Capricorn....XV. Devil (Trickster)

XV. The Devil .... Capricorn - the Mid-heaven (10th House)....

Cardinal

Earth 

Feminine

Saturn (The World/Universe)...

....The word "Devil" is "Lived" spelled backwards ...

....Living and looking only to what HAS BEEN...

...the EVIL (which is 'LIVE' spelled backwards) of this force is given power when one assumes the material world rules her/him...

...when we look only backwards to that which HAS been our experience and allow these previous apparent failures to rule your walk along the path...

......The chains and bondage come from perceiving that what limits us is 'out there' ...

....we transmute this concept of the Devil through realizing that we can transcend the past......

.....to shed the chains of bondage..... we neeed to let go of the 'memory' of failure....

....we must be willing to learn...

....we must re-evaluate and re-value ...

.... we live and go forward...

.....All  that appears to limit us on the material plane - whether it be laws, people, situations or circumstances - must be made into our benefactors by our own mental processes (Mercury, as ruler of Gemini/ The Lovers)...

...by looking at the self, by turning inward,  we can discover where we are caught in the world...

...where we trick ourselves into believing the illusion of our exile from the Garden of Eden....Eden is all around us, we just need to remember how to see it.....

....The only true revolution is evolution of consciousness....

.....Material experience follows mental experience....not the other way around....the Primal Will to Heal within us is stronger than any thought, thing, person, disease, practice, or habit that attempts to rule over our lives....

....We must fully realize our power to change all that appears to oppress us...

...the Devil is faulty observation, superficial reasoning that gives physicality more power than spirituality....

**Remember : the body dies easily, the spirit is infinite....

...This stage of growth requires us to move beyond appearances and experiencing beyond the senses....

...Sexuality is more than sensation; life is more than the material plane, the Devil is that which dies to give way to Life ....

...coming to know the Devil as the Trickster, leads us to discovering our compassion captured within it....

...The Devil as Trickster, leads us into situations where we experience the inequities of the world....

.....we are drawn to CHANGE them....

... and as we see that others suffer WITH us, our hearts move us BEYOND blame, beyond the idea of the Devil and its rage towards an unfair world....

...The heart reaches for spirit....

...once liberated from material bondage of past wounds' over our present perceptions, our hearts begin to transform the energy of anger...

...turning it into the Action of Love....we, ourselves, as compassionate beings, now able to truly help the world.....

This is The Beginning

Until now, 

the blank page has scared me...

...but it whispers....

I think.

.... it beckons me -

like a mirrored desire of some inner infinity...

..a longing to be filled......

with what? 

with something greater than the sum of it's parts?

....its there, in my head, but the words don't flow...

....because i won't let them...

Until now...

 

There was a time I felt less ...
......exposed upon such pages...
Until now,
.... They mirrored nothingness
And the shattered fragments in between
Until now.....

Confined under cycling wheels,
...tangled in the spirals...

..to untangle the web is not the point....

Random Babble From A Long Time Ago

...Truth is alive...

...evolving...

...effecting...

 ...a force within our minds...

...Truth is not finite...

...unable to be taught or persuaded...

 ...It is subjective...defined by the unique perception of the individual....

....awareness of truth is felt, seen with a different sense of sight...

....Truth is found in the conversation of two autonomous beings...

...amidst the in-between...

 ...mutually sharing and receiving information and their energetic fields...

...It is through the application of scientific method in relationships...

 ...the world of interaction... 

...of sharing perception with each other...

 ...that we are able to find a better understanding of everything and everything....

...Dogmatism stems from a misdirected focus....

... A distraction from what actually matters....

...In projecting our own perceptions onto another individual's experience, we deprive ourselves...

... of the knowledge that person's uniqueness has to share with us...

 ..knowledge we must acquire if we are to succeed in our evolutionary growth...

...A positive-feedback system, fueling the destructive and harmful effects it has upon us all...

...Our truths and understanding of truth is the foundation of our realities...

 ...Dogmatism, the the judgement of others and their views...

 ...the illusion of right and wrong being universal truths...

...these are the uneducated ignorant misuse of Free Will...

...It is time for a new approach...

  ...a supportive dialogue, within the self...

 ...and between each other...

 ...focusing on our strengths and abilities...

...and seeking to heal, rather than persecute, weaknesses...

...I am me and you are you...

 ...we are as circumstantial as the weather...

 ...because life is movement...

...it is the cycles of birth, experience, death, and rebirth….

...we have some big things in common no matter our religion, creed, age, race, gender, preference...

...Synonyms and correspondences is a focus that we can build with…

...Debate and destruction has torn apart what now must be reassembled...

 ...with conscious awareness...

 ...we can focus our intention...

 ...on the cultivation of creative passion and innovative thought... 

...imagination...

 ...symbolic language...  

...human specific abilities...

...we are a universal solvent...

...within which we can rearrange, reassemble, and rebuild our collective reality...

…Autonomy of the self is necessary in order for advancements in any area of study...

 its useful application...

 and before all else, it is necessary in for the evolution of a species that has reached a stage in their evolution where it is aware of  itself and its environment...

...that can learn from the experiences of the past...  

...apply that learning to adapt to external stimuli...

...as well as its internal subjectivity of experience and thought...

 

Letter To A Pluto Friend

        I did not have the words until now, because i did not have an understanding. Any creepy, invasive things i have said to you were attempts at communicating something deeper than my self-awareness was at the time. But i have been doing the work, and i feel it important to share this with you because i began this work while we were more apart of each others daily lives and i know that as much as i was affected by you, my behavior affected you as well.

This is me communicating to you as best i can at this point that i am aware of the harm other people's actions can do and that you are not immune. I also know things that cut deep are difficult to overcome - they take time that is not always available in the craziness of day-to-day responsibilities etc., and they are hard to heal when facing them alone.

A lot of what i have to remember of the past two years is my lack of integrity and how far from accurate my words and actions were from what i meant. I was stuck and so my body got sick, and when i started to get unstuck my identity fell a part....and that was the same time period that i spent a lot of my time around you, and i know that my self-doubt got in the way of my ability to be authentic and a dependable person.

Every interaction i can recall having had with you gave me opportunity to reflect on hard questions and you being a person i value gave me the motivation to actually find the answers, and because of those same reasons i want to send this email to you.  I value that wisdom i have gained and the role your unique presence in my life played in those lessons offered to me thus far.

I have no expectations of you, nor desire any sort of reciprocation, and i honestly never have. I do want you to be happy and live a life full of adventure, fun, and fulfillment. My definition of being a good friend involves communicating such intentions and offering up my own viewpoint whenever I can.

You and i are very different, in infinite ways, and that makes it hard to be friends sometimes, but the perspective gained from those differences makes it totally worth any hardship it has or will cause on my end.

I assume nothing about you or what your doing or how you are. And no matter how much i wish we still talked and could have meaningful conversations nowadays, i don't require it to still love you. And that love i have for you, has been there from the start and will never go away. I share that with you not because i want you to love me back, but so you know you are worth loving even if the reality you interact with makes it hard to remember.

I am always here for you;  and as i become more and more the Shaman I aspire to be, I am as much at your service to whatever extent you are willing to accept as I am anyone. But not everyone will i gain as much insight into my own work as i have from the authentic interactions i have had with you.

You need not be anything other than what you desire to be, and there is a way to free up the desire to do within yourself and use it to create the life you find worth living. That is my definition of magic. And true magic comes from within. This is not a belief but a proven truth....a truth that i cannot provide you the proof of tho, because the proof is in the personal experience. But i can help you to see that proof, when you find it difficult to see and help you to do that for others. That is a big part of what a shaman does, and an ever-increasing part of how i see my experience of reality and the world around me.

Thanks for reading this if you did.