Message for Thursday 29 February 2024 ~Contentment as Therapy~

Message for Thursday 29 February 2024

~Contentment as Therapy~

I've been listening to Abigail Shrier talk with Joe Rogan about 'bad therapy' for children and adults. One facet of it is this: Sometimes the 'therapee' could be better off not talking and thinking about his or her problems all the time. That is relevant to today's forecast, because the day looks genuinely difficult to me, but I don't want to hurt anyone by making them overly worried or needlessly introspective. There, I gave a warning.

Both the aspects and the symbols are rather harsh, which means we need to transcend or 'rise above' whatever they are pointing to in our individual situation. 

'A man is lying prone upon a bed of sickness.' Rather than being sympathetic, Sepharial implies that this person is 'cramped and warped by egotism and selfish indulgence' and not getting 'adequate exercise.' Or, he admits, in some cases it might be 'only a physical malady requiring rest.' We ought to beware of embodying the keyword, Apathy. 

Or, he might be lying there and having auto-erotic fantasies, says Charubel. 'A naked man has a serpent coiled around the lower part of the body.' 'A vicious degree, denoting one subject to filthy habits and deeds; he should "Know himself" and seek to conquer his evil nature.' We're in a more permissive era these days, but still, there are wisely virtuous limits in most individuals' self-mentoring.

Thoughts of death, and fear of it or even desire for it, occur more often, obviously, than the event itself. This could be one of those days. 'The ascendant enveloped in gloom and blackness' is 'the degree of death.' Charubel advises that we 'devote energies to the spiritual side of [our] nature. Here [we] may find comfort, even when walking through the way where the shades of death abound.' Possibly you will think of some who are 'on the other side' or who seem to be approaching readiness for that. 

Yet life goes on. 'A fork or farmyard implement with four prongs' indicates 'a laborious person, very unambitious, a useful member of society ever content with his present lot.' This, according to Shrier and Rogan, may be much better than going to a therapist. 

Still, there is always 'more' if we choose to reach for it. 'A fixed star or transcendental sun sheds a halo of supernal glory on the ascendant.' There is unexplainable psychic power. The brilliant gifts of many 'are not appreciated or understood by the present world.' Yet the life of such a personage 'will be long on the earth and its influence extend to future generations.' 

{Thursday} ~Contentment as Therapy~

Cosmic Piper

Moon in Scorpio

< moon remains in the Via Combusta until tomorrow morning. ('Cosmic reshuffling' may be coincident more or less with what was outlined in the preceding paragraphs.)