Thursday 22 July 2021
\Leonine Dignity/
Moon in Capricorn
The sun enters Leo at 7:28a PT | 10:28a ET | 2:28p UT
Challenge: The selection from Sai Baba posted below makes clear that putting one's trust in riches is not the path to peace, as Jesus also taught. It's not that poverty ought to be sought, either, but that one needs to place one's values where they cannot be injured by shifts of fortune. Even some atheistic yet steady and grave individuals have embodied such an attitude. Others refuse to accept any thwarting of their desires, and we have 'a case of apoplexy.' A lack of inhibition brings on irresistible creativity and insistence on manifesting one's possibilities. Is Sai Baba right, or the apoplectic? Even Sai Baba has spoken of 'Sankalpa' or the Divine Will certain to manifest. As a philosopher I demur and defer to your judgment.
Process: Mars opposite Jupiter, getting stronger (exact the last few days of July and early August), is said by CEO Carter to be the most difficult aspect of all. It can be warlike--it was beginning by a ten-degree orb on 9/11/2001, and preparations for war began immediately. Of course it does not have to be that way. We have ''a man peeping around a corner at a company of armed men, who are reconnoitering.' This could be those in the U. S. and elsewhere who are increasingly wary of the Chinese Communist Party, for example. Charubel speaks of one who will suffer many trials or reverses of fortune but could 'leave behind a name on the pages of history.' He is involved in the life of the people and forgotten, but emerges eventually. The symbol is 'an obelisk.'
Blessing: It's the first day of the month of Leo and 'There stands a lion upon an elevation looking toward a rising sun.' Each of us manifests dignity in his or her own way. There is self-reliance, fearlessness, nobility and freedom of nature. If the heart is kind, all goes well through self-control plus government of others. When such confidence is raised to a spiritual level we have 'a large white cross upraised.' This can be 'utterly selfless enlistment in some dramatic service for the ultimate welfare of mankind.' Moral courage and psychological fearlessness are 'a corrective for the maladjustments of individual and society.'
{Thursday} /Leonine Dignity\
Cosmic Piper
The winning of a desired object and the satisfaction one then gets should not be confused with peace. The peace that has pervaded the heart must not be shaken subsequently for any reason; only that type of peace (shanti) deserves to be called supreme peace (prasanthi). Supreme peace has no ups and downs; it cannot be partial in adversity and complete in prosperity. It cannot be one thing today and another tomorrow. Always maintaining the same even flow of bliss (ananda), that is supreme peace.
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