by
Jacqueline
Lichtenberg

The solution to problems caused by values in conflict always involves honor (10th House honor and career). The 2nd and 8th "Houses" in astrology are opposite each other, and in natural conflict (or developmental tension), like "4th and 10th - home and career".

As I've been pointing out in the WorldCrafters Guild at simegen.com, the richest source of universally understood conflict is symbolized by the horoscope--twelve "Houses" in a circle, six naturally opposed to the other six: Self vs. Other.

The clearest explanation of the Houses I've yet found is in Houses Their Signs and Planets, Vol. 2 of The Principles and Practice of Astrology by Noel Tyl, which is currently out of print. This month, October 1999, a new book is coming out, The New Way to Learn Astrology: Presenting the Noel Tyl Method by Basil Fearrington.

At this writing, in August, I haven't seen the new book, so I emailed Noel Tyl and here's what he wrote back within the hour: "The New Way" presents the Tyl method. ...it's super...Fearrington has been a protege of mine for about 17 years!" signed: Noel - NoelTyl.com (I thought, noeltyl.com?)

So I quicklikeabunny checked out www.noeltyl.com and you know what? It's terrific. If you have any interest in astrology, you must delve into this website.

These six conflicts form the matrix of internal conflicts which define personality, and power the plots of our "real" lives. The art of fiction is to portray reality formed of these six basic conflicts.

This morning I watched a rerun of a Star Trek:Voyager episode, "Night," which clearly demonstrates the 2nd House vs. 8th House conflict resolved with honor.

"Night" begins with an episode of "Captain Proton"--where Tom and Harry play movie-serial heroes on the holodeck. Tom, as Captain Proton, lays his life on the line to protect the innocent--which is Tom's 2nd House Value that he shares with Captain Janeway.

Meanwhile, Janeway is suffering guilt for following that value to save the Ocampans, thus stranding Voyager in the Delta Quadrant.

The crew is bored silly crossing a void where there are no stars and nothing is happening. Suddenly the power goes off, and alien intruders invade the ship. A large freighter rescues Voyager by destroying several of the attacking alien ships--just as Captain Proton would do.

But no! This alien captain demands payment for the torpedoes expended saving Voyager! That's an 8th House value--opposing the values of Captain Proton, Tom and Janeway, with whom we identify. It is My Value (2nd House) vs. Values of Others (8th House).

Respecting the values of others, Voyager agrees to pay, but not by surrendering the intruder they have captured to the freighter captain. Again honor (10th House) interacts with 2nd House. 2nd and 10th are at a harmonious angle to each other. Via your Career (10th), you gain Money (2nd). Via Honor (10th) you gain Self Respect (2nd).

It turns out the freighter is dumping polluted waste in this void, the home of the intruders, and thus killing the innocent resident aliens simply because the wormhole makes it very cheap to dispose of the waste this way.

Janeway offers to give away recycling technology to the polluters to save the innocent residents. For that, Voyager will get the location of a wormhole that leads out of this "night," cutting two years off the voyage.

Freighter captain refuses on the grounds that if his civilization used this device, it would destroy the lucrative pollution dumping industry. Again 8th House values (the values of "others"--of strangers--of "the majority") clash with those of 2nd House, "self."

Janeway's solution is to sacrifice herself to save the innocent residents, which will also get Voyager out through the wormhole and close it behind them. The crew refuses her sacrifice. Janeway accepts an alternate which would, if it works, get Voyager out through the wormhole and still close it behind them.

They try it and it works, but they have to blow up the freighter in the process. They go on, hoping to encounter the polluting civilization and give them recycling engineering.

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