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The Tao of Libra'Tis Libra time! The Sun entered therein on the 22nd as it dips south of the equator for the annual autumnal equinox. Meanwhile Jupiter goes into Libra on the 24th at 8:24 pm PDT followed by Mars entrance on the 26th at 2:16 pm PDT forming a conjunction with Jupiter at 5:17 pm PDT. If that's not enough, we have a Full Moon in Libra/Aries on the 28th at 6:09 am PDT and Mercury leaps in immediately thereafter at 7:13 am PDT and will conjunct Jupiter and Mars all in the next 29 hours. This is an unusual rapid shift toward the old balance sign. You may feel rather out of balance even as the planets march in balance. Be aware on the Full Moon and the day after. You and others may be real spacy. Disorientation is the disorder of the daze. Loosing one's bearings leads to more grinding in the bearings of the Wheel. It can be unbearable even if you barely feel it. Don't grin and bear it. Clear your identification in the noise and unbear it. You'll grin more easily and delightfully. Peace is who you are not something you are ever going to get. So whether you feel in balance or out of balance........ on balance, I say: Give up the Balance! Libra has been stuck in misunderstanding for a long and lonely time. Letıs liberate her from these held beliefs and see what makes her tick. Libra is the seventh sign, fully shifting the archetypal agenda from Self to Other. It is akin to the changed line of an I Ching hexagram, sixth to seventh, and thereby the new hexagram. Libra is the middle, the middle way, the Tao. Therein lies the meaning of Libran peace. Balance is absurdly impossible on the ever changing karmic Wheel. The mindıs strategy to distract you from your presence is highlighted in the notion of attaining/maintaining balance. . Seeking leaves you ever lost to yourself. The imbalance is inherent in the system, not you, not your being. Try stopping the Wheel. and feel the grind. Let go and be. Not: Be Peace. Be! You are peace. The glyph, the symbol is the balance scale. I say banish it. She is the Bridge, the link, the rainbow way. Libra never feels at home because she bridges sides. Each side feels met by her but she never quite feels at home with either. It is this profound and lonely effort that drives many of Libraıs social characteristics. Librans famously have difficulty in realizing personal lover relationship satisfaction. The usual love goop wrapped around this sign is mislead and misleading. Librans certainly help others with their love life but they are often left out in the cold. This is not Libraıs fault it is its virtue. Get rid of virtues. They suck. They suck your attention from being. Being yourself is better than love and being your self with others resonates them to be too. Love never quite accomplishes being. It runs agendi and thereby promotes suffering. Ya, I love to use the love word too, but at the bottom of it all, being present is what cuts the crap and highlights the delight and freedom. Libra is ruled by Venus so supposedly together they are all about love. Thatıs really goofy. Would you actually think that one sign would hold love and that one planet would too? Nah. Venus is inwardness. Itıs the first planet in from Earth toward the Sun. (Mars , first out from the Earth, is outwardness). Venus draws in, seduces if you will. She has magnetic will. She is actually shy, the faire maiden perhaps. Women have her on the outside; men have her on the inside. Libraıs shadow is Aries, her opposite sign, ruled by Mars. Libra is actually quite masculine. Sheıs an Air sign, a masculine/yang element. Libra is the middle way, the Bridge. She is neither gender and both genders. Forget the Balance crap. That drives everybody crazy. The feminine is subtle unseen will and therefore highly effective. The diplomacy and social grace of Libra springs from this archetypal quality. Values arise from an inner orientation, so does vanity. Give up the beliefs which say that anything is pure. Libra is burdened by idealism untempered by seeing the world as it is. Identify inwardly and you are lost and dangerously myopic. Much death and destruction has been perpetrated in the name of ideal. Be present, express.. itıll work out, not fairly. really. Fair is in that balance box. That stuff is stupidly limiting. Nothing is fair. Everything is changing. Shit happens. Shift happens. Be with the happenings as you find them and youıll do fairly well on balance. Oops, I couldnıt resist The Muse, Art, Creativity and Beauty get bundled into Libra. I donıt think sheıs got the corner on those markets. The creative dynamics of Libra are considerable and come from her sight in the polarized playground. Justice too. But it is this signıs presence, itıs non-balance in the flow of things that generates the creative, the vision of art and most certainly its beauty.. Libra is the mirror. The reflection and projection of oneıs self. This is key. All Librans project their selves out onto the Other. Then they try to love, inhabit, wed and ideally manipulate the other. All well intended but also quite unconscious and thereıs the rub. Suffering in all beings in the Dream arise from unconscious projection of oneıs self onto anything and everything and the endless effort to get yourself from those mirages material or etheric. Libra is intimately experiencing this key of the mind, the Dream. She can be buried in it, defending it, shining it to high heaven. But Libra has the remarkable opportunity to see through the Movie. Donıt wake up in the Dream. That will only bring down another dream. Realize that you are not in the Dream at all. You are your own consciousness. Let go of putting any stock in the Tao jones market. Divest from the mind. All those prophets leave you bankrupt. Be. Others will meet you. You wonıt miss the unrest that peace can never quell. Peace you are and you are fine.
Graciously yours, |