IN INDIA, WHERE CONSCIOUSNESS HAS BEEN EXPLORED for thousands of years, there is an understanding that relates back to ancient times when a "million" people was thought easily to equal the world's population. In the Hindu comprehension there are a "million" Gods; one for each of us. We are each one of us a God, or a representative of one of the many aspects of God. We have the intrinsic potential to appreciate that each one of us, in our own personal nature, is essential to the wholeness of life.
In these turbulent times of monopolized media, digitized money, obsolete religions, military invasions, pharmaceutical travesties, "new" diseases, corporate disgrace and resource inequality, the world's faith in itself is being challenged as never before. What is going on here on planet Earth? Are we born just to suffer heaps of indignities piled on us, one after the other? Or are we here to live a life in which we find abundance, contentment, maturity, spirituality and fulfillment?
As the movie "The Matrix" suggests, we appear to be alive but we are plugged into a wrong reality. What is it going to take for us to recognize our misplaced attentions and awaken to our truth? Do we need an Armageddon to wake us up, or is there perhaps a peaceful solution?
In this article, we examine the Design chart of one of the great champions of human integrity, Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi.
Mohandas Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbender, Gujarat in India, into the incarnation of Upheaval. Of the 112 different incarnations that are available to us as humans, the incarnation of Upheaval is one of the rarer ones. It is an incarnation that is lived out through dramatic and often challenging interactions with others.
Each of us is born into an incarnation in which we live out a certain theme for a whole lifetime. The vast majority of us live out what we call "personal" incarnations in which very often we do not completely comprehend the effects that our words and actions have on others. Those who are born, like Gandhi, into an interpersonal incarnation, spend a whole lifetime living with a sense of responsibility for everything that appears to happen around them in their life.
The incarnation of Upheaval that Mohandas Gandhi was born into carries with it an intrinsic challenge to any situation where fundamental human values are perceived as incorrect. Throughout his lifetime many people will have only seen him as a disturbance, because his every act would, on some level or another, be construed as obstructive and provocative, and because his every word would have undertones of strong opinions and even criticisms. Those who loved him would appreciate that he had a deep yearning for society to improve its ways. The greatest achievement for somebody with this incarnation is to make sure that their challenge is never directed on a personal level, but is aimed specifically at systems and the ways in which things get done in the world.
At the age of 13, as is common in India, he was married, and when it was appreciated that the young Gandhi had a great aptitude with things legal, he was sent to London in England to study law, eventually being called to the bar as a qualified barrister. His family, in the meantime moved to South Africa and became part of an Indian community that the British typically established in many of their colonies. Indians living in British colonies would handle day-to-day life as merchants and bureaucrats within the British system. Gandhi soon appreciated that the Indian colonists in South Africa were getting a raw deal at the hands of the British, and he started representing them legally to establish their civic rights, often in the process finding himself behind bars in defiance of what he considered unfair practices.
Gandhi the Generator
By design, Mohandas Gandhi is a "generator," with a definition between the red square sacral Center and the yellow diamond self Center, through the channel 5-15, rhythm, the design of having a natural timing relating to universal law. The channel is called "being in the flow."
This channel is composed of a combination of two gates, the 15 and five. The 15 relates to the extremes that are played out in human nature, and the five relates to the process of waiting for life force energy to take its natural course. Anyone who has this channel in their design is constrained to wait for an inner response from their sacral Center before engaging in anything that life has to offer. For anyone who has lived with someone that has this channel 5-15 defined in their design they will experience that this person has a very particular inner timing mechanism. It is not wise to try and rush them. Somehow, they are always in right time.
Generators, in general, have unflagging energy. When they commit to something they are constrained to follow through on it either until it is completed or, until they get completely frustrated in their efforts to make something happen that simply refuses to happen. The latter situation only comes about when a generator gets involved in something in a way that really does not suit them personally. All generators are designed to respond from their sacral Center. The sacral response gives them a clear indication that they have personal life force energy available towards whatever they have responded.
Gandhi the Projector
Mohandas Gandhi in his design chart, has three areas of definition. The one area we have looked at is the generator part. The two other areas are both projector parts. He has definition between the Ajna Center and his throat Center through the channel 17-62, the channel called acceptance, the logical organizer, and also between the spleen Center and the root Center through the channel 28-38, the channel called struggle, the stubbornness to uphold high personal values.
There is no question that Gandhi had great organizational skills. He could say things that on a logical basis were completely irrefutable. Not only could he dispute whether something was legal or not, but he could also imply how things could be arranged in a much better way then they were before he applied his attention to them. From the point of view of being stubborn, he had a knack of being able to bring things to complete standstill when he felt that his personal values were being compromised.
Assimilation
Anyone who is born with three areas of definition in their design has the gift to relate to any single instance in their life from three totally different points of view. In Gandhi's case his sacral response would give him an indication as to whether to get involved in something or not. His mental viewpoint would indicate to him whether something was logical or not and needed (re)organizing. His splenic viewpoint would give him the basis to confront anything until his personal conditions were met. When these three separate points of view were assimilated, he was completely unassailable. When he relied too much on any particular one of these three viewpoints without assimilating the other viewpoints, he was vulnerable. Assimilation takes place when one interacts with other people who link separate areas of our design together. It would always be important for Gandhi to have people around him to discuss things with him, helping him link his three areas of definition together.
Open and Undefined Centers
In any design chart it is always important to have a look at the centers that are undefined or open (and colored in white) in the chart. The white centers are when we get to "play" in life through our interactions with those people having the centers defined (and colored in) in their own charts. From these Open and Undefined centers, there is the opportunity to mirror back the world to itself, but also we can find ourselves fascinated and even overwhelmed by the nature of fixed energies that other people bring to us through these centers being defined in their Design charts, to the point where we take on other people's conditioning into our own lives.
In Gandhi's design at the top of his chart he had an open Crown Center, implying that he was open to all kinds of inspirations. He would have found himself reaching into many areas of worldly and spiritual inspirations espoused by other people. As to whether it was appropriate for him to adopt any of these inspirations into his own life would depend entirely on his Sacral response.
Further down on the right side of his chart he had an open emotional Center. What can often be said for people who have any completely open emotional Center is that they can appear quite unmoved and even cool in emotionally charged situations. If Gandhi was really sure in his actions he would probably become more and more justified in himself the crazier things appeared to become in the emotional world around him.
Gandhi also had an undefined heart Center containing the gate 51, the presence of individual initiative in disruptive and drastic situations. In his Design, this gate was activated consciously and unconsciously by Neptune, the planet relating to a deeper feminine nature and mystical characteristics, and also by his unconscious moon. Not only could he find himself making a great play in handling drastic situations but he could also have found himself catalyzing them as well. With the presence of Neptune and his unconscious moon in Gate 51, he would have found himself uncannily inspiring others to take dramatic and drastic steps towards embracing their own personal truth.
In conclusion
It is said of Mohandas Gandhi that he was single-handedly responsible for bringing an end to British rule in India. Whenever he saw something as substantially illogical or he recognized a dispute as ridiculous, he would call for a peaceful strike or he would fast, "even unto death," shaming those involved to come to their senses. He espoused what could be seen to be a peaceful outcome to every disagreement. For the British, at that time a warring nation with an empire, his peaceful stance was unassailable. Gandhi had the logic and the timing and the stubbornness to bring India to a standstill and render the British governors impotent.
In this time of great dissatisfaction and chaos in the world, it would do us all good to look within ourselves to find what it is that we are really here to live out as our own truth on our own terms. Never have we been challenged by so much nonsense and misinformation. It is now, more than ever, quite beyond the scope of our minds to be able to think our way through life. Each one of us has our own means to be guided through our life by relating to a truth that resides within us. Mahatma Gandhi stands as a great example of someone who lived according to his own nature despite almost unimaginable opposition. Each one of us has our own strengths waiting to be called forth so that we can connect more closely with our life's essence and our Godliness.
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