SCROLL DOWN TO YOUR SUN, MOON AND RISING SIGNS. After you read each section, I invite you to recite the Prayer for Liberation that follows.
1. AUTOMATED ARIES
Attachment: Sovereignty
The automated Aries part of us is addicted to perceiving, evoking and overcoming resistance as a means of propping up an unnaturally sovereign, hard-edged sense of identity.
Aversion: Impotence
Automated Aries is repelled its own and others’ impotence, dependency and the personality-dissolving awareness of the one, undivided self.
Indifference: Self-Conscious Humility
Automated Aries substitutes genuine equanimity with attitude-tinged claims of no preference that are subtly dismissive and outgassing one-upmanship.
Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to sovereignty, aversion to impotence and propensity for self-conscious humility: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times — through everyone.
For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.
2. AUTOMATED TAURUS
Attachment: Material Security
The automated Taurus part of us works day and night to harden our naturally fluid, emergent sense of self by hardening our material and relational “assets” against insecurity-arousing transformation and change.
Aversion: Asset Loss
Automated Taurus butts hard against anyone or anything that threatens to graze on their identity-rich pasture by delivering — in a litigiously menacing, matter-of-fact way — the soft, animal advantages of climbing back through the fence.
Indifference: Narrow-minded Conservatism
When physical security and comfort stop satisfying and the fear of ruin seems as bad or worse than the actual fact, Automated Taurus descends into a faux nonattachment: a soul-numbing obedience to tradition and the status quo, no matter how deadening or unfulfilling.
Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to material security, aversion to asset loss, and propensity to narrow-minded conservatism: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times — through everyone.
For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.
3. AUTOMATED GEMINI
Attachment: Options
The automated Gemini part of us is addicted to the springtime phase of relationships, projects and ideas — the cresting, brainstormingly perfect moments untainted by those claustrophobic, house-bound concerns: the principles and disciplines required for follow-through.
Aversion: Routine
Immune to the subtle freshness blooming everywhere, Automated Gemini’s mind restlessly flees whoever, wherever and whatever appears stultifying, repetitive and depressingly reminiscent of his/her own merry-go-round mind.
Indifference: Mind-spray
Automated Gemini fakes restful enjoyment of what is through subtle forms of squirminess, coating each excruciatingly ordinary moment with mind-spray: spiritual interpretations that keep the mirror of silence safely clouded.
Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to options, aversion to routine and propensity for mind-spray: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times — through everyone.
For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.
4. AUTOMATED CANCER
Attachment: Clan
Incestuously loyal, automated Cancer pledges allegiance to a fretfully caring, emotionally battle-scarred self-story while going AWOL to the greater Being outside its coldly drawn perimeters.
Aversion: Orphanedness
Desperate for a sense of belonging, Automated Cancer oozes an irresistibly seductive empathy, prematurely locking in a friendship, partner or family, then plunging into long spells of hard-shelled mourning when their tender caring is unappreciated and misplaced.
Indifference: Melancholia
Blanketing over the preciousness of the One Being and calling it “the vast, impersonal public,” Automated Cancer retreats into an inconsolably private, institutionalized melancholy born of losing its familial niche in the dream of separation.
Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to clan, aversion to orphanedness and propensity to melancholia: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times – through everyone.
For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.
5. AUTOMATED LEO
Attachment: Charisma
The automated Leo part of us overcompensates for (rather than meditatively meets) our insecurities by generating a theatrically convincing self-confidence that, much to our heart’s dismay, successfully inducts others into states of reactive enlivenment and ennobled display.
Aversion: Invisibility
Feeling unseen and unappreciated, Automated Leo experiences a nightmarish loss of identity, grabbing hard at a perversely effective kind of affirmation: the shame-arousing histrionics of one who has been famously betrayed.
Indifference: Haughtiness
When outward affirmation no longer inflates and theatrics no longer seduce, the Automated Leo part of us fancies itself “humble” by proudly strutting its indifference for the audience.
Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to charisma, aversion to invisibility and propensity for haughtiness: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times – through everyone.
For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.
6. AUTOMATED VIRGO
Attachment: Protocol
Confronted by the unimprovable mystery of what is, the Automated Virgo identity is virtually unemployed, setting off a busy, well-behaved anxiety that turns our talent for efficiency and gentle admonishments to “go green” into grey, presence-killing distraction.
Aversion: Chaos
No amount of fixing and ordering will assuage Automated Virgo’s distrust in the benevolent, microbial madness that both sickens and makes digestible this feast of evolving incarnations.
Indifference: Criticalness
Disillusioned by the reinventing wheel of consciousness and the incurable herpes outbreaks of everyday life, our Automated Virgo me-story feigns transcendence, sublimating its fault-finding habit into an intimidating, clinical eye.
Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to protocol, aversion to chaos and propensity for criticalness: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times – through everyone.
For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.
7. AUTOMATED LIBRA
Attachment: Harmony
Repelled by the brutish, ego-outing mirror of authentic relationship, the Automated Libra part of us elegantly obfuscates, preferring cultured collusion to becoming true allies in awakening.
Aversion: Inelegance
Can the settling of differences always be civilized? Automated Libra insists on it. Does this style of individuating create honest contact and truly clear the air? No; this part of our mind considers a beauty-compromised world more tragic than a truth-compromised one.
Indifference: Tepidity
When conflict-avoidance creates more tension than tranquility, and peace-on-the-other-side-of-sparring is inconceivable, the Automated Libra ego collapses into a tender, disembodied malaise.
Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to harmony, aversion to inelegance and propensity for tepidity: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times — through everyone.
For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.
8. AUTOMATED SCORPIO
Attachment: Darkness
Automated Scorpio prides itself on its ability to stare calmly at the face of dark truths other’s would find withering. This Vampiric, shadow-sucking me-story makes them feel solid, invulnerable to crisis and catastrophically alienated from the fangless majority.
Aversion: Superficiality
When you show up squeamish about realities Automated Scorpio has spent years numbing to, the lack of potential intimacy stings them and so, according to the brutal, Old Testament logic that shaped and toughened them, you deserve a sting in return.
Indifference: Intimidation
Stung by the irrepressible truth of their mortal sameness, Automated Scorpio egos are forced to continually resurrect, distinguish and protect themselves through desperate displays of intrusive, laser-like perception.
Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to darkness, aversion to superficiality and propensity for intimidation: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times — through everyone.
For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.
9. AUTOMATED SAGITTARIUS
Attachment: Prospect
Verbs like “searching” require bounding, big-thighed nouns with high foreheads and lips that overflow with discursive expat philosophies. Automated Sagittarius weaves identity with itinerary, and the backyard of being is left untrod.
Aversion: Provincialism
It takes a narrow-canyon’d mind to judge another canyon narrow. Out of principle, Automated Sagittarius tries hard not to do this, but since “knowing” is how this part of our ego defines its worth and edges, the temptation is irresistible.
Indifference: Preachiness
When priceless, life-changing truths are strained through buoyant self-absorption, no one listens. This is the painful plight of Automated Sagittarius. Why does this part of us keep talking? Because silence makes us instantly equal with all the illiterate, uneducated facets of the jewel of creation.
Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to prospect, aversion to provincialism and propensity for preachiness: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times — through everyone.
For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.
10. AUTOMATED CAPRICORN
Attachment: Status
Reputation and survival are linked at the hip. The Automated Capricorn part of us knows this. What it misses is that only personal warmth attracts steady clients and it can’t be faked. Strategic caring erodes our self-respect and surrounds us with folks who share the same affliction. Success? Broken-hearted competency.
Aversion: Vulnerability
There is nothing inherently respectful about discipline. So what: you made an agreement and kept it. Automated Capricorn confuses the seasoning (delivered goods or service) for the main course (communion).
Indifference: Opportunism
It took an extra hour but it was mostly due to our bad mood. Do we charge for it? The Automated Capricorn part of us doesn’t even ask the question. Why? Because no amount of compensation could alleviate the trauma of our spirit-numbing, survival-of-the-fittest worldview.
Prayer for Liberation:
This attachment to status, aversion of vulnerability and propensity for opportunism: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times – through everyone.
For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.
11. AUTOMATED AQUARIUS
Attachment: Iconoclasm
On the back of genuine injustice, our Automated Aquarius ego rides piggyback and proud, railing against (but secretly praising) flawed authorities for distracting us from the futility of rearranging mind’s evidence of separation.
Aversion: Flawed Authority
There is a dysfunctional and indispensable aspect of resisting what is. When the motive is propping up a psychological piece of cardboard so ego can feel solid, separate and real, we go numb to the Tao of protest and inadvertently join forces with the flawed authority we despise.
Indifference: Disenfranchisement
When it is seen that freedom and oppression will never stop flip-flopping and even the enlightened ones gradually grow sleepy — grazing on propaganda like lobotomized sheep — our world-saving Aquarian ego delays death by taking up a more achievable cause: being different.
Prayer for liberation:
This attachment to iconoclasm, aversion to flawed authority and propensity for disenfranchisement: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times – through everyone.
For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.
12. AUTOMATED PISCES
Attachment: Self-sacrifice
The Automated Pisces part of us makes an identity out of self-sacrifice, preferring emotional and physical depletion (via chronic “helping” and idiot compassion) to the final wrecking-ball swing: watching me-towers collapse in their own footprint.
Aversion: Transcendence
Being sewn into the veil between the two worlds is not a typical thing to feel proud about. Ephemeral folks, one would think, are too busy getting by to get haughty. The Automated Pisces part of us would heartily agree, but would be lying. Being thin-skinned is, at its best, foreplay for revelation, but “going all the way” would mean losing something truly virginal: our alpha-sensitive me-story.
Indifference: Addiction
One thing’s for sure: we all need to find some way to dull our empathic overwhelm. When mystical sunglasses, seclusion, and self-extinguishing martyrdom stop delivering, Automated Pisces reaches past the hard stuff (Buddha, dharma, sangha) for some cheap sex, suicide or wine.
Prayer for liberation:
This attachment to self-sacrifice, aversion to transcendence and propensity to addiction: these qualities are not mine; they are impersonal archetypes that flow — in different proportions, at different times – through everyone.
For the sake of all beings enslaved by these stressful me-stories, I vow to return to pure awareness, ventilating all me-stories with compassion, wisdom and luminosity.
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