Apropos of this, the discussion in the thread below may be of interest to those reading this thread.
With respect to reincarnation, the belief is that you must live every single archetype before becoming a fully realized spiritual being,
Pinging @_OM for this one. This goes contrary to what we were discussing in our other thread about transcending Ego to become fully realized = having free will thus bypassing all this. Or did I not understand fully?
transcending Ego to become fully realized
I interpret this as having the maturity to understand that each archetype has its strength and weaknesses, and not to condemn one as being completely wrong. Ie., for Outlaw (Scorpio/Aquarius), there is a time to change the status quo thru rebellion versus something like Everyman(Taurus/Virgo) where tradition and following rules are more important. There is a time and place for every sign, not one is better than the other.
thread about transcending Ego to become fully realized = having free will thus bypassing all this
Notice that I almost always write “transcend” as transcend/integrate/balance the blah blah…
(That’s not on accident)Far too often people want to “transcend” something…meaning “bypass” it without having to “balance/integrate” those things.
So to be clear “Transcending the ego” also means “balancing/integrating” the Ego.
The Ego is this case can be represented as the 12 zodiac signs, the 12 aspects of the disciples, the 12 Jungian archetypes, etc, etc.There are slower and faster ways of doing this.
There is a time and place for every sign, not one is better than the other.
Exactly.
To quote a well-known biblical verse" For everything there is a season, A time for every activity under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest.
This is saying the same thing as @Septimus said above.
And yes, it takes 99.9999999% of people several lifetimes to “balance/integrate/transcend” all the different aspects of the Ego… however one wants to represent them.
(See posts about Ego represented as Bull )