Living in a Bubble of Light!
By wisdom | December 20, 2011
My husband says that I live in a bubble of light up on the ceiling because I’m an optimist and I see the world growing lighter. He says it’s not, and that people always have a dark side, and will always be negative and sometimes evil.
But that’s not what I see. I’m an optimist because I see people yearning for a new or better world with less war, more sensitivity, and less aggression. I see this as a trend: The Awakening and the Lightening of the world.
In my “bubble of light”, I see other people as reflections of myself, as different flavors of God, and I love “tasting” these flavors and getting to know their differences, their uniqueness… the different ways that God is expressing itself by being people. So I send out love, and I get an amazing amount of love back. It’s not phony. It’s real. If you appreciate these different tastes, types, personalities, and tell them what’s great about them and how they’re beaming at you, well, they’ll beam gratitude and appreciation back to you. They’ll send you back an enormous amount of love, and they’ll feel joyful around you. And that’s going to be, maybe, different from the norm. They’re going to enjoy being in your company, and maybe even cherish what you’re offering.
When you work with this awareness and really, consciously, send forth that type of vibe, and realize what comes back from others by doing this – not falsely but genuinely – you’re going to find yourself living in a bubble of love! So (ha ha) you’re going to float up to the ceiling because love and light don’t like to stay bound and fettered and anchored to anything that’s tragic or dark or unpleasant.
I think this is a new skill that we’re learning. I’m glad if I can model it. But I don’t think it’s mine alone; I think it’s ancient wisdom. I think it’s just coming back to us as a tool to use in a contemporary way. And I think this is brightening the world, and therefore I’m an optimist.
So I’m going to stay in a bubble on the ceiling, with a big smile on my face. And when I meet you, I’m going to want to find out and discover just who you are. Who’s this new aspect of God that is now put on my path? And, can we play together? The answer won’t always be, yes, we can – because there’s going to be clashes, but even that’s discovery. And it doesn’t have to be painful; it just has to be educational.
Ok. That’s it for now.
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SPIRITUALIZING THE INTERNET: FACEBOOK & THE LAST OF THE NEPTUNE TRANSIT OF AQUARIUS
By wisdom | November 26, 2011
Many people have been posting slogans and graphics, posters and artwork to their Facebook page to be shared by the world. This is a natural thing, and noteworthy mainly because the content of many of these postings seems more uplifting than the usual. Even Friends of Friends on Facebook who are not in a holistic networked circle have been “infected” with the spirit of kindness! The beautiful images include many of the Earth, or from the Hubble Telescope, or the sweetness of nature, or composite images created in Photoshop or Illustrator that convey an idealized world. From where I sit, I’m interpreting these as both a yearning for a better, nicer, more Utopian world, as well as a call to action to achieve it. Postings have also represented a blending of the human race, a oneness of humanity, and a concern for the disadvantaged.
Everything described here can be corralled under the theme of spirituality: the desire for a direct experience, or a personal touch, in helping the world to reach the attractive state. This energy pattern has been in effect since January 29, 1998. During this period, Facebook itself has been metamorphosizing technologically, and has become the primary social network site. It has also morphed in flavor to reflect the soul of its members.
The fact that this spiritual idea exchange and promulgation is occurring on Facebook is a reflection of a unique astrological pattern that has been in effect for years, and is only now just completing: that is the long passage of Neptune, ruler of Pisces, traveling through Aquarius, ruler of technology and innovative science. We’re in the last phase of this energy pattern, which will end February 3, 2012, for a total of fourteen years. Neptune has done its task of bringing the fluidity and technological connectivity to people’s (ersatz) social experience. (Although Aquarius is a friendly sign, it’s not a sign of intimacy, so FB is the perfect platform to provide friendly connection without the perception of the distasteful [to some people] personal emotionality of normal entanglement.) From a distance, we can all be friends, humanitarians, seekers of peace, and wise mentors to each other.
It’s been an interesting pattern to observe. There have been other ways that cyberspace has been used more and more during this transit to further humanitarian causes, connect disparate people, champion charitable causes, and in other ways serve the planet from, if not always a clear and fully enlightened perspective, at least a heartfelt one. Even if the world is chaotic, on FB all is becoming ever more beautiful!
Cheers for the last passage of Neptune through Aquarius, and cheers for its prior journey of mutual reception with Uranus (having ended March 12, 2011) as it serves the higher calling/cause/task of bringing forth the New Human – a more illuminated and empathetic creature! Who would’ve thought that combining technology and vision would bring about a beautiful cyberspace world!
What can we expect when Neptune enters its own sign, Pisces, and floods us with even more oceanic connectivity and compassion? It should be interesting! Maybe we can bring cyber-paradise down to earth.
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America: Down and Out… or The Phoenix?
By wisdom | October 19, 2011
We’re certainly living in interesting times, with Pluto opposing the U.S. planets, and Uranus squaring, and Mars having recently conjuncted, and Saturn having finished squaring (not quite done with our natal Mercury/Fortuna/progressed Node). Challenging is more likely a right word.
We have a weak and possibly corrupt administration; we have people beginning to demonstrate against the system – an opposite thrust from the Tea Party, but just as powerful on the progressive Uranian side; we have schisms in government, in Congress, that have almost paralyzed the country; and we have a stagnant economic picture. Nor does any of this even touch upon foreign affairs in the challenges that are springing up from tyrants with nuclear arms, governments in disarray, with liberation movements in the Arab world, with economic collapse in Europe, and with Israel’s eternal struggle for survival.
So what does astrology have to say about all of this?
Pluto against the U.S. planets represents a cleansing. In Capricorn, this conservative trend is demanding accountability for expenditures, limitations on entitlements and excess, and budget tightening in institutions as well as households. Pluto tends to dredge up everything that’s ugly – corrupt, subversive, dirty – but in bringing it into the light, it gives the opportunity to clean things up. “Sunlight is a great detergent.” When you open a can of worms, at least you can trash the dirt and clean the can! It’s an apt metaphor because when Pluto uncovers the junk, the most likely reaction is revulsion and disgust. Pluto is hovering around the first few degrees of Capricorn, and the U.S. Cancerian natal planets opposite it begin at 3 degrees with Venus. Venus always makes reference to finances and pleasures, and in the U.S. chart it’s an important planet as it rules the Midheaven and H6 – this goes directly to the economy. Next comes Jupiter, the U.S. Sibley’s chart ruler. Natally Pluto comes from the money house, H2, so we’re really being asked to focus on the ills in the economy as well as unhealthy dependencies on others – other nations, such as China – or excessive expenditures against our enemies, these planets being in H7.
Pluto oppositions also call for huge power struggles, so there are great tugs-of-war going on as to who rules, who is in control, who leads, who can pull the strings the hardest.
Then there’s the force of Uranus, now on our H4 cusp square to our early Cancerian planets. Well, this is just unrest in the homeland. Rebellion. Uprising. A clash between the status quo and the demand for newness, innovation, a new way to approach problems. Uranus would like nothing more than to upset the apple cart, overthrow the forces that be. Drastic change is what Uranus wants, and Uranus represents the people. In the case of rulership of H3, the media. Thank god for the internet! Uranus is all about technology. Instant communications, unlimited freedom of speech, and accelerated innovation as news zooms around the world through cellphones and on social networks. There is absolutely no stopping this force, so we will have to accommodate this – all of us, the human race.
Some announcers are gloomily predicting that America has passed its peak, and is on its way down and out but I don’t see that. First of all, America’s symbol, the eagle is, on another level, the symbol of the phoenix, or bird who rises again from its own ashes, reborn, reinvigorated, rejuvenated. I have no doubt that’s what will happen, America being the venue for whatever new human being comes out of these pressured and challenging times. A more compassionate and more savvy human being is arising who values the individual over large institutions, and who rearranges the true purpose that money should serve – which is to help all human beings become self-realized and pursue happiness and joy. America will receive trines from transiting Saturn when it reaches Scorpio – that’s not too far ahead – and is a very stabilizing, supportive and constructive aspect.
Meantime in a couple of years, transiting Jupiter will cross into Cancer and really bring opportunity to the stellium of planets that the U.S. holds in this sign. Luck, success, and certainly a thriving rejuvenated economy is inevitable. I don’t hold with forecasts of gloom and doom, which are likely to prevail as Saturn squares our Mercury (bad news) and we live through a few years of drastic upsets and chaos, because I see after that a safe haven.
I don’t believe it’s meant for America to fail. Yes, to learn lessons; no, to collapse. We need a strong America to usher in the new age. The world needs a strong America to model a more ideal society. That’s where we’re headed.
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“Washington has lots of politicians, but few statesmen” – Heard on the news …that’s because it’s a YOUNG SOUL NATION!
By wisdom | September 19, 2011
Soul age is a concept that was taught to us in the Seventies (e.g., Messages from Michael received via Chelsea Quinn Yarbro) and has been around for as long as the concept of reincarnation has been understood.
The concept refers to the degree of experience that is gained by repetitious sojourns on planet Earth… in other words, lifetimes. If you haven’t had many, you are a new or infant soul, and if you have had zillions, you are an old soul. Between these stages exists infant, baby, young, mature, old, and eventually transcendent levels. Each level is described by different behaviors, beliefs and values. No level is surmounted instantly but requires multiple experiences before one is able to move on.
One of the predominant attributes of any level is its value system. At different soul ages, a person values different things, aspires to different things, and sees the world through different lenses. It’s not too complicated to understand: Just as you would see an individual growing from infancy through childhood, and then through adolescence through maturity, and finally to maximum experience within a lifetime, so can it be seen that a soul makes many of these repeated journeys by experiencing cycles of lifetimes on planet Earth, gaining familiarity and adjusting viewpoint and value system.
Therefore the concept of soul ages can be applied to people, and what they strive for. Briefly, infant souls are very new and therefore very frightened of the world. They are extremely concerned with cleanliness, and they are very uncomfortable around dogs. They don’t want to try anything new. Baby souls, on the other hand, are also threatened by change; they want to do everything right, and can be rigid, immaculate, and fanatical. They want to make sure they do everything right or don’t do it at all. (And neither should you, they feel.) The young soul has become savvy and adventurous; behind their laughter can be hostility. They seek higher education, are very achievement oriented, focused on external appearances, demand sexual liberation, are workaholics, care deeply about their physical body, live in perpetual agitation, and become the experts, the status keepers, and the high achievers. They’re all about telling people how to do it the right way, which is their way! Mature souls begin to find the experience of leaving the body in order to astral travel kind of interesting. They want to find tranquility; they seek answers, have psychic occurrences, can tell the difference between the veneer and truth; are not all that clean, but are excellent chefs and wine aficionados. They don’t care too much what you do as long as you leave them alone. The old soul loves to get out of the body and move into the beyond. An old soul doesn’t really strive for achievement, wealth or status but for competence. They see others as themselves. They’re very casual about most things including cleanliness, sex and cooking, but are very sensual. They don’t like to throw anything away, love animals; if anything, are subject to depression. They can be found anywhere; they live by the motto of doing whatever they want and letting you do whatever you want. Of the transcendent and infinite souls, we don’t have to talk at this moment.
The point to be made is: where do certain souls congregate, and specifically what is the aggregate nature or soul age of our nation, America?
America is formed primarily, we are told, of young souls. This can be seen in its striving for achievement, its energy level, and its value system based primarily on worldly gain – the accumulation of power, wealth and fame. Americans are a mixture, of course, of a variety of soul ages, but the nation itself reflects the tendencies and values of young souls, so it has drawn to its centers of government that very reflection – a type of individual who wishes to self-aggrandize, who is motivated by achieving money, power and fame. Washington D.C. has an abundance of such types (who are mostly called politicians) who play the game of personal advantage fairly well in that they get elected, manipulate power, use each other for personal gain, serve their own or their cronies’ needs, and reflect a materialistic value system.
Individuals, on the other hand, who devote their lives selflessly without the motivation of profit, fame, or power, to the betterment of their countrymen – or even more enlightened, to the betterment of a type of government that fulfills the best potential of human beings – are rare in a country focused on young soul goals. Such a selfless type would be called a statesman. This type has existed in human history, exemplified by, for instance, George Washington who retired to his farm when his task was fulfilled, or Harry Truman who refused all remuneration except for his entitled pension and who sought a modest retirement after his term in office. A famous Roman named Cincinnatus served ancient Rome in the capacity of a general and dictator, and when he completed his job, even though he held great power, he simply stepped down, asking for nothing further because he evaluated his duty as completed.
America is going through an enforced and accelerated maturation process. Blatant political hacks who would heretofore gain their ends through machinations are being refuted and repulsed. A distaste for the games being played by legislators is evidenced. Many such gamers will be repudiated at the polls. The result of dwelling in the debris of young soul dalliances is a repugnance that speeds up the desire to evolve away from such results and towards a different, more wholesome approach. This is always called a change of values. It’s obvious that this is what’s happening now in the nation. It’s not clear what results this will bring or what new values will replace older ones, but it is apparent that a repudiation is going on, big time. America may remain young soul but may also be on the cusp of greater maturation.
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Stock Market Dive – No Coincidence (It’s Saturn)!
By wisdom | August 9, 2011
For those who follow the stars, yesterday’s big stock market drop is no coincidence. The U.S. natal Sun is at 13 Cancer 19. As Saturn moves through the sky, it reached 13 Cancer yesterday. That’s what’s called a Square.
Saturn square one’s Sun always brings delays, setbacks, and restrictions. So the entire nation is feeling this one!
Furthermore, the U.S. has a natal square between these two planets which emphasizes the built-in problem. We are being forced to deal with less. It’s a time of maturation because the essential meaning is to grow wiser as we face reality’s limitations. Saturn rules our money house (H2) and comes out of our reputation house (H10) – thus, we have lost our triple A (AAA) rating. It’s all foreseen; all destiny; all fated.
So what does our future look like? Late month is prettier. We will regain some market strength (transiting Jupiter trine the Jupiter/Sun midpoint and cusp of H8). Real estate is favored too. I think it will be a heavy slog as Saturn squares Mercury this winter (24 degrees), but the nation will have blessings from Jupiter by next spring, especially via the housing market (in Taurus, sextile the U.S. Sun).
As the old saying goes, “Land… they’re not making any more of it!”
BTW, Taurus rules gold too. It would be good if we could go back on the Gold Standard under this hard Saturn transit.
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I’ve been getting these questions…
By wisdom | July 30, 2011
Q #1: so Judy: what do you think is going to happen? are we going to survive this? (ABOUT SPREAD OF ISLAMIFICATION OF EUROPE, NON-INTEGRATION, LOSS OF IDENTITY; DANGER TO THE WEST)
Q #2: Very deep problems here. What does your crystal ball say? (ABOUT CONGRESS, ENTITLEMENTS, ECONOMIC WOES, DEEP SCHISM)
IN EACH CASE, HERE’S WHAT I’VE ANSWERED:
A #1: Here’s my take in a nutshell: We’re in a war, and our enemy (radical Islam) wants to eradicate us (The West). Meanwhile, we’re in an internal divide re being tolerant and inclusive versus being prepared and tough. The confusing distractions (e.g., the economy) just mask the core issue. When Neptune leaves the US Moon (winter 2012), much of the confusion can begin to dissipate. But ’13 & ’14 are extremely disruptive, painful, and even revolutionary! Try to find my new article in Dell Horoscope September issue, “9/11: Ten Years Later”, in Barnes & Noble or [at a local newsstand] because it spells things out.
A #2: Huge reforms mandated. Uprisings. Turbulence. But some light later.
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FURTHER ASTROLOGICAL THOUGHTS:
August 2nd is the Mercury Retrograde. It’s the date Congress “must” reach a compromise about the debt ceiling, tax cuts etc. Maybe that’s just a “coincidence”. (Yeah, a cosmic one!) Well, since it’s a retrograde, anything agreed upon then is subject to revision! I doubt it will hold up. I’m more interested to see what happens when Mercury comes out of retrograde on August 27th, in dramatic Leo! That’s a far likelier date for verbal theatrics and/or contract signings.
The slow economic growth, and sputtering “recovery” can be attributed to Saturn in a long square to the US Sun (at least since last September). Saturn brings blockages, restrictions, and hard work. It will ease off between late August and September, allowing more momentum to the effort to recover.
Meanwhile, news reports say that there has been surprising growth in the sales of older homes over the last two months. That can be attributed to Jupiter (expansion) in Taurus (real estate) in good aspect to the US Cancerian planets (luck, growth). We can expect a continuation of that pattern through next year.
However, we can also expect terrible reforms in the years ahead regarding financial matters (Pluto opposite US Sun square US Saturn). The whole trajectory of the country has been aimed at this for years, regardless of who was/is in office or what party ruled. We have Saturn natally in the 10th square our Sun in the 8th house of borrowing; Saturn has just returned to its own position (the day of reckoning! – it rules the 2nd house of money); and Pluto from the natal 2nd house of money is forcing the issues to be cleansed. It’s time to pay the piper! Nobody will like what happens in 2014, and there will probably be uprisings (Uranus, planet of rebellion, in the 4th house of the land, t-squaring all of the above mess). The people, especially in groups (i.e., unions, organizations) or through technology (the internet, blogging) will not go lightly into this new day.
As for the threat from foreign quarters, Pluto is also the nuclear bomb, so there remains great hazard when Pluto opposes the US Sun and squares its Midheaven. That occurs in mid 2014 into 2015. In the past, hard Pluto aspects have brought terrorist attacks, including 9/11.
By 2016, the mess will be over. If we’re still a nation, still solvent, still “The West”, we will have worked out the enormous problems mentioned by the questioners.
I don’t have an answer as to being prepared, or keeping safe. As a mid-cardinal individual, the timeframe will be very challenging to me personally, as it will to anyone having important planets or angles at or near 13 degrees of the cardinals. The main thrust is to evolve as quickly as you can, and take any practical steps to remain whole. We have chosen to be born into “interesting times”.
(c) 2011 by Judi Thomases. All rights reserved.
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SOME OF US GOT SPUNK!
By wisdom | July 26, 2011
Yesterday, we attended a surprise birthday party for a 94 year old. She is a little stooped but quite fit. They tell that, if she goes on outings and people rush to help her out of her seat in the car, she tells them, “No thanks, I’ll do it myself. If I need help, I’ll ask for it.” And she proceeds slowly to get herself back on her two feet.
Well, the surprise was not only her party but also a ride on a motorcycle. This, it seems, was on her bucket list. So some bikers came around, showed her a spiffy motorbike with a bow on it, gave her a custom t-shirt to wear, and her own helmet with the words that celebrated her 94th birthday. She got up on the bike, put her arms around her driver, and off they went for a ten minute ride that fulfilled a lifelong dream. When she came back, she had a big smile on her face, and even though some big strapping guys had to lift her off the back seat, she was not even a little wobbly
Meantime, today I had a doctor’s visit for a check-up. When I went over to the doctor’s office, I found a roomful of senior citizens, some very frail, using inhalators, wheelchairs, canes, walkers and other life-sustaining devices, and for all I knew, not a one of them was 94 – probably more a spread between 50 and 80. What’s the difference? Is it all genetics? Or is there a little bit of attitude? Fortunate karma? If you’re surrounded by caring loved ones or if you have the means to support yourself in a good quality of life. But even this is not always the case because we know of ill people who have means, and may even have family around them (in fact, I know cases where the malingerer milks the illness for self gratification by remaining in the helpless victim role).
In our society, we extend sympathy and nurturing to those who suffer, and the healthcare industry especially is large because of the desire not to allow people to suffer and become enfeebled if there is any way to prevent that. But most often, the best way to prevent the infirmities of age is not just through means (wealth) or through loving helpers, but by a mindset. A mindset that reaches out to the human race, wants to be engaged, feels continually purposeful and useful, wants to contribute, and above all continues to frame events as positive, or perhaps only momentarily negative, returning as soon as feasible to the sunnier outlook.
Gladys, the 94 year old biker chick, was an inspiration to me. I want to keep checking things off my bucket list too!
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IT’S IRONIC THAT CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVES, AND NOT NEW-AGERS, ARE NOW ISRAEL’S GREATEST SUPPORTERS
By wisdom | June 29, 2011
Most New Agers are liberal or politically left-leaning, and a priori reject the rigidity of authoritarian and patriarchal biblical ideology as being in total opposition to their love of tolerance and inclusion. Today’s Christian conservatism, on the other hand, as it has evolved, is not very inclusive just by virtue of the fact that its most basic tenet is that unless you accept Jesus as your savior you are lost.
Here, then, is a large measure of the current split between ideologies: tolerance versus exclusion, i.e., blanket acceptance versus one path only. On the one hand, New Agers espouse other-as-self, harmony, open-mindedness, personal choice, and direct connection with the inner divine whereas Christian fundamentalism espouses a singular route through a savior, original sin and redemption, and ritual and pastoral intervention between the individual and salvation. Both ways claim the high ground of brotherly love; both are subject to human corruption and failed ends.
But the Creator can be rascally! So it’s funny (to me) that the most inflexible ultra-conservative minds on the Right might be, by taking biblical prophecies most literally, the instrument to serve and bring about the New Agers’ vision of a New Earth: a tolerant and all-inclusive society…heaven on earth…The New Jerusalem.
Metaphysically, Israel, via its Covenant, must stand at the abyss to bridge the vast divide, or schism, of the western-Islamic battle. Bringer of democracy into an ancient mindset, bastion of western ideals in a hostile man-centered sphere, it must endure until the hideous gash is healed, to allow all of humanity to transcend the modern challenge until a true New Society can be born. Israel is the battleground – that’s shown in its horoscope. America is the target but Israel is the field of action. It must exist, and is designed to do so. Israel, in metaphysics, is crucial to realizing The New Jerusalem.
So what’s going on?
The fervor for Christian fundamentalism’s support of Israel has at its heart the biblical passages found in Revelations. Prophecies tell of an era of death and destruction, a monumental battle between the forces of good and evil, an anti-hero, and a place or location where this apocalypse is to unfold.
Islam sees the West, represented primarily by America but also closely mirrored in Israel, as the Devil. Fundamentalist radical Islam wants neither to compromise with, nor tolerate, the existence of this other ideology/culture, and thus has the intention of obliterating the West. American liberals don’t want to really believe that, and would rather continue to maintain a worldview in which everyone can live together harmoniously and in an Aquarian fashion – that is, brotherly love, detached emotionality, scientific and technological advances and acceptance of others. In fact, one group that embraces this hope most genuinely is American liberal Jews (as do many of my own family). Many New Agers are lukewarm in support of Israel, seeing that state’s policies as hawkish.
From a metaphysical standpoint, however, the scriptural prophecies are closer to the reality of our most immediate times than the visionary ideal. Terrorism exists. Deluded leaders exist. Natural and manmade catastrophes are occurring. Weather patterns are wilder. Solar flares are increasing. The West’s reliance upon fossil fuel from hostile sources, and universal household electronic dependency, showcases its vulnerability. Kindness and idealism allow porous borders, and blindsiding attacks. Does The End Times come about as prophesied because of a perfect storm of circumstances?
As New Agers scoff at old-fashioned prophecies, these seem to continue to come true. Things such as inability to see the truth clearly, sophisticated rejection of passionate but restrictive ideologies, and eternal hope converge to set the stage. If and when the first nuclear missile leaves a radical nation and falls upon an unprotected Western one, perhaps even a left-leaning one, the forces of retaliation, the chaos of unpreparedness, the disruption of services and the supply chain all line up. Those are the times that are prophesied. Those are the conditions underlying. Those are the very “Four Horsemen”.
But while well-intentioned do-gooders create institutions of government that weaken the nation with entitlements, porous borders, idealistic blindness, and disempowering programs, Christian soldiers march on, unquestioningly following unfashionable ideologies to which they are equally blindly loyal, and all the while the Cosmic Plan is played out.
Only the fact that the prophecies – biblical and many others – contain future light eases the threat. It is as though we must paint ourselves into this corner, a corner that contains mental attitudes, natural conditions, a clash of ideologies, and the truth of human evolution, all scrunched together, in order to pass through to the next level. Meanwhile, as a metaphysician I shake my head in bemused disbelief, watching as the whole game unfolds, able to do no more than these writings to educate and wake others up. If this is what is written, and what shall come to pass, then there is nothing to do but to bear witness.
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Judgment Day…?
By wisdom | May 20, 2011
What is “judgment” anyhow? Who is doing the judging? Who is receiving it? The pat answer is “God judges”. Some now believe that God is the name for the Creative Source of the Universe… or if you’ve investigated the truths of quantum physics, that God is the synonym for the Conscious Awareness that exists supra to all the known forms of things.
In any case, since the universe is a place where all things – including space and time – are relative (as Einstein proved), what values would be applied in the judging? The Bible’s? The Torah’s? The Vedas’? The Koran’s? Yours? Mine? If I believe in a benevolent-though-strict deity, and believe that I’m following all the right principles (and that you’re not!), then I’ll expect to be judged well (and you to be judged harshly). Isn’t this exactly what’s behind all religious intolerance, especially nowadays? Isn’t this what’s driving all fundamentalist passions, of all ilk?
However, how can I be certain that my ways, my values, my beliefs, and my path is the only true one, the only one that will receive merit and reward? In a relative universe, won’t you believe exactly the same thing about your (perhaps) totally contradictory notions? Isn’t God always on your side, and not the other guy’s?
And isn’t this set-up the same awful arrangement we used to read about in the sixties: “I’m OK; you’re not.”
IMHO, the only thing that is being judged is your experience of life. Is it sweet or is it bitter? Is life fair, or not? And if it turns up negative, and you ask yourself what was at work – well before any “Judgment Day” – that dealt you the hand you have, what answer can you find? In a perfectly fair universe, with a benign deity, the answer can only be: what goes around, comes around. Yup, karma. Karma is the device that, in a closed universe, sends back to you the same ripple/wave/energy you doled out. It’s your personal “judgment” each and every day, each and every minute. There’s a reason that the tarot card Judgment holds the perfectly balanced scales.
No external force is necessary. Judgment is a part of life. God/the Cosmic Plan/Creator designed things just so. Happily, in this viewpoint nobody needs a special Judgment Day, and there are no shortcuts to bliss/rapture/wisdom. Nobody else’s value system or creed needs to intrude. It’s just you vis-à-vis your personal truth. Your karmic creation. Your actions. So as long as you harm none, and love all as best you can, you should be just fine against any supernal force there be!
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The Knife of Fear Turned into the Balm of Light
By wisdom | April 15, 2011
“They’ll rip your head off for that!”
Those are the words the supermarket cashier shocked me with as she gazed longingly at my necklace. She was a middle-aged black woman, herself bedecked with a substantial gold choker, and her eyes could barely lift up from my neck as we engaged in a little conversation afterwards. “That’s what they said to me when I wore my good stuff…” were her next words.
My necklace, a large showy affair of gold and diamonds forming a star with crescent moons, always held a different connotation to me because it was a design I had made from my mother’s ring. Therefore, it represented not only my chosen career path (astrology) but my mother’s love and generosity. I usually get lots of compliments on it. But now, through her eyes, it had become an object of such greed that one could get whacked for it!
For a nanosecond, I was taken aback as my mind processed this state of affairs. I could, I realized, react negatively and glare at her, or make a cutting remark, or otherwise “protect my boundaries”. I could button up my coat collar. I could, in other words, cement the fear-laden thoughtform. Instead, another train began…
“Oh,” I said, “I had it designed from my mother’s stones. Do you like it? I can tell that you’re a real jewelry person.”
Boy, did that open up the valve! She launched into a long story about how her grandmother always put “the real stuff” on them as kids so that they’d get to know the good items from the junk. She told me about her sister who wears bracelets up and down one arm, even taking them off every night and reattaching them every morning. She mused about what a good idea it would be to have her old jewelry melted down and redesigned since she knew a good jeweler. She went on and on, her eyes still never leaving my neck but now more in appreciation than envy.
The fear was long gone, and hopefully in her too. Whoever had given her that horrible statement had planted a deeply embedded fear that had taken root years ago and was so entrenched that it was the first thing that had popped out of her mouth at a perfect stranger. She had been living in fear that gold, instead of being something radiant and lovely, was life-threatening!
I smiled warmly at her. I told her that now she might be blessed to get a wonderful piece of jewelry herself. (Yes, because her heart was already turning… no mean feat!) We said a few more warm words to each other as I left the store with my bundles.
And hopefully, a little drop more of light entered both our worlds that day.
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