New Moon
October 17, 2009
24 Libra 59’
You are in a situation. It’s bad. It’s terrible. It’s awful. There are perpetrators. You turn to look at them trying to figure how you are going to break them down so that they are aware of their awful crimes and ashamed of themselves. And you are the sentencing judge. They have presented no argument or defense because their offense is plain to see and you are prosecutor, judge and jury. You look at them, stare at them. You are emotionally involved. There is drama in your courtroom, so you are stoking yourself, generating the steam of righteous anger. You bang your fist on the table. You stamp your feet. You grimace. You want them to see in your face, your righteous indignation and utter hate. You give the command to destroy. The enemy cannot be redeemed.
Whew! That’s a nightmare, a daydream gone haywire. However, we all have occasionally danced some form of this dance in relationship to someone who’s vexed us, bothered us, crossed the line. Sometimes we are painting with a wide swath. We’re mad at society, men, women, democrats, republicans, white people, black people. Sometimes it’s mother, father, son, daughter, Harry or Lucy. Let’s wake up from the nightmare of being carried away by the mob rule within that makes us reckless and unkind.
Much of the time these tirades are taking place in our mind. We creatively embellish, exaggerate, and fill in the blanks. In the victim position all we have is the power of our mind. For some of us our minds are powerful only when we are angry. We give our minds the power of destruction, but not the power of creation.
When we are powerless, we can only be passively aggressive. We may even outwardly hide or disguise our true feelings. They are for private dark, night workings. Oddly, some of us are only in touch with our power through anger. We think power is anger. Perhaps this is because when we are angry we permit ourselves to “go there.” We permit ourselves to be on our worst behavior and to get a little vile and violent. We begin to violate others’ humanity because we have no check or balance on the mental battlefield upon which we are playing our war games.
Since these games are taking place in our minds, we are arming our own opponents, and by assuming the powerless stance of the victim, we actually end up giving the bad guy the controlling portion of the power.
Arm yourself. Take responsibility for yourself. Cut your swath upon the median path. Direct your anger toward your goal, not yourself or the alleged.
What would love do? Love seeks to make it better. Love says, let me be lifted up. Let me invoke good. Let my purpose be good so that I can draw near the voice of Good.
The Venus way, the way of love, beauty and sublimity finds a non-violent answer. The closer you are to the center, the faster and easier you dial into the non-violent, non-competitive way. When we feed our anger, we get invested in it. The center gets further away, and our turn-around seems like a crazy, treacherous stretch of highway. We must wake up from the nightmare that we are producing. We are the wizard behind the curtain, conjuring lions and tigers and bears. We make our enemies’ all-destructively powerful.
“All we are saying,” says the New Moon in Libra, “is give peace a chance.” It’s all about balance, equality, and equanimity. Saturn is exalted in Libra. Discipline is exalted in the scales of balance. We are more alike than not alike. Limits and fears are lifted in artful application.
Recognize that anger not constructively directed, affects your mental and physical health. Acknowledge it. Release it. Direct it to act in and upon the better way. Don’t waste time dwelling in the dust of destruction. Build anew. If you do not permit the enemy to have peace, they will not permit you peace.
Wowee! You hit the nail right on the head. I would like to post this on Planet Watch, with a link to your site? Let me know. Love You, and keep on doing what you’re doing…it’s so needed.
What a blessing!