Insights for September 2023
Awaken:
"Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not." Deepak Chopra
“By relaxing, our habits soften, we become more available to our deeper knowing.” Anne C Klein
“I have a far better sense of direction when I am driving.” The Insight Center
“Powerful souls choose challenging lives so that they can level up faster.” Joe Moody
“I am happiest when my conscious awareness is operating outside of normal time and space.” The Insight Center
“The journey is a journey of love and wisdom.” The Insight Center
“Recognition and liberation are simultaneous.” The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
“As with all things, do not grasp at the sublime nor run away from the mundane, and all shall be well-more well than any mind can know.” Adyashanti
“To let go of attachments, go through them.” The Insight Center
“There comes a moment in your life when you just know it's time to upgrade. It's time to change your beliefs, let go of relationships and situations, create new habits, and live your truth. And once you act with courage following that moment, your transformation begins.” Vexking
“How do you take the charge out of it when you are lit up?” The Insight Center
“You yourself are pure mystery. Have you noticed? When you imagine that the mystery is something out there that you are trying to relate to, it seems alien and frightening, but that's just an image. You are life itself becoming ever more aware of itself in all of its mysteriousness. Mystery is not just something that you experience; it is the very fabric of what you are. Of course, it has always been this way, but you are now becoming more and more aware of it.” Adyashanti
“Garden metaphor: pruning: sometimes it will look worse before it looks better.” The Insight Center
“I am not alone, I am one with everything.” The Insight Center
“if imposter syndrome crashes the party, remember that you can do it scared.” Michell C Clark
The stronger your “yes”, the easier your “no.” The Insight Center
It’s not about “wish” or “want.” It’s about authentic release and alignment.” The Insight Center
“Each time we give ourselves over to our contemplative practices, whatever they might be, we find ourselves, once again, one with the communal mystery in which there is no separate self.” James Finley
The path chooses you and you get to choose to be brave. The Insight Center
“Peace is everything,
Find peace.
Be peace.” The Insight Center
“…ego rushes and reacts, but peace moves intentionally and gently.” yung pueblo
Heal:
“goal: be so grounded in your own vibe that you stop adopting other peoples energy” yung pueblo
"after you start healing past traumas & come out of fight or flight mode, your body will need a lot of rest. you aren't lazy. your body is just trying to catch up on the calm it hasn't received in years." Journeystartshere
“Peace will sometimes look like being more mindful about who's in your space and investing your energy wisely, even if that means being alone for a while.” ALEX elle
How do you move on?
You let go a little
and return to you a little
and remember who you are
and what your journey is
To become more aware,
and then you let go a little
again,
and again …. The Insight Center
Astrology:
Lilith: reclaiming of our own inner potency and power.
“Evolutionary Astrology is a specific paradigm that reveals the evolutionary developments and evolutionary progression of any Soul. It asks the question: ‘Why am I here, and what are my lessons?’” Jeffrey Wolf Greene
“The very idea of a planet developing over time is the essence of evolutionary astrology. Going from a weak response to a planet to a higher response is the purpose of life.” Steven Forrest
“Pluto represents the fundamental issues and motivations of the deeper self.” The Insight Center
“Pluto has the capacity to take us to deep places, unveil our shadows and fears, and release us from these issues. We can face our fears, survive, and grow.” The Insight Center
“Uranus retrograde - be brave during your awakening/s.” The Insight Center
“The 12th house is your consciousness asking, ‘What is the meaning of life?’” The Insight Center
Dominant water seeks harmony,
flow and emotional connections.
Water is motivated to perceive
(and respond to) what has not
been verbalized. Frank Clifford
Look at the signs of your Venus and Mars placements:
Venus: “What do you want?”
Mars: “How are you going to get it?
Me: Venus: truth and freedom. Mars: being free and seeking. Both are in Aquarius. The Insight Center
From Steven Forrest’s Newsletter: “Your chart is karmic. Every symbol in your chart has two meanings. One of them is - what hung you up in the past and the other is - how to get free of it. How to get beyond it. Every planet that you have is problem - every planet you have is a solution for that problem.” Steven Forrest
To accomplish this transformation, we shift from the assumption that clients are their personalities to the notion that they are souls who are using their personalities as evolutionary vehicles.
instead of our astrological holy grail being a list of “personality traits,” we see those personality traits as tools that a soul is using in order to fulfill an evolutionary purpose.
What are we learning about? Why do we have this chart?
Our chart shows personality traits as tools a soul is using to fulfill an evolutionary purpose.
If we are attached to anything – it’s as aspect of our ego that is holding our soul back. And as we resolve it we free out souls (to warp drive.) The chart tells you how to do it and that’s why you have a chart.
Our bodies and personalities and egos can be tuned in a way that opens the right doors to the higher ground of run. … accurately diagnose the true nature of our blockages and attachments and apply well-suite remedies to them.
Spiritual questions astrologers can answer:
· What should I personally do in order to maximize my own evolutionary momentum?
· Where do I personally put my foot next?
· Is, for example, my speediest path forward to pursue intimacy – or to pursue independence and tolerance for solitude?
· What about devoting myself to inner work versus devoting myself to the service of other beings?
· Should I go to the party? Should I be generous with myself and eat, drink, and be merry – or do I benefit from not giving so much power to my physical appetites? Which path works best for me, given my particular karmic predicament?
There is not one right answer for everybody, we are all in a specific situation - a specific karmic predicament. What is skillful means for me might not work for you.
You are an ancient, luminous soul on a mysterious journey through a universe that is an incubator of higher consciousness.
Would a map be helpful?
Have a look at the Map of the sky the instant you took your first breath in this body.
That’s your ticket home.” Steven Forrest
Vipassanā Meditation:
When an open and curious mind is brought into the inner silence of being, an alchemy takes place which has the potential to transform consciousness in ways hardly imaginable. Adyashanti
“In sacred inquiry, we are not looking for more information to clutter our mind with; we are looking for experiential insight and wisdom. In short, we are looking for a transformation of consciousness that awakens us from the imagined confines of separation to the numinous ground and origin of our being.” Adyashanti
“Although we may get hints from teachers and from the Buddha, each one of us has to find out what path is best for us by following the guidelines of: What is grounding? What is unifying? What is harmonizing? We don’t want to try to imitate or copy others.” Narayan Helen Liebenson, “The Principles and Practices of Samatha Vipassana”
Relationships
“Are you lovable?” The Insight Center
“Mutual respect is required in the foundation for a healthy relationship.” The Insight Center
Parenting
“The good soother subtly indicates that a search for soothing is 'normal', respectable and dignified.”
“Some people might worry that offering too much soothing to a child risks turning them into malingering attention-seekers. We might reply that attention-seekers are never people who have had too much attention; they are people the world tragically forgot existed. No one who has been properly and consistently soothed will spend their adult life in desperate bids to be noticed; the most logical outcome for a child who has been well soothed will be to devote energy to soothing other people.” The School of life, The Good Enough Parent