I think the reason the sequel seems to repeat is because the story is written on the cycles of nature, light and dark. "Here we go again" was the feeling we were meant to get, as we are on that wheel of time. However, this time in the cycle, there is a different outcome. Prequels were the fall into darkness. The OT was the rise into light. Then the sequels were the fall back into darkness. Luke is going down as the solar hero, and Leia the lunar light. The next generation is going into the dark, like the previous generation. What stops that is symbolized in Rey's staff from the beginning, which is dealing with duality and polarity. The end sees the conjunction of opposites. The appearance of the three women at the end is the triple goddess-- three phases of the moon--with the sun hero Luke.
Han Solo went back to the life of smuggling, because his role in a psychological drama is the individual ego that has the beast for a co-pilot--- but the ego no longer drives the vehicle. And once it gets back in there, it has to be thrown off. You know what you have to do but you don't know if you have the strength to do it. Hard to see our old pal the ego go. But you never knew which was faster to the trigger, the ego or the greedo. That's not going to work at the end of this story.
STAR WARS definitely draws on Buddhism and Daoism and I can see the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (Christian) in Vader's redemption, but this is the first time I've seen what sounds an awful lot like a neo-pagan interpretation of STAR WARS.
It draws on all mythology from all cultures, not only Buddhism and Daoism, which are also there. George Lucas took his anthropology background and wove a tapestry of world culture, using the ideas of mythologist Joseph Campbell. He said it's old myths told in a new way. Campbell said all dreams are private myths, and all myths are public dreams. We are watching a kind of public dream about our inner world. You find puzzle pieces from cultures, myths, religions around the world.
So for instance with Luke as the sun, his name Luke Sky walker means the light that walks across the sky. The dome he has for a home is like a dream image of the dome of the sky. In the Kenobi series, you see him riding into the story on the dome of the sky, where he lives. He is observed only at a distance at first. He only walks in at the end of the story, because the story progresses form the darkness towards the light. The light steps in for the first time into the darkness. There are solar symbols all around the supply shop he steps into in Kenobi episode six.
As the sun, he is the spiritual light in you, that's going to hitch a ride with the ego, to become the hero in you. The sun hero in you takes one look at the vehicle he has to use to get to where he's going and says wow that thing's in rough shape, how am I ever going to get there in that thing? It doesn't seem up to the task. The ego gives it a boost. It's very funny to look at that scene that way. The vehicle for those energies of your psyche is you, that up until that point has been driven by the beast and the ego that got into that vehicle by chance. But now it's called upon to go on a rescue mission into a world that's fallen into darkness and become more of an artificially constructed machine world-- a system destructive of whole worlds.
All the characters refer to what's going on inside of you. That's the Campbell-style interpretation. Just for fun, follow his story as the sun. He rescues the moon figure, or moonlight princess from the darkness of a "moon" that's no moon. He almost gets lost to darkness in the clouds of cloud city. He redeems the father who fell into darkness, the setting sun. He enters his sunset in his Act Two on Ahch To. He's in rough shape. Darkness is on the rise again with the next generation in this cycle of day and night, light vs. dark is headed towards darkness to finish what his grandfather started.
I think the reason the sequel seems to repeat is because the story is written on the cycles of nature, light and dark. "Here we go again" was the feeling we were meant to get, as we are on that wheel of time. However, this time in the cycle, there is a different outcome. Prequels were the fall into darkness. The OT was the rise into light. Then the sequels were the fall back into darkness. Luke is going down as the solar hero, and Leia the lunar light. The next generation is going into the dark, like the previous generation. What stops that is symbolized in Rey's staff from the beginning, which is dealing with duality and polarity. The end sees the conjunction of opposites. The appearance of the three women at the end is the triple goddess-- three phases of the moon--with the sun hero Luke.
Han Solo went back to the life of smuggling, because his role in a psychological drama is the individual ego that has the beast for a co-pilot--- but the ego no longer drives the vehicle. And once it gets back in there, it has to be thrown off. You know what you have to do but you don't know if you have the strength to do it. Hard to see our old pal the ego go. But you never knew which was faster to the trigger, the ego or the greedo. That's not going to work at the end of this story.
Triple Goddess? Luke as the Sun Hero?
STAR WARS definitely draws on Buddhism and Daoism and I can see the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (Christian) in Vader's redemption, but this is the first time I've seen what sounds an awful lot like a neo-pagan interpretation of STAR WARS.
It draws on all mythology from all cultures, not only Buddhism and Daoism, which are also there. George Lucas took his anthropology background and wove a tapestry of world culture, using the ideas of mythologist Joseph Campbell. He said it's old myths told in a new way. Campbell said all dreams are private myths, and all myths are public dreams. We are watching a kind of public dream about our inner world. You find puzzle pieces from cultures, myths, religions around the world.
So for instance with Luke as the sun, his name Luke Sky walker means the light that walks across the sky. The dome he has for a home is like a dream image of the dome of the sky. In the Kenobi series, you see him riding into the story on the dome of the sky, where he lives. He is observed only at a distance at first. He only walks in at the end of the story, because the story progresses form the darkness towards the light. The light steps in for the first time into the darkness. There are solar symbols all around the supply shop he steps into in Kenobi episode six.
As the sun, he is the spiritual light in you, that's going to hitch a ride with the ego, to become the hero in you. The sun hero in you takes one look at the vehicle he has to use to get to where he's going and says wow that thing's in rough shape, how am I ever going to get there in that thing? It doesn't seem up to the task. The ego gives it a boost. It's very funny to look at that scene that way. The vehicle for those energies of your psyche is you, that up until that point has been driven by the beast and the ego that got into that vehicle by chance. But now it's called upon to go on a rescue mission into a world that's fallen into darkness and become more of an artificially constructed machine world-- a system destructive of whole worlds.
All the characters refer to what's going on inside of you. That's the Campbell-style interpretation. Just for fun, follow his story as the sun. He rescues the moon figure, or moonlight princess from the darkness of a "moon" that's no moon. He almost gets lost to darkness in the clouds of cloud city. He redeems the father who fell into darkness, the setting sun. He enters his sunset in his Act Two on Ahch To. He's in rough shape. Darkness is on the rise again with the next generation in this cycle of day and night, light vs. dark is headed towards darkness to finish what his grandfather started.