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I haven't read Brezny for a while, but a friends post sent me over there to check his Sagittarius scope for the week, and it's about as on-target as its possible to be:

"Dear Rob: All my life I've been passionate about the big picture -- learning how the universe works, meditating on why things are the way they are, and probing the invisible forces working behind the scenes. Too often, though, I'm so enamored of these expansive concepts that I neglect to pay enough humble attention to myself. It's embarrassing. Loving the infinite, I scrimp on taking care of the finite. Any advice? - Larger Than Life Sagittarian." Dear Larger: You're in luck! Members of the Sagittarian tribe have entered a phase when they can make up for their previous neglect of life-nourishing details. In the coming weeks, I bet you'll find it as fun and interesting to attend to your own little needs as you normally do to understanding the mysteries of the cosmos.

Considering that I just made a locked post for my teacher about nurturing my own inner flame for a while and not worrying about the gods, relationships in general, or etc. . . this seems like a cosmic Amen.

I just I found an old Note from the Universe which was particularly appropriate, given the content of a locked post I just made about whether or not to tell a particular truth:

Be proud to know as much as you do about life, dreams and reality. Bask, Janet. It was a long climb up the stairway of enlightenment, and many a battle over false beliefs and mass consciousness have been won. You don't have to shout from your roof to live your truth every second of every day, but don't shy away from the ignorant; they need you. Nor be intimidated by the truly wise; they love you. And please don't ever let self-consciousness keep you from stepping out into a world that would be unimaginably incomplete without you.

You are a vessel of light, a holy ghost, and frankly, so dang "hot."

The Universe

I need to post this all over so I remember it and come to fully believe it.

I remembered the other thought I was going to post about this morning, something else which came up during my time with LM during our meditation together on Christmas Day.

One becomes an adept not by having natural talent, but by doing the work, day in and day out, week by week, month by month, year by year. Natural talent can be bonus -- but it can also be a drawback. If the first stages come too easily, one can begin to feel entitled to that ease of achievement and begrudge the hard, detailed, boring work that must also be part of the mastery of any path.

There is also the wisdom which is captured by a friend's userpic: The obstacles are the path.

None of this is new. Others have wrestled with this challenge and had to come to this realization for millennia. Being a magical adept has much in common with being a master musician, warrior, athlete or writer. To become more than a talented amateur you have to spend uncounted hours in repetitive drills, spending more time on "the basics" than most beginners ever will. One must balance the humility of being willing to perform the basics over and over with the confident assurance that yes it will make a difference.

I've fought this for so long.

But I'm becoming reconciled to it.
In fact, on reflection, I may even have stopped hating it.
I'm starting to see the flecks of shine where I've been polishing.
There's still a lot of work to do, but I'm starting to see where and how and why the work pays off.

I posted yesterday that that Christmas felt like New Year's day to me. My cards for the coming year are the Knight of Wands and the 8 of Pentacles.

The Knight of Wands comes from a Tarot.com reading which included these wonderful words: The Knight of Wands in this position advises that you modify your self-image in order to get a sense of yourself as a person of action. No matter what your past patterns have been, it is fully possible to place yourself solidly on your road toward the future. As someone who has spent far too much of life waiting for the tides of whatever to sweep me into whatever place I was supposed to go, this is a radically reassuring and affirming message.

The 8 of Pentacles. . . well, that's the card of Doing the Work: spending the time to make sure the basic skills are so thoroughly a part of one's practice that the foundation is sturdy and reliable.

( I've made another collage. . . )

It would be hard to get a better new year's resolution than this. It has spiritual practice, physical well-being, and running wilder and freer.

I hope you will get more sleep in 2010. And eat better food, too. And embark on some regimen like meditation that will reduce your stress levels. In general, Sagittarius, I hope you will learn a lot more about what makes your body function at optimum levels, and I hope you will diligently apply what you learn. That doesn't mean I think you should be an obsequiously well-behaved pillar of the community. On the contrary, what I'm envisioning is that by taking better care of yourself you will make yourself strong enough to run wilder and freer.

My current Freewill Astrology horoscope.

Sagittarius: I hope that by now you have finished scrabbling along on your hands and knees over burning hot shards of broken glass. The next and hopefully final phase of your redemptive quest should be less torturous. In this upcoming chapter, the operative metaphor might be assembling a jigsaw puzzle with 200 pieces, all of which are red. Amazingly enough, you actually have it in you to accomplish this improbable feat -- as long as you don't spread out the puzzle pieces all over the burning hot shards of broken glass. Find a nice, clean, quiet place to do your work.

Afternoon break here at work. On an impulse, I did a one card tarot draw asking what I needed most for clarity right now.

I drew the Knight of Swords, who never comes up for me.

I see in him a call to reorient myself to a more energetic, outward-focused expression of my intellect, to be daring and sure of my truth.

KoS can be dangerous. He turns into a crusader if he loses his perspective and compassion. But part of the work I've started doing around personal power is embracing and expressing more yang energy as I engage with my Work and the world.

And on reflection, his darker, more dangerous aspects are no worse than the dark face of the Queen of Swords.

I don't usually look deeply into astrology, but when I clicked over to Astrobarry.com just now, instead of going directly to my Sagittarius horoscope, I clicked on his entry about the current -- and ongoing -- Saturn-Uranus opposition: http://www.astrobarry.com/2009/sep1309.php

This is fascinating reading, even for a non-astrologically inclined person like me. Essentially, this situation puts the forces of innovation and conservatism in direct conflict, with both sides having validity. On the large scale, we can see it in the debate over the US healthcare system. But it's also very, very pertinent to my personal life, especially around the area of my career.

This is why so many of us currently feel caught amidst perpetual questioning of whether we ought to strive to persist, restraining our immediate discontent in order for our struggling and saving and sticking with it to eventually yield stable long-term results (Saturn)… or whether continuing along the same path will prove to be a deflating dead-end, whether, instead, more drastic and dramatic breaks from the existing norms are needed to breathe life back in before irreversible decay sets in (Uranus).

Any of this ring a bell? The opposition's dual-pressures have been hitting those with personal planets in the last third of the mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces) with the harshest challenges. As far as Sun-signs go, this would most strongly affect those with birthdays around Jun 11-19, Sep 13-21, Dec 12-20, and Mar 11-19.

And the Sagittarius horoscope is scarily on track with this evening's earlier meditations:

The current Mercury retrograde, Saturn and the week's new moon are conspiring to urge you to reorient yourself to what's apt to be the best fit for you professionally (or in terms of your outward community participations)… and, in the process, to come to full grips with the significance of any external indications you've recently received about where you currently stand. As long as Saturn's been in your solar 10th (which has been just about two years now), Sagittarius, you've been faced with a stabilizing (or potentially sobering) 'progress report' on whether your career/community efforts have been effective, if you need to work harder or smarter, and/or are in the most appropriate, productive and realistic place for yourself. These upcoming few weeks frame an exceptionally useful period for analyzing this progress report… both to give yourself credit where credit is due and to concede areas where your best intentions haven't proven enough to yield the results you'd hoped for. Even in those most disappointing cases, there is no excuse to feel badly about yourself. So-called 'failures' teach us so much about ourselves—and, once we forgive our imperfections and commit to moving toward different ambitions with new lessons to offer, they usually end up becoming wonderful perspective-shifting gifts. Whether you ultimately emerge recommitted to perseverance on a presently productive track or reenergized to try a distinctly different path or tactic, the important point is to look ahead. But that's really hard to do well if you haven't come to full grips with either the past or the present.

( The Aries horoscope -- my Moon and Rising -- adds the kicker )

Sagittarius Horoscope for week of September 3, 2009

Before she became a rock goddess, Gwen Stefani cleaned the floors at an ice cream parlor. Prior to ascending to stardom, Ellen DeGeneres was an oyster shucker, Keanu Reeves worked a janitor, and Brad Pitt performed as a giant chicken mascot. As for me, my gig as an internationally syndicated astrologer was not my first. Among many other things, I washed enough pots and pans in cheap restaurants to fulfill my dishwashing karma for my next five incarnations. I hope these examples serve to inspire you, Sagittarius. Even during the down economy, the next six months will provide you with ripe astrological conditions for upgrading your job. And the coming weeks will be prime time to brainstorm about how to go about it.

http://freewillastrology.com/horoscopes/sagittarius.html

Current Freewill Astrology for Sagittarius:

If at some future time you sell your life story to a filmmaker who makes it into a feature film, it may have a lot to do with adventures that kick into high gear in the coming weeks. The fun will start (I hope) when you decide not to merely lie back and be victimized by your signature pain any longer. This brave act will recalibrate the cosmic scales and shift the currents of destiny that flow through you. Soon you will be making progress in untangling a mystery that has eluded your insight for a long time. You will be able to uncover the guarded secrets of a source that has for some time been tweaking your personal power without your full awareness.

This is so pertinent to the work I've been struggling with for goodness-knows-how-long, it's not even funny.

I haven't looked at this site in a long time, but this coming week's horoscope seems particularly apt:

Sagittarius: During his time in hiding, the Biblical prophet Elijah was kept alive by ravens who brought him food. John the Baptist survived on nothing but honey and locusts when he was roaming the wilderness. And I'm sure that some unexpected source of comfort and sustenance will likewise turn up during your wanderings, Sagittarius. It may not be what you're used to. You might even have to cultivate a taste for nourishment that seems foreign. But stick with it. You could learn to love it, and in the process become less dependent on stuff you thought you couldn't do without.

Sagittarius: At a Buddhist sanctuary in Khun Han, Thailand, monks have used a million beer bottles and soft drink bottles to build their temple. Bottle caps have come in handy, too, serving as the raw material for numerous mosaics portraying the Buddha. Your assignment, Sagittarius, is to draw inspiration from these geniuses. How could you take some profane elements of your life and turn them into a hotbed of sacred inspiration?

I find the accompanying image also particularly apt, given my circumstances.

This week's 'scope, courtesy of Astrobarry.com:

Show 'em all what an earnest, zestful love of life looks like, Sagittarius. I have not forgotten that, just a couple weeks back, I reported you were moving through a 'turning of emotional seasons'. And whether that turn made you mildly or more markedly moody, for a relatively shorter or longer time, let's take one giant step back and look at the scene again. Between 1995 and 2008, you contended with Pluto weighing down your sign, bringing its demons and embroilments and brutal realizations… all so that, on the other end, you'd be a more powerful, purposeful and integrated individual. (It worked, didn't it?) From where you stand now, then, you have survived much worse than anything you're presently facing (or, if it really is that bad right now, you are in far greater company than at any time in recent history). Not only did you survive, you did so with a spring still in your step and plenty of wisecracks still stored in your cheeks. Please, oh please, celebrate life. When you are actually enjoying the thing you're doing, your enthusiasm is unbelievably contagious—and bears the power to torch your own bad moods to dust. Put your own enjoyment near the top of your priority list, for the week ahead and the several following, along with whatever bummer jobs might be getting you down. Then, multi-task, alternating yuck-yuck with fun-fun. As long as you don't spend too much cash, you're all good.

Wolfling was born in the last days of 1995. During the subsequent years I finished my MA, got divorced, went through the launch and shut-down of the rocket company (the only job I've ever truly loved), had my gallbladder removed, spent a year in a 24/7 D/s relationship as a sub, spent the next five years deliberately celibate, spent years in less-than-great jobs, struggled with Miss V, went through the painful breakdown of my gaming group, moved into the basement of the duplex, started and left seminary, had the Ex's SO and her kids move in upstairs, went through the drama of his goddaughter and her psycho boyfriend, fell in love unexpectedly with Lee and Lohain, had them as partners for a year and then went through the pain of Lohain's death and the transformation of my relationship with Lee, got a new job here at MyCo, moved out of the basement, started my priestess training, had a breast cancer scare, moved again. . .

A couple of nights ago I made a post in which I asked "When did I get this strong?" Probably since 1995. . .

Today's Note from the Universe:

FJ, it's within you: the answers you seek, the direction you want, and the power to be whoever you want to be. Your dreams are not yours by mere whim. They've been meticulously matched to the gifts you're now developing. Designed to lure you within, where your true power lies, and then out into the world, beyond imagined limitations and fears. Trust yourself. Listen to your heart. You have the right stuff, you know what to do, and it can all be yours.

Hosanna in the highest,
The Universe

Amen!

Yesterday was a really rough day. As part of her supportive comments,

a_belletrist suggested drawing a tarot card for insight.

Yesterday got away from me, but this morning I started out with a draw, and got the 8 of Swords.

Limitation and oppression are primarily the product of my own mind, and a shift of perspective, a shift in thought patterns, is my best tool for "escape" from feeling trapped.

The next two cards were 9 of Cups inverted, pointing out that despite my good intentions I really don't have the resources right now for happy hospitality, and the third card was the King of Pentacles, reminding me to ground and have confidence in my ability to have authority and control in the spheres of the material world where I'm find so much challenge. It is also a reminder of my primary ally, who is ever with me, ever generous.

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Not only do I believe that it's possible to predict the future, I can think of no better way to celebrate Nostradamus's birthday -- and mine! (I'm 44 today) -- than by engaging in the practice of divination.

So whether you're serious or silly, please post a predication here for my year to come!

Seriously. . . each year on my birthday I send out a general request to my friends for divinations for the year to come. I would sincerely appreciate any oracles you -- and your gods -- were willing to perform on my behalf.

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Not only do I believe that it's possible to predict the future, I can think of no better way to celebrate Nostradamus's birthday -- and mine -- than by engaging in the practice of divination.

So whether you're serious or silly, please post a predication here for my year to come!

This morning's Message from the Universe:

Sometimes, when you're feeling your lowest, Feral_Journey, the real you is summoned.

And you understand, maybe for the first time ever, how grand you are, because you discover that vulnerable doesn't mean powerless, scared doesn't mean lacking in beauty, and uncertainty doesn't mean that you're lost.

These realizations alone will set you on a journey that will take you far beyond what you used to think of as extraordinary.

There is always a bright side.

- The Universe

Astrobarry.com offers some insights into the situation we in the U.S. face this week -- and in the months to come.

"Along our way, each of us will meet countless other individuals facing the same fundamental life questions (don't we all live within the same cosmos?)… though many will approach them from positions in sharp contrast to ours. What inspires our hope may trigger their terror. What represents our liberation may constitute the radical destruction of their near-and-dear values. And what we may do to try and build these fresh freedoms into our reigning social structures, they might seek to undermine or sabotage in righteous refusal to bow down.

Can't you see? We are both us and them in different guises, based on the situation. No matter what side of history we find ourselves on, the other players deserve our basic human respect—regardless of whether we feel they've given us the same. Compassion's got to start somewhere."

http://www.astrobarry.com/2008/nov208.php for the whole article

Current Mood: contemplative

Sagittarius horoscope from Freewill Astrology:

Medical insurance is out of reach for 46 million of my fellow Americans. Our country is at war in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as with a ghostly omnipresent foe known as terrorism. Our national debt is stupendous, our stock market has plunged, and many companies once thought to be towers of strength have failed. Meanwhile, right next door, Canada has universal healthcare and a budget surplus. Its banks are solvent and it is embroiled in zero wars. Am I jealous? Of course. Am I planning to emigrate? No. I'm going to stay here and keep agitating for goodness and justice and beauty. After evaluating your astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suggest that you do the equivalent in your own life: Stand your ground as you work to fix the flawed situation you've been given; don't flee to where the grass seems greener. Halloween costume suggestions: an elder statesman, wise crone, or charismatic teacher.

"Elder statesman, wise crone, or charismatic teacher"? I'll take all three, please!

Sagittarius

The world is poised at the threshold of a great choice: Should we stick with what has worked for us, even though it's not working any more? Or should we experiment with possibilities that may work for us in the future, even though they don't have a track record? You, Sagittarius, can and should be a leader in this epic adventure. The best way to do that is to summon your dormant courage as you apply the big questions I just posed to the specific circumstances of your personal life.

http://www.freewillastrology.com/horoscopes/

As a matter of fact, I have plans for this weekend regarding certain "specific circumstances of my personal life."

Current Mood: optimistic

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