True story...

"Moral excellence is destroyed by defect and excess. ... For one can see this at once in the case of gymnastic exercises. If they are overdone, the strength is destroyed, while if they are deficient, it is so also. And the same is the case with food and drink. For if too much is taken health is destroyed, and also if too little, but by the right proportion strength and health are preserved. The same is the case with temperance and courage and the rest of the excellences. For if you make a man too fearless, so as not even to fear the gods, he is not brave but mad, but if you make him afraid of everything, he is a coward. To be brave, then, a man must not either fear everything or nothing. The same things, then, both increase and destroy excellence."

Aristotle, Magna Moralia 1185b1

We used to not quite understand the meaning of the planets being the Seven Sins, how could it be? There are benefic planets, then there are also malefic planets but even those can teach you lessons. Coming in touch with a living tradition it becomes clear, sin needs to be understood not in a strictly Christian sense, but in a wider one: whatever planets signify, it all ultimately pertains to the mundane.

Yes, even the spiritual benefactor Jupiter and the harsh master Saturn, what they stand for is mundane and transient, it is Becoming, it is Fate, it is samsara. While they can be, and they are, useful tools to navigate that sea, the seeker needs not to be engrossed by them as they alone cannot bring you to transcendence, you need instead to surpass them, transmuting the duality they signify into blissful non-duality. That is indeed the Goal of the Wise.

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