Archived Lunations:
The Tie that Binds
October 21, 2006 (Pacific)
October 22, 2006 (Eastern)
28 Libra 40′
We may find ourselves at odds with a child or lover.
Ageless Wisdom declares that there is only One, and it is this One that creates, destroys, preserves, and redeems. These are the four extremes, the four corners of earthly experience. Between these extremes is the One and that One reconciles the opposites to bring them into harmony. To reconcile is to settle disputes and to make ideas and arguments consistent and compatible.
The One is the fulcrum upon with the pairs of the scale balance on opposite sides of an arm. The One, the fulcrum, never moves and never loses the relatedness of the opposites. The opposites may clash in conflict, or be unaware of each other. They might think the other useless or expendable. In the extreme opposites want to annihilate the other, justified by the motto, “kill or be killed.”
I once read that all conflict should be framed as the clash of ideas and not persons. You might try that on the next time that you and someone draw swords. Declare in your insides that your ideas, not you, are in conflict. You choose to remain “in” love because love is as love does.
You need me. I need you. Without each other, this conflict will not undo.
So what is it about our ideas? Do they have a life of their own? If I declare peace between me and the one with whom I am fighting, then what?
Then you will have the will to sit down at the same working flat to see what is behind each idea, to see what matter is being reacted to.
Libra is the sign of negotiation. Negotiation requires reciprocal respect and patience. It requires listening, which requires stillness and openness.
When you start out negotiating by looking for what will create mutuality for your seemingly divergent needs, there is an assumption that each of you is overlooking a valuable and viable link, the tie that binds, and the reconciliation that brings you together because you need each other, because you are more alike than different.
We, as a human people, need restoration and redemption. We need to restore the crown to its rightful head. Good is king (Sun, Son) and the king’s earthly experience is his queen, self-conscious experience rolled out from One Source to return to that Source, to draw continually from that Source, back and forth, back to reflection and forth into projected trial and experience.
We always get what we pay for, put in for and act for, whether or not we know what we are purchasing or that we are purchasing anything at all. In other words, we may not know why or how we bought something, or bought into something, but we can trust that it is undeviating justice.
Everything is in such harmony that the people or situations we engage for experience are always the right people and the right situations at the right time, even if the outcome is contrary to what we thought we desired. On a personal level, if you get involved with the wrong person, not just any wrong person will do. It has to be the right wrong person, the person whose history and needs complement your own and bring you into the ring. Therefore, the wrong one is the right one. We need particular people to help us gain our needed experience.
On a group level, we also get the right wrong ones. For some of us, for example, President Bush and his band are the wrong ones to run the country, but they are the right wrong ones and they will push our buttons until we negotiate another condition by our actions.
So if you are hating any one or any regime, don’t. This is the lesson we need to learn in order to stop the violence, stop the war, stop the world from being run by ruffians. One by one in our place, in our little hamlet, we must work out the duality of opposites and replace hatred with love, for love is the only thing that will work. This we have been told. This we even believe, though we may be too angry or afraid to practice it.
It has been said that hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat and that an epidemic of hatred is as dangerous as an epidemic of typhoid.
I believe that individual efforts make the world work by their cumulative effect. The big ole problems are the ones we have acquiesced to by the thousands in thousands of little ways over the years. And so we must do what is at our hand to make the difference. Don’t worry about the activities of Peter or Paul. Concentrate on your own.