Planet Waves stuff
I got sent some (promotional?) stuff from there, which happens periodically. Figured I'd reprint what I could.
Oh, I hear THAT. It's my big issue of late.As a stunning New Moon sweeps through your birth sign this month, I suggest you ask yourself one question: is what you want based on what you want, or is it based on some extreme external conditioning?
One’s work or mission must be based on an inner process in order to be authentic. While it’s impossible to sort out all external factors, there are a few you need to be aware of. These principally involve the effects of what you were told you could not do. The equation parses out like this. If you were blocked, chastised, or punished for expressing your talents, this can trigger a kind of obsession with ambition.
Hmmmm, sorta? To be fair, blocked on my TALENTS, not so much. Blocked on other things, yes. I guess that could explain where my obsession with this stuff could be, though.
I'm just separating the next part of this to highlight it...
The effect would be to make you object oriented rather than process oriented; in spiritual terms, you could stay hung up on the supposed destination rather than the journey. You will have a clue about whether this is happening if in some way you emphasize image over substance; if you are concerned more about what people think than how you feel.
HMMMMMMMM.
The most helpful thing you can do at this point is discern whether your goals are really your goals. Where exactly did they come from, and what other options do you see? For where you are at now, is it necessary to have goals at all, or do they conceal something deeper — something you truly want and need?
Will have to think about that one. Especially the last damn sentence of it. I will admit that part of my goals obsession is to do something for myself, that specifically DOESN'T require the cooperation and finding of someone else to do it.
Weekly horoscope in e-mail, so no linky:
Eeek.The slow progress you are making in your current quest for self-understanding would go quicker if you would let pain be your teacher. Americans in particular make up a lot of rules about pain: it's always bad; we must seek pleasure; an easy (wrong) answer is better than a difficult (correct) answer. I am not here to preach the doctrine of struggle, but rather to deliver the simple message that if you give your pain, your fear and your self-doubt clear voices, you will actually understand what they are saying, and you will have a chance to respond appropriately. The real you is alive and well beneath your doubts, waiting for its moment to play.
