Today Horoscope, Daily Astrology, Zodiac Sign for Sunday, March 1, 2020 India TV News
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Sunday, March 1, 2020
Daily Spiritual Exercises
As preparation for the Our Father course, please look at these daily exercises. Initially, you should try each one for a week or two. Spend 5 minutes in the morning with the exercise, and then throughout the day when it occurs to you.
When you have become comfortable, then do each exercise on the appointed day. Eventually, add the daily examination, which is the synthesis of the other exercises, to your practice.
Saturday: Right Opinion
To pay attention to one’s ideas.
To think only significant thoughts. To learn little by little to separate in one’s thoughts the essential from the nonessential, the eternal from the transitory, truth from mere opinion.
In listening to the talk of one’s fellow-men, to try and become quite still inwardly, foregoing all assent, and still more all unfavourable judgments (criticism, rejection), even in one’s thoughts and feelings.
Sunday: Right Judgment
To determine on even the most insignificant matter only after fully reasoned deliberation. All unthinking behaviour, all meaningless actions, should be kept far away from the soul. One should always have well-weighed reasons for everything. And one should definitely abstain from doing anything for which there is no significant reason.
Once one is convinced of the rightness of a decision, one must hold fast to it, with inner steadfastness.
Right judgments have been formed independently of sympathies and antipathies.
Monday: Right Word
Talking. Only what has sense and meaning should come from the lips of one striving for higher development. All talking for the sake of talking – to kill time — is in this sense harmful.
The usual kind of conversation, a disjointed medley of remarks, should be avoided. This does not mean shutting oneself off from intercourse with one’s fellows; it is precisely then that talk should gradually be led to significance. One adopts a thoughtful attitude to every speech and answer taking all aspects into account. Never talk without cause — be gladly silent. One tries not to talk too much or too little. First listen quietly; then reflect on what has been said.
Tuesday: Right Deed
External actions. These should not be disturbing for our fellow-men. Where an occasion calls for action out of one’s inner being, deliberate carefully how one can best meet the occasion — for the good of the whole, the lasting happiness of man, the eternal.
Where one does things of one’s own accord, out of one’s own initiative: consider most thoroughly beforehand the effect of one’s actions.
Wednesday: Right Standpoint
The ordering of life. To live in accordance with Nature and Spirit. Not to be swamped by the external trivialities of life. To avoid all that brings unrest and haste into life. To hurry over nothing, but also not to be indolent. To look on life as a means for working towards higher development and to behave accordingly.
Thursday: Right Habit
Human Endeavour. One should take care to do nothing that lies beyond one’s powers — but also to leave nothing undone which lies within them.
To look beyond the everyday, the momentary, and to set oneself aims and ideals connected with the highest duties of a human being. For instance, in the sense of the prescribed exercises, to try to develop oneself so that afterwards one may be able all the more to help and advise one’s fellow-men — though perhaps not in the immediate future.
This can be summed up as: To let all the foregoing exercises become a habit
Friday: Right Memory
(Remembering what has been learnt from experiences).
The endeavour to learn as much as possible from life.
Nothing goes by us without giving us a chance to gain experiences that are useful for life. If one has done something wrongly or imperfectly, that becomes a motive for doing it rightly or more perfectly, later on.
If one sees others doing something, one observes them with the like end in view (yet not coldly or heartlessly). And one does nothing without looking back to past experiences which can be of assistance in one’s decisions and achievements.
One can learn from everyone — even from children if one is attentive.
Every Day: Right Examination
To turn one’s gaze inwards from time to time, even if only for five minutes daily at the same time. In so doing one should sink down into oneself, carefully take counsel with oneself, test and form one’s principles of life, run through in thought one’s knowledge — or lack of it — weigh up one’s duties, think over the contents and true purpose of life, feel genuinely pained by one’s own errors and imperfections.
In a word: labour to discover the essential, the enduring, and earnestly aim at goals in accord with it: for instance, virtues to be acquired. (Not to fall into the mistake of thinking that one has done something well, but to strive ever further towards the highest standards.)
- Turn one’s gaze inwards from time to time, even if only for five minutes daily.
- Sink down into oneself.
- Carefully take counsel with oneself.
- Test and form one’s principles of life.
- Run through in thought one’s knowledge — or lack of it
- Weigh up one’s duties.
- Think over the contents and true purpose of life.
- Feel genuinely pained by one’s own errors and imperfections.
- Labour to discover the essential, the enduring, and earnestly aim at goals in accord with it.
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The Hit List – The Leap of Faith
Happy Leap Year! An extra day! YAY!
Every time a Leap Year comes around, I start thinking about what leaps of faith I’ve taken since the last one. There have been quite a few.
New books, a writer’s retreat, travel galore, paying off my mortgage early. SO. MANY. LEAPS.
But isn’t that what life is all about? Doesn’t everything carry a bit of risk? That first kiss, marriage, giving up drinking, getting on an airplane, having a child…all of it can lead to happiness – or pain. You never know what’s on the other side of your decisions. So many decisions you make, every single day, require a leap of faith.
That can be a bit scary when you come to think about it. But if you never make those decisions to dive in, then what? Life becomes safe, right? NOPE. It becomes dull. The potential for growth gets stunted by the gods of fear.
It’s better to take the risk every time, even if things don’t quite pan out. Because a life well-lived, bumps and all, is better than the alternative.
So today, take the leap of faith. Do the thing that scares you the most. Like Tarot’s Fool, turn your face to the heavens and trust that the Universe will show the way. JUMP!
I love seeing my book in the wild!
Other stuff:
March arrives tomorrow but your monthly horoscopes are here now. You’re welcome.
A compelling read: They Killed Their Husbands. Now in Prison, They Feel Free.
The Perfect Breakup Playlist, According To A Music Therapist.
Love this from Onareo: Getting Read.
Why am I so obsessed over the downfall of LulaRoe? Oh yeah: I hate MLMs.
Elizabeth Warren On Mentoring Young Women, Equal Pay & Oprah.
In Talking Shop’s latest episode, Bri Saussy and I talk about Mercury retrograde and business.
This Is What It’s Really Like To Go Through Opiate Withdrawal.
I’m on the Brave + Well podcast talking with Dr. Alysondra Duke about stacking the odds in your favor.
Learn about Sun Aspects in this short lesson.
Keep fighting: Hope Is Roe’s Last Chance.
From the Queen of Wands herself, Jenna Matlin: What Tarot Readers & Resource Librarians Have in Common.
The First Body-Positive Children’s Book Just Came Out, and It’s Exactly What the World Needs Now.
This makes me sad: A Shot Before Last Call: Capturing New Orleans’s Vanishing Black Bars.
Chef Lidia Bastianich reveals why she cooks: “Food is comfort. Food is memory. It communicates.”
Mantis joined me to talk about creating your own tarot card meanings on Tarot Bytes. (Psst…Tarot Bytes recently crossed the million download mark! Yay!)
From Cosmo: When to Level Up Your Relationship, According to Your Moon Sign.
I have some of these decks: Editors’ Picks for Trendy Tarot Decks.
Check this out from The Akashic Astronaut: The stigma of Mercury retrograde.
This made me laugh my ass off.
GOOD: This Southern State Just Repealed Decades of Abortion Restrictions.
Another one bites the dust: Everybody Goes to Burger Heaven.
I made this crispy fried rice with bacon and cabbage – and it was uh-may-zing!
Ha: So You’ve Been ‘Zodiac Shamed.’ You’re Not Alone.
If you need to take a leap of faith but are too scared, I recommend this book: The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level.
I JUST got a copy of The Star Spinner Tarot. It’s gorgeous. You are gonna want this one, folks!
I know what’s going on my wish list: Movie Tarot: The Hero’s Journey.
This looks absolutely wonderful: Dinner in French: My Recipes by Way of France: A Cookbook.
Oooh..check out the cover for Fearless Tarot, Elliot Adam’s upcoming book!
Worth a look: Experience the Mystery of Tarot: Ceremonies, Spreads, and Meditations to Deepen Your Connection to the Cards by Katalin Jett Koda.
Ellen Lorenzi-Prince’s Dark Goddess Tarot is coming this fall!
My inner Goth girl approves of this deck: Murder of Crows Tarot.
For the dog lover in your life: Dogstrology: Unlock the Secrets of the Stars with Dogs.
The Tarot Coloring Book is the fun companion for your tarot journey! Learn to read the cards in a playful way!
Life is not all “love and light” or “positive vibes only.” Sometimes things are rough AF. Tarot For Troubled Times is filled with tarot spreads, rituals, affirmations, and advice to help you navigate this funky world – and change it.
I remember when I began studying astrology. The few books I could get my hands on were boring, dry, and confusing. It made learning HARD (and not fun). That’s why I wrote Astrology for Real Life: A Workbook for Beginners (A No B.S. Guide for the Astro-Curious). Learning astrology doesn’t have to be a drag!
Events:
April 24-26, 2020: Readers Studio. I’m a main stage presenter at the annual Readers Studio Tarot Conference in New York, the biggest tarot conference in the world. Join me and other world-class instructors for a weekend of tarot goodness!
May 10-16, 2020: The Tuscany Tarot Intensive. Where: Italy! A full week of tarot immersion. Great food, killer lessons, awesome people – gorgeous location! SOLD OUT!
August 30, 2020: Brushes and Stars. Where: Oakland, California. A full-day of astrology and intuitive painting – and yummy food! Join me and Chris Zydel for a joyful, astrology-inspired intuitive painting experience.
Coming soon: Aloha Astrology and Tarot Retreat….January 2021!
What I’m Grateful For:
The risks I have taken
The possibility of more adventures
Well-earned gray hairs
Soft music
The Outsider
The New Pope (so, so good)
Soundtrack for 2/29/20:
Sexy Please by Lion Babe
Blessings,
Theresa
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Sleeping Beauty, Astrology, Venus and Eris square Pluto
VENUS, the Goddess of women, beauty, luxury, money and vanity and ERIS the “Uninvited Guest or 13th Fairy in The Fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty, Goddess of discord and chaos, MARS’ sister meet at 23+ ARIES and both square PLUTO in CAPRICORN.
Golden_Apple_of_Discord_by_Jacob_Jordaens / Public domain
ERIS was the Goddess or personified spirit or daimona of strife, discord, contention and rivalry. She was often portrayed, haunting the battlefield and delighting in human bloodshed.
This is MAJOR Cardinal Square discordant energy. We’ve been feeling this off-key disharmony and seeing it in the world of late. PLUTO in an exact square with VENUS and ERIS is causing the stock market sell-off around the coronavirus which is very real.
I believe this is another tipping point and the market will continue to slide. Tempers will be flaring with Eris and Venus in fiery impatient, angry Aries. “PLUTO is Lord of DEATH and wealth.
Since 2008 when Pluto first entered the sign of corporate structure he has been slowly crashing old stable structures on a cyclical basis. We are entering PLUTO’s last 7 degrees before the planet enters Aquarius in 2023/ 2024. Things are getting more and more intense.
When I interpret a PLUTO transit for a person I tell them that it’s important for them to decide what their soul’s values are. IF one feels that one is following their soul purpose then PLUTO is LORD OF WEALTH. Pluto is also the PLUTOCRACY the less than 1% who control the major wealth in the world. The PLUTOCRACY wants absolute control and power over the resources of the world. They have that already. Pluto also destroys those in positions of power who are not evolving to transform what Carl Jung would call the World’s Soul.
The Collective Unconscious which PLUTO governs and the world at large, is being faced with such a choice now.
WITH VENUS in the mix in ARIES. We need to ask ourselves
Do we live with values that enhance love? Are we living our true soul values?
Will we fight for love and beauty over corporate greed and living in a state of total control by the Plutocracy which is where it is already heading. Look at what is going on in Hong Kong. China is a hotbed of creating the coronavirus or having it planted there. China itself may be destroyed over the coronavirus. Which would be the best thing to happen. China is being extremely dictatorial to its citizens with whole cities on total lockdown, from the news I have heard on alternative secret news media.
Remember all the Astrologers were warning you about how heavy 2020 was going to be? A friend of mine Astrologer Maurice Fernandez had been saying the minutes that the Saturn Pluto conjunction happened on January 12, 2020, that the market would fall apart right after that.
This is a time to face hard cold truth. If we don’t make hard choices, which squares imply to change our collective values and not buy into the MATERIALITY of CAPRICORN and consumer culture as it has been, then we are faced with self-destruction, from corporate greed destruction.
ERIS in infamous for throwing the Gold apple of Discord which was inscribed “For the most beautiful.” at three Goddesses, APHRODITE which is VENUS, Hera, Zeus’s wife/ Juno in Roman, and Athena the warrior Goddess and very much like Eris herself. Each Goddess claimed it. Zeus assigned the decision making to Paris, a simple shepherd on Mount Ida. Paris gave the apple to Aphrodite/ Venus who then helped him win the heart of the beautiful Helen of Troy which inevitably resulted in the Trojan War.
JUNO/HERA is at 20+ degrees LIBRA opposite to VENUS/ERIS, ATHENA the other Goddess who was originally involved in the Greek Myth is at 15 degrees CAPRICORN she is actually also in this T-Square. I
TRUE SYNCHRONICITY
AS ABOVE SO BELOW. In fact, this is an exact replication of all of the Goddesses involved in the original script. I find that astonishing.
ERIS has an affinity to LILITH in this, LILITH is moving into exact conjunction with CHIRON the WOUNDED HEALER in early degrees of ARIES. They will meet at 4+ degrees in March. The issue of dropping the weapons, surrendering to vulnerability to heal is what is most important.
Do we collectively buy into our own egos and vanity and the expense of our souls? If so then a war on a spiritual level will ensue. PLUTO rules soul wealth not Material wealth but in Capricorn, he is walking both sides.
ERIS is also the Goddess of those who are left out, uninvited, ignored, outcasts. We need to invite ERIS’s slow power, her anger, cleverness, and revengeful bloodlust to the table so we can hash out what to do with such powerful energies so that they can be used in a positive way. ERIS represents the righteous anger of the Feminine for being ignored, repressed, and shunned. That ‘dark feminine energy is liberating powerful and will naturally transform when it is accepted.
ERIS and PLUTO will continue to square each other for at least the next 2 years.
If you have planets 16-30 degrees CARDINAL signs. CAPRICORN, ARIES LIBRA AND CANCER you will feel the pressure most directly.
This discord will not just go away. We need to take some long hard looks at our choices in the world. Pluto as Lord of Death and Rebirth is the strongest of planets. Choose carefully what “for the most beautiful” values the golden apple symbolizes. Is it your own ego, vanity and greed or the beauty of nature, unblemished by toxic greed, weapons, technologies and secrets by power mongers?
Do we choose love or power? This is what Carl Jung said, there are only two emotions. Love unites, power separates and is born of fear. The choice is your power to choose love.
Remember the way things are going. PLUTO will enter AQUARIUS by 2023/2024. The revolution is inevitable.
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A perfect song the POwer of Love which I didn’t even know about until now. The lyrics are perfect
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Guide to meditative reading
Genesis, the Gospels, and the Apocalypse dominate the readings for the Our Father Course. Since those books (and there are others) are understood by Valentin Tomberg to be composed of spiritual exercises, he gives us some clues about how to read such books. Keep these points in mind as you do the meditative readings for day. In particular, in the Meditations, Tomberg explains how to read the Apocalypse as well as the Gospels. These techniques will apply to the other readings as well.
How to read the Apocalypse
You may come to a different understanding from Tomberg’s commentary on the Course. But this is how he suggests reading the Apocalpyse:
the “key” to the Apocalypse of St. John is nowhere to be found… for it is not at all a matter of interpreting it with a view to extracting a philosophical, metaphysical or historical system. The key to the Apocalypse is to practise it, i.e. to make use of it as a book of spiritual exercises which awaken from sleep ever-deeper layers of consciousness.
The seven letters to the churches, the seven seals of the sealed book, the seven trumpets and the seven vials signify, all together, a course of spiritual exercises composed of twenty-eight exercises. For as the Apocalypse is a revelation put into writing, it is necessary, in order to understand it, to establish in oneself a state of consciousness which is suited to receive revelations.
- It is the state of concentration without effort (taught by the first Arcanum),
- followed by a vigilant inner silence (taught by the second Arcanum),
- which becomes an inspired activity of imagination and thought, where the conscious self acts together with superconsciousness (teaching of the third Arcanum).
- Lastly, the conscious self halts its creative activity and contemplates —in letting pass in review—everything which preceded, with a view to summarising it (practical teaching of the fourth Arcanum).
The mastery of these four psychurgical operations, symbolised by “The Magician”, The High Priestess”, “The Empress” and “The Emperor”, is the key to the Apocalypse. One will search in vain for another.
How to read the Gospels
This requires the use of the imagination (step 3 above) to properly read the Gospels. This is so radically different from the scholarly techniques of textual analysis, etc., which mostly desiccate the texts.
The Gospels, likewise, are spiritual exercises, i.e. one has not only to read and re-read them, but also to plunge entirely into their element, to breathe their air, to Participate as an eye-witness, as it were, in the events described there — and all this not in a scrutinising way, but as an “admirer”, with ever-growing admiration.
The Higher Self
I recently listened to a super-correct theologian who objected to Hermetic teaching, calling the idea of raising one’s state of consciousness “satanic”. It is best to leave such types at peace, but, for us, we follow St Bonaventura, St Augustine, John Climacus, Dante, St John of the Cross, and many others who documented the ascent to God. I have documented their teachings on my blog; I do not create new doctrines. Tomberg uses terms derived from Steiner to represent these higher states; I’ll probably continue to use them as a convenience, but that does not mean a full endorsement of Anthroposophy. Thomas Aquinas claimed we cannot know God in his essence in this life, yet we can go as far as we are capable of. This is how Tomberg describes it in the Meditations:
The transcendental Self is not God. It is in his image and after his likeness, according to the law of analogy or kinship, but it is not identical with God. There are still several degrees on the ladder of analogy which separate it from the summit of the ladder —from God. These degrees which are higher than it are its “stars”—or the ideals to which it aims. The Apocalypse specifies the number of them: there are twelve degrees higher than that of the consciousness of the human transcendental Self. It is necessary, therefore, in order to attain to the ONE God, to elevate oneself successively to degrees of consciousness of the nine spiritual hierarchies and the Holy Trinity.
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