Friends, Romans, Countrymen,
WITH THE Mars-Saturn conjunction behind us, I trust that some stuck energy has been moved and we have learned something interesting about ourselves. I find it funny how most people treat their mind like it was made of some kind of substance that cannot change. Once we humans get “set in our ways,” we might as well be set in poured concrete, which needs to be jackhammered or blasted out of the way once it’s no longer needed.
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We are made of other, more flexible stuff, however we may see or experience ourselves.
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Today’s Oracle takes us to April 13, 2007 – LIBRA – Weekly
When others reflect back to you in what seems to be the mirror of relationships, they are doing so in mirror image. We don’t often stop to consider that the so-familiar reflection that we see every morning and on every elevator is not what other people see; it is the visual opposite. In many respects the same holds true when people reflect our emotions back to us. They look and feel similar to our own; they are usually right-side up. They are a picture that we can look at and learn from. Yet more than look, I suggest you consciously strive to learn something. Don’t take on what is not yours, though I suggest you acknowledge what is.
Aspects for Friday 11 July 2008
Venus (27+ Cancer) sextile Amor (27+ Taurus)
Venus (27+ Cancer) sesquiquadrate Ixion (12+ Sagittarius Rx)
Eros (26+ Cancer) quincunx Galactic Center (26+ Sagittarius)
Atlantis (16+ Libra) sextile Juno (16+ Sagittarius Rx)
Sun (19+ Cancer) septile Amor (28+ Taurus)
Ceres (12+ Cancer) quincunx Ixion (12+ Sagittarius Rx)
Venus (28+ Cancer) septile Logos (19+ Virgo)
Mercury (1+ Cancer) square M87 (1+ Libra)
Venus (28+ Cancer) quintile Sisyphus (10+ Libra)
Sun (19+ Cancer) sextile Logos (19+ Virgo)
Mars (6+ Virgo) sextile Hidalgo (6+ Scorpio Rx)
Sun (20+ Cancer) quintile Asbolus (8+ Taurus)
“I find it funny how most people treat their mind like it was made of some kind of substance that cannot change.”
Regarding cement-like minds or people’s tendency to think they cannot change…
I remember my mom telling me as a teenager that my dad couldn’t change. That he was too old (his 50’s) and set in his ways. I remember hearing that message several times from my family that people do not change, or can’t; that was their belief system and I certainly assumed they were right.
Then I was in a situation at age 18 where the pressure was on me to change. I had just entered a young adult treatment program for people with addiction issues. One of the counselor’s there talked to me a lot about how I needed to change (yikes at the time!). I remember reading a quote similar to this one below up on the wall and working hard to digest it.
“When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change — then you will change.” I held that idea up to the words of my mom about change. There was almost a question of “won’t we break if we try to change our minds and ourselves?”
Now I smile at the irony of yes, indeed many of us do break in order to change. The first few breaks and openings were incredibly scary and shattering; it took time to reap some of the rewards but they are clear and present to me and now an assumed part of this journey for me (clearly for many of us).
My relationship with “change” has shifted over time. These last few years I breathe it in, it is familiar to me. Sometimes i experience it like a divine partner in spirit form; i often smile at it’s presence. its temperature can be warm, it’s energy integrious and firm.
peace,
Sara