Wednesday 28 October 2015
\Patient Resolve/
Moon in Taurus
|Karmically intense or sobering third| of this week continues (until Friday) ** |
/moon goes void-of-course at 8:21a PT | 11:21a ET | 3:21p UT * / |
But one Scorpio friend is being very heroic at this time: For four days now he has stopped smoking. He does not follow astrology so did not even know, most likely, that the sun entered Scorpio a day before his resolve to stop. But this shows the enormous will-power of Scorpio. An astrologer friend remarked to me recently that Scorpio people have an enormous resolve, once they have decided to do something or change a habit. So it is proving with my younger friend. I am proud of him.
So all of us might be facing something we want to conquer in ourselves with that sort of self-discipline and fortitude. At first it seems hard, as if we were taking something from ourselves or even all the joy of life. Then, as we persist in spite of our feeling of deprivation, things get better and we eventually wonder why we hadn't made that salutary change earlier.
Maybe it is in Scorpio, which ends just before Thanksgiving every year, that we ought to make our "resolutions" rather than on January 1. This time, I am noticing in myself that I feel "down" every day until I face some issue and resolve to conquer it, or get something done I have been postponing. The voice of conscience and rectitude is loud and clear in Scorpio. Scorpio sees into cause and effect, and senses the consequences of failing to shape up, and so is able to be firm.
This one-star day is good for continuing with whatever has been revealed to you as the new or revised trend in your life since last weekend. For me it is a "slow but sure" process. For my friend who has stopped life-long drinking and smoking habits, it is a whole different set of daily patterns. That is not easy. While the moon is v-of-c and we are in the |difficult third| we might be tempted to slip away from what we know is best for us. Yet there are possibilities of good fortune today. Uranus "under attack" by five hard aspects suggests a lot of impatience. We need to be calm and assert ourselves not through arrogant attacks on anyone but through self-reliance. The sufferings of others mix with our own and require healing.
{Wednesday} /Patient Resolve\
Cosmic Piper
P. S. Sri Aurobindo Spoke often of God as "he" but just as often of the Divine Mother. He used often the term "the Divine" so that any implication of sex could be avoided. Here is a wonderful passage in which he describes one of the four major aspects of The Divine Mother, Maheshwari:
"Imperial Maheshwari is seated in the wideness above the thinking mind and will and sublimates and greatens them into wisdom and largeness or floods with a splendour beyond them. For she is the mighty and wise One who opens us to the supramental infinities and the cosmic vastness, to the grandeur of the supreme Light, to a treasure-house of miraculous knowledge, to the measureless movement of the Mother's eternal forces. Tranquil is she and wonderful, great and calm for ever. Nothing can move her because all wisdom is in her; nothing is hidden from her that she chooses to know; she comprehends all things and all beings and their nature and what moves them and the law of the world and its times and how all was and is and must be. A strength is in her that meets everything and masters, and none can prevail in the end against her vast and intangible wisdom and high tranquil power. Equal, patient, unalterable in her will she deals with men according to their nature and with things and happenings according to their Force and the truth that is in them. Partiality she has none, but she follows the decrees of the Supreme and some she raises up and some she casts down or puts away from her into the darkness. To the wise she gives a greater and more luminous wisdom; those that have vision she admits to her counsels; on the hostile she imposes the consequence of their hostility; the ignorant and foolish she leads according to their blindness. In each man she answers and handles the different elements of his nature according to their need and their urge and the return they call for, puts on them the required pressure or leaves them to their cherished liberty to prosper in the ways of the Ignorance or to perish. For she is above all, bound by nothing, attached to nothing in the universe. Yet has she more than any other the heart of the universal Mother. For her compassion is endless and inexhaustible; all are to her eyes her children and portions of the One, even the Asura and Rakshasa and Pisacha and those that are revolted and hostile. Even her rejections are only a postponement, even her punishments are a grace. But her compassion does not blind her wisdom or turn her action from the course decreed; for the Truth of things is her one concern, knowledge her centre of power and to build our soul and our nature into the divine Truth her mission and her labour." --Sri Aurobindo, The Mother
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