By Judith Gayle | Political Waves
It’s interesting how the tides of time and experience roll in and out, keeping the astrologically literate on alert no matter what’s going on in the world. Others, not so attuned to cycles, don’t pay nearly enough attention to how events on the ground are shaped, not just by circumstance but by the attitudes that make them possible. Then when our challenges come home to roost, we often feel that they have appeared out of nowhere, and — especially if they are political — beyond our ability to influence.
Motivational speaker Nido Qubein offers us a more realistic outlook when he tells us, “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” And while that is helpful advice to change the energy around our perception of being stuck or helpless, I think perhaps Qubein doesn’t go far enough. In the study of metaphysics, we learn that we live in a world of cause and effect, with cause most often first appearing in our mind as an idea, eventually becoming an act of creation that — joined with others of like mind — creates a ripple in the material world.
A Course In Miracles points out that we have no neutral thoughts, a reminder that our thought system is cause for the creation of all we see around us, with predictable result. I appreciate this explanation, from the Workbook For Students: “Everything you see is the result of your thoughts. There is no exception to this fact. Thoughts are not big or little; powerful or weak. They are merely true or false. Those that are true create their own likeness. Those that are false make theirs.”