Symbolism
History of Symbolism
Meanings behind icons/symbols
Geometry of Symbols
- process of development
- creation of own set
Questionnaire/s
Peoples view of astrology
Viability of beliefs
Religion and astrology
Psychology and astrology
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
“Sometimes you meet someone, and it’s so clear that the two of you, on some level belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you understand one another or you’re in love or you’re partners in crime. You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest circumstances, and they help you feel alive. I don’t know if that makes me believe in coincidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but it definitely makes me believe in something.”
“The reason visualization is so powerful is that as you create pictures in your mind of seeing yourself with what it is you want, you are generating thoughts and feelings of having it now. Visualization is simply powerfully focused thought in pictures, and it causes equally powerful feelings. When you are visualizing, you are emitting that powerful frequency out into the Universe. The law of attraction will take hold of that powerful signal and return those pictures back to you, just as you saw them in your mind.”
“When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.”
…”What you do is what the whole Universe is doing at the place you call here and now. You are something the whole Universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.
This is not what you might call a fatalistic or deterministic idea. You might be a fatalist if you think that you are a sort of puppet which Life pushes around. You’re separate from Life, and Life dominates you. That’s fatalism. But in the point of view I’m expressing, the real you is not a puppet which Life pushes around. The real, deep down you is the whole Universe and it’s waving your living organism and all its behavior. It’s expressing it the way a singer sings a song.
We are to experience ourselves in such a way that we may say that our real body is not just what’s inside the skin, but is rather our whole, total external environment as well, because if we don’t experience ourselves that way, we mistreat our environment. We treat it as an enemy. We try to beat it into submission; and when we do that, disaster follows. We exploit the world we live in. We don’t treat it with the love, gentleness and respect that it so richly deserves.
Underneath the superficial self, then, there is the Self with a capital ‘S’, more really ‘us’ than ‘I,’ and when you become aware of that unknown Self, the more you become aware of It, the more you realize that It is inseparably connected with everything else that there is and that you are a function of this entire galaxy. Furthermore, this galaxy is a function of all other galaxies, and you look and look and look; and one day you’re going to wake up and say … Why, that’s me!” ~Alan Watts…
"Hold me Fast" by MiniMoose "If I rise on the wings of the dawn, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast." Psalm 139:9,10
Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors. Andrew Boyd (viavenerating)