from Pattern On The Trestle Board (number eight)

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Saturn cycles – What it means when it makes a conjunction, square or opposition to planets or the Ascendant

Summation:

To sum up, Saturn transits help us deepen, mature, and reshape what we need to in order to become a better citizen of our world. Saturn transits help us redefine ourselves, our purpose, our duties, and our fears. After Saturn touches a part of our being, we are to some degree more serious or clear-minded, whether pessimistically or optimistically. As I said before, Saturn teaches us what we can live with or cannot, regarding what the planets symbolize in our lives, whether people, purpose, or process.

In esoteric philosophy, Saturn symbolizes chains and bondage, but also liberation from everything we no longer want nor need. “Dominion and Slavery” are the duality of Saturn’s function. Either we choose to live with the traps of perceptual half-truths based in desire, fear, and duality, or we choose to accept our ability to exercise dominion over our lower self, living on the basis of our Higher Self, which is the seat of our authority over the world of form limited only by our dharma, or “true function,” also symbolized by Saturn.

To quote the great Arhat Paul Foster Case,

Right interpretation of the necessity for limitation in any form of manifested existence is the secret of dominion. Wrong interpretation of the same thing is the cause of our slavery to conditions. The clue to the right understanding is the aphorism, ‘He who would rule Nature must first obey her laws.’

Saturn shows us how and when we must take responsibility for being an Eternal Spirit occupying a body with feelings and ideas. Saturn teaches humanity how to be patient, persevering, mature, and achieve a well-rounded perspective that is fair, balanced, and reasoned out, the better to demonstrate skill and authority despite the boundaries and limitations of any thing or situation. Saturn is the “Ring-Pass-Not” whose lessons we must learn in order to grow beyond fear.

Excerpt From: http://www.aquariuspapers.com/astrology/2005/12/saturn_cycles_w.html(Originally published 17 June 2005) ]]> http://sukhmani123.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/460/ Sat, 09 May 2009 01:00:32 +0000 Sukhmani http://sukhmani123.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/460/ The Mother, Part 1

There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and difficult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers.

But the supreme Grace will act only in the conditions of the Light and the Truth; it will not act in conditions laid upon it by the Falsehood and the Ignorance. For if it were to yield to the demands of the Falsehood, it would defeat its own purpose.

These are the conditions of the Light and Truth, the sole conditions under which the highest Force will descend; and it is only the very highest supramental Force descending from above and opening from below that can victoriously handle the physical Nature and annihilate its difficulties …. There must be a total and sincere surrender; there must be an exclusive self-opening to the divine Power; there must be a constant and integral choice of the Truth that is descending, a constant and integral rejection of the falsehood of the mental, vital and physical Powers and Appearances that still rule the earth Nature.

The surrender must be total and seize all the parts of the being. It is not enough that the psychic should respond and the higher mental accept or even the inner vital submit and the inner physical consciousness feel the influence. There must be in no part of the being, even the most external, anything that makes a reserve, anything that hides behind doubts, confusions and subterfuges, anything that revolts or refuses.

If part of the being surrenders, but another part reserves itself, follows its own way or makes its own conditions, then each time that that happens, you are yourself pushing the divine Grace away from you.

If behind your devotion and surrender you make a cover for your desires, egoistic demands and vital insistences, if you put these things in place of the true aspiration or mix them with it and try to impose them on the Divine Shakti, then it is idle to invoke the divine Grace to transform you.

If you open yourself on one side or in one part to the Truth and on another side are constantly opening the gates to hostile forces, it is vain to expect that the divine Grace will abide with you. You must keep the temple clean if you wish to instal there the living Presence.

If each time the Power intervenes and brings in the Truth, you turn your back on it and call in again the falsehood that has been expelled, it is not the divine Grace that you must blame for failing you, but the falsity of your own will and the imperfection of your own surrender.

If you call for the Truth and yet something in you chooses what is false, ignorant and undivine or even simply is unwilling to reject it altogether, then always you will be open to attack and the Grace will recede from you. Detect first what is false or obscure in you and persistently reject it, then alone can you rightly call for the divine Power to transform you.

Do not imagine that truth and falsehood, light and darkness, surrender and selfishness can be allowed to dwell together in the house consecrated to the Divine. The transformation must be integral, and integral therefore the rejection of all that withstands it.

Reject the false notion that the divine Power will do and is bound to do everything for you at your demand and even though you do not satisfy the conditions laid down by the Supreme. Make your surrender true and complete, then only will all else be done for you.

Reject too the false and indolent expectation that the divine Power will do even the surrender for you. The Supreme demands your surrender to her, but does not impose it: you are free at every moment, till the irrevocable transformation comes, to deny and to reject the Divine or to recall your self-giving, if you are willing to suffer the spiritual consequence. Your surrender must be self-made and free; it must be the surrender of a living being, not of an inert automaton or mechanical tool.

An inert passivity is constantly confused with the real surrender, but out of an inert passivity nothing true and powerful can come. It is the inert passivity of physical Nature that leaves it at the mercy of every obscure or undivine influence. A glad and strong and helpful submission is demanded to the working of the Divine Force, the obedience of the illumined disciple of the Truth, of the inner Warrior who fights against obscurity and falsehood, of the faithful servant of the Divine.

This is the true attitude and only those who can take and keep it, preserve a faith unshaken by disappointments and difficulties and shall pass through the ordeal to the supreme victory and the great transmutation.

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I relax and cast aside all mental burdens,
allowing God to express through me
His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.

To connect with this inner Soma, we can follow a simple mantra meditation. Silently repeat the mantra OM along with the process of inhalation to draw the flow of Soma from the outer universe into the heart. Then silently repeat the mantra Hrim on exhalation to energize the Soma to revitalize the heart. Ending exhalation with a quick silent repetition of the mantra Hum adds zest to the fire in hastening its mystical alchemy – Om Hrim Hum!

Mantras carry the potency of Soma in their vibratory fields, honing the subtle nuances of our intuitive voice. In trusting our profound insight, perception and sensitivity we connect with our higher selves. Communing with this sacred voice we are guided to the ultimate truth of the soul’s reality. Being present and aware within our own bodies is cultivating the art of divining our inner essence. In consecrating our being through yogic practices, our bodily energies open up to their subtle essences and lead us to our deeper self where we access the revered wisdom deep within ourselves.

Written by Shambhavi Chopra

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I relax and cast aside all mental burdens,
allowing God to express through me
His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.

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I relax and cast aside all mental burdens,
allowing God to express through me
His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.

He questioned softly why I failed?
“For beauty,” I replied.
“And I for truth, -the two are one;
We brethren are,” he said.

And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names.

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‘May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others.

May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. may you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.’