This Thing Called love
from the gentle slope
where it is warm
by your shoulder.
My eyes are closed.
I can feel the tap
of your blood
against my cheek
Inside my mind,
I see the gentle move
ment of your valleys,
the undulation
of slow turnings.
Simon Ortiz
I discovered a beautiful book last night called Love: A Celebration in Art and Literature. One of the editors, Jane Lahr, has this to say:
Lena and I chose to confront the theme of love after the failure of our marriages. I have come to feel that true love is not difficult to describe, nor is it a complex, mysterious emotion. Rather, it is exquisite and simple. Love is extending oneself to nurture another. Honoring, nurturing, and affirming. One can learn the art of loving well, as a craftsman learns a craft. But it takes a conscious act of will. Love is a discipline. [Sounds like Saturn in Leo, does it not?]
This anthology makes one assertion: love is possible.
And from one of my favorites, Rainer Maria Rilke, comes this.....
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof. Learning to love is always a long secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is solitude--intensified and deepened loneness. Love is at first not anything that means merging, giving over, and uniting with another, it is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become the world, to become the world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.
Bottom. Linda Saport from Before you were born
posted by jm at 5:15 AM
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Rather, it is exquisite and simple. Love is extending oneself to nurture another. Honoring, nurturing, and affirming. One can learn the art of loving well, as a craftsman learns a craft. But it takes a conscious act of will. Love is a discipline. [Sounds like Saturn in Leo, does it not?]
Now this I'm in complete agreement with - and, yes, it is what is possible with Saturn in Leo! The most desired result that takes time & dedication to achieve. What is passed off as Love is often the opposite, in my observations. Interestingly enough, my Leo brother says he doesn't understand Love . . . his Sun is 26Leo with Saturn at 26Leo (Saturn is his Scout Planet). Hmmmmmm - he's in the midst of his Second Saturn Return at this very time, and we're going through all this with our mother. And his beloved son just got engaged to a totally delightful Chinese woman 13 yrs his elder (reducing possibility of her giving him blood grandchildren, she has a 14 yr old daughter from a previous marriage). dum de dum de dum . . . don't 'cha just LOVE astrology!! :-)
Interestinglly, I'm in my second Saturn Return as well. My ability to detatch is changing. I can't yet destribe it. I think the evolution is still in motion in this Saturn Return space. A certain kind of humility that is based in experience and strength is making itself known to me. I must be growing. ;-)
A certain kind of humility that is based in experience and strength is making itself known to me. I must be growing. ;-)
Actually that's a pretty good description of how I felt/am feeling in this Saturn Return process too. Of course, we both got worked over pretty good by Pluto over the years . . . he takes the really rough stuff off, so it's easier for Saturn to refine what's left. :-) I just keep thinking/reminding myself that's what we're here for . . . if we were a finished product, we wouldn't be.
One of my favorite quotes says:
"We come to love, not by finding the perfect person, but by coming to see the imperfect person perfectly."
So true.
A certain kind of humility that is based in experience and strength is making itself known to me
This is one of the best characteristics of wisdom. The blend in Saturn in Leo with the ego and pride of self love are the completion. Saturn always demands humility but this comes in the face of the magnitude of the sensation when full self respect is achieved.
I can't yet destribe it.
Please do, astrid, when you can. I'm very very interested.
I think the evolution is still in motion in this Saturn Return space.
This is the last retrograde before Saturn leaves, so it's coming home now.
I've drawn to myself others with this return now and it must be an indication of how seriously I'm taking it.
On my first return I was focused on validation from the enviroment, to the exclusion of my own, I think. I was even endorsed by the local newspaper. This time I'm caught in a complicated web of need for respect and my own search for my artistic expression to its maximum. Very interesting development.
The truth of how important it is to recognize myself in the face of all outer changes, is coming clear.
This is also happening to the country with its NN in Leo.
The society knows it's worth a fortune in the true way and now is faced with outer demise as it has neglected these values that once were more pronounced. This last retro is also bringing it home. The outer failure and humiliation have brought recognition even if this isn't apparent on the stage yet. A little later for that.
In this great moment of truth our full failure(Saturn in Leo) of foreign policy (Pluto in Sagittarius) is completely clear.
I noticed Bush canceled his Iraq speech. He can't get way with the fake words now. He will again, of course, and do so unitl he's gone, but his game is over.
I'm always amazed and relieved when man is trumped by circumstamce. I think he always is. The collective and the cosmic.
With his Leo rising and destructive Pluto there, this was predictable. The real telling fact, though is his South node in the 5th being transited now. This is a person who is leaving the spotlight this lifetime for the collective good. In the end this will be the result as this country finds some pride again.
Bush came to destroy a legacy not leave one.
And of course our lack of love has been indicated these years by the out of control heart disease.
It's interesting how desperate the people are to love as they've zoomed Obama to the top in genuflection. He's a Leo, of course.
He's a different expression of it and the people are desperate. Too desperate. But he stands tall and straight, exactly the opposite of our current Leo. He's a model in a sense. Not the next president, of course.
It will land in a better place eventually.
We definitely need improved leadership.
Bush came to destroy a legacy not leave one.
Perfectly said jm.
Wow, jm, that's profound. All dynasties produce the seed that brings about their own destruction.
It makes it easier to feel sorry for him, in a way. His soul probably chose to come here and be a lightning rod for hatred and disgust, and it shows in his fast-forwarded aging process in just six short years.
His soul probably chose to come here and be a lightning rod for hatred and disgust, and it shows in his fast-forwarded aging process in just six short years.
I think he's the quintessential sacrificial lamb. The lightning rod for hatred and disgust I think is absolutely right. Our Plutonian drain. He's taken all of our crap.
I have more evidence of this meatphysically which I will go into soon as this transit ends and more amd more is revealed.
I don't feel sorry for him nor do I hate him. I do feel some pity though. But I feel that for everyone trying to get through all of this.
All dynasties produce the seed that brings about their own destruction.
Absolutely 1,000,000% agreement on this one.
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