Bono - Growing in Consciousness
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AS LONG AS WE are devoting all of our energies to "making a living" we are hard pressed to manage time to fulfill our spiritual yearnings. Spending a part of one day a week, either Saturdays or Sundays, for a few hours in congregational prayer or meditation, or chanting mantras for several minutes a day is not going to do it for us unless we also bring a great presence into our lives during all other times. As our lives tend to get busier and busier in these increasingly toxic times, we need assistance and reminders to cherish our spiritual nature as much as we possibly can... otherwise, we are going to remain chained to the cycle of life and death without ever consciously attaining our full potential as Beings of Light.

We are able to shape our destiny only when we awaken to the potentials that are available to us, accept them as our own and play them through correctly, consciously and deliberately. Clear intention counts for everything. But how to arrive at clear intention if one has not attuned to what one honestly seeks for one's greatest good? Felicity and abundance are our nature as spirited and spiritual beings if we can only extricate ourselves from the belief systems that condemn us to our self-imposed treadmill of fulfilling the apparently "needful." The answers to our most essential issues are inside each one of us and are available to us at any moment.

First, we must pay attention to the reality playing out around us in our lives as our first clue to who we are, since it is a pure reflection of us. From witnessing the outer, we can shift our gaze to the inner. We each have access to the clues that draw us to truth, if we can allow ourselves to move out of the “matrix” and the apparent constraints of "making a living," "fitting in," "not rocking the boat," to live our life consistently from our own precious, unique personal integrity.

Our personal integrity springs from our soul's growth, and our soul's growth is dependent on the acceptance of our “vehicle's” (body-mind-nature) make-up for our life span on earth. Design is a graphic representation of our unique nature. No two vehicles have the same Design and even though two souls might have the same trajectory, no two people can ever live the same life. We are, each of us, unique and responsible for our own life and what we do with it.

Design is an amazing tool for us to be able to comprehend the capabilities, tendencies, preferences, and other parameters in our life’s journey as consciousness in a human form. When we comprehend the nature of our vehicle’s Design, we have the means to interact in our life from a place of personal clarity at all times and in all situations.
In this article, we look at the Design of Bono Vox, lead singer with the highly successful band from Ireland, U2, (You too!) and world humanitarian whose causes affect many people.

Bono was born in Dublin, Ireland on May 10, 1960. He was born into the Incarnation of “Explanation,” through which he feels compelled to explain to anyone and everyone the workings of underlying truths in our Universe, according to his own perspective. By Design, he has three areas of activation in his chart. The first, and perhaps most energetically obvious, is his “Generator” part that is activated by the channel 59 - 6, the Channel of intimacy. Gate 59 is activated consciously and unconsciously by Pluto and Gate 6, by the conscious and unconscious North Node, that affects one’s life destiny from the age of 40 onwards.

Increasingly as Bono gets older, he will finds himself drawn into new and different friendships and partnerships. Pluto’s presence in his Gate 59 demands that he enters into close contacts with others and bring transformation to himself and others through those contacts; Pluto’s presence in the 4th and 6th line of Gate 59 implies that the level of intimacy is going to be directed to close friendships, rather than more lasting sexual intimacies. The Nodal presence in Gate 6 in lines 1 and 3 imply a certain reluctance to get involved with people unless he can rely on their emotional natures being controlled and sensitive.

A second area of Bono’s Design is the connection between his Root and Spleen Centers through the defined channel 28 - 38, the channel of struggle, stubbornness and the pursuit of personally meaningful levels of quality in life. This channel represents a highly individual trait of not settling for anything in one’s life that has not passed one’s particular personal standards. The activation here is between unconscious Saturn in Gate 38 and the 5th line of choosing one’s fights appropriately and of being able to recognize one’s allies at a glance, and, Bono’s conscious Moon, relating to his whole sphere of feeling memory in Gate 28 and line 2. This implies an ability/willingness to spontaneously involve oneself with just about anyone, human or otherwise, who might further one’s aims and pursuit of personally meaningful quality in life!

In the Root Center, Bono has activation in Gate 54 in the 4th line with both his unconscious Venus and conscious Saturn. The unconscious Venus probably relates genetically to his maternal grandmother, and his conscious Saturn relates to his lifelong meditations, trials and also his shadow nature. Of all the 384 lines in the IChing, the 54.4 is one of the most difficult to adjust to in one’s life. It implies that impatience never serves but also, that attaining to what one truly searches for in one’s life will be elusive, and patience might not even bring the actualization of one’s wishes! It indicates that one is always subservient to the whims of the Universe and the “will of the Gods,” and, therefore, subject to potentially grand achievements and equally grand disillusionments - all of which have to be taken in stride.

The Third area of Bono’s Design is a projected part that connects between the Crown Center, our Center of Inspiration at the top of the chart, through the Ajna Center, our place of mental awareness, through the Throat Center, our place of expression to the Self Center, the area from which we derive connection into all of our surroundings.

In Bono’s chart, the channel 61 - 24 relates to a “knowing awareness” that can, at times, cause him be unrealistic to the realities of his own life, leading him to withdraw to think and rethink the multiplicity of options that are presented to him. It can cause him at times to be overly mental and persistent in refining all kinds of mental considerations. It is a highly individualized thought form that can be extremely imaginative but also extremely unreasonable.

From the Ajna Center to the Throat Center, Bono has the 43 - 23 defined by his conscious Earth-Sun opposition, in the first lines. This channel is sometimes called the channel of the “Genius/Freak” because anyone who articulates their thoughts into words through this channel is constrained to interpret pulses of insights into language. If the words come out right, and the audience is ready to hear them, the “Genius” is obvious, but if the words don’t quite hit the spot and the audience is not ready for the transfer of insight, it has been the “Freak” talking! Inevitably “Genius” can bring about rapid assimilation of new insights into universal acceptance and practice. “Freak” gets decreasing exposure unless he or she works on language skills and timing.

In the Ajna Center, Bono also has Gate 11 activated unconsciously with his Jupiter in the 5th line of the philanthropist, and Gate 4 activated from his Mother’s genetic input, in line 3, bringing a tendency to want a shortcut on qualified rational answers to rational problems. Since, by Design, Bono is becoming steadily more and more Emotionally defined, he will begin to recognize that “feeling” solutions bring far greater satisfaction for him than do mental solutions.

From the lower corner of the Throat Center, Bono has the channel 31 - 7 defined unconsciously with his Moon in Gate 31 and the 1st line implying that he has always known himself to be influential. At the Self Center, he has Gate 7 activated consciously by his Uranus, the planet of awakening through the unexpected, in the 5th line called “the General.” Generals know how to make any campaign succeed. The only real difficulty for Generals is in working out which campaign they want to contribute their immense gifts towards and also how they wished to be recompensed for their efforts in directing successful outcomes!

Also activated in Bono’s Self Center is Gate 10 in line 6, activated by his Jupiter, implying that if anyone is appropriate in their behavior towards other people at all times, it is Bono. He also has Gate 25, the Gate of Innocence, activated by Mars, the planet of deeds and actions, in the first line of selfless innocence. People who have this Gate and line can be very sensitive to people who are clumsy, both physically and energetically, in their own lives.

In conclusion
Bono needs to be very strongly attuned within his own space of clarity before he commits to anyone or anything. This personal clarity involves integrating each of the three parts of his Design, a process that naturally involves other people coming into his world to “connect” him up energetically. It is my experience that those with triple-split Designs can be the most centered and wise of people if they only allow themselves to be patient until they have integrated their three perspectives.

More and more, Bono will be called to expand his presence into world concerns, breaking down class and racial barriers with his tenacity and far-reaching insights. Living as a strongly defined individual, as is Bono, has its challenges, particularly when others cannot attune to his sometimes radical and novel suggestions and practices. But being such an individual as Bono also has its delights when people attune to his nature and suddenly get empowered by grasping on to something apart from what has been handed down to them as a fixed reality.

We are Designed to be free, so let us all recognize who we are as unique individual beings, align ourselves within our own inbuilt clarity and take care of the “needful” so we can make space to deliberately align ourselves with our truth on a continuing and expansive basis!


© Chetan Parkyn, 2004