WHENEVER WE TAKE the (imagined) risk of abiding as the loving vastness looking out through our eyes, we psychically join hands with every other personality-draped consciousness on the planet. At last, sighs the soul, ego is mad enough to be mortal, sane enough to disappear: the assertive Aries head is sharing the stage with the otherworldly flow of the Pisces feet, that pedal so timelessly across the symbolic ground of being below us. The in-your-face Ram is bowing humbly to the muse-stricken Fish, transforming us into an awakened synthesis of poles. Just how deep are we bowing? Not hard to tell: personality continues to play, but only incidentally, with less and less personal ownership while the bulk of our attention is focused on the ground of being from which all me-stores rise and fall.
Ah, but what does this awakened synthesis of poles actually look like from the outside? Short answer: none of your business. The one who wants to know is a celibate party-pooper. The best we can do, from an ego-asserting Aries point of view, is keep marching straight up to the cliff edge of thought in our everyday meditative relating and pray for a gust of Pisces grace to push us over. Here’s an excerpt from Brave New Prayers: Rascally Reverence to Fan the Flames of Oneness, to generate some gutsy cliff teetering:
Ruthless Inquisitor,
asker of relentless, searching, hostile questions:
Pester us to our limit.
Reduce us to an exasperated hush.
Sneak up while we play
at meditation’s dizzy cliff edge.
Say “boo!”
so we can soar
into a questionless sky.
What
but this blessed freefall
could deliver us
from this manageable suffering
we call happiness?
What
but these whirling willies
could make hugable
the crass, political calculation
that stains the smile
of even the most heartfelt and sincere?
Okay, okay, but is there some kind of astrologically-inspired, off-the-cushion practice that might help us inch closer to the cliff edge? Here’s a Gemini soundbite solution: try seeding your everyday speech with some mind-dizzying nondual names for your family and friends. Here are 21 Aries/Pisces, self/no-self terms and phrases to give you a running start. Have fun!
Aries/Pisces Soundbite Samples
In-your-face emptiness
Vastness with a point of view
Self-respecting prostrator
A wave in love with ocean
Boundlessness with a bark
Alpha-sensitive
Space with a face
Dream animal
Nether-Brat
Zero Zealot
Void-gasping creature
Nameless eye-holes bobbing to an addictive pulse
Oblivion alamode
Chatty savior
Bulk mail from pure awareness
Identity-clouds driving through a sky of flesh
Kicking mass of “I don’t knows”
Sophisticated psychological fairytale
Crotch of the Void
Fizzy Fog
Sex stain on God’s bedspread
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