{"id":25753,"date":"2010-06-05T13:29:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T18:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=25753"},"modified":"2010-06-05T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T18:30:12","slug":"find-your-spiritual-feet-ecology-astrology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/find-your-spiritual-feet-ecology-astrology\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Your Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Amanda Painter<\/strong><\/p>\n

There’s been a lot of talk here at Planet Waves and throughout the media spheres about all kinds of big things: overwhelming man-made environmental disasters, dizzying economic disasters, brazen humanitarian efforts with big, disastrous reactions.<\/p>\n

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There is formidable astrology afoot and large chunks of the population walking around like zombies. The pace and visibility and directness of actions taken by people to shake things up and grab attention are all increasing. And let’s face it: all lot of us may be feeling a bit left in the dust, a bit paralyzed, a bit in despair that we’ll ever be able to do anything that “really makes a difference.” <\/p>\n

Maybe we’re even feeling a bit reluctant to try and a little bit guilty about that.<\/p>\n

Then again, we may not all have to feel up to jumping aboard a blockade-bound ship, or chaining ourselves to the White House fence covered in faux crude. Not all of us have fame to give us a leg up in making a statement and many of us do not want fame and its burdens and responsibilities despite the potential it carries. But there are other ways to make a statement, other ways to participate and support those who do act in big ways.<\/p>\n

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This is where reinventing our relationship to ourselves and then our other personal relationships can have greater meaning. It’s the only real starting point we have; nobody learns to walk without first finding their feet. Surely you’ve seen many babies do this: they literally “discover” their feet, say hello to them, take hold of them, chew on them a little; eventually they start to trust them to hold their weight, and then to move them forward with greater and greater speed and over ever-more-uneven terrain. They begin grasping the concept between desire and volition, and that the relationship is completely internal, completely under their own control.<\/p>\n

This is what we have to do now, as adults in this hell-bent world of ours, but in a more accelerated and perhaps less concrete or obvious fashion: we have to find our spiritual feet, say hello to them, trust them to hold our weight, and finally accept that the relationship between desire and volition must be internal first before we go running to save the world or to welcome another in a loving embrace. It’s going to require a fair amount of getting out of our own way to be able to go with the flow of this newfound relationship. Not all of us are well-practiced in that, but that does not make the assignment hopeless.<\/p>\n

The recent Tarot spread for the Taurus Audio made mention of the necessity of being a self-contained spiritual seeker in order for relationships to grow and move forward and really flourish. It seems good advice for everyone regardless of sign; the first step to engaging with the world, one relationship at a time. It’s just another way of saying, “find your feet.”<\/p>\n

So: find your feet, smile in the mirror, and then smile without fear at the next stranger you see on the sidewalk. Find your feet and ask your neighbor to go in on a CSA share with you at a local farm. Find your feet and let yourself fully feel that crush you have on your coworker without guilt. Find your feet and acknowledge at least one part of your partner’s sexual reality that does not include you. Find your feet and comment on that blog you’ve been lurking at for months, or write your own letter from scratch to a legislator or an editor. Find your feet and the next time you find yourself in a truly meaningful conversation with a stranger on a plane or waiting in line somewhere, exchange contact info and then actually use it<\/em> to continue the conversation.<\/p>\n

Find your feet and show up at that rally\/protest\/fundraiser even if you don’t know anyone else who’s going. Find your feet and accept that that creative urge you keep having really is yours and really is worth following through on.<\/p>\n

Find your feet and who knows: by the time you may be faced with anything truly daring, you may have reached sufficient velocity and agility that as far as you can tell, you’re just taking the next logical step. Very likely you will be in the midst of an entire tribe doing the same. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Amanda Painter There’s been a lot of talk here at Planet Waves and throughout the media spheres about all kinds of big things: overwhelming man-made environmental disasters, dizzying economic disasters, brazen humanitarian efforts with big, disastrous reactions. There is formidable astrology afoot and large chunks of the population walking around like zombies. The pace … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}