http://www.astroinquiry.com Astrology, Fourth Way, Gurdjieff, Tarot, Mystical Path, Astrologer Vashon Washington Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:36:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely, even you, at times, have felt the grand array; the swelling presence, and the chorus, ... http://www.astroinquiry.com/2008/11/david-whyte-everything-is-waiting-for-you/ The ongoing Saturn Uranus opposition is a cosmic reminder that the biosphere still remains wickedly dichotomized, despite Barack Obama's triumph on election night. I've been calling this recent post-election phase Civil War Reconstruction v2.0. Meaning, once again the South has 'fallen' -- has lost favor as a participating unit within our ... http://www.astroinquiry.com/2008/11/november-12-full-moon-watch-dreams-and-shadows/ "Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from the things she found in gift shops." --Kurt Vonnegut There is a way of breathing that's a shame and suffocation. And there's another way of expiring, a love-breath that lets you open infinitely. -- Rumi Think fondly of today. You might ... http://www.astroinquiry.com/2008/11/the-saturn-uranus-deadlock-birth-of-the-unlived/ Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking ... http://www.astroinquiry.com/2008/10/kindness-how-you-ride-and-ride-thinking-the-bus-will-never-stop/ When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that follow'd, And else, when I carous'd, or when my plans were accomplish'd, still I was not happy, But the day when I rose at dawn ... http://www.astroinquiry.com/2008/10/new-moon-watch-some-walt-whitman/ Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, because the massman will mock it right way. I praise what is truly alive, what longs to be burned to death. In the calm water of the love-nights, where you were begotten, where you have begotten, a strange feeling comes over you when you see the silent candle burning. Now ... http://www.astroinquiry.com/2008/10/the-holy-longing/ Today I visited the Japanese maple that is in my front yard. I stood alongside it for a good ten minutes. I wanted the tree to sense how much I appreciated its radiance, the incendiary tinge of the red and orange leaves. And with a clear sky, like today's, the ... http://www.astroinquiry.com/2008/10/as-the-sun-moves-into-scorpio/ Relationship persists so long as subsidiary cause persists, and subsidiary cause persists so long as quest persists, and quest persists so long as thou persistest, and thou persistest so long as thou sees Me not; but when thou seest Me, thou art no more, and when thou art no more, quest is no more, and when ... http://www.astroinquiry.com/2008/10/niffari-on-turning/ I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! Nothing ... http://www.astroinquiry.com/2008/10/oceans/ These spiritual windowshoppers, who idly ask, How much is that? Oh, I'm just looking. They handle a hundred items and put them down, shadows with no capital. What is spent is love and two eyes wet with weeping. But these walk into a shop, and their whole lives pass suddenly in that moment, in that shop. Where did ... http://www.astroinquiry.com/2008/10/october-14-full-moon-watch-buy-something-for-christsake/