If you are currently experiencing the Pluto station at a sensitive point on your chart — it is currently square my natal Pluto, and opposite my natal Venus — it’s likely you’re feeling just a bit taut, like waiting for a shoe to fall, but not knowing if it’s going to be made of soft [...]
Archive for the ‘Karma’ Category
Healing Pluto problems: Obsidian order, Walnut way
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Desire, Fear, Karma, Meditation, Suffering, tagged crystals, flower essences, Pluto, shadow self, therapy on 10 September 2009 | 21 Comments »
Hades Moon III: When our darknesses meet
Posted in Astrology, Karma, tagged Pluto-Moon, tarot on 30 May 2009 | 11 Comments »
Part I, II.
One of the characteristics of natives with the Hades Moon, Judy Hall notes, is the karmic link to other people with Hades Moons. She provides numerous examples in her book, which point to individual and familial karma.
After I put the book down, I logged in to my astrology software and looked at the [...]
Time to practise what I preach
Posted in Anger, Astrology, Awareness, Karma, Responsibility, tagged destiny, dignity on 23 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reassessing what I value must include extending those values to others.
If there is anything Mercury in Gemini values, it is the power of words.
Bearing someone else’s karma
Posted in Aversion, Buddhism, Compassion, Karma, Suffering, tagged compassion fatigue, Dalai Lama on 15 September 2008 | 2 Comments »
I read this excerpt from a selection of talks, called The Transformed Mind: Reflections on Truth, Love and Happiness, given by HH the 14th Dalai Lama.
Is it possible to bear somebody else’s karma for them?
Generally speaking, according to Buddhist teaching, you will not encounter the results of an action that you have not committed, and [...]
Yod in, yod out
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Karma, tagged inconjunct, quincunx, yod on 27 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my last post about yods, I mentioned the yod’s effect as being hard to quantify as the energies of the planets are channelled through incompatible elements and modalities. People with yods in their charts tend to find it challenging to integrate these conflicting energies, if, in the first place, they are aware of it. [...]
Taking the bait
Posted in Annoyance, Ego, Karma, Meditation, Practice, Sangha on 1 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
‘Can we resist taking the bait?’ was a question posed in a discussion group on Zen practice that I participate in. How many times do we take the bait when we can see not just the worm but the hook, line and angler? In my case, sometimes my mind gets in the way, and it [...]
2006 — my year of karmic clearances
Posted in Anger, Awareness, Karma, Meditation, Responsibility, Suffering on 31 December 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I’d been thinking about how to recount some personal changes over the latter half of 2006, when it occurred to me that a new year’s reflection on the past year will be as good an opportunity as any.
2006 will be remembered by me as the year of karmic clearances. Possibly helped along by the last [...]
Scrub
Posted in Karma, Meditation on 9 December 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This has been such a whirlwind few months. I keep trying to find a window to blog and make sense of it but can never find, not so much the time, but the right moment. It seems that whenever I try and make sense of something one moment, something else happens and I’m thrown off-kilter [...]
A foray into Buddhist purgatory
Posted in Buddhism, Karma, Meditation, Suffering on 17 May 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I was faced earlier today with a spiritual dilemma — to go for my regular weekly meditation meeting or to stay home and watch the Champions League final?
Football won out, I’m almost ashamed to say, and as I joked with a friend, luckily Buddhism doesn’t have the concept of burning in hell. Then [...]
