Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Message for Thursday 24 August 2017

Thursday 24 August 2017

}Protecting Sanity{

Moon in Libra

We need to protect our sanity, and we need protective sanity. That is partly because Mercury is retrograde. It began on August 12, the very day of the Charlottesville incidents. And people have been going berserk. Just because others around you seem to be losing it, you do not have to. I shall not repeat my commentaries on the crazy politics of it. But at these times we get embroiled in too much, worry too much, and need to cut back and find our own proper, more narrow pathway, preferably one with which we are familiar and in which we are competent. 

The water-wheel turns in the stream running through the ashram.
The Master sits at his window above. He ponders the political
Situation, a threat to his nation. He weighs the value of contradictory
Courses, consults horoscopes, watches the wheel turn.

Men from the army consult him. They have peered and peeped  at the
Enemy, measured strategies, reconnoitered. Something audacious?
The guru was a bareback rider in his youth. But the general is solemn,
Raised from poverty, agnostic and grave. He does not look hopeful.

He was not qualified for all his positions. He sees the stream
As a dry riverbed, the wheel as a broken bridge. 
Too often he has felt tethered, as a horse fearing attack
By a tiger. The guru commiserates. He senses an answer.

He founded a school of yoga, not a military academy.
But he removes the general's fears and he sees a way.

{Thursday} {Protecting Sanity}

Cosmic Piper

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