Forecast for Thursday 5 November 2009

Thursday 5 November 2009

}Mastery?{

Today and Friday constitute the |difficult, sensitive, touchy| third of the week. One is asked to prove one's stuff. One is asked to show what one is made of at these times. Fear and anxiety raise their ugly heads and need to be reassured, from a higher level, that things are going to work out if we work them out.

There is impatience and disagreement. Why human beings cannot overlook some of their quarrels more successfully is a mystery to me; I believe it is arrogance, conceit, greed, and a desire for privilege which make people angry with anyone who disagrees about politics or religion. On the other hand, I get angry when people espouse obviously stupid and malicious viewpoints on these subjects. We live in the Age of Kali, according to the Hindus, and much as I would like to see an end of it -- the idealistic young people with stars (and drugs) in their eyes in the late '60s thought it was ending -- it seems to drag on. Kali delights in discord and battle, argument and disagreement. From a higher viewpoint this is theoretically a separation and discord preparing a greater coming-together and harmony. We always think that will be "next year, next week, tomorrow" rather than "next century or next millennium." The Hindu thinkers may have the more correct time-scale, I am sorry to say.

It is not pleasant to feel torn apart, or torn apart from other human beings who feel torn apart when you confront them with your viewpoint.

But I must say, buck up your courage, for today the moon's trine with Venus in her sign Libra portends nice, liberating, happy times even during the |difficult| period. Who is it who seems loving and sweet (at least mostly), trustful and kind? That person or someone like him or her is good for you today. You could spend time together, sharing a meal or drink, and find solace in each other. Knowing each other's foibles could be an aid to happy comradeship rather than a block. The heart has reasons our minds fail to grasp.

Business or financial adventures are at a tricky stage. You need tact and foresight. Advice from someone who knows ropes you don't could help. That could relieve worries.

When things seem hard, people choose their avenues of escape: indolence, drink, drugs, even religious observances if these become heartless and dispiriting rather than spiritually invigorating. When you don't feel like vigorous action, or need a break from it, thinking and planning would be wise while the sun and Mercury are together exactly today at the center of the Bright Hermetic Epoch (lasting until December 9). Resting is not aimless if you use that period for visioning your immediate future (let's say up to February as a guideline) and realizing what you need to do to keep your life in order with forward momentum.

It is not always those in the limelight who do the most for the human race. If you have a more secluded station from which to influence events, you are just as much needed if not more. Those who misunderstand may even seem enemies (Kali again) but
cannot harm one aligned with the Supreme.

The improvident members of the human race who seem to end up begging have always been with us and have their place, it would seem, and need sympathy and help in one way or another. To confront them charitably is a test of one's charity, which is another name for selfless love. To say "they ought to get a job" is easy enough but the struggle and evolution that would require is simply beyond most of them. We ought to offer them part-time work and very inexpensive housing, which would be a benefit to everyone. Of what value is it to keep them on the streets, begging, requiring constant attention from police and courts already overloaded, harassing them from one spot to another when they have no place to sleep? We are not a Christian culture. Nor a truly Jewish one, for the brilliant Jewish psychologist Erich Fromm, often quoting from the Bible, decades ago pointed out in his important book The Sane Society how we are hurting ourselves by not guaranteeing everyone basic support, enabling them to find a place where they can make some contribution or other. We might be surprised to find out what is in them if they were treated well.

After that I shall not tell you that your life ought to be a life of service. Circumstances and G*d see to that, in one way or another. Meher Baba's motto was "Mastery in Servitude" and such a concept was worked out thoroughly on the intellectual plane by the philosopher Hegel. I admit I would rather be the ruler than the servant, but . . .

{Thursday} {Mastery?}

Cosmic Piper


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