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Astrology Notes: Astrology, Healing and the Evolution of Consciousness
Considering Venus,
Considering Lover…
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The much-talked-about Venus transit of the Sun, occurring on June 8 this year, inspires us to ponder what Venus means for us-astrologically and in our lives, personally and collectively. I begin with a poem I wrote some years ago, when the full power of Venus became apparent to me:
Long ago, I had a dream:
I dreamt of an Emerald Dawn,
and I looked up and saw a Star-
a pinpoint of Diamond brilliancy
in the morning sky.
I dreamt that one day I would reach Her
and that She would live within me . . .
Venus . . .
Morning Star, Evening Star,
Star of Beauty,
Star of Love.
And now I look up
and find you within my Heart . . .
. . . and you are so beautiful!
So filled with unlimited Love and Beauty.
My own Heart beats madly
in Resonance with yours . . .
You are the ravishing Woman
of the Solar System,
dwelling in its tropical climes,
channeling Unconditional Love and Beauty
into our Worlds
and into our Hearts.
I think I'm in Love!
Astrologically, Venus is all about everyday love. I'll talk more about what I mean by "everyday" in a moment. Venus rules relationships, emotional attractions (and repulsions), how we value things (or not value them), comfort, beauty, grace, harmony, and balance. It is also involved with all artistic creations. It is the ruler of the signs of Taurus and Libra.
Most importantly, in our personal lives, Venus indicates how we will receive and give love (again, in the "everyday" sense). Do we feel as though love is missing? That there is a bottomless pit within us that can never be filled? Or do we feel that we have so much love to give, but that there is nobody out there who will receive it or who is returning it? Or perhaps we feel as though our lives are already full to the brim with love, in us and around us. Then again, isn't there always room for a little more love?
And what is love? Definitions abound. For some, love means pain, for others, love means comfort and security, for yet others, it means fulfillment in relationship, and for yet others, it is synonymous with passion, lust, sex, and so forth. They are all correct, of course! And there are so many other ways of regarding love, as well.
Venus-along with the other inner planets, Mercury and Mars-represents a kind of 'stepping-down' station for the incoming Love from galactic realms into our solar system. From one perspective, it 'steps down' the greater unconditional love of Neptune as the wave/ray of love 'descends' toward Earth. Neptune is all about unconditional love, whereas Venus is about earthly or conditional love; they represent the higher and lower octaves of love, respectively. (In truth, all the planets are about love, but in ways that we might not be aware of initially. The love of Neptune (unconditional) and Venus (conditional) are more immediately obvious.)
As the primal wave/ray of love descends from galactic realms into the earthly realms, touching each of the planets as it goes, the primal Oneness of love (unconditional) is gradually polarized, fragmented, separated into all the rainbow colors of the earthly love we see in our everyday lives. This is what I mean by "everyday" love, i.e. the entire spectrum of what each of us calls love in our day-to-day lives.
The return journey from terrestrial love (conditional) to celestial love (unconditional) can be seen mirrored in the journey from Earth to Venus to Mercury to the Sun, and then tracing a spiraling path through the outer planets, including Neptune, and on back toward our galactic origins. (The metaphysics explaining this path go beyond the scope of this short article. See my book series, "Musings of a Rogue Comet.")
The transit of Venus across the face of the Sun therefore gives us the opportunity to evolve our views about what love is and what love isn't. The Sun represents the focal point of all planetary energies-like a lens-as the planets (and their inhabitants) strive to return from fragmentedness and separation (woundedness, taking in the broadest sense) to wholeness and togetherness (healing, taking in the broadest sense).
From this perspective, the Sun encourages us to bring all our fragmented parts-our emotion/mental personas-into a greater spiritual unity. Sun with Venus encourages us to see how all the aspects of the everyday love we see around us are but fragments of a greater love: unconditional love. More than this, Sun with Venus encourages us to see that even things we don't call love may, in fact, be love disguised. Most importantly, Sun with Venus suggests to us that love (unconditional) is never missing, never lacking, never tarnished; it is simply that we don't see it at first, that we are blind to the forms love takes, that our hearts are closed due to our judgments, blame, resentments, and other polarized emotions.
Certainly, these are difficult ideas to consider when we are in the midst of feeling unloved, loveless, abandoned, cheated, jilted, stranded, and/or any number of other things we might feel. But this is why the Venus transit of the Sun is such a wonderful and rare opportunity. It gives us an unparalleled chance to redefine our everyday views about what love is and what love isn't.
To this end, I offer an excerpt from my upcoming book, "Love is Everything-Healing Your Life with Unconditional Love". (Release date will be some time in June. Keep an eye on my website for announcements and details: www.martinlass.com/astrohom2.htm).
Excerpt From "LOVE IS EVERYTHING-Healing Your Life with Unconditional Love"
(Note: the following has been slightly edited from the book version to make it clearer in this short article form.)
CHAPTER 2 ~ WHAT IS LOVE? -A NEW VIEW
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken . . .
-William Shakespeare, Sonnet xviii
If I'm going to discover the love that can Heal my life, it'll be necessary to understand what's meant by "love." In today's world, the word is used to mean so many different things, some of which are totally opposite to each other. Let's try to be clear. In order to be clear, let's explore the everyday definition of love and how the word is normally used. From here, I can then lead on to a broader, more inclusive understanding.
Seeing Love and Not Seeing Love
As a child, a teenager and a young adult, I saw love as a place of comfort, warmth, niceness, peace, harmony, safety, and so on. It was a place without challenges, confrontation, conflict, requirements, sadness, or pain. Love meant that there was more happiness than sadness (the experience of elation), more good than bad (the experience of infatuation), more pleasure than pain, more positives than negatives, and so on. Love was the way things should have been, but were not necessarily so. Love meant all the things people liked about each other. However, when likes turned into too many dislikes, love disappeared, sometimes even turning into hate.
The opposite of the place of love was a place where love was lacking or missing. It was a place of sadness, discomfort, coldness, meanness, confrontation, conflict, chaos, insecurity, and so on. It was a place that challenged me, confronted me, placed requirements and restrictions on me and/or was painful. In this place, there was more sadness than happiness (the experience of depression), more bad than good (the experience of resentment), more pain than pleasure, more negatives than positives, and so on. This place, I felt, was the way things seemed to be most of the time. It was a place I wanted to escape from, a place I wished would go away, a place I wanted to change or fix. In addition, it was a place that summed up all the things people disliked about each other and that kept people fighting with each other-on a family level, as well as on a global level. Things should not be like this, I thought.
Looking back at it now, I realize that this second place-where love seemed to be lacking or missing-was where my Voids came from. By Voids, I mean all the things that I felt were the most missing in my life. I also mean all the things I wished to escape from, avoid, change, fix, get rid of, and so on . . . all the painful stuff that I thought shouldn't be there. In short, in my early life, I felt as though love was missing and everything else was just painful.
People's Voids can take many forms-lack of self-worth, rejection, lack of security, betrayal and lack of trust, lack of understanding, lack of warmth and caring, stifled self-expression, the feeling of chaos, the feeling of aloneness, the fear of death and loss, the feeling of meaninglessness, the feeling of being out of control, the feeling of not fitting in, the feeling of being abandoned, and so on. Whatever the case may be, when it's all boiled down, it's generally about love. It seemed to me, at the time, that either love was there or it was not there.
It was more than this, though . . . my Voids defined my Values. By Values, I mean all the things I most wished for in my life-all the things I defined as being part of love. Maybe these were things I felt I once had, but were now missing. Or, maybe they were things I felt were never there to begin with. In any case, these were the things I searched for in my life.
In short, my Voids were the painful things I wanted to run away from and my Values were the pleasureful things I wanted to run toward. Both were the driving forces of my life.
So, there appeared to be two sides to my life: love and lack of love, upon which all my Values and Voids were based. And there appeared to be a whole lot more lack of love than love. But, the New Agers insist (and my Heart tells me) that all is love. How can I resolve this apparent contradiction? How can a lack of love be love?
On the one side, I see love. On the other, I do not see love. Ah! Here's the key! Where I see love, my Values are born, taking me on a journey I call my life. Where I do not see love, my Voids are born, also taking me on a journey I call my life. The things in my life that support my highest Values I call "good" and I'm attracted to; the things in my life that don't support or that challenge my highest Values I call "bad" and I'm repelled from. On that journey, I become who I am. For better or for worse, both sides are part of the journey of my life. Interesting . . .
Maybe I dislike some of who I've become as a result of this journey. Maybe I like some of who I've become as a result of this journey. However, for better or worse, this is who I am. Not only this, but all my efforts to change who I am have either been useless, ineffective or have had unexpected and undesirable results. I've merely swapped one set of character traits-good and bad-with another, also good and bad. It looks like I'm stuck with who I am. This being so, I would really love to love who I am, as I am. Wouldn't you?
Seeing love and not seeing love . . . liking myself and not liking myself . . . and, all the while, wishing to love myself as I am . . . these seem to be the most important aspects of my life's journey. The questions these things bring up in me (and that are mirrored in my life) are really the starting point for Healing (taken the broadest sense). Without these aspects and these questions, there would not, could not, be a Healing journey. Maybe, in this journey, there is a larger Plan at work? The idea of a larger Plan certainly agrees with the idea that all is love. But, what "love" am I talking about? Let's explore this a little more . . .
Everyday Love
[Man] lives in a subjective world of 'I love,' 'I do not love,' 'I like,' 'I do not like,' 'I want,' 'I do not want,' that is, of what he thinks he likes, of what he thinks he does not like, of what he thinks he wants, of what he thinks he does not want. He does not see the real world. The real world is hidden from him by the wall of imagination. He lives in sleep. He is asleep. What is called 'clear consciousness' is sleep and a far more dangerous sleep than sleep at night in bed.
-G. I. Gurdjieff, as quoted by P. D. Ouspensky
When most people think of love, they think of relationships-generally, relationships between individuals. If I like you more than I dislike you, maybe love will be born, although this isn't guaranteed. From an everyday point of view, why, when and how people 'fall in love' is a mystery. In today's world, the word "love" is synonymous with "sex," "lust," "need," "desire," "passion," and so on. Aside from loving people, I can also love places, things, activities, circumstances, and/or ideas. There are so many variations of, and so much confusion about, the word "love." So, let me start to sort it all out . . .
· Everyday love is all about "attraction" and its opposite, "repulsion."
If I'm attracted to someone (or something), I'm more likely to "love" them than hate them; or, at least, I'm more likely to "like" them than dislike them. On the other hand, if someone (or something) repulses me, I'm more likely to "hate" them than love them; or, at least, I'm more likely to "dislike" them than like them.
In everyday life, I tick-tock between like and dislike, between love and hate, between happiness and sadness, between positive and negative, between pain and pleasure, between yes and no (and maybe), and so on and so forth, through the whole collection of emotions.
In addition, everyday love has conditions attached to it-conditions, expectations and requirements. If you do this for me, I'll love you. If you give me what I need, I'll love you. If you're nice to me, I'll love you. However, if you don't give me this or you don't give me that or if you aren't nice to me, I won't love you. If you protect me, I'll love you; if you hurt me, I won't love you. If you do and say things I like, I'll love you; if you do and say things I don't like, I won't love you. It's all about conditions. If your conditions give me pleasure, I'm attracted to you; if your conditions cause me pain, I'm repulsed by you.
In short:
· Pleasureful conditions > attraction > everyday love (or like)
· Painful conditions > repulsion > everyday hate (or dislike)
Conditional or Unconditional?
Let's call this everyday day kind of love "conditional love."
Is there another kind of love? What kind of love are they talking about when people say, "all is love"? If everyday love depends on how I'm treated by someone else, then it's conditional, as I've discovered. If my love for someone else didn't depend on how they treated me and didn't depend on whether my experience was painful or pleasureful, then it would be unconditional, wouldn't it?
What would it mean to love unconditionally? Surely, it would mean that no matter whether I like you or dislike you, no matter what you did or did not do to me (or for me), no matter whether you gave me what I needed or not, I would still love you. It would mean that no matter whether a thing or event gave me pleasure or pain, gave me conflict or harmony, made me happy or sad, challenged me or supported me, benefited me or not, I would still love the thing or event. It would mean that no matter what I had done or not done in my past, I would still love myself; I would still be worthy of love.
Unconditional love means loving it all, without exception . . . "All is love." It goes beyond everyday attraction and repulsion. It goes beyond the everyday world of reactions and offers the possibility of conscious actions-the possibility of choice. Loving another person unconditionally doesn't necessarily mean I'll stay with them. Loving a thing unconditionally doesn't necessarily mean I'll keep it. Loving a situation or event unconditionally doesn't necessarily mean I'll try to repeat it. However, in all these cases, loving unconditionally means I'm free to choose, one way or the other. There's no choice when I react, only when I'm free to act. I can only be free to act if I'm free of my attractions and repulsions-if I'm free of my 'charges', my one-sided viewpoints, my judgments, and my blame. I can free myself by going beyond my initial reactions and trying to see all sides of things.
Unconditional love is all about seeing all sides of things. It's all about having a broader perspective, a more inclusive view, and a more balanced state of mind and heart. It's all about going beyond my usual judgments of things, events, and people. Am I ready for this? Is it possible to achieve such a state of mind and heart? Or is unconditional love an impossible ideal? Supposing it's possible to love unconditionally, what are the steps to achieve it?
· When I love unconditionally, I see love everywhere and in everything, because I am love- love is in me, not outside me.
In addition, unconditional Love means accepting personal responsibility for loving. When I accept personal responsibility for loving, I no longer ask, "Where can love be found?" but I ask, "Is there anywhere Love can't be found?"
So, there is conditional love (that I see or don't see) and unconditional Love (that I am).
Here's another way to look at the difference between conditional love and unconditional Love: imagine that my emotional life is a cup. When the cup is upright, I can fill it up and it won't spill. On the other hand, when the cup falls on its side, its content spills this way or that. The contents of the cup are emotions. When the cup tips over, I'm expressing emotions-positive and negative, good and bad, right and wrong, happy and sad, pleasure and pain, like and dislike, everyday love and hate, and so on.
Note that every emotion has an opposite-emotions come in pairs. When I express negative emotions, my cup tips one way and when I express positive emotions, my cup tips the other way. The tipping over of the cup, one way or the other, is the same as the day-to-day tick-tocking of my emotions. At any moment, my love can become hate, my like dislike, my happiness sadness, my pleasure pain, and so on and so forth (and vice versa). Most importantly, under normal circumstances, the cup can only tip one way or the other, not both ways at once. In other words, I express one side while not expressing the other side. For example, I can't normally be happy and sad in the same instant.
If, as I've been told by the New Agers and as my Heart tells me, "all is Love," then every emotion, taken on its own without its opposite, is love, but love in a conditional form.
· In any instant, I express one side of a pair of emotions, the cup spilling this way or that, while repressing the other side.
· Every emotion, taken on its own without its opposite, is an example of conditional love.
For example, when you hurt me, my cup of emotions tips to the pain side, while the pleasure side is unexpressed, repressed, ignored, unacknowledged and/or denied. On the other hand, when you rub my back, my cup of emotions tips to the pleasure side, while the pain side is unexpressed, repressed, ignored, unacknowledged and/or denied.
If I could Love unconditionally it wouldn't matter whether you hurt me or soothed me; my cup of emotions would remain upright and full, containing and retaining both pain and pleasure, happiness and sadness, everyday love and hate, like and dislike, and so on.
· Unconditional Love is the combination of all emotions.
· Unconditional Love is not an emotion, but is made up of all emotions.
· Every emotion added to its opposite makes a little unconditional Love.
The Equations of Love
Let's sum up everything I've discovered about love/Love in some 'equations' . . .
· Conditional love = emotions, experienced separately, negative or positive.
· Unconditional Love = all emotions, experienced together, negative and positive.
· Conditional love = love vs. hate, like vs. dislike, pleasure vs. pain, happiness vs. sadness, good vs. bad, right vs. wrong, elation vs. depression, infatuation vs. resentment, acceptance vs. rejection, and so on.
· Unconditional Love = love + hate, like + dislike, pleasure + pain, happiness + sadness, good + bad, right + wrong, elation + depression, infatuation + resentment, acceptance + rejection, and so on.
When I experience conditional love-my everyday emotional landscape-my cup of emotions tips this way and that, like the pendulum in the preceding diagram. I swing between everyday love and hate, like and dislike, happy and sad, elation and depression, negative and positive, and so on, some swings of the pendulum longer than others.
· My cup of emotions is never filled for long before I spill it in one-sided emotional expressions and reactions.
· The world of conditional love is ruled by reactions, as opposed to conscious actions.
On the other hand, what would happen if I could experience both sides of the pendulum at once? What would happen if I could acknowledge, include, honor, and embrace both sides at once, without trying to change anything and without expressing one side while repressing the other? What if I could remain balanced (emotionally) between the opposing sides-between everyday love and hate, between like and dislike, between pleasure and pain, between negative and positive, and so on?
If I could do this, then my cup of emotions would stay upright and not spill. It would be filled and remain full. This would be the experience of unconditional Love.
· When I fill my cup with each emotion and its opposite, I experience unconditional Love.
· The world of unconditional Love is ruled by conscious actions, as opposed to reactions.
Having understood this, I have a question: is it really possible for me to experience an emotion and it opposite simultaneously? For example, to experience sadness and happiness at the same time? Or everyday love and hate at the same time? Or joy and suffering? Or pleasure and pain?
The short answer is yes. Working with the process that's presented later in this book, I've experienced when opposite emotions come together as one, as have many people I've worked with and worked beside. When opposite emotions, such as happiness and sadness, are experienced simultaneously and equally, the two sides effectively combine (merge) into one. The two opposite emotions dissolve and birth a new single experience of a higher order: the experience of unconditional Love.
Later in this book, I'll show how this very real process looks from the point of view of the body, from the point of view of the mind, from the point of view of science and from the point of view of spirituality. This process is not fantasy or wishful thinking, but is a cutting-edge, repeatable, and personally verifiable truth. It represents a revolution in Humanity's understanding of both consciousness and Healing.
I repeat: conditional love is the experience of individual emotions, expressing one side while not expressing, repressing, denying, or not acknowledging the opposite side. Conditional love is conditional-it comes with conditions, expectations, and requirements. It's the everyday experience of attractions and repulsions. In conditional love, my awareness is scattered and tick-tocks constantly between emotions-the experience of personality. In the everyday state of personality, I (unconsciously) react to everything.
More than this, though:
· Conditional love makes up the world of forms (the material world, matter).
The world of forms is the everyday world we see around us-the world we can see, hear, smell, touch and taste. Conditional love is related to the material world.
On the other hand, unconditional Love is the simultaneous experience of opposite emotions, combined equally into a new single experience. Unconditional Love is unconditional-it comes without conditions, expectations, or requirements. It's a transpersonal (beyond the senses) experience, without attractions or repulsions. In unconditional Love, my awareness is centered and motionless-the experience of Being. In a state of Being, I have the power to act consciously instead of simply reacting.
More than this, though:
· Unconditional Love makes up the world of essence (the spiritual world, energy).
The world of essence is the world of the Heart, beyond the senses. It's the world of energy, which even science is at a loss to fully understand. (Contrary to what people think, science can see what energy does, but has no idea what energy is.) Unconditional Love is related to the spiritual world.
The following diagram (table) sums up everything I've discovered so far . . .
Conditional love Unconditional Love
Emotions experienced separately The merging of opposite emotions
Expresses one side while not expressing the other side Includes both sides
Conditional Unconditional
Conditions, expectations, requirements No conditions, expectations, requirements.
Attractions and repulsions No attraction or repulsions
Awareness is scattered, tick-tocking between emotions Awareness is centered and motionless
Personality Being
(unconscious) Reactions (conscious) Actions
Forms Essence
Material world Energetic world
Matter Spirit
Diagram 1. Conditional and Unconditional Love Table 1.
This brings me to another question: if conditional love and unconditional Love are both Love (taken in its broadest sense)-that is, if, as the New Agers profess, "all is Love"-then why is there a distinction between the two? In my everyday world (the world of conditional love), why do I see love in certain places, but I can't see it in other places? And why do I separate these everyday experiences from an idealism I've called unconditional Love?
The simple answer to this is: it's all a matter of perception-a matter of the way I see things. When I'm ruled by unconditional love, my consciousness is divided (fragmented) into innumerable and scattered emotions (and thoughts). These emotions (and thoughts) have other names: judgments, biases, one-sided perspectives, blame, illusions, lies, half-truths, wounds, issues, and so on.
On the other hand, the promise of unconditional Love is that it will bring together all these pieces-all my scattered emotions (and thoughts)-into unified consciousness. Unified consciousness is whole, without judgments, unbiased, centered, balanced, without blame, and so on. It sees the Truth beyond my illusions, lies, and half-truths. It holds the key to resolving my issues and Healing my Wounds. It gives me a broader perspective, a more inclusive view, and the possibility of awakening to a larger Plan of existence. In unconditional Love, nothing changes . . . except the way I see myself, my life, the lives of others and the world around me. Then, everything changes.
· The promise of unconditional Love is unified consciousness (Healing)
· Unconditional Love will give me a broader perspective, a more inclusive view and the possibility of awakening to a larger Plan of existence.
If it's all a matter of the way I see things-a matter of perception-then how can I change the way I see things? How can I move from the world of conditional love into the world of unconditional Love? The answer to this question is tied to why it is in the first place that I tend to see love in certain places while not seeing it in other places. It's tied to why I endlessly tick-tock from emotion to emotion (and thought to thought). It's tied to why I express one side of things while not expressing (repressing) the other side. In short, it's tied to seeing where conditional love comes from and what keeps me 'stuck' in it. Let's explore these questions. Then, when all this is clear, I'll be able to see exactly what steps will take me from conditional love into unconditional Love. Then, I'll be able to turn anything in my life into unconditional Love just by following these steps.
So, with this goal in mind, let's look deeper into the way I see the world; let's explore perception. The deeper understanding of perception is tied to understanding what the world is made of-what the fabric of the world is, so to speak. The connection between perception and what the world is made of is revealed in the ancient Eastern idea of the Seer, the Seeing and the Seen. So, let's explore this, too.
(Continued in the upcoming book.)
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Martin Lass,
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Martin Lass
Professional Practising and Research Astrologer
Research Member of AFA (American Federation of Astrologers)
Member of ISAR (International Society for Astrological Research)
Certified practitioner of "The Collapse Process"(TM) of Dr. John Demartini (The Concourse of Wisdom School of Philosophy and Healing, Houston TX).
Martin Lass specializes in Chiron Astrology--the astrology of Healing--as well as actively researching the origins of astrology and astrology's wider metaphysical connections to every possible area of human endeavor and expression.
He writes for various trade journals, has authored numerous books (see below) and presents lectures/seminars/workshops worldwide on a variety of topics from astrology to healing to the connections between mythology, physics and metaphysics, to name a few.
Author of the three-volume book series, "Musings of a Rogue Comet - Chiron, Planet of Healing" and of "Love Makes the Worlds Go Around - The Living Planets Speak"
See:
www.martinlass.
com/chbk123.htm
Author of spiritually-based fiction and poetry
Professional musician (violinist), composer and entertainer
Book designer for Print-on-Demand (POD) printing process (primarily for self-publishers - e-books and trade paperbacks)
websites:
www.martinlass.
com/astrohome.htm
(astrology and healing site)
www.martinlass.
com
(music site)
www.galactic
publications.
com
(PDF book design site)
email:
MartinLass7@aol.com
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