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posted September 28, 2015 08:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Faith        Reply w/Quote
As in, the song.

It makes me think of church interiors, or being in a sacred space. So this thread is for posting images of sacred or spiritual places that you find visually appealing, relaxing, or inspiring. Or even parts of churches.

Anything goes, and musical accompaniment is always welcome, to add to the atmosphere.

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posted September 28, 2015 08:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Faith        Reply w/Quote
Damascus, Syria:

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posted September 28, 2015 08:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Faith        Reply w/Quote

Gregorian ~ Sound of Silence

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posted September 28, 2015 09:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29        Reply w/Quote
Faith, It's a Beautiful thread!

(music) Where'Er You Walk (Handel, Semele HWV58; John Aler) [4:58] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9UcKAcrj-8

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posted September 29, 2015 10:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Faith        Reply w/Quote
Thank you mirage!

PERFECT music for the thread, too!

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posted September 29, 2015 11:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Faith        Reply w/Quote

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posted September 30, 2015 09:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29        Reply w/Quote
^ ooooo so nice! Inspiring.

(music) Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (Bach) [9:20] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZjlsyYY

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posted October 01, 2015 11:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Faith        Reply w/Quote
Thank you, mirage

Incense guy is the best. emoticon. ever!!!

And thanks for the music

At first I though the mystery player might be Virgil Fox? But his versions don't sound like that.

Did you ever see the movie Some Kind of Wonderful? The main character walks into an art museum and says: This is my church. And a song from that movie is playing in my mind as I virtually tour the interiors of churches ~ some of the lyrics sound like a hymn.

I'm at the stage
Where everything I thought meant something
Seems so unappealing.
I'm ready for the Real Thing
But nobody's selling it...
Except You and yours, saying
'Open up your eyes and ears
And let me in.'"

~~~Brilliant Mind

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posted October 01, 2015 06:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29        Reply w/Quote
Ready for the Real Thing.... {{ }} It's Time for it to happen.

E. Powers Biggs was the other organist I thought about. I liked one of the comments that said it was the Phantom Of the Opera, of course!

I didn't see that movie your song came from, but like the Majesty represented in your elegant sanctuary photos, I think we could have one of these take place in them...

(clip) Gwen's Coronation Scene (Merlin) [1:37] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeW-oDlLvxY

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posted October 02, 2015 03:38 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall        Reply w/Quote

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posted October 02, 2015 08:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Faith        Reply w/Quote
^

That guy ALWAYS makes me laugh!

@mirage

Ahhh thanks for the lovely romantic scene! I've never seen the movie. But yes, that's how my imagination is running with some of these pics...thinking of churches and weddings.

I was laughing at the Phantom comment, too!

I don't know E. Powers Biggs but Powers-Biggs is a great name for an organist...they have big power alright!

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posted October 02, 2015 10:42 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29        Reply w/Quote
^ Well, 'e plays on some bigg'uns!

Like in this cathedral video...

(music) BACH: Chorale from the Easter Cantata BWV 4 (E Powers-Biggs) [3:00] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihzw3UTneL4

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posted October 04, 2015 02:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall        Reply w/Quote
It's a great smilie.

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posted October 04, 2015 07:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Faith        Reply w/Quote
Wow, mirage! Sublime!

Ooo and I love the copper chandelier around 0:35.

Speaking of Bach...I have spread the word around that I would like this to be played at my funeral...

Sleeper's Awake

...Which I've imagined taking place in a Quaker Meetinghouse, because the most lovely funeral I ever went to, happened in one...

^ The simplicity appeals to my 6H sun. Not sure if they allow music (or non-Quakers!) there....

So this is just a dream.

'Course the better dream is, I never even die.


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posted October 05, 2015 12:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29        Reply w/Quote
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'Course the better dream is, I never even die.

I wish for days that would be pleasant and kind for you-- the better dream. {{ }}

I {{love}} that Bach piece, Faith. Your little 6th House Sun-room has the same vaulted look as the other photo ceilings.

You've been thinking about death again recently? I still remember the Funeral thread you had done. It was striking to think about, but felt good to be 'real'.

It's really odd that I've been having thoughts of getting ready to discard this body, too. I've never had 'these' kinds of transition-process from the body (exiting) before.

You know, I have 'issues' about losing consciousness (because of incident during surgery at age 4 where I woke up under anesthesia) and trusting people after that.

These buildings you've been showing have a depth and richness that is unique. I mean, there are a lot of pictures you could choose, but the ones you did choose are "very special"... Reflection of how humid-rich YOU are inside?

And your H6 Sun plainer room... still the vaulted cathedral ceiling.

No music?... Actually 'the lines' of the architecture and beams become the sounds to the eye.

And I love the title of this thread~~ so classy, Faith. The House of Stone and Light. So pretty.

I have H6 Sun too. My Sun is air, but the cusp is earth Taurus. I really like your 9/29/2015 11:15 AM 'atrium' type House in the woods, and with the large potted plants inside.

You know, when I see the arches, I think of the word Ah. How the mouth, roof of mouth and throat look. The 'air' of Ah would be spirit.

The other thing the shape reminds me of (when I sit in a church) is the inside from the heart inside looking up through/to the boney skull and the position of the pineal gland. (Look at your second picture... That pineal glad is alllll lit up! )

I've been attending daily masses here since that NM Cancer we had in July 2015. It's been a spiritual devotion, showing the universe that I'm serious about whatever it is that God wants to lead me into-- so hungry for knowing the Mysteries.

When I listened to this man recite Psalm 90, it reminds me of our aggregate number of lives. As the individual life and person as the 'one blade of grass' among others. How we keep coming back, life after life. The heat of the things that go wrong and stay wrong life after life. It's been a really slow evolution for Us...

(music) Teach Us To Number Our Days (Psalm 90, recitation) [3:44] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZPa2mgtkTU


"The Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, featuring its gothic architecture and stained glass. Images depict some of the ways God comes to man: through water and word at baptism, as a human at Jesus' birth and at Jesus' resurrection, giving hope through all earthly travails." --Gary Penner, youtube


(music) E'en So Lord Jesus Quickly Come (Kansas City Chorale; vid, The Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany) [3:21] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNyLmy3ml5Q

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posted October 05, 2015 11:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Faith        Reply w/Quote
You are so stunningly beautiful, mirage. Your mind is like a cathedral.

Thanks so much for inviting me in ~ I'll luxuriate there when I find a peaceful moment.

Just popped in to share this antsy piece of data...after I posted that about my funeral yesterday, I realized the sun was exactly transiting on my Pluto...while Pluto is transiting on my sun. Funny, isn't it?

*hugs*

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posted October 05, 2015 06:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29        Reply w/Quote
^ Not so funny when it 'hurts' like hell inside and out sometimes... {{ }}

LOL looking at the words that my mind is a cathedral... There's the Natural way to look at it, and the Supernatural. It's big and vacuous? Always reverberating with SOME kind of thing bouncing off its walls, spoken or not. And just sometimes, it gets the humble privilege of knowing how dinky and finite it is in a Cosmic ectoplasmic Sea of Amazing Love. Such significant total insignificance... completely nobody and nobody's, and, one in belonging to all of it.
*{Love you... take tender care of you}*

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posted October 05, 2015 08:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29        Reply w/Quote
Softly, quietly, we're going to be okay, Faith... It's hard, at times completely hard-locked; and it's sad, and unbelievably gruelly-tough--- {but we make it through}. And we Be shiny, Faith... oh sooooo shiny now (inside), and shockingly Beautifully brilliant in the End. {{ }}

*C'mon... Let's dance this one.*

(music) Simple Gifts (Songs of America, Shaker hymn, lyrics) [1:43] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLAnuG1340g

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posted October 05, 2015 09:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Faith        Reply w/Quote

I have this version of that on my iPod.

I love what you said about being a cathedral, I'm sorry to say I had a more mundane metaphor in mind...that your mind reaches up very high, lets the light in, colors everything neatly, just seems all dazzling and grand. And has music playing in it. And the incense guy lives there.

Thanks for all your compassion, and I feel the same for you! I have this beautiful asset in my natal chart, it's the power of delusion. (Magnificent power of delusion, I want to say.) I just deny whatever bothers me and it usually goes away. I'm commending myself tongue-in-cheek, but that's the fact of it. And delusion is much cheaper than alcohol and easier on the liver.

I like how you go to church and seek your comforts there. I'm not religious but sometimes it gets tiresome thinking like I have to do everything myself, and the idea of God appeals to me in those times. Relating to this song ~ Help Me

Though I take it all so lightly, for as long as I can. I hope to just continue living with a sense of humor until I get beamed up somehow. I want to dodge the mega-dreary stuff, personally. Though I would gladly immerse myself in others' tragedies, I just can't stand to have my peace torn out.

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When I listened to this man recite Psalm 90, it reminds me of our aggregate number of lives. As the individual life and person as the 'one blade of grass' among others. How we keep coming back, life after life. The heat of the things that go wrong and stay wrong life after life. It's been a really slow evolution for Us...

I love this ~ your video and the comment. Though I get a little spooked about the wrath and anger parts...(around 2:10)...I appreciate the creative effort and resonate with many of the sentiments there. It's still too confusing to me, though. I mean, overall.

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The other thing the shape reminds me of (when I sit in a church) is the inside from the heart inside looking up through/to the boney skull and the position of the pineal gland. (Look at your second picture... That pineal glad is alllll lit up! )

That is amazing, that you think like that!!! Yes I see and understand.

Thanks so much for all your compliments on this thread. It's hard to get perspective about ourselves...need mirrors. A friend of mine tries to tell me I'm a jewel who just cannot see it. I laugh it off and argue, "But YOU are the jewel, I'm just here being blahhhh" and that's how it goes. Why can't people see what they are? It shouldn't be this hard, right?

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It's really odd that I've been having thoughts of getting ready to discard this body, too. I've never had 'these' kinds of transition-process from the body (exiting) before.

Health worries...or just a metaphysical feeling like you are ready to go?

You know...there is that concept of mahasamadhi, people just giving up the ghost consciously and spontaneously. I was just reading about a man's suicide attempt in Astro 2.0 ~ and because his chart has similarities to mine, I was tempted to wonder aloud there, if perhaps he simply felt like dying. Because I get that feeling sometimes, not from depression, just...not even sure why. I dislike always needing reasons for everything. Sometimes I don't have them.

Anyway...that sounds weird but you know me well enough that I feel OK talking about it.

And I hope that whatever you are feeling about it is somehow comfortable and okay, too? But if not...of course...I wish you every consolation and divine favor imaginable, to make you better.

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posted October 07, 2015 02:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29        Reply w/Quote
Hi Faith {{ }}

I 'happened' to find a post you did where you left the song 'It's the end of the world, but I feel fine'... {{hug!!}}

I think you and I take a more esoteric approach in our astrology leanings and studies than others are able to understand, perhaps?

I understand that you have had some negative experiences with religions. And sometimes people need some time to dis-identify themselves with traditions of the past. It's good because that helps you clarify your own beliefs, and HOW you believe it. A person can grown up with a religious family-- and even THEN, not have applied Christ to their own personal understanding of it. That's something that every single soul comes to find 'for itself' in its own very unique way and road of development'. The timing of that is in GOD's hand, and it's God's job to do that work on each individual from the INSIDE to out. I mean, 'religion' or belief systems can help?... but Ultimately, it's the Union that happens between a Soul, it's psyche, and The God Who created them both. You probably remember my posts?.... That God "did it TO me" IN a Dream that turned Lucid Experience. He made sure that no religious institution, man or beast-otherwise got the Credit. It was Him, sovereignly-- and My Soul's response to the information being presented me in the Dream.

Some people call believing in God a crutch? But in my life journey, I'd done both believing and not-believing. Things sorta ~went-better when I chose Belief over non-believing. But that's for each individual to 'try on' for themselves.

One's that don't have God (HigherPower, etc) tend to turn to addictions to help-- Part of some treatments for addictions IS admitting helplessness, and turning to something Inside that can help comfort while the person's individual Will gains more power.

In whatever name they call/label God-Energy, they develop a relationship loop, which after a while engages EXTRA power to tap as resource. It's called a relationship of Trust, and Faith. It's not a part of the status quo's paradigm, as they tend to throw away anything they can't understand? But after a while, the evidence weighs itself out... that God Cares, and provides Help so we can grow. You are Loved no matter what you've done or think about yourself. Spending too much time being critical and judging oneself (without positive hope and actions towards the betterment) only adds cruel weights to self, and the assessments of others.


Laughing, besides OUR Psyche-Sun synastry...

You know that we're all energy-connected (whether some want to acknowledge that or not, it doesn't change the facts). What you 'think' and 'hold as true' in your mind about a person will affect them inside, which then affects the way they behave outwardly. That's the way Prayer and Thought-sending work.

I LOVED that post you did with the Beautiful pictures about crystalized forms. Faith?...If that be true for the inert objects, then how much MORE true and Potent this can be towards the sentient Human Being-- not just in body-physical realms, but emotional and spiritual body as well.


Studying astrology is SUCH a blessing, because WE can know 'what up' with the Universal forces that GOD made for us. Yes we are impacted by it, but there's always a different way to look that can bring us new clues on how to 'cope' with what some call 'a bad hand'...

And it takes maturity, and love, and true-friends with some real Life Experience to Understand those of us with challenging charts. We can have our real limitations, but when we are tender-loving students of things-sublime then we have the special hookup power to transcend-- even instantly. Love Transcends Karma (is something I think Linda Goodman used to say?).

"Love" without fear or judgment knows exactly how to deliver medicine because you'll Believe The Best of a person exists, and people ultimately want to make the choice that can free them from the harm the are so plagued by. Real Love is Wholesome Beautiful and Clean. It frees people. It allows them to BE their Best.

I've read some of what the astrology books say about the Mars opp Neptune, etc. I can just imagine how this undermines your self-confidence and self-worth. You're feeling that you are only capable of operating under delusions, etc. ... omg, Faith? Gently, that word delusions has a very damning negative psychological (even psychiatric) connotation to it.

Anyone with a family background of dysfunctionalism can fall into despair because when you hear that or read it, you think things like, 'omg, my mom had mental breakdown, and that it's in the DNA, and omg I've got it, and I'm doomed to repeat and 'succomb' to *their* mental chronic infirmities. Didn't help when your sister was "labeled" and placed on some pretty-extreme meds. I can just imagine how spooked you must be? This can do DAMAGE to your own psyche by thinking it HAS to be YOU too by default, because of the DNA, or because of the trauma you've experienced. Like the label "trauma" has become the new way to ostracize, judge and limit the future wellbeing of others.

You know what? My mom was a narcissist and an abuser-- and I happened to have an 'absorbing' type of nature. She did some damage... AND, I want to add, it's the nature of Being Alive that we do naturally sustain things in our upbringings, quite innocently on both parts, that were never meant as harming but in weakness we 'took' it to be that way-- and there is to be no judgment to ourself on that count EITHER.

You know that by being students of astrology we have pieces of 'insider' information on all that. Thing is too, that like student Doctors?, we can make some pretty grave mistakes UNTIL we have the 'practice' of reading for people more perfected. There are soooo many nuances that can change the whole interpretation-- and that includes the survival-factor of what you've been through and were able to develop and conquer.

That's why we (astrologers, and students) need to be accountable to each other for correctness of interpretations, and to be mentored and monitored by SEASONED proven teachers and professionals in the field before we hang our Professional sign. (I have very strong feelings about that, before the government gets wise to the hacks and shuts down any operation of the study. I definitely (my opinion) think that if you hang an astrologer's sign, that you need to PROVE proficiencies, including how to 'counsel' someone about their chart... *sigh*

A huge part of the new boon in interest in astrology is the way that loose interpretations of 'bad' charts could be causing the feeling of social STIGMA. Even corporations could potentially be 'stigmatizing' a person with challenges in their natal charts, because of shallow interpretations.

There's the possibility of 'limiting' people by looking at the 'handicaps' of the chart and refusing opportunities, rather than looking towards the potential that person otherwise demonstrates. Wouldn't it be cool to specifically train and harness talents and strengths that the person didn't realize they naturally had, and do things to minimize or work around the handicapped-part?

Yes, there are BAD things that happen to good people in life. And Yes, (even in my own extended family), there are cousins and people dearest and closest to us who died, needlessly, by their OWN precious hands. (You and I have both had people close to us do this. I wasn't a part of his life then, but he's in my soul and my memories. *Blessings on your soul dear Michael, made me soooo sad, but I know you're in my cheer-squad now... I miss you.*bheart)

I know that you asked me above about dying?... Actually?... It may MORE be metaphysical. Our emotions and thoughts affect the body super-radically. Found that out while I was in labor ready to give birth to my first. My body was hyper-active and seemed to react/obey thoughts that weren't even "meant" FOR the body. They were just thoughts. I need (what Rick mentioned the other day) some emotional safety-- feeling accepted no matter 'what' feelings come up. When I am 'emotionally happy' then I do the most amazing work. When I'm not happy?, it can go to my body in overflow, which then makes me feel sick, which then I limit my thoughts of capable-ness. And because I am a super-diligent and responsible person, I (falsely) 'think' that people won't want me, which furthers my spiral of I can't rather than REALizing the Possibility there. So, that's the way I need support, oftentimes. But I've been (falsely) feeling the HORRIBLE aloneness inside, thinking no one loves me. As TD Jakes says....: That Devil is a LIE'ar!!! (That is what 'delusion' is, believing a lie in spite of overwhelming possible-evidence to the contrary.)

I am newly applying to 'step out' of some life-limiting molds, breaking through the bars of some self-delusional(?) thinking that I am NOT loved nor accepted.

So untrue, yet I've been 'suffering' needless grief over that. I am being shown SUCH OVERWHELMING LOVE. I am working on the Correction to those thoughts and bars-of-attitudes right now. I declare that I AM Loved, soooo Loved.

I think part of my 'trap' is breaking free from the way I was 'brought up'... I had made the physical break from my estranged family in the 1990s, and now I'm doing the LAST of my 'psychological' breaking-through. It was hijacked when USA 9-11 happened?, because that's when I had relocated (here) to start my life fresh. All that devastation, was devastating to the economy too, and my 'chances' of recovery then hit rockbottom.

I am surrounded by etherical friends I haven't met yet but soon would hope to. It's a sense-knowing, and I've got sustain Belief that it's happening. It's FOR me to have the good breaks I need FOR that 'starting-over' that was unfortunately botched by ~weirdnesses and unfair happenings.

But the muse of fates called it Necessity, as the 9-11 tragedy happened to SO many. It's time for my OWN life to come back on-course and on-line for Destiny. I was so touched by the Inter-religion Prayers when Pope Francis visited the 9-11 Memorial... Even now, I weep. Some of those prayers are for Hidden Psychological Wounds, and that included me. It was such a grievous happening for our Nation and its people, with sooooo many ugly and expanding redounding ramifications. *bheart*)


Some people have chemical-things happening with them. And some others are PUT on chemicals (needlessly!) which CREATE serious psychiatric side-effects. Poorly-trained professionals 'brand' those people INTO a hell-world of mis-labelling, and the ensuing debilitating harm of mis-treatments. This can become a spiral-downwards if *family/friends* didn't have 'knowing' support around these to stop what was wrongly happening, and to protect these from further harm.


Not everyone who has religious experiences or extraordinary human energy experiences is 'crazy'. If the person is awakening with no one in their surrounds cognizant that there is such a thing, then the awakener is vulnerable (to victimizing abuse).

We are soooo medieval in the understanding of conscious awakening. Lots of people think there's something "wrong" with themselves, when actually something very right is spiritually taking place within them.

Faith, your 'chart' spells out having some spiritual experiences are DUE you that may be dawning right now and you forgot that THAT is what's going on.

My 'glitching' death-type thoughts?... I think signal to ME also that I am due for a further psych-ic unveiling for me too.

Astrologically, it's been there, and it's been working towards one. Forensically, I similar things were happening in the past when I felt that 'religious' calling to the monastery, and I was having all these ~wild experiences in consciousness and NOT knowing what was going on with me? This was happening DURING a pile of nodal and stellium planet transits TO my 9th House. ...

So, omg Faith?, exciting, but 'here it comes' again. Only this time, I Understand... I've been wanting to be surrounded by Others who also Understand and can help me get the MOST use (spiritually, and pragmatically for others) from this transit.

It's pretty longterm from what I see, and from what I recall happening in my past. When the nodes went from Virgo/Pisces to Leo/Aquarius, I was firmly 'in that (let's say) ascension experience'. But this time, I want to be in position with the Right people.

~It does take a village! and a LOT of Love, lightness, and willing acceptance. My God, How many other people are at this same starting-gate too? A lot of work, but God how can you call it work when it's soooo fulfilling and rewarding?

You've been through some HORRIBLE things, Faith. And I want to remind you again, that just because other people in your family got 'labelled', doesn't mean that YOU are they, or that it's written in stone somewhere that you are doomed to follow their genetics.

Sometimes well-meaningly, they lump people who have experienced dysfunctions to try to help them?, when it actually it causes concretizing harm in some cases that are mismanaged or botched. Our mental health systems are sooooo twisted and backwards, it's frightening to be lumped and stigmatized within it. Now wonder people don't want to go for help?


(BTW, I don't claim to be any kind of spiritual teacher or guru one bit!! -- I'm "just me" and I've had some personal experiences. That's just a TINY piece, and I know I have soooo much to grow into. At least I realize that it's 'there' for me to potentially draw in even further Understanding one day. When God is Willing, and He see's that your Heart and Motives are cleansed and correct, then it's a matter of 'when' and not just 'ifs'... I suppose.)

When you've 'visited' some REALLY dark (as well as sublime) places, and you survived then YOU get the special-diploma that gives you VERY GROUNDED space to say crazy-sounding things to Loving Beautiful Souls who are just 'going through' some potentially destabilizing type transits.

IF you KNOW that that's what's going on?, and you can trust the people surrounding you, then you Be able to Cope just fine through it, and come out on the other side of the experience with a gift.

There are some REALLY shallow people out there who can do a lot of damage because they call themselves expert (or others called them that and they believed it). Like the Carol King song says, 'they'll take your soul if you let them, ~ahhh! but don't you let them' (You've got a Friend).

Anyway, I went to sleep with you on my mind last night, and I woke up in half-sleep this morning with this song. Relating to your chart?... Lift Up. You ARE a Jewel... You're Beautiful. Love yourself the way you are because it is QUITE Adequate, Faith. Yes, I Be your Mirror. You are UP, with Higher Places you are destined to Go into.

(p.s. Don't know if you're familiar with Jennifer Angel the astrologer? She's not well known, but I mention her because she's a Cappy like yourself (and because of interceptions, it's my houses sometimes-- When Pluto enters my 2nd, I'm back to Sag!)
((ADD: Debra Silverman is another really excellent vid-astrol.))

I've learned things through her (JA) approach to the more 'romantic(?)' type of aspects and transits... Instead of putting yourself down for it, you go ahead and enjoy yourself, while observing and utilizing the information it gives you. So freeing. In denial? (In the Nile?... Take a splash, you'll feel better getting wet~~ unless there are 'gators in d'em d'ere waters. LOL)

At least for me, I feel less debilitated for my being a Romantic at Heart now. I've discovered it's a Strength to be mined. I help others through my expressing WITH it.

It's about Love and Love's Power 'to do': exceeding abundantly~~ more than you could ever ask-for think or imagine. (Scripture *grin*)

Here was the Song I got, and share with you.

(music) Higher Love (James Vincent McMorrow, lyrics) [3:40] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSDXtEKjn9o

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Thank you so much, that just means the world to me, that you took the time to say so much that is exactly what I've needed to hear, and this is so interesting, eye-opening, and thought-provoking. You MUST know how incredible you are? And in keeping with the Prayer of St. Francis ~ in giving of ourselves, we receive. I see this genius you are rocking/receiving as part of what you describe here:

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In whatever name they call/label God-Energy, they develop a relationship loop, which after a while engages EXTRA power to tap as resource.


So much to say...not sure how much to say, since I don't want to overwhelm or burden you with listening! And I want to thank you quickly but also think about your post longer before replying, after stewing on it some. So this is just a preamble.

This music!!! Just beautiful! Thank you!

It's one of the more psychic days. Not sure why...but psychic things keep happening to me. Are they happening to you more often today?

I'm always been riveted by the sparkle of them, like a crow, so let me share ~ I don't know when you wrote that about the word "delusion," but I was looking out the window earlier today and just thinking about how, if a person is "insane" in any way, does it matter at all, if it's not socially detectable? Then I was thinking of poor Rose Kennedy, and why did they lobotomize her, she was fine, she just couldn't conform. And I thought, "Well I am fine, too, I just can't conform." Normally I don't really think about this...so I like the timing, that you were posting around the time I was musing in the same direction.

You're right about the harsh connotations with the word delusion, and I need better words. I don't know how to describe my problems...so I'm grateful for astrology. You can just look at my chart. Pisces moon squaring Neptune and Mars? Rather puzzling for you, rather puzzling for me!

(edits a bit)

I need to digest this all more, piece by piece ~ will be listening to this song, checking out recommended astrologers (thank you! I love recommendations!) and thinking of you. And praying for you!

You wrote:"I've been wanting to be surrounded by Others who also Understand and can help me get the MOST use (spiritually, and pragmatically for others) from this transit." Did you mention which transit? Is it the transiting NN square your NN?

Well I'm here...rather imperfectly...but I do appreciate you tremendously, see a lot of things similar to how you describe them, feel my mind open as you talk...so that's not bad for a fellow traveler is it?

Wishing you a lovely evening and I'll be back soon. Thank you again!!

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Faith....
Thank you so much for your very kind comments. The things you say are thoughtful deep and very touching.

(Really wanted to post, but *sonics* were piercing, gnawing, and bone-penetrating beats too strong today. So frustrating!!! Maybe I'll have better luck during the day later tomorrow.) Bye for now {{ }}

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I hate the sonic assaults! :-/

Hi again, mirage!

Thanks for reading and saying my post was kind. I've been thinking of you a lot today! I listened to just the first part of Jennifer Angel's horoscope for this week, started laughing because I so precisely agree with what she said, about how people are digging their heels in, wanting to get their point across, but it's hard with Mercury Rx. I feel that way myself and feel other people in that same energy.

I have this giant thought cloud that I thought for you, it's pink with blue lightning bolts but I'm not sure how to condense it? I can't condense it! So, just a few "raindrops" ~

1) Sorry if I ever offend you with my exasperation towards religion. I don't mean for anyone to take my gripes personally. You never said I offended you, this is a just-in-case.

2) I agree about how astrology needs to be taken seriously, but I'm conflicted because some of the best astrologers I've come across are self-taught. What to do? I trust the positive astrologers the most. Did you see the "What's wrong with me?" thread where I am playing astrologer? Hopefully you are not concerned about that ~ as I strive to give a positive message, and I think most people understand. I hope so.

3) Just to clarify, no one close to me has ever committed suicide...very sorry that you lost Michael!!! <3

4) You wrote:

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When I am 'emotionally happy' then I do the most amazing work. When I'm not happy?, it can go to my body in overflow, which then makes me feel sick, which then I limit my thoughts of capable-ness.

<3

5) So sad to read about how 9-11 hit you personally. But...this is looking up now? ".....now I'm doing the LAST of my 'psychological' breaking-through." Sounds fascinating and I would love to hear more, if you are in the mood to discuss it.

6) I agree with you about psych meds and how they can backfire...very spooky and I don't see any end to this...

7) As you say:

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We are soooo medieval in the understanding of conscious awakening. Lots of people think there's something "wrong" with themselves, when actually something very right is spiritually taking place within them.

8) And yes, transits are intense for me now, thanks for reminding me to put it in perspective! And you said, "When you've 'visited' some REALLY dark (as well as sublime) places, and you survived then YOU get the special-diploma that gives you VERY GROUNDED space to say crazy-sounding things to Loving Beautiful Souls who are just 'going through' some potentially destabilizing type transits."

Ugh that is too big a "cloud," I cannot condense my thoughts. I agree with you but it would take a while to show you the curriculum I lived and ask career advice based on that. Need to get myself together.

9) I don't actually ever worry about becoming mentally ill...no worries there. I watch my physical health and feel that physical health usually translates to mental health.

10) I wanted to give you a song, since you gave me one. When I think of all your wonderful visions for how life could be, and the way God can make it all happen...well it does remind me of this one:

Talkin' about a Revolution

Not all to be taken literally, but more broadly...about how the force for change starts as a whisper but builds into a tidal wave. Hope it's OUR kinda tidal wave!

Thanks again for talking with me! No pressure to keep this thread up ~ talk as you like, when you like, about what you like!

I'm listening.

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