Unfolding Our Unlimited Potential
As God’s children of the Earth and young God’s in the making, our potential is unlimited. Individually and as a race, we are capable of rising to the most dizzying evolutionary heights. Our individual and collective character is the only thing that can ever stand in the way of making the progress that is rightfully ours. All negative and difficult Karma that was created in the past and to this day is being created by many is due to someone’s character flaws. Every bit of it one day has to be made good and redeemed, either in this lifetime or another. By holding us responsible for ourselves and our character development, the Universe has placed the means for putting an end to this kind of misery in every human soul’s own hands.
Before our Creator everybody is the same and no soul is better than or superior to any other. Either openly or hidden in the recesses of our subconscious, we all have been endowed with a fair share of the most unpleasant traces of human behaviour. To name but a few: utter selfishness, belligerence, arrogance, aggression and nastiness, over-possessiveness, greed and too much acquisitiveness for our planet’s material goodies, all these things are deeply embedded in every one of us and therefore hard to overcome. These characteristics are some of the lowest aspects of Aries and Taurus – find out more about them by following the links at the end of this chapter. Everybody has them because every soul, at the beginning of each new evolutionary cycle that takes us through all the signs of the zodiac, has to take part in the Aries and Taurus lessons.
In our work at overcoming the negative aspects of our nature, much can be achieved with the help of astrology. In the right hands it can be turned into a veritable life-help. Our birthcharts deal with the potential we have brought with us, but we ourselves are the only ones who can tell what we have made of ours so far. The progressions and transits show us which energies are predominantly influencing us at present. The Bible tells us that there is a right time for everything, astrology confirms that every human life contains times for reaping and others for sowing. I believe that the Divine science is meant to be used as a tool for assessing which point we have reached on our pathway through life and what energies are influencing it mostly and what kind of life lessons they are trying to bring. There are good times for launching new projects successfully and those when it is wiser to slow down to wait for another attempt.
Astrology can help those who dislike people to become more tolerant through a better understanding of what is moving through their lives and the pathway they have to walk. Tolerance grows naturally from a better perception of why some folks simply cannot help behaving in certain ways and the strange things some of us insist on doing to each other, our Earth and the other Kingdoms and also to us. Broad-mindedness towards ourselves and each other is the natural by-product of an ever increasing grasp of the true purpose of our earthly existence. It comes from finding out that we are all on the same pathway and share similar lessons, and that many of people’s weird actions are due to reactions from their subconscious, where everybody’s memories of all lifetimes are stored.
For as long as our instinctive responses come from there in an uncontrolled manner not a great deal can be done about them. To my mind, changes can only be made successfully by those who wake up to the realisation that each one of us is responsible for their own behaviour. Without accepting this responsibility and taking charge of our character and inner thoughts and motivations, it is just about impossible to bring about the fundamental changes that are vital for every human soul’s evolutionary progress.
Isn’t it comforting to know that in the end, we all get what we deserve, no matter how long it may take? Becoming increasingly aware of this gradually makes us more tolerant and less critical towards ourselves and those around us. As we reflect on the amount of suffering we ourselves must have caused and gone through, in the course of many lifetimes, love and compassion for ourselves and our own suffering as well as that of everybody else’s begin to fill our heart. It hardly bears thinking about what those who still insist on misbehaving and bringing suffering to those around them and our world are doing to themselves. Hence, according to the legend, Jesus’ last words on the cross: ‘Father, forgive them – they know not what they are doing.’ With our present degree of awareness one cannot avoid uttering the same. The Master soul on the cross forgiving those torturing him is a fine example of how we are all required to forgive those who have ever trespassed against us.
On our present level of existence there is no way of telling the reasons for certain happenings in our lives and why people still do painful things to us. Let’s take an example from the reign of the Romans. Crucifying those who had broken their laws in those days was a popular method of punishment. Now, if some of us who are here today, took part in one of those crucifixions – as we may well have done – on either side of the Roman justice system, we may have heaped enormous karmic debts upon our shoulders. That’s why, whenever I am tempted to sit in judgement over someone, I find it useful to take a moment to reflect and ask myself: ‘Will the one amongst you who is without sin, cast the first stone?’ I am sure there just isn’t one.
It is for our own protection that we do not know what we have been up to in previous lifetimes. If we knew, we would probably find it impossible to live with ourselves, as every unkind word, thought and action has to be redeemed by us, if not during this lifetime, then in another. This realisation to me is the most powerful incentive of all to start working on ourselves. Only by thinking carefully about how to respond in any given situation do we take our destiny into our own hands. We then respond to the pull of our spirit, symbolised by the Sun in our birthchart, so it can help us bring forth the very best and highest that is within us.
This Sun stands for the spiritual Sun, the Sun above and behind all Suns. It is the giver of all life that radiates its light and warmth through the Sun in the sky above us into us and everything that shares this existence with us. Each one of us is a spark of this great light who is constantly tries to guide us from our inner darkness of ignorance into the light of conscious awareness and knowledge of who we and It truly are. Following Its guidance and under Its protection, we shall gradually shed our fear of pursuing humankind’s most lofty ideas and dreams, irrespective of what the world around us may still believe in.
Recommended Reading:
• ‘The Sun In Aries’
• ‘The Sun In Taurus’
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The above is a chapter from ‘The Astro Files Philosophy’.
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‘The Astro Files Philosophy’
