Forecast for Sunday 25 October 2015

Sunday 25 October 2015

^Ready for Something Real^

Moon in Aries   **

This report is being posted later than usual because during the time I would have written it I was at a meeting of the Washington State Astrological Association. The moon was void-of-course through the meeting. It was a good one but rather scattered, with people talking at loose ends and the direction of the discussion rather unclear. I was able to guess that a newcomer to the meeting was probably in the earth signs, and it turned out that he had Taurus rising and the sun in Virgo. Before he told us that I said that I was sensing Virgo rather strongly--it was from his face and the way he spoke and moved his head. If one keeps on observing people closely, knowing their signs, reads a few things available on physical types (Marc Edmund Jones's Astrology, How and Why it Works is one of the best), one can pick up a sense of what signs are predominant in someone's horoscope. I scored rather high tonight by guessing first earth signs for this gentleman and then centering on Virgo before he told me anything about his chart.

I'm giving Sunday only two stars because of lunar aspects, although it could be a good day for steady progress in something which interests you. We have escaped the Dark Hermetic Epoch until December 19, and the moon in Aries is waxing. It could be a good day to get some important things done.

The moon conjoined Uranus in Aries is somewhat insistent on its own way, on 

rebelling against anything holding one back or anyone who disagrees with one's program. But the trines of the sun with Neptune, and of Jupiter-Venus-Mars with Pluto, are friendly and upbuilding. 

So maybe we can turn this into a three-star day. 

I feel as if I am fighting the culture around me when I speak of G*d, since all the self-described "intelligent" people think that they are smarter than G*d to the point that they deny His existence. To me this is a complete lack of understanding of what the word even means. If one knows what the word God really means it is impossible to deny His existence. Understanding the concept which leads to the reality of a connection with the Supreme guarantees that one "believes in" the One who is the Sole Existent and also the Supreme one, that is, transcendent of all existences while including all of them. That this supreme being is also conscious and personal is a stumbling block to a lot of people who think that "science and technology" are the only God. (What science and technology could there be without the consciousness upholding them and upholding those who created them?) Here is something I would like them to ponder from Sri Aurobindo, who in his voluminous writings has explained Who God Is better than anyone I know of (and I have studied philosophy and comparative religion since the age of ten):

"The Divine is a Being and not an abstract existence or a status of pure timeless infinity; the original and universal existence is He, but that existence is inseparable from consciousness and bliss of being, and an existence conscious of its own being and its own bliss is what we may well call a divine infinite Person,--Purusha."

That is almost the crux of the matter. It amazes me that the so-called intelligentsia are not intelligent enough to get this.  Sri Aurobindo goes on:

"Moreover all consciousness implies power, Shakti; where there is infinite consciousness of being, there is infinite power of being, and by that power all exists in the universe. All beings exist by this Being; all things are the faces of God; all thought and action and feeling and love proceed from him and return to him, all their results have him for source and support and secret goal. It is to this Godhead, this Being that the Bhakti [devotion] of an integral Yoga will be poured out and uplifted. Transcendent, it will seek him in the ecstasy of an absolute union; universal, it will seek him in infinite quality and every aspect and in all beings with  a universal delight and love; individual, it will enter into all human relations with him that love creates between person and person." 

--from "The Mystery of Love" in The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 574.

{Sunday}  ^Ready for Something Real^

Cosmic Piper