Message for Saturday 15 August 2020

 Saturday 15 August 2020

~Appropriation Plus Contentment~

Moon in Cancer

|Karnically serious or sobering third| of this week begins at 10:45a PT | 1:45p ET | 5:45p UT (until very early Tuesday)

Worst:  "An untidy, unkempt man" could be Diogenes, the original Cynic, in his tub.  He had a point:  Disassociate yourself from worldly attachments and you will be imperturbable.  Care for nothing and nothing will bother you.  Yet at times, under the sway of mood, this individual becomes "a man playing with colored balls, an immodest woman behind him."  Then his cynical indifference to what others value could become vice.  "A dove lies upon the ground.  Over it a snake is poised in an attitude of attack."  Self-indulgence and seduction amount to self-abandon, poor Diogenes conquered by someone attracted to his nude unwashed body.  This is "the influence of a subtle fascination or a secret attachment."

Better:  Gossip is in the air.  Whose character might one be defamaming, or who might do that to oneself?  Low-level journalists have a nose for decadence.  However, one can be above all this, as if dwelling in "a farmhouse between high mountains."  A rustic country life could make some immune to the swirl of others' peccadilloes.  Instead they are content with what has fallen to them, "a green field surrounded by shrubberies, with a nice villa on the northeast side."  The best of your household environment!  Contentment seems a little-known secret.

Best:  One is not only content but alive.  "Rabbits dressed in clothes and on parade" are trying to be more than themselves through "habilitments of higher implication."  They are appropriating better things through projection into a superior dimension.  One might do this at a more tangible level, emulating someone content to accomplish rude and enduring work, such as "felling a tree" or living a woodland life of simplicity, with hard manners but a soft heart.  The physical reflects the spiritual.  What results from such rugged aspiration?  "An open window and a net curtain blowing into a cornucopia."  This is opportune munificence.  One captures rich rewards and distributes them.  We and our world are prodigal.

{Saturday}   ~Appropriation Plus Contentment~

Cosmic Piper

P. S.  For those interested in Sri Aurobindo, whose birthday is today, my birthday wishes with comments on his horoscope were posted yesterday in the report for Friday the 14th.