Uncle Benny on a Neptune Transit
posted by jm at 2:10 AM
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
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17 Comments:
I like the idea of life in a bath. I had dreams last night of a kind of crazy swimming pool.
Also, someone here, maybe Neith or Tseka, mentioned a homeopathic remedy (with a rather frightening name) that often led to healing dreams. Does anyone remember what it was or know where to get it?
Juju you have such an expansive, curious mind. Never fails.
And a fine eye.
I love a high level of conversation that reaches to horizons and beyond. I will always entertain this possibility.
I dreamt of a strange man in my house last night that frightened me at first, I tried to attack him, and then became an ally and I looked for him to return. Other men chimed in too at the end.
I like the idea of life in a bath
I don't think people realize the effort it takes to be bipedal. The force on the spine and the gravitational pull, at least until anti-gravity kicks in as Kadimiros suggests:-) We are constantly pitching forward and trying to get back down. Then come the near miraculous physical feats and manic dancing to prove to ourselves that bipedalism is really great.
My theory is that the insecurity of trying to stay upright, genitals exposed in the man, balance suspect, creates the overwhelming interpersonal threat I see expressed everywhere. why are so many people enemies to so many?
Seems to me if we were centered and balanced we would feel safer. Maybe reclining is the answer!
Your dream. The male energy and how to relate to it? And today a visit from Uncle Benny, surely an ally, relaxed and vulnerable, for the time being. Naked and sexual but not frightening? I used to have a postcard of Gershwin at the piano smoking a cigar -- he looks full of energy and life -- and this photo reminds me of a more relaxed version of that.
I like your bipedal theory. Very interesting. I know I find all this sitting standing walking sometimes a strain. Though didn't the Romans recline all the time? How to recline without beoming completely passive or decadent?
Wonderful juju. Succinct and accurate.
You are so right.
Naked and sexual but not frightening
Back to the contentment with the self. Not disturbing anyone, all his pleasures right there. It's curious that I associate this with the male. And this one...not going anywhere or even considering it.
I love more than anything the absence of desire to apply force, for just a moment.
How to recline without beoming completely passive or decadent?
Ahhhhhhh..... The secret of the stone.
I think it takes great confidence to recline and enjoy it. It's always been done by royalty, or the image of it associated with wealth and leisure, against the backdrop of the suffering working man. Then this evertoiling creature was elevated as if the suffering were redemption, and now leisure is often anathema. Idleness. And decadence, as you say.
Actually I think reclining is a necessary revitalizing of the whole structure that struggles to stand. It doesn't need justification.
I think this contentment in some ways goes back to what we talked about. The idea of being and allowing the right moment. It is interesting that you associate this with the male. Perhaps the female is normally perceived as passive or waiting for a man when she is just being? I'm thinking of my own struggles -- a perpetual sense of feeling that I must be doing something -- to avoid feeling lazy or a failure. When is lying in a bath just procrastinating or avoiding something? And when is it the best thing one can do?
I'm thinking of my own struggles -- a perpetual sense of feeling that I must be doing something -- to avoid feeling lazy or a failure.
So common, and it doesn't even work. That's the irony. Probably in the end it's all level and both approaches lead to the same thing. Accomplishments are temporary relief. That's why we are so compelled to do more so quickly, even after a great achievement. I don't know what drives this with the lack of pause.
It comes down to who is the judge? Maybe if we do that function ourselves, we would be more satisfied and more "inclined" to recline a bit. Breathe in and push out equally.
When is lying in a bath just procrastinating or avoiding something?
And what exactly is the great crime in avoiding something? no guarantee that it will make any difference. Doing or not doing.
Who and what do we do so many of these things for? Where is the commanding voice? A lot of them quite useless, really. Eating up time.
The one huge merit to relaxation for me is the stretching of time and the perception that there is more. I love this. A glimpse of the infinite.
Everone has a unique destiny, but one big thing I'm learning is to pause when the panic button is pushed.
The tendency to jump when the bang comes is natural but to make major moves everytime it hits could be unneccesary. I've been cultivating the talent of not moving sometimes. Staying put and continuing as is until the threat has passed. I believe my inner sense will tell me clearly when the time for a move has arrived. When emergency action is reqired.
The incredible joy of not flinching is one of my greatest.
"Change" has become one of the most abused, romanticized, and misunderstood of all words and concepts.
People are afraid of change
they say, as if change were fundamentally good. Not so. It can be bad, or it can be useless, too.
Some things remain unchanged, such as the turtle, with good results. Change comes when adaptation requires it, not as something to escape the present. That won't work. So many times people make the changes but realize it was just pushing food around the plate.
There's a lot to be said for seeing the value in what is occurring presently, even if some discomforts are involved.
One thing I'm curious about is how the cigar got to be associated with the image of the Big Shot on top of the world.
The cigarette is white, slender, and small and associated with "cool".
The cigar is big and dark and associated with having it all.
The smoke curling is the common factor and this has always intrigued me.
Water children love the bath tub almost as much as a cool stream babbling down the hills or the ocean crashing across the rocks.
Always a delight JM to see what's cooking here.
And such a delight to read your comment triplescorp.
All this talk of change puts me in mind of the second law of thermodynamics and our old friend, entropy which is defined as the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity. So, with ol' Taurus rising which supposedly makes me fairly cautious and conservative, any change (for me) tends toward the not-good side. But you can just call me a pessimist trying to get back to Utopia.
So, with ol' Taurus rising which supposedly makes me fairly cautious and conservative, any change (for me) tends toward the not-good side. But you can just call me a pessimist trying to get back to Utopia.
ROFL ... with Scorp rising, I'm a cynic trying to get back to Utopia. :-) It's that lack of belief in all the BS that people try to pass off as the latest version of the "Truth" . . .
entropy which is defined as the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity
Now THAT'S pessimistic. I hope to enjoy the non uniform trip to get there. Inert might be okay, though.
It's that lack of belief in all the BS that people try to pass off as the latest version of the "Truth" . . .
Applause, applause.
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