ON MAY 15th, 2018, Uranus moves into the sign of Taurus for seven years. Taurus rules finance, and Uranus is the proverbial shock jock. What happened 84 years ago when Uranus last shook the Taurean bedrock of society? The Great Depression. Our best chance at averting a 3-D repeat: facing the depression we’re already in. That means trading in lower octave Uranus (manic distraction) for higher octave Taurus (embodied presence). But how? Here’s seven steps:
1) Stop the Gaia talk.
From ego’s point of view, earth is nothing more than evidence of separation. Unless someone or something on the planet can help us meditatively mend the sharp cut of space and replace it with a seamless field of sentience, we’re gunna continue numbing ourselves with gadgets and greed until we grind everything into dust. Bottom line: We need to start from where we are.
2): Admit you don’t care
The planet you see before you is not worth saving. Until your eyes get a significant upgrade, you’re insufficiently invested in turning this Titanic around.
3) Post this on your fridge:
Ego is depressed by the belief in its own existence.
4) Feel into the verbal flight
Feel into the verbal flight from pure awareness taking place all around you. Let your heart break. Just like you, they are suffering, longing for someone, anyone, to induct them out of the ego’s grim countdown.
#5) Try on this vision of the world
Stirring in the shadows of every psyche is a mythical creature that Tibetan Buddhists call “The hungry ghost:” a collection of identity-grasping habits of mind that are, all too often, automated, unseen and undissolved by our merciful gaze. Ego glibly calls it, “my personality.”
How committed are you to waking up as witness of this “cult behind your face?” Answer: 100%. How do I know? Look around. You whipped the passing clouds of mind into a frothing, Wizard-of-Oz psychodrama, swirled with imaginary “others,” and homeward-pointing flecks of astrological metaphor. Wow.
Perhaps, you reasoned, this perceived distance from the mind, would allow you to opt out of the sappy display and return to your true position as awareness, itself. Brilliant!
#6) Less Opining, more Divining
From this perspective, the choice becomes Taurus simple: stay numb to the mirror-like nature of the world — clinging to identity-hardening stories that divide the dream into good and bad, or curiously embrace the world as a metaphor of our inner landscape. Hello Astrology.
#7) Invite others into a field of collaborative self-inquiry
Stop participating in dream-hardening conversations and start inviting others into a field of collaborative self-inquiry. How constructively divergent (Uranus in Taurus) can you be in the way that you derail seamlessly opinionated conversations into intervals of answering the question: As what are you speaking?
Ready to become a constructive divergent? Here’s a few playful examples to wet your appetite.
Dream-hardening Comment:
How are you?
Metaphoric Intervention:
Drifting in and out of a fever dream called, (insert your name).
Dream-hardening Comment:
Can you believe that Trump just…?
Metaphoric Intervention:
Are you saying God shouldn’t want to wake up inside a rooster-king personality?
Dream-hardening Comment:
Do you really believe the twin towers were brought down by controlled demolition?
Metaphoric Intervention:
Have you noticed how every Aries head falls, without a trace, into its Pisces footprint? Yet, every day, in the mirror, something untouched by time, documents the collapse with absolute serenity.
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