\Sophistication/
I am amazed at the relevance and power of Swami Sri Sathya Sai Baba's words. They knock me over. Here is something which makes me feel I don't know at all how to live or to speak:
Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech. That will help you in many ways. It will develop unconditional love (prema), for most misunderstandings and factions arise out of carelessly spoken words. When the foot slips, the wound can be healed, but when the tongue slips, the wound it causes in the heart of another will fester for life. The tongue is liable to four big errors: uttering falsehood, scandalizing, finding fault with others, and excessive articulation. These have to be avoided if there has to be peace (shanti) for the individual as well as for society. The bond of universal brotherhood will be tightened if people speak less and speak sweet. Hence, silence was prescribed as a vow for spiritual aspirants by the spiritual texts. You are all spiritual aspirants at various stages of the road, so this discipline is valuable for you also.
Moon in Taurus
/moon goes void-of-course at 9:26p PT | 0:26a(W) ET | 4:26a(W) UT
Money remains a major focus. This might mean calculating your prospects along certain lines, or payments and receipts, or investments. The details are complex but interesting.
If there is a feeling of heaviness, it could be "heavy karma" because of the seven septiles and biseptiles and triseptiles remaining. This is facing things which seem slow to resolve. Of course patience is a large part of the answer.
To be open to opportunities, even when the person connected with the opportunity is suffering, is a key.
Entertainment may be suffused with a sense of duty or restriction. Entertainment can be healing for both entertainer and entertained.
Gay youthfulness and amusement are wanting to come out. Yet there are dilapidated conditions, a sense of futility: a coal mine defunct and dangerous. We have to make fun of some things when we can't change them; wink at them and put on a hat, bonnet or necklace to show we are more sophisticated than any embarrassment.
There is beauty and charm; natural endowments are displayed. Yet, more seriously, people want to emulate someone who has skill as well as charm so they can rise beyond some childishness or other they have become aware of in themselves. People clown and make fun of themselves in order to release anxiety but also to sense a more realistic path.
Some of the symbols of Signor Borelli seem distinctively 19th-century in their morality: A wolf following a sheep along a secluded pathway. Deception and seduction. It seems that we have risen above that, or perhaps we are just more successful in disguising it? Are you the wolf or the sheep? Or both in differing contexts? The philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre was born with the sun at this degree (last degree of Gemini) and though he was not good-looking, the deep scarred intellectual framed in glasses, he wrote some amazingly illuminating philosophy about the dialectic of sexual enticement. Perhaps we need to let ourselves recuperate from too-deep involvements or worries. Then, in accord with the "mysterious philosopher" archetype Sartre embodied, we can be "a venerable person seated in uncertain light; before him are some books, and surrounding him various scientific instruments." We are inclined to solitariness, but sought after by friends, although we seek none, wrapped in our mystery. We see what is darkness to others, but do not use that vision to take advantage of them.
{Tuesday} /Sophistication\
Cosmic Piper
Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech. That will help you in many ways. It will develop unconditional love (prema), for most misunderstandings and factions arise out of carelessly spoken words. When the foot slips, the wound can be healed, but when the tongue slips, the wound it causes in the heart of another will fester for life. The tongue is liable to four big errors: uttering falsehood, scandalizing, finding fault with others, and excessive articulation. These have to be avoided if there has to be peace (shanti) for the individual as well as for society. The bond of universal brotherhood will be tightened if people speak less and speak sweet. Hence, silence was prescribed as a vow for spiritual aspirants by the spiritual texts. You are all spiritual aspirants at various stages of the road, so this discipline is valuable for you also.
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