No one will ever tell you in this world we have that the spiritual is there to pay you. It sounds off. It sounds wrong. We have all been deeply indoctrinated to believe that spiritual work can’t get valued in the economy. That it must be entirely detached from any sense of monetary return, reward, or practical substance—but that indoctrination is a lie. We are not used to thinking like this. Our world of shopping, images, entertainment, and behind it, the military-industrial complex, emphasizes certain soul dispositions. From an early age, we are trained to work into life through instinct and will, while neglecting dynamic thinking. It’s an intentional lie to keep certain people with spiritual karmic life tasks out of the picture. Perhaps we are all those people.
Re-education of the Ability to think the Planets:
Since some people reading this are looking into their charts more deeply, I’ll include here more astro-philosophical ways of looking at the planets. These are unusual compared to traditional views of the planets, but they’ll give you a much deeper sense of the planets’ actual experience. As you get used to the color and feeling of a sign, you can imaginatively think about the planets’ placement in a sign and house in your own birth chart and according to your own life experience.
- Moon: Occultism. The sense that something is hidden behind a veil. By sign and house this is the area of life for you that you sense a whole world of secrets behind.
- Mercury: Transcendentalism. The sense that reality is something that emerges and approaches you when you think about it, analyse and appreciate what thinking on a subject shows you about how life is complexly interwoven.
- Venus: Mysticism. The somatic feeling in the body of spirit and love. This is also the sense of the spiritual as something to be cultivated in the body for your sense of being.
- Sun: Epistemology. It is an area of life where we sense that life’s purpose is to grow. The path of knowledge is what piques the interest and impulse to study and learn.
- Mars Voluntarism. Life is felt as an act of will, of drive to knowledge. Here is where we feel that something is to be found, molded and created by our own action.
- Jupiter Logicism. The impulse here is to make things follow and order of thinking to reach an aim. The awareness of the thinking process is felt to be all important.
- Saturn Gnosticism. Consciousness arises through meditation, reflection, contemplation, and having as wide an appreciation as possible.
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