Today’s Oracle takes us to the Virgo weekly of Feb. 25, 2005.
All your usual caution and reserve seems to be going out with the recycling which is where they belong. You cannot let a priority on avoiding danger or conforming to authority dominate your life and still live in a creative or spontaneous way. It’s not like you’re designing homemade rocket engines in your basement and testing them in the backyard. You are simply experimenting with being alive with making contact with your desires and with remembering that it’s never too late to be the only person who decides on your personal definition of fun. This may seem irresponsible but you are in fact responding.
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Right on Oracle. I have been experimenting with play a lot lately. I am learning fun all over again.
Oops. Sorry posted to the wrong blog entry. Blame it on the computer. JannKinz
It’s difficult in our American culture to truly separate church and state, law and religion. It’s also difficult for us to fathom the concept of a government based on religious law, yet that is what we really do have – a primarily WASP system of laws and government that is insidious because it claims to be non-religious. And as intentionally ignorant as we are about other belief traditions, we can’t and won’t see what is happening.
“Checking” one’s beliefs: checking them in a check room with your coat; checking the balance in your checking account; checking into a cheap motel or a grand hotel; checking and reviewing a check list; checking, as in a body block in hockey (with a penalty if the ref catches you).
Years ago, my eclectic spiritual advisor told me that when she was absolutely certain about something it was time to check the belief behind it, tracing it back if possible to its source. That certainty can be something thought to be true or untrue. When righteousness riles up like bile in my throat, it is time to do some checking on why that righteous certainty is felt, to determine if it is a conditioned reaction. I have learned to welcome, even create opportunity, to question the origins of “certainties.” Certainties are different than knowing something in one’s soul, one’s core; sensing the truth of something. I find a great sense of relief when I follow the threads back into my past to find that some belief had been niggling at the edge of my consciousness, waiting and wanting to be questioned. Disbelief at so much of what is flung at us does make me want to do the work to validate or refute beliefs, to find the origins if I can.
Besides, checking (in any of its forms) also serves to appease the eight hundred pound chattering grasshopper that lives on my right shoulder, persistently pestering me with either “That’s bullshit!” or (in a much weaker “voice”) “But what if it’s not bullshit?”
Thanks, Eric, for another thought provoking daily missive. JannKinz