If you have one human experience, does that mean you're human? It's not about sex. It's not about gender. It's not about love. It's about finding the experiences that lead you to who you truly are -- not straight/gay/republican/black/white/asian/blind/addicted/wealthy/famous/ ... -- who YOU truly ARE.
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Yet, a tree is a being in its own right. If it falls in a forest, it makes a sound, even if no human ears are around to interpret those soundwaves. Yes, for each of us our assigning of meaning is the basis of our realities, but there are realities outside of our assignments -- or so it seems to me.
If you are postulating that only a human observer can create a sound (without the observer it is merely vibration, not interpreted), this seems solipsistic at best. It is denying the objective reality of that which we do not interpret. Even if we postulate sound as being vibration that is "heard" by living ears, no human need be present. It seems to me more like an argument for a totally subjective world -- it only exists because I bring it into existence by my mental construction -- in which case, only I would exist, you being merely a construct of my mind. This may be the case. What do I know?
If we are postulating a multi-subjective world co-created by a kind of group consciousness, then we have created this objective world to which we all agree. Then, we would, I would like to think since it is what I tend to do, have logical frames in which our co-created world exists, thus the tree falling (postulating that co-created tree in that co-created forest) would always make a sound, unless, of course, our co-created frame instructions say: only the presence of human sensory equipment can make "sound" occur. I don't say that. If I am part of the co-creators, trees in humanless forests make sounds when falling.
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Never having learned to be socially comfortable, I have learned to be quite comfortable with myself. I can be so amusing, comforting, understanding. I even like all the same things. However, I do feel I am missing out by not socializing as is the norm. This is not about loneliness, but about the advantages it is assumed one has by virtue of being part of a social community. Social networking, acquiring information, sharing resources, having others with whom to collaborate on projects or who have projects which would be of interest, etc., come fairly unobtrusively to those in that world, but are more of a challenge without it.
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It made me think. The conceptualization membranes or frames that we place around our world views allow us our individual tools for creating meaning. Thus, for those of us whose frame is astrologically colored, astrology truly does provide a usefully meaningful system of categorization and metaphoric sense. We do not owe any proof to those whose frames are not ours. There is so very much to know and see in our multiverse. Individual framing allows for a greater diversification of views.
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Feel your power. Move strongly into your center and wrap your fears up in that power of your pure essence. Feel the strength. Look directly into the creep's eyes with that pure blazing power, then dismiss them from your sight (though you might want to keep a peripheral look out in case they're not yet convinced).
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Faith doesn't do it for me, or, rather I have faith/trust issues which run too deep for me to let myself go there. What I am working with is co-creation and personal relationship with the small coterie of goddesses I consider family.
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Just like in learning any language, one picks it up from the environment one is in and, perhaps, through book-learning, experimentation, interaction with others. Then, when the language has been taken in to the point where it is part of you, you can creatively find your own voice, even your own poetry.
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The thing is, just voting for the better candidate can lead to the more evil getting in if they have the party/financial backing. This is a fear based in reality. This does not mean giving up and voting for a "Kerry" when there are better people on the ballot. It does mean, that as a thinking citizen, we need to not just vote, but get out the vote for the better candidates.
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I don't follow; I co-create.
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Your words bring a response to my mind. You speak of the pleasures
of your life as somehow being less important than the pain of so
many. Yet, those very pleasures are what make the pain worthwhile.
No, not worthwhile. The pain hurts. The incredibly vast amount of
pain experienced throughout the planet, by other humans and other
lifeforms, it is about so many things. We could dwell on that
forever, trying to make sense of tragedy, trying to somehow fill a
poisoned well with the water of our tears. Maybe that is how we
perceive "compassion" our commonality and the need to be a part of
that pain. But though there is great potential for pain in life,
life is not about pain. Life is about living in joyous realization
of greater potentials. Life is totally about the "little" moments,
bit by bit as they aggregate. Each and every pleasure, openness to
joy, is accruing there towards a tipping point of joy. I am not
saying do not care, do not do what you can to ease the pain, do not
open your heart/mind/soul toward finding better ways for all of us
to be alive. I am saying that finding those ways are better served
if you are totally alive to those moments of opening ecstatic Life
that move us all toward more bouyant being.
of your life as somehow being less important than the pain of so
many. Yet, those very pleasures are what make the pain worthwhile.
No, not worthwhile. The pain hurts. The incredibly vast amount of
pain experienced throughout the planet, by other humans and other
lifeforms, it is about so many things. We could dwell on that
forever, trying to make sense of tragedy, trying to somehow fill a
poisoned well with the water of our tears. Maybe that is how we
perceive "compassion" our commonality and the need to be a part of
that pain. But though there is great potential for pain in life,
life is not about pain. Life is about living in joyous realization
of greater potentials. Life is totally about the "little" moments,
bit by bit as they aggregate. Each and every pleasure, openness to
joy, is accruing there towards a tipping point of joy. I am not
saying do not care, do not do what you can to ease the pain, do not
open your heart/mind/soul toward finding better ways for all of us
to be alive. I am saying that finding those ways are better served
if you are totally alive to those moments of opening ecstatic Life
that move us all toward more bouyant being.
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If we are talking about the astrology of fear, I believe that is the province of Saturn. And what is Saturn's role -- not to scare us to death but to give us pause, caution, learning from pain to keep your hands off that hot stove. Fear is a warning. It is not a barrier unless we use it as such. Saturn's barriers are there to be our ultimate friends, to teach us, not really to control -- more like a good parent sets rules/barriers to give us a useful structure in which to grow. Then, when the lessons have been learned, we are free to use them as best suits us. So, fear is not our enemy, but our concerned friend. We are grateful for our friend's concern, and listen to the warning. Then, we decide how to proceed. As they say courage is not about a lack of fear, but about fearing and acting anyway.
As far as the most painful emotion, that would be grief. I believe that is in the province of Pluto.
As far as the most painful emotion, that would be grief. I believe that is in the province of Pluto.
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You have no conception
of the enormity
of the tribulation of constraint
I am melting, melting,
unable to hold any semblance together
heat death of my persona
in the scorching eye
Ionospheric rhapsody
my only hope of salvation
my only ecstatic dissolution
You, the mere possibility of you
not a flea-spit
not worth my mind.
of the enormity
of the tribulation of constraint
I am melting, melting,
unable to hold any semblance together
heat death of my persona
in the scorching eye
Ionospheric rhapsody
my only hope of salvation
my only ecstatic dissolution
You, the mere possibility of you
not a flea-spit
not worth my mind.
June 8, 2007
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Sun in Cap. opp. Uranus in Cancer, t-squared to Moonconj.Saturn in Libra. Maybe it's the Chiron rising, but I'm always on the opposite side, taking the alternative view.
My Cap. Sun is intercepted in the 1st H, Cancer Uranus in the 7th. I am independent/self-contained. Why? Because I could never trust anyone to take care of me. I am iconoclastic, because the old order doesn't work for me.
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as a threshold dweller I am discovering that I have free passage to any world as I choose
I'm not keeping any gates. If anything, I am doing my best to dissolve the walls
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Our voice is the one that sings us lullabies
in the darkest aloneness of our soul.
Our voice is the cautious whisper that warns
of precipices and sharp rocks ahead
while, sotto voce still urging us onward to glory.
Our voice tells us what is true in the most gossamer of fantasies.
Our voice holds a question within an answer within a conundrum
and gives us a reason to reach into unreasonable song.
in the darkest aloneness of our soul.
Our voice is the cautious whisper that warns
of precipices and sharp rocks ahead
while, sotto voce still urging us onward to glory.
Our voice tells us what is true in the most gossamer of fantasies.
Our voice holds a question within an answer within a conundrum
and gives us a reason to reach into unreasonable song.
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Sun, June 24, 2007 - 12:15 AM
Teetering, exchanging the lifeforce, expecting, exacting
Change is everlasting, ever exhausting, again and again.
Two worlds. Two out of infinite diversification.
Directions, they move out of mixed coordinates,
exchange everlasting worlds diversely moving
center exploding
direction changing as diverse coordinates
move again and again
tipping the axis
spinning worlds collide
after disaster
moving in infinite direction
loosing the definition
creating change.
Change is everlasting, ever exhausting, again and again.
Two worlds. Two out of infinite diversification.
Directions, they move out of mixed coordinates,
exchange everlasting worlds diversely moving
center exploding
direction changing as diverse coordinates
move again and again
tipping the axis
spinning worlds collide
after disaster
moving in infinite direction
loosing the definition
creating change.
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Transgressions
Sun, July 1, 2007 - 2:04 PM
But what is this "bad"? Isn't it all a matter of framing? An act said to be bad in some instances may well be wonderfully good in others; or not of any note at all. Yesterday on Tim Russert there was a discussion of religion in regard to Christopher Hitchens' book against God. He brought up the point that there are a great many truly evil acts done only because of interpretations of God's will, which, of course, mere humans can never truly know. So, even were it some God's will that such evil be done, we are not required to do it. We can choose another path. Yet, is that path objectively good or evil? Or separate from some "moral order" we can each still decide our own definitions and act accordingly -- according to our own goals. Does good or bad exist outside accepted "interpretations"?
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grand trines don't make people anything
how do You use the energy -- air, is it then, laziness or a greater interest in thinking than doing, or with Moon/Venus/Pluto perhaps transformative emotional relationships which in air give rise to thoughtful expression? Action is not all about physical work, you know.
how do You use the energy -- air, is it then, laziness or a greater interest in thinking than doing, or with Moon/Venus/Pluto perhaps transformative emotional relationships which in air give rise to thoughtful expression? Action is not all about physical work, you know.
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being less intense or idealistic would be me trying to be someone else -- a hopeless project I would think. What's wrong with being intense and idealistic? How else does one effect anything real? Why wouldn't we be able to easily be drawn to others who are so intense and idealistic? Wouldn't be all be happier and more effective in partnership with even more of that magical energy?
Perhaps if you are drawn to relationships with those who do not appreciate your most precious virtues, that is a personal lesson plan to work upon?
Perhaps if you are drawn to relationships with those who do not appreciate your most precious virtues, that is a personal lesson plan to work upon?
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We may well be all that is, in congregate certainly. That hardly precludes wanting all that is to be a different all, which is fine because all is always expanding. Difficulties, perceived needs, hungers, are all part of all that is. It seems to be about a balancing game as well as other entertainments. We perceive, we experience, we want, we move toward our goal, even knowing it is never THE goal, but a goalpost to help demarcate where we have been.
As far as being paid for spiritual service -- let your inner voice be your guide. Some may be charged to charge for those in their milieu; others may be charged to give their blessings freely as part of some inner direction or as the next move in the relationships forming around that knowledge. It's not a fine line, but always a continuum and where we each may find ourselves in our paths' intersections.
As far as being paid for spiritual service -- let your inner voice be your guide. Some may be charged to charge for those in their milieu; others may be charged to give their blessings freely as part of some inner direction or as the next move in the relationships forming around that knowledge. It's not a fine line, but always a continuum and where we each may find ourselves in our paths' intersections.
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Under Solstice
Being
in touch
with natural rhythms.
Being
evolving
in motion
with greater cycles
time through space.
Do worlds collide?
Do stars expand
into tragic brilliance?
Do simple little thought-streams
change worlds and consciousness?
Very early in the day
just beyond the penumbra
of night times
clash the dream with the real.
That color so enriches
my palette.
(c) June 20, 2007 Laurie Corzett/libramoon
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