Sunday 26 July 2015
^Self-Fulfilling Sacrifice^
Moon in Scorpio-->Sagittarius
/moon goes void-of-course at 2:16a PT | 5:16a PT | 9:16a UT
until it enters Sagittarius at 5:26a PT | 8:26a ET | 12:26p UT
|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues all day
Study and finance get harmonious support.
Relationships are murky. Maybe you don't understand each other, or maybe you don't even want to make the effort to try at this point--you just want to give each other "space." That is probably just fine.
I have noticed how karma from the past is affecting us, keeping us alert to whatever in our past lives is still a factor which limits us, so that we can rise beyond it or conquer wrong tendencies by becoming aware of them.
For example, yesterday I spent a long time reading about and pondering the current intense emotions people in China and Korea are feeling toward Japan, which humiliated and hurt them terribly before and during World War II. This might seem like "old stuff" but it has a current heavy impact on the relations among these nations and also on US relations to each of them. Problems arise from the current attitude of the Japanese head of state, Abe, who refuses to make any further apologies for Japanese atrocities at that time and is seen as a nationalist trying to vamp up Japan's military. This is "heavy karma" stemming from wrong-doing of an obvious sort--for example, the thousands of women from South Korea inducted into being "sex slaves" for the Japanese during WWII. In my own life and your own life we may detect similar wrongs from our pasts which we need to reconsider and know how to face or rectify them.
The TV series "Rectify", by the way, is excellent, one of the best series I have ever seen. It is entertaining as well as very thoughtful, ethical, and profound.
Saturday night, deciding not to go out and waste money at an astrologically unpropitious time, I stayed home and watched a couple of TV shows on Netflix. Both involved the nobility of sacrifice. I was surprised at how intense and actually profound they were. It seems that "sacrifice" of our own desires for the sake of someone else is a trend of the current time. (Even when we choose what to watch as entertainment, we choose according to the current astrological trends, whether we know that or not. I did not know at all, but so it was.) As I have said repeatedly, the sacrificial trend is Venus and Jupiter both square Saturn. It will be with us until August 22. As Sri Aurobindo has said (and Jesus also for those who know how to read the Gospels, not very many), the Supreme Lord himself is the Lord of the Sacrifice and our sacrifice must be to Him or Her primarily, not to a human being except secondarily. That may sound hard to understand but not so in practice if one is sincere. Yet in the TV series, of course it was not G*d but a human being who was the recipient of the sacrifice, in one case the young son of a boxer who sacrificed his life for the sake of his son. (The Netflix-Marvel series "Daredevil.")
We are part of something larger than ourselves. It is not easy to transcend the limited ego which wants just what it wants regardless of anyone else. I don't think I really do it very often, although I try. Fortunately it does not always require a sacrifice which diminishes us or causes loss for us, but a sacrifice of our triviality for the sake of someone or some cause we believe in which fulfills us more than if we had held back.
{Sunday} ^Self-Fulfilling Sacrifice^
Cosmic Piper
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