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The Age of Pisces and The Washing of Feet

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

March 22, 2008
Jesuswashfeet.pngAt the Last Supper Christ shared with his disciples, he took the servant’s role and washed the feet of each of them.

Peter, who missed the point of ritual, protested. Jesus gently rebuked him, saying that if Peter didn’t let him wash his feet, Peter couldn’t be his disciple. Peter then goes over the top saying, “Wash my head and my hands, Lord!�

Can you imagine Jesus at Peter’s feet, looking up at him, with the basin of water before them and the cloth in his hand.

“Peter,� he says, “If you’ve already had a bath, you only need to have your feet washed.�

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Why Do Fools Fall in Love?

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

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Why Do Fools Fall in Love?

Puck:
Captain of our fairy band,
Helena is here at hand,
And the youth, mistook by me,
Pleading for a lover’s fee.
Shall we their fond pageant see?
Lord, what fools these mortals be!

–A Midsummer’s Night Dream

The trickster Puck messes with the attractions of four young people and a hilarious romp ensues. His master, Oberon, the King of Fairies, casts a spell on his Queen, Titania, to teach her a lesson. The spell–Titania falls in love with a beast of burden, the ass. Indeed, throughout Shakespeare’s comedy and the comedy of our own lives, love is seen as something that is out our control, something that overrides our good sense and reason, sometimes deliciously so, sometimes leaving us feeling that we are, indeed, fools.

Puck, without regard for the serious consequences of his actions seem in character like the cherubically portrayed son of Venus, Cupid, whose arrows fly at a whim, or at the whim of some god or goddesses. But is it the heady chemical rush of hormones that pushes us headlong into relationships? Or our desire for something deeper, a connection that transcends the day to day reality of our lives?

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Soul Development and the Planets, pt 2

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

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Yesterday we discussed the inner planets and their relation to soul development. We pick up the discussion with Uranus.
UranusPlanet.jpgUranus is the planet of the wild, the unpredictable, of shocks and upsets. How then is Uranus related to soul development?

The beginner soul may live a number of lives in a state of confusion and ineffectivenes, . . . Less developed souls are inclined to surrender their will to the controlling aspects of human society with a socio-ecomonic structure which causes a large prorportion of people to be subordinate to others. The inexperienced soul tends to be stiffled by a lack of independent thinking. They also lean towards being self centered and don’t easily accept others for who they are. pg 127, Journey of Souls

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The Universal Life Cycle

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

September 1, 2007
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Raise your hands, who remembers Gail Sheehy’s book Passages. Ok, now that you’ve just dated yourself, do you remember what the book was about? In Ms. Sheehy’s bestseller, which was all the rage when I was in college, she talked about the developmental stages of adults, which was broken up roughly into the decades of our lives, the twenties, the thirties, the forties, etc. This was ground breaking stuff, since up until then the cultural thinking was that was when you became an adult, you were pretty well done developmentally, or as Judge Judy would say “cooked.� And in seeing that the people around me were hitting these developmental milestones, what she was talking about seemed to make sense.

Then a decade later, I started a serious study of astrology and learned, ta da, that astrologers knew all about these milestones and have been talking about them for quite some time. In fact, there is a timetable of events that is more predictable than Jay Leno’s jokes, that defines significant developmental markers, a universal life cycle that applies to all human beings.

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The Moral Compass

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

August 26, 2007
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Ripped from the headlines, we can’t help but to help other people!

Neuroscientists have been working very hard to determine what motivates altruism and as turns out, the impulse to put other people needs before our own is hard wired in our brains.

Apparently, morality is the result of evolution of social behavior.

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