effects. We see new variations of humanness being embodied.
6. This card beckons you to vault into originality of the highest order. So-called fringy becomes fashionable, but also successful. Pet Rock anyone?
7. Evolution happens whether you’re prepared for it or not. Yet, revolutions are built from momentum. How do you respond to either, with amazement or dread? It’s the only aspect you have control over.
8. Spontaneous mutation spawns new evolutionary variations for the TAO to explore. Brainstorm!
9. Just remember that whenever we learn something new, something outside our sphere of belief, we experience a period of disorientation (- Card 77). It feels as if our world has been thrown topsy-turvy. Ride it out. Give this a “green light” and allow yourself just notice how your ideas begin to reform. Evolution cannot be directed, but it can be witnessed.

Quotes signifying the Overleaf in this pole

• “Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be persuaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.” ~ Phillip E. Johnson
• “What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.”  Kerry Thornley

Implications of the Reversed Position or Negative Pole

Almost everyone can relate to having experienced a sudden shock. Disruption, as represented by the ejector seat, reminds us that we can be going along and suddenly, thrown out our comfort zone! Astrologically, Uranus is known for its ability to interrupt plans, shut down electrical devices, or trigger strokes; all which would put a crimp in the normal working of things. But on larger scale, it introduces circumstances or ideas so powerful as to explode any existing way of thinking, being, or a status quo. Reiterating that shadow ≠ bad, the changes that breakdown of systems or beliefs they challenge may usher in a period where human conformity pronounces it a heresy or fraud. Yet, for those ideas have survived, personal, social, if not knowledge evolution has advanced the race and
the way we approach reality itself. The German philosopher, Schopenhauer, spoke to the process of new or dissenting ideas entering into a domain of thought: 1) It is merely passed over as ridiculous or a minor curiosity; 2) It becomes a source for opposition against the new idea intruding upon accepted orthodoxy, and possibly violent retribution toward those who proposed it (think Galileo, Copernicus, and even Jesus); and 3) Once it has proven itself, humans simply treat those premises
as if they had always been true and that there was never any real opposition in the first place. A complete denial of the tendency of human beings to want to be seen as right, even when they fought for their own ignorance, prior to something being deemed true. This tendency of human Ego defenses readily identifies with the phrase “well everybody knows that.”

Card messages in the Shadow position.

– Deformity

(shock, erratic, chaos, disaster, rebellion)

1. To a fixated mind, everything that doesn’t look familiar is a frightening deformity. Don’t kill it. 
2. Deformity in appearance frightens people because it is unexpected and shocks those who witness it. Labeled monstrosity, it takes a fresh pair of eyes to see the beauty in the beast.
3. Is there a new creation or variation extremely outside the norm? Is it so different to be rejected?
4. Electricity is the flow of energy that operates machines in predictable ways, but when unharnessed may mutate into something quite erratic.
5. Disasters don’t happen on our time schedule, unless, you are the one who initiated it? You are either part of the problem or part of the solution.
6. A radical shift is coming. Get ready.
7. Is there a new creation or variation extremely outside the norm? Is it so different as to be rejected?
8. Part of the message of this card is to open to the metaphor of it. Your body of information, its form and function, could radically change. How hard will you fight this information itself? How hard will you try to prevent your world view from changing? What are you afraid of losing?
9. “Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be persuaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection”, said Naturalist, Phillip E. Johnson. Now the question is: Do your beliefs require you to accept a certain order, or form, for them to be true? Or, can you allow the possibility that the way things are have greater complexity than you accounted for?

Quotes signifying the Overleaf in this pole

• “A mask of gold hides all deformities” Thomas Dekker
• “Beauty is only skin deep, ugly is to the bone. Beauty always fades away, but ugly holds its own.” Unknown
• “Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don’t let them take you ALIVE.” ~ Sid Vicious
  

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Relevance in the Michael Teaching

The Uranus Body tells of someone who is not to be trifled with. Like all Exalted Body Types, a little goes a long way and this one is no exception. Uranian personalities are game disrupters and therefore alter outcomes. They often make us feel uncomfortable with the status quo. The Essence’s motivation is to be noticed, and perhaps a bit kinky. In their desire for attention, emotion can play a central part in their influence over others. They like to intimidate with sexual power or revulsion.

Ruled by the Gonads and the energy of undifferentiated sexual dimorphism, the resulting qualities may be very sexual or animalistic or completely hermaphroditic to asexual. Some psychological extremes are found with the Uranus body type, including: psychopath like Hannibal Lecter or extremely empathic but distraught dissociative personality like the Lisa Rowe character in the movie Girl Interrupted. John Steinbeck’s Lenny in of Mice and Men portrayed a man in Re-evaluation whose Gigantism intimidated all who looked upon him, but also made bosses covet his strength as a large beast of burden.

Of all the Body Types in this system, we see mutations generated in the human body. Sometimes they are chillingly beautiful like Grace Jones. Other times they are deemed hideous and terrifying like John Merrick, the Elephant Man. More common varieties are seen in those that have gigantism or dwarfism. We respond to these people with various levels of shock, marvel, chagrin, revulsion, or fascination. In each case, our perception of what is acceptably human is driven to the extremes. One is forever changed by the effects. We see new variations of our humanness embodied.

A humorous collection of Uranian body types were collectively potrayed in the TV show and movie The Addams Family. Every character was unpredictable, unique, and as the song said “their creepy and their kookie, mysterious and ookie, they are altogether spooky…”

Famous Examples

Andre the Giant, Munchkins, Dwarfism, John Merrick (Elephant Man), Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Arnold Swartzennegger, Missie Pyle, Marty Feldmen, Yul Brenner, Robert Duval, Lex Luthor, Incredible Hulk, Beowulf’s Grandel, Verne Troyer (above), Joseph Stalin, Angelina Jolie, Gigantism the condition, Ted Cassidy, Richard Kiel (Jaws from James Bond), Igor – Frankenstein’s man servant, Quasimodo (the Hunchback of Notre Dame), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), Pan,

Cultural Meaning

Humans like novelty or perhaps freak shows more often than not. The crowd is titillated with fascination and their stares move the imagination to wonder, awe, and perhaps a feeling of danger. When we see a Terminator or Frankenstein or Dracula we are thrust into a kind of terrifying paralysis we see the power of this body is unleashed. Each is might be seen as monsters.

The Astrological characteristics of this planet indicate a force that is chaotic but rife with opportunity for drastic and amazing transformation. In contrast to the Pluto body type, which is more hidden within the person, this type is more overt leading to a shake-up rather than destruction or transformation.

Much of what has happened with the world stock markets during the last 5 years have had to due to the dance of the combined “talents” of Uranus the Sky and Pluto the ruler of the underworld. Together they collude to show the foolishness of “pie in the sky” thinking while the foundation is crumbling.

With this energy in play, predictability falls to the wayside as the lord of spontaneous combustion and instantaneous mutation puts everything into free-fall. And freedom from restriction is the goal for the Uranian. Be careful of what you perceive as liberty, you just might get chaos or total collapse instead.

Attributes of this Body Type…

• Large and/or distorted forehead
• Beady eyes
• Deformed or exaggerated body (not necessarily ugly in anyway)

by Stephen Cocconi © 2011, Updated, 2024

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