Tuesday 12 October 2021
\Holding Steady with Values/
Moon in Capricorn
Challenge: In spiritual teachings, we are sometimes instructed that we have to "bear" or "endure" experiences and tasks we don't particularly enjoy. I have never enjoyed hearing such instruction, yet over the years it has helped me calm down and be more patient. Today we have "a mill-wheel driven by the wind" signifying an ingenious, inventive mind studying useful arts, but yielding to imposition, handing over the fruits of its labor without gaining much credit, remuneration or respect. (I have been reading about the writer of the first 22 Hardy Boys mystery-adventure novels, Charles Leslie McFarlane, pen name Franklin W. Dixon, who was paid a measly $85 per complete novel in the 1920s and 1930s, and forbidden by contract to reveal his identity!) "A Jewish rabbi" might suffer a similar fate if he feels he might have had more prestige and income in a different job rather than what his congregation is willing to give him. However, he brings them a deeper understanding of eternal values and confirms them in their resplendent heritage, and that is payment enough.
Process: "A man viewing himself in a looking-glass" is vain, perhaps without realizing it, or devotes his energies to vain pursuits. "A man robed as a priest standing in the cloister beneath the light of a window" is quiet, peaceful, and secluded, and any of us might welcome such a stance while Mercury Retrograde confuses many matters. Like the rabbi, the priest puts inner values over outer, gaining protection and favor from those in high positions.
Blessing: On a lighter level we have "a game of cricket." Games can be a good diversion during the slow-Mercury phases because not much is at stake, "it's just a game." It's simply a matter of holding steady to good sportsmanship, lose or win. A team sport brings out skill in co-operation. "The sun shining brightly" is favorable, denoting "a public character; one who will be noted in his day and whose presence among mankind will be considered essential. The world will ever appreciate the presence of such an one."
{Tuesday} /Holding Steady with Values\
Cosmic Piper
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