The world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness
— Annie Savoy (played by Susan Sarandon), Bull Durham (Ron Shelton, 1988)
Archive for the ‘Ego’ Category
I/Thou/We/They
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Buddhism, Cinema, Ego, Suffering on 13 August 2009 | 2 Comments »
Adventures of the Invisible Girl III
Posted in Astrology, Ego, Responsibility, tagged invisibility, Neptune, Saturn on 29 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I want to thank everyone on the Sasstrology.net forum who helped me ponder my apparent invisibility.
I am currently re-reading Joy Michaud’s The Uranus-Neptune Influence (1994). She writes that the way to best channel Neptune’s idealism and ethereality is through Saturn, not so much in terms of fencing in, or limiting, Neptune’s expression, but in [...]
You ‘are’ who I project, but who am I?
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Blogging, Ego, tagged projection, self-reflection, Venus retrograde on 24 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The more I read about Venus retrograde and self-reassessment, the more my unconscious behaviour is starting to surface, and I’m using this blog, as ever, as a means of keeping it in the light.
As I summed up in a previous post, Venus retrograding in the self-centred sign of Aries is forcing us to come to [...]
Oh, wait… what happened to no-self?
Posted in Awareness, Ego, Practice, Thinking, Zen on 18 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Okay… So if there’s no-self, then there’s no-self to be broken and put back together, none to be lost or found.
All is perfect.
But there is room for improvement. (to misquote Suzuki Roshi slightly)
Clearly.
More to ponder, and practise.
Parts and pieces
Posted in Awareness, Buddhism, Compassion, Ego, Practice, tagged psychotherapy, self-forgiveness on 28 August 2008 | 1 Comment »
I rather enjoyed doing the little mini-review the last time, that I thought I’d do another, and later on, one on occasion. Even the simple act of summarising and describing the content in the book helps me to internalise some of its ideas and integrate them a bit better in my mind. So here’s [...]
Emotional vampires
Posted in Aversion, Awareness, Ego, Thinking, tagged emotional vampires, projection on 25 August 2008 | 2 Comments »
A search for a cookbook (I was looking for Nigel Slater’s Real Fast Puddings!) turned up something else completely. I picked up a book I bought years ago when I was in the midst of being drained. That book is Albert Bernstein’s Emotional Vampires, which offers advice on how to deal with people who [...]
Living in toxicity
Posted in Ego, Practice, Responsibility, Thinking, tagged emotional toxicity on 24 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mirror, mirror, on the wall…
Posted in Ego, Perception, Poetry, Practice, Zen, tagged mirror, projection on 6 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I finally bought a mirror yesterday after three months of moving into my new flat. I remarked to a friend that living without a mirror has been a good exercise in ego reflection, and although I’d meant it as a joke, it made me think about mirrors, and ego reflections.
Mirrors are funny things, [...]
Sex and Zen I: Vesta
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Ego, Fear, Zen, tagged Mars, sex, Venus, Vesta on 18 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
As Venus (pleasure) moves into a watery trine (emotion) with Mars (libido), sex seems to be on everyone’s mind. Eric Francis of Planet Waves rants about the hypocrisy surrounding the supposed sexual misconduct of Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York. Jundo Cohen of Treeleaf has made it the subject of his talks for the [...]
2007 — endings and beginnings
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Ego on 30 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If 2006 was my year of karmic clearances, 2007 must be said to be my year of multiple endings and new beginnings — the chalk markings on the board are being rubbed away but haven’t yet been cleaned off or written over.
