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Archive 2004
The Consuming MindReady. Set. Gobble. Happy holiday onslaught to you. I wish you peace filled days. Ye olde planets are shuffling around. The four points of the Grand Pentagon have moved on. Three points still hover about. The initiation of these last six weeks will play out over the rest of your lifetime. It has been that significant. It is not something to figure out and dwell upon. Play baby play. Venus enters Scorpio on the 22nd at 5:31 am PST wherein she joins Mars. She'll catch the rascal in early December in Scorpio. Get it on. Get down on it. Get sassy and frassy and Haille Selaisse. Listen to some reggae, some James Brown, some funkadelic. Know what I'm sayin'...... It's a groove thang. As they say in the war zone at explosive moments: "Fire in the hole!" I'd say there's a fire in the whole. The heat is on. You want passion, you got passion. Tempers and temperatures are up, up, up. Crazier and crazier crap flies flagrantly. Whether it's self immolation in front of the White House or some UN official named Ruud Lubber accused of being a rude lover to his female co-workers, hot stuff is happening. All this faith based goop is flaming. Maybe the left wing has lost faith and certainly the right wing is righteous in its faith. Give up a life of faith. Faith is one of the most unconscious processes in the Dream. Just be present and make choices. Wherever you've got faith you've got encrusted, gnarly, unconscious crud that is super reactionary. Look out now! The shit is really going to fly; so is the fur. Things are going to swing a fur might. Twang clang doodle. The mojo is working for the fundamentalists all over the world. In these limbo times we will witness how low can you go. Any and every effort to ascend will drive deep descension and dissension. Fight and flight flagellate around the frothy fear. Terrorism has been well installed in the psyche and now it begins to bloom. Yo-yoing is ensuing. You see because you saw. You titter then you tatter. You go to and come fro. It ain't you. It ain't never you. It is the mind and you are becoming more aware of it. Claim your consciousness and clear your karma directly. If that makes sense. See me for a session. I can remember to you how to you can cut through your own crap and realize your own delightful being. Sun goes into Sagittarius on the 21st at 3:22 pm PST. This expansive sign is the key component of the holiday season. Cornucopial delight is one aspect of this abundant sign. So is consumption. Everyone is a consumer. Creation consumes itself. You could even define life as being a consumption system. As the holiday season approaches, consuming is on most people's minds. But let's look at how the mind consumes and never takes a holiday...... Whether it's Ramadan or Thanksgiving or Christmas, the focus of these holiday activities often comes to consumption. To eat or not to eat, that is the question. Then comes whether to eat or not at what time of the day or when or how or how much of what kind we should eat and what do we eat every year and are we eating that again and on and on. After a while it all starts eating you. Thought is the food for thought and then it invades all other areas of life. If something is eating you, it usually hits you in the belly or the guts. Some folks can't eat at all when they're disturbed; some folks eat all the time when they're upset. It does seem as though the holiday season has now become a giant disturbance, a gut wenching state of denial, a glorified tribulation with all the trimmings. Nature takes respite in the winter of the year; many modern humans no longer do. The hyperactivity of holiday consumption is polarized to the natural cycles of rest and renewal. Instead of rest, everybody tries to get all the rest of IT, whatever IT is, and it turns out that that is more than the body or body politic or the planet itself can bear. I see more re-oldal than renewal in western cultures, especially in America. Old behaviors drive more old behaviors, dressed up in shabbier shine. The more it gets different, the more tradition must be defended. The longer the tradition molders, the more the pressure to differentiate. Change is now co-opted by corporate agenda to feed the consumer their change object that will supposedly take away the anxiety of the non satisfaction of life in the fast lane. Even Ramadan, which is life in another kind of fast lane, begets intense consumption once darkness arrives. What a bother! The mind endlessly splits everything. You are enjoying your self with a bit of something and then in comes the mind leading you to think if it is good or bad or this or that. Divided, you are conquered, by the ridiculous and oh so common distraction that makes up the noise of the Dream. The search for better leaves you feeling worse which drives the effort to get better. Trying to get your dreams to come true creates the Dream as if it is true and suffering derives. This holiday season, this life, how about having the life that you want instead of having a better life. Instead of having your dreams come true, how about being true to yourself and choosing what you want. If you look deeply, you can see that making your dreams come true tends to make others¹ lives truly become nightmares. The first world is very ignorant of its effects on the third world. It is unpopular to look. The same goes for all those species and ecosystems that fall victim to our insatiable consumption. Let the gift be you and those you love. Instead of consuming your way through the anxiety, take pause. Consider playing with the world in such a way that is reparative to you and others. An economy of support and exchange can develop beyond the consumption that the mind offers. Greed and need go hand in hand. Being present begets presents to one self and to others that fosters everyone's presence. Give yourself and others the gift of health and well being.
Rest in peace........... vitally, |