text: Campfire, Grand Army of the Republic is the Sabian Symbol for the 1st degree of Sagittarius. Here it is described using the 7 Words System - a way of understanding the complexity of human interactions that can be applied to all aspects of self-awareness and relationship, so that you quickly change your perspectives and get to a deep sense of what to do to improve things.
  Did you ever think that your sun sign, whereas it may say a great deal, does not especially describe you very specifically? At any rate not in an extraordinarily memorable way so that all of your life experience has to acquire a different meaning. So, have a little ponder on these Sabian Symbols – they could well make you see things differently! The Sabian approach really is quite unique.
  So what are these Sabian Symbols? Sabian Symbols are 360 in number, images – one for each of the 360 degrees of the zodiac – that were clairvoyantly discovered by a mystic, Elsie Wheeler, and interpreted by a major astrologer, Dr Marc Edmund Jones. Each gives a subtle clue about the basic connotation of that particular degree, which will probably release some very useful and stimulating perspectives that undoubtedly will get you thinking.
  What is so often perceived, as appropriate investment in being content with the way things are, can so often be none other than superficial idleness; what is considered the valuing of old ways, none other than an unhealthy veneration of the past. From this we see that discretion must be exercised to know what is helpful for worthy development of wellbeing.
  We should not spend too long nostalgically sitting on our laurels telling tales around the campfire with compatriots, if we are to optimize our special potential. Such gifts have to be repeatedly re-grasped, reenergised, and renewed in their application.
  If the process of reminiscence is to have full and useful impact, then it must serve to help us appreciate each significant aspect and each phase of our vast range of life experience.
  With such an attitude towards remembrance then, during points of crisis in life, it becomes useful because we can call upon our collected wisdom to sustain us and carry us through the challenge of the times.
  Moreover, the multitude of connections and allegiances that have been nurtured, cultivated and preserved over the years will support us in our accomplishments.
  Subjective passivity – doing nothing much except feeling and perceiving what is now present – can be of immense importance, yet surely only to the extent that it is gainfully employed to build inner strength.
  For example, a periodic "return to centre" is of great value in rebalancing and reorienting. One can look for, and find, great relevance in all that has gone before, and all that is to come , by deepening one's involvement in this present moment. This may well be enhanced by placing today's events contextually within the backdrop of our fondest memories.