New Moon
September 18, 2009
25 Virgo 59’

Do we work because we need money to pay the bills or do we work to add value to our lives and the lives of others? What if we worked for work’s intrinsic value? What if we worked, not for the check, but for the smile of gratitude? What if we worked for the joy of seeing the infirm made steady and the doubtful made confident? What if we worked to quicken the desire for learning in a child, or to see a sad person’s heart leap with vital glee? Wouldn’t we choose our work differently? Wouldn’t we do what we really want to do because of the joy of that labor or pursuit? Wouldn’t we do what we do because of the satisfaction it brings to us?

Wouldn’t we be in touch with our calling? Wouldn’t we know who we are and be doing the thing that only we can do? Wouldn’t our specialty, and the opportunity to practice it, come more naturally?

These questions are begged by the Sun and Moon in Virgo opposed Uranus in Pisces. Virgo is an earth sign that rules health, well-being and work. Pisces is water. It rules the deep emotional psychic nature and relates to soul.

We say the signs are opposite one another, but they are actually part of a continuum that ushers from the center. In earth living we have tended to exclude the soul. When the soul says, “That’s good, “ that’s good. When the soul says this sucks, it sucks. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be in constant contact with who we truly are and what we truly feel? Wouldn’t it be nice to know what you want and what you like and so attract them? What if you knew how to listen to your insides? How much needless grief could you be spared? What if you used the job interview process to find out if this job might ring your bells and allow you to play your own song?

Bet you think you can’t possibly pay attention to that now, that you just need a job, darn it. You just got to make the mortgage! You got to feed your babies.

What time is going to be a good time to be authentic, to be one-in-yourself, to spend the gold of your own coin, touching things and having them turn to gold? When the economy gets better? How is the economy going to get better if you don’t get better, if you don’t try giving your Real Self a chance, instead of thinking your feet are too big and your brains are too blocked or else you would have this solved, and the competition is too great?

Okey dokey. Think whatever limited thoughts you want to think. Cause “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” –Henry Ford

Talk about glasses half empty! 10% unemployment is still 90% employment. Why place your consciousness on the rim of the 10% hole? Why dwell there? Why think there? Why are we thinking depressed if 90% are employed? As glasses go, 90% is far enough in order to not spill the contents!

Why think I cannot find work because I have not found a job? Why say, there are no jobs out there, if you need one?

Why not say, “There is something for me to do that has my name on it. It cannot be claimed by anyone but me, and I cannot miss it. I am a successful person. To succeed is to take next steps. I take next steps. I leap sometimes (Uranus in Pisces). I always land.” (Saturn in Virgo.)

I submit to you that work and soul need to be together. The compassionate soul wants to be part of bringing something to wholeness and to health. The dream wants to become reality. The worker wants to experience the feeling of having done some good. Problems want solutions.

We have the opportunity to get in touch with why we work and do the service that we do. It is an opportunity to remember that we should get our good feelings and joy as a direct hit from the work itself, not from the paycheck.

You must learn to do what you love, to find a space and place for it that is not conditioned upon receipt of a check. If you don’t think it’s important for you to find space for you to do what you love, whether it is a job or a hobby or a pastime, you can’t possibly end up with a life that you love, let alone work that you love.

Maybe we don’t have to always love our work. Some of what must be done isn’t all that evocative of love and joy in and of itself. But we should have the sense that our work adds value. It counts and it matters. And we should be doing what we love somewhere. Do it in the morning before work. Do it in the basement or the garage after work. Volunteer it. Give it attention and intention. Get that instrument out of the case and play it! Unpack your paints or your sculpting tools. Read up on the thing that interests you and sign up for that class. If you won’t do it unless you get paid, you might not get to do it. And worse. You’ll lose touch with what you like and what you want to do.

Going to work and coming home and going to work and coming home, as your sole soulless enterprise is a mistake. Getting harried and tattered and torn trying to make the rent or the mortgage while you destroy your nerves and your health is missing the mark.

As George Foreman, the boxer and hawker of the George Foreman Grill said, “If you can’t get a job, you might have to make a job. Consider the possibilities. Be open. Everything starts in the mind as an idea. If you have a job, or your own business, start there. Determine to make it your own today and make it more than what you do for pay.

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