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sdiAmerica around the turn of the millennium is almost literally a hell of a time to be born! I am so poorly matched to the era that everyone has told me, ever since I was a child, that I was born in the wrong century. (Some years ago, I was given the nickname, "H. G. Wells," in reference to the author of The Time Machine.) After ditching "random chance" as a plausible explanation some years ago, I've wondered, "Why here? Why now?"
Well, I'm a computer programmer by profession—and, in fact, a prodigy at it, having started when I was a young child and going to university a few years younger than my peers. I've always been fascinated by the study of algorithms, and the other day, I offhandedly noted to open_space that I suspect that there's some occult significance to it. (In many ways, it reminds me of alchemy: instead of being a universal method of purification, it's a universal method of economy—that is, acting efficiently. Yes, it is ironic that the study of efficiency is mostly used in the service of squandering resources.) In meditation today, I realized that my field of study is limited to a very brief moment in time—computers have only been around for a few decades, and likely will only be around for a few decades more—and that I probably answered my own question: I'm here and now to learn it! I thought I might cast a chart to confirm.
I'm represented in this chart by contemplative Albus in the I. The study of algorithms is a skill and therefore goes in the IX, and is also represented by Albus. The chart therefore perfects by occupation, suggesting that naturally there is some purpose for it. (Perhaps we carry everything we attain with us, so nothing we learn is ever a waste, though to be honest, if I had my way, I'd repurpose all the neurons devoted to the minutia of managing MySQL databases.)
It also has a second mode of perfection, a translation through Populus in the II and VIII, strengthened a little by company capitular between the I and II. Populus, company of houses, and translations generally all suggest other people, and the VIII is the house of death and legacies, so this mode of perfection seems to hint at the skill being used to benefit others down the line.
Albus, a figure of Mercury, strikes me as an extremely positive figure for study and understanding. In fact, it also occupies the V (of created things), suggesting that the purpose is creative. (I'm still trying to understand aspects in house charts, but the mutual trine between the I, V, and IX seemed significant.)
The court is also interesting, as the witnesses are both Laetitia. Laetitia is suggestive of enterprise, and the court itself speaks to my being in alignment with my circumstances.
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Date: 2021-03-05 11:22 am (UTC)Not precisely the same thing, but at least since the time of Plato mathematics was used as a spiritual means, so says on an essay by Rudolf Steiner which can be found readily online Mathematics and Occultism The argument being to emancipate thought from sense perception, that way approaching the World of Ideas by purifying ones vehicle to get there, our minds, from the thought patterns permeated with sensory data. That makes a great deal of sense to me, and to yogis too apparently which call and induce this state, pratyahara. Therefore I think by getting to train ourselves to get into that absorbed state which mathematics and algorithms can take us, we can train ourselves to experience worlds beyond the physical. That said, if you would like to discuss algorithms in detail, I always have my copy of Cormen book on it handy.
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