.: Our Two Lives :.
November begins with the 43rd birthday bash for Chiron. Somewhere up on Mt. Pelion, therianthropes sip tea (wishing it were wine) and the gods and humans celebrate the life and teachings of the world’s first centaur. Naturally, Chiron is ageless, yet in our world of tracking his movements in the sky, we’ve only been aware since November 1st, 1977.
There is also a pensive moment that begins the month between Mercury and Saturn. Still retrograde, our chatty wingman makes the first of two squares this week to the Lord of this World (the other is on the 6th, in direct motion). With the election sandwiched between and the incoming tsunami of the next wave of the virus, it’s impossible not to project into future days and what it all means. The only clarity to be found is the only mind we are going to change is possibly our own.
Confucius once declared in a time way before social media, “We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” Now, in a time tangled within our digitized social dilemma, this eternal truth takes on a new meaning. It also points to our lives lived in the past or future. We suffer too much for things that have never even happened.
Another way of contemplating the start of this historic month can be seen elementally. Air (Libra) and Earth (Capricorn) are incongruent elements. Place a rock in the air, it falls back to earth; Try to put air in a rock, it dances right around it. Seen another way: Our ideas (Air) take eons to change the shape of our minds (Earth). Confucius is a testimony to this. Also, it’s interesting to ponder the shadow through the two elements. Earth allows us to see our shadow, Air does not. That is, Saturn and the rest of the Boneyard in Capricorn are clearly revealing our shadows, with Mercury in Libra, not so much. We are always right in our thinking; they are always wrong. Hard to see a shadow in the air, spinning with our thought-forms.
Here is the practice: Try to see through both Blue and Red eyes. Try to understand what motivates Kanye. Try not to hold onto any of it. After all, we’ve only got one life. Best to get back to Chiron’s party, and live it up while we can.
Nature is the great balancer.
We don’t know enough to worry.
Eudaimonia,
Adam
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