Archived Lunations:
Thinking and Money
New Moon
May 16, 2007
25 Taurus 33′
When we are told that we can have anything we want to have, most of us think of money. Some of the proponents of money philosophy tell us that money is what we should focus on. Put a sum of money in your mind and focus on it, and repeat it and do a few other things and voila, you get just that sum of money, often in an unexpected manner.
And this works. . . sometimes. Unless you really crack the code and crack your old habits, nothing like this works consistently.
We think money is the solver of all problems. If I had money, I would be happy, we reason, because I could totally buy anything I want to buy, a big house with beautiful furnishings, fine clothes, whatever. I could pay all my bills and quit my job and cruise around the world, shopping heavily at every port.
Money might not buy me love, but it could buy a willing pretender who thinks that links to my money will be their ticket. I might settle for that–especially if I think the illusion can be kept up well enough to fool me into believing.
We have a lot of delusionary thinking around money and success such as, I know God will take care of me. On one hand this is correct. But this is wrong thinking if by this you mean that you don’t have to take care of and respect money, and know how much you spend and what you spend it on, or how much interest you pay. You don’t save or invest. You don’t make a budget or spending plan or balance a checkbook. This is rather like the man who waved off the two boats and the helicopter that came to save him while he was sitting on the roof of his house in the flood. He died waiting for God.
We think success visits people overnight, even though we have heard overnight sensations declare repeatedly themselves that they labored long and hard in obscurity until the day came that they burst onto the scene. We pray that success will visit us in the form of a lottery ticket or a call from the Oprah show.
Money is what it is. It is the great block for some. We have to ask what it costs first, just like we have to ask what it pays first. But just what is it that we are trying to buy with this money? Have we ever been satisfied? We chase after more like a carrot on a stick that we never quite grab and we never get a decent enough grip on that golden ring.
If we could turn our thoughts into words, they could go something like this:
I don’t know where my money goes, and I don’t save for long and I don’t know a thing about investing and I don’t know what my credit card rate is, and I’m overall bad with money, but hit me with some lottery money and all that will change. Hit me with some millions and it won’t matter that I throw it away, right? I’ll always have more, right?
If God sees fit to give me a few mil or a bil and I squander it, God will provide me with more, right? Cause I’m careless and foolish, but infinitely lovable, right?
And I love God, so She loves me, right? And so, She/He will bring me money. Right?
What gives us esteem? Ultimately, not money. Intuition following Reason brings us esteem. And with our esteem comes our feeling good about ourselves because we succeed, we follow Reason. We bring the fiery impulse of Aries to something of substance in Taurus. Substance is that with which I trade and attract. My resources are interior. I don’t worry about what I have. I just focus on what I intend. The Inner Voice is my resource. It guides me in my steps. I don’t lose track of it if I listen for it and follow it consistently.
As long as I have my inner ear attuned to the inner voice, and I follow that voice, I find it to be on the side of reason. The more I follow the instruction, the more sure I am of its reasonableness and in its ability to bring me from no way to a way.
It is impossible to be broke unless you break it off with the inner voice, and even if you try to, you can’t, lucky you. It follows you until you are ready to follow it and it always knows the straightest route that you can take to today’s glory.