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Vanessa's avatar

"May you find your light and illuminate all darkness on your path back home." This!!!!

THANK YOU! great article!

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CJ's avatar

I recognize real life experience in this article. Thank you for putting it out into the world.

I have a couple of thoughts:

1) I question whether we are truly in the Age of Aquarius. Everyone talks about this as if it is verified fact. But I would argue that we are in the Age of Libra, based on my understanding of both astrology and our recent history with respect to astrological understanding (history prior to any others that may have been destroyed and/or unknown to us). To explain it fully I’d have to write a detailed paper. But briefly- Libra is thematically about integration of opposites, and integration in general. We see this theme (in western civilization anyway) becoming a point of focus across various fields of knowledge: medicine, farming, the sciences, philosophy, psychology and so on. It is also about achieving a state of balance (as discussed in your article) in all things (which is required before advancing to the next zodiacal archetype, Scorpio - which is all about pushing the limits).

What is interesting is that each time a higher level of mastery is achieved in one archetype, it strengthens the functioning of the others. So in this particular case, if a sense of harmony and balance is achieved (Libra), then the Aquarian archetype present in all of us, for example, will be better able to change, progress, awaken and so forth (change, progress and awakening all falling within the Aquarian archetype).

Secondly, I wonder about insects sometimes and whether or not they are more or less “programs” without a consciousness, or if there is something more to them. There are, after all, beneficial insects for the soil and things that grow in them, and insects that are harmful to growth. But the interesting thing there, is that the harmful insects show up when there are imbalances in soil composition. Ultimately, they seem to be there to “clean up” on some level. People blame the arrival of insects for plant failure, but if one gardens long enough, they observe that when the soil is healthy (balanced), the harmful insects don’t intrude. So maintaining soil health is key.

Also related to insects, I once spoke to a dragonfly (of course I didn’t think I was actually speaking to it in the sense that it would understand anything I said, rather it was sort of a natural absentminded mess that was followed by surprising results). I was walking along the road and spotted a dragonfly lying off to the side. I worried that a car might drive right over it. So I attempted to move it gently with a small twig. It would not budge. I was puzzled and a bit frustrated. Finally, I held out my hand and asked aloud, “Would you prefer this?” Immediately following my question, it walked right into my hand and stayed there all the way home. I then placed it under a squash leaf in my garden and brought it some water. I stayed with it for a while but finally had to go inside. A couple of hours later I came back out to check on it but it was no longer there. It was a seemingly supernatural incident that occurred, and made me think about how much we as humans might really not understand about the non-human world.

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