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Helplessly Attracted
Mind-on-a-countdown is helplessly attracted to apocalyptic narratives and depressing Dystopian drama. Why? Because: ashes are as close as ego ever gets to phoenixing into God.
~Hunter Reynolds
Cosmic Temper Tantrum
Pull down the me-story statues! Stop the endless the wars against deathless being! Confess the micro-aggression of addressing eternal souls as timebound personalities! Rail against the machine that drives minds into duality-hardening discourse! Cry madly for the grace of becoming a shiny soul-mirror for every orphaned ego that God puts on our path until, together, we make poverty, history.
~Hunter Reynolds
What Mind Calls “Void“
Why do astrological archetypes go on autopilot, driving minds to speak and act compulsively, with little-to-no witnessing presence? Because, if ego didn’t whip itself into a trance of doer-ship, loudly proclaiming its “separate somebody status,” its fragile dream of solidity would quickly pixelate and dissolve into what mind calls “void” and soul calls, “the seamless field of sentience.”
~Hunter Reynolds
The Ultimate Protest
Let ego flat-line on the meditative operating table, then see what kind of role play is compelling enough to float “space with a face” back into the chest-pounding traffic of the collective psyche.
~Hunter Reynolds
Why do the streets feel so cold and friendless? Because every me-story mangled face is a store front window filled with sparkling, otherworldly merchandise that we can’t afford.
~Hunter Reynolds
Why Study Astrology?
Why study modern, meditative astrology? Because it’s been a long flight and we’re tired of stale peanuts.
~Hunter Reynolds
Mystic Deficit Disorder
You can ignore Timeless Presence, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring Timeless Presence.
~Hunter Reynolds
Slay
Life is strewn with “forced pauses.” Death (the forced pause between lifetimes): the mother of them all.
The opposite of death, then, is not merely “the continuation of life,” but the choice to consciously engage in “voluntary pauses.” This sucks the victimhood out of death.
Having slain the dragon of “forced pause,” the meditative mind is plunged into a world untouched by pausing or proceeding: the unborn, undying awareness we truly are.
~Hunter Reynolds
Seething
Seething, like a thousand chips frying in hot oil, this mind will never understand me.
~Hunter Reynolds
The Greatest Cheerleader
The drama of souls “getting somewhere” is the greatest cheerleader of stillness. Flesh moves only to highlight the unmoving awareness we rise and fall in.
~Hunter Reynolds
Mild-Mannered Insanity
The Astro-initiated soul trades-in the “alone in your head” paradigm for conscious participation with the divine mind. From this intimate, interpenetrated perspective, prayerlessness is not just a sign of absent-mindedness or denial, but a kind of socially acceptable masochism or, more accurately: mild-mannered insanity.
~Hunter Reynolds
illiterate
Astrology. What is it? It’s a world full of psycho-physical symbols designed to assure that “soul-literacy” stays alive in every culture, no matter how primitive or dismissive of the eternal. It’s the archetypal underpinning of generations of psychoanalytic theory, co-opted by superficial sun sign columns and shamed into superstition by politicians, churches and the soul-illiterate cultures they so skillfully spawn.
~Hunter Reynolds
Stellar Chance
Most of what happens between infant and elder is teleprompted role play. Catching automated archetype in the throes of insecure identity-grabbing: a stellar chance to wake up as the Merciful Witness.
~Hunter Reynolds
Gateway Drug
I absolutely love astrology. But it’s just a gateway drug to the real magic: meditative relating. This is the essence of modern, meditative astrology. Popular astrology, on the other hand, smears our eyes with mythological me-stories, burdening us with more and more sophisticated evidence of separation. It’s “anti-astrology” because it flirts with, but never achieves, astrology’s sacred endgame: face-to-face contact with the Supreme Being.
~Hunter Reynolds
Charming
The body is a cardboard coffin.
Prayerlessness: a charming kind of Rigor Mortis.
~Hunter Reynolds
Aborted Intimacy
Are cell phones aborting the soul’s longing for vertical intimacy with the cosmos by shunting our attention into horizontal intimacy with each other’s egos?
~Hunter Reynolds
Cosmic Claustrophobia
You are not karmically obligated to affirm the dream of otherness, but you are compelled to embody an alternative to the cosmic claustrophobia that it produces.
~Hunter Reynolds
How the Saturn/Pluto Conjunction wants you to live:
If I die in the midst of doing this, it’s the best thing I’ve ever done.
~Hunter Reynolds
Compatibility
Compatibility means: “Disappearing in style together.”
~Hunter Reynolds
Burning Down Time
According to professor Janet Stanley of Melbourne University, arsonists are typically young males, aged 12 to 24, or older men in their 60’s. The adolescent Nihilist burns down for lack of personal recognition and identity-impact. The aging Nihilist burns down out of bitterness and disappointment at the collective purposes that have failed them. Meditative or meddlesome, all souls must find some way to burn down time.
~Hunter Reynolds
Identity Grabs
The twelve archetypes are, in the hands of ego, nothing but insecure identity-grabs designed to move awareness away from the ego-dissolving power of Presence. Astrology is epiphenomena arising from the quiet immensity of who we are.
~Hunter Reynolds
Ceremony of Losses
Growing old is a ceremony of losses. The purpose of astrology: to make cozy every room in God’s come-and-go-zy, woe-zy mansion.
~Hunter Reynolds
Great Winds
Sometimes I go about pitying myself and all the while I’m being carried by great winds across the sky.
~Ojibwe proverb
Enter Corona Virus
Imagine showing up slobbering drunk at a funeral. Can you think of anything more disrespectful? Now imagine showing up drunk at your own funeral. That’s what we do when we stumble into bed, drunk tired. This is ego saying F-you to Saturn’s nightly deathbed training. “How tragically un-strategic,” says Saturn. “Let’s smear death all over the face of the planet,” says Pluto. Enter Coronavirus.
~Hunter Reynolds
The Fourth Shark
Welcome to the three favorite fears of the collective psyche. Missing from this list of world-threatening worries is the fourth, most frightening shark of all: a monstrous, all-devouring beast that consumes all three in a single bite: deathless presence.
~Hunter Reynolds
Why Study Astrology?
Because we’re all looking at the spot where God should be, and having feelings about it.
~Hunter Reynolds
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