Sunday 28 December 2014
^Rescue^
Sun in Capricorn; Moon in Aries; Foci in 4, Home or Foundation and 9, Comprehension or Learning
Moon on course ***
A lot is brewing, percolating. Life keeps changing. In our morose moments, we find this depressing. "Nothing lasts, nothing is secure, I have to start all over again every day." In our exalted moments we love it: "I can begin again, things are fresh and new, isn't it exciting!" Let's turn to that latter mood today if we can.
Yet there is an emphasis on home, as if you wanted to make that your foundation for new beginnings. Maybe organization there will help.
There is also an emphasis on learning and on career. We are all self-taught, no matter how many courses we take or degrees we earn. You select the schools, the teachers, the gurus. You are teaching yourself.
But the teachers you have selected are also teaching you and today you may value them intensively. They become part of yourself insofar as you assimilate what is best in them (and let the rest go).
Subordination to a guru or spiritual teacher, or a technical or skills teacher, is one of the mysteries: It feels like servitude but it makes one a master. So it is like "apprenticeship" in the old days. The apprentice willingly subordinates his mind and action to the teacher in order to become a master himself.
If the teacher is an excellent teacher, but also has a bad habit such as smoking or cursing, you do not have to assimilate that--just the best.
And so learning under teachers is in itself an art form.
The hawk threatens the fledglings in the nest. Who would care
Except the birds and their mother? The man who watches
Feels helpless--desponding, watching the barren plain, the
Leaden sky, wondering how the world could be so cruel.
But brownies dance in the setting sun. They seem to know
Something built in their limbs, their hearts, their smiling
Faces. He joins in their dance, looks toward the hawks--they
Have disappeared. He drinks himself silly, then remembers--
He must work with fire-fighters to put out a blaze, using
The tools and techniques he has learned. He does it for
A lady he will see, if all goes well, when his tour
Of duty ends--kind and beautiful, gentle and entrancing.
{Sunday} ^Rescue^
Cosmic Piper
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