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Topic: We Have To Let You Go
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venus in gemini Knowflake Posts: 72 From: Florida Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 14, 2009 06:49 PM
Hey guys, I thought this was a good article about "letting go". I wanted to share, especially with a lot of long time Knowflakes leaving the forum, wanting to step back from Astrology, or feeling the need for something new. I also see that it relates to the recent eclipses...that something in your life has ended, be it a situation or a relationship.We Have to Let You Go by Alan Cohen I have a new favorite cartoon. It’s a rendering by James True (www.jtrue.com) that’s both humorous and profound. The cartoon shows a tomato stalk with several tomatoes growing on it, at various stages of development. One tomato is large and ripe. The tomato stalk says to the ripe tomato, “We have to let you go.” The title of the cartoon is Layoffs at the Plant. The profound nature of the cartoon is that the large tomato is ripe to be picked. Of course the plant has to let it go because it has no further purpose on the stalk. If it stays it will rot and die. If it leaves, it will serve its next purpose. The cartoon is a fabulous metaphor for why and when we need to be let go from a job, relationship, living situation, or any station of life. Life is not cruelly kicking you out of a place you still need to be. It is moving you on to where you really need to be for your joy and the gifts you can offer. You may think you are being cast aside, unfairly treated, or victimized, but there is a far bigger plan unfolding than meets the eye. You have completed your purpose where you have been, and your journey is about to reveal a new vista.. That’s why we have to let you go. The “we” is not your boss or your lover. It is the wise and loving collective universe. A woman in one of my seminars reported, “Everything I have to let go of, I leave claw marks on.” If you believe there is safety in history, you will cling to the old out of fear. If you trust in the security of destiny, you will embrace the new out of trust. As I noted in an earlier work, it takes courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real safety in what is no longer meaningful. There is more safety in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Paramahansa Yogananda advised, “What comes of itself, let it come. What goes of itself, let it go.” If you have to struggle to get something or to hold on to it, you are trying to swim upstream of life. There is a stream of good that flows to you, through you, and around you. When you move with the stream, your good shows up in the right way, place, and time. When you buck the stream you fight to get and fight to hold on. You do not need to fight to hold on to anything that is truly yours. If it is truly yours, it will stay with you by the Law of Attraction and the Right of Consciousness. You own what you own not by manipulation, but by who you are. When it’s time to let something go, the universe will let you know. If you get laid off, or your landlord sells the house, or your lover leaves, despair not. There is a reason for the change, and something better is in store. The more energy you spend complaining or resisting the change, the harder your transition will be, and the longer it will take for your next good to show up. Define the current change as good and helpful, and your next rewarding position will appear more quickly, easily, and naturally. I recently saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the movie fable about a man who is born old and grows younger over time. To be honest, during most of the movie I wondered, “And the point is?” Yet upon thinking about it, I realized there is a good point to be extracted, although in my opinion the filmmakers spent a couple of extra hours to make it. As an old man, Benjamin meets and falls in love with a little girl, but their huge age difference prevents them from having a relationship. As Benjamin grows younger and she grows older, the time comes when they are the same age, and the two have a glorious love affair. As he continues to grow younger and she older, they are drawn apart again. The apex of the movie is their thrilling love affair at the right time. While the movie plays on the sadness of the two lovers being torn apart by time, it takes a narrow view of reality. Like many gut-wrenching romances, it suggests there is one perfect soulmate for you, whom you can enjoy for a moment, but then some evil circumstance will wrest them from you and you must muddle in the pits of despair for the rest of your life. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is true that good things come and go, and no one of them lasts forever. But what the Button movie and other romances do not tell you is that when one glorious experience ends, another one begins. To think there is one moment of good for you in your life, and when it’s gone, it’s gone, is to see the universe through incredibly narrow blinders. Life is more like a square dance or a Sufi dance where you enjoy one connection for a while, and then you move on to another great one. So when your lover or the plant says, “We have to let you go,” do not interpret the event as loss. Interpret the event as “ripe.” While in the physical world a tomato is ripe once for one purpose, as a spiritual being you have an infinite array and procession of ripenesses for many different purposes that go on literally forever, each more fulfilling than the last. Sure, there are layoffs at the plant. But the plant of life has roots that spread far beyond the stem the eyes can see. http://www.themetaarts.com/pages/alancohen.html IP: Logged |
MyVirgoMask Knowflake Posts: 1071 From: Bay Area, CA Registered: May 2009
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posted August 14, 2009 06:57 PM
Brilliant, Venus in Gemini.... love it. And you make a very good point about the eclipses... it's definitely feeling like a theme of release somehow! IP: Logged |
Lara Knowflake Posts: 1278 From: aspideronmars Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 14, 2009 06:58 PM
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Fases De La Luna Knowflake Posts: 67 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 17, 2009 07:43 AM
Venus in Gemini,Thanks for posting, beautiful, needed, much appreciated. IP: Logged |
GemGemGem Knowflake Posts: 63 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 17, 2009 10:27 AM
I loved this!Thanks so much! IP: Logged |
ginger cancer Knowflake Posts: 26 From: torre de hercules Registered: Jul 2009
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posted August 17, 2009 06:00 PM
thank you so much, it is so hard to let go of anything after so many eclipses, and for me, the term "crisis" that we hear so much nowadays also refers to anything that can be lost, not only job, persons, but also personal purpose!i had the same feeling about bb movie, i didn't like it, exactly for the same reason: glorifying this eternal love and stopping at that. but then, how do you let go? IP: Logged |
popcorn Knowflake Posts: 48 From: Registered: Aug 2009
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posted August 17, 2009 06:19 PM
I loved this. How let go? Change or follow your flow (feelings)in the life? IP: Logged |
venus in gemini Knowflake Posts: 72 From: Florida Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 17, 2009 08:51 PM
I needed this article for my own issues I am dealing with. The statement she made, "Everything I have to let go of, I leave claw marks on"..... well, that's me. I wonder if I can attribute that solely to my Moon Conjunct Pluto? I am very tenacious. I don't give up. Well, also being a Cancer doesn't help. If it means something to me, if it's someone or something important to me, well...it is to the death...I hold on til the death... I know that one of my lessons is learning to flow. You would think with me being a water sign, I would have learned how to flow by now...!!!IP: Logged |
Lucia23 Knowflake Posts: 984 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 17, 2009 10:17 PM
I really appreciate this great article.The only thing that really exists in reality (not just imagination or memory) is what's truly happening in the present moment. IP: Logged |
libraschoice7 Knowflake Posts: 91 From: Arizona Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 17, 2009 10:57 PM
Thank you for posting this, it will come in handy for me real soon IP: Logged |
cpn_edgar_winner Knowflake Posts: 1022 From: Toledo, OH Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 18, 2009 06:27 AM
good stuff thanks for posting. resisting the winds of change is futile...slow learner here. IP: Logged |
oneruledbymars Knowflake Posts: 79 From: South Carolina Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 18, 2009 11:01 AM
Wow, thats quite interesting. Seems as though all of us are wrestling with the "winds of change", and are facing the challenge of letting go. Why the need to do that, wonder what the universe is preparing us for? Quite fascinating in light of shifts of consciousness taking place around us right now. IP: Logged |
Starshine Knowflake Posts: 14 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 18, 2009 11:59 AM
LOL double whammy IP: Logged |
Starshine Knowflake Posts: 14 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 18, 2009 12:03 PM
Hi Venus in Gemini and thank you for this post. I am going through so much change here at work I've been feelin' bashed around a bit. I have already gone through such major career change in the past 2 years but it keeps comin'. I can't wait till Uranus is out of my 10th lol. Anyhow, when I 1st read this article I got stuck on the whole Benjamin Button part and I didn't like it. I am very resistant to see that movie, I think, due to past life feelings it brings up. I have a whole Lady of Shalott vibe to my existence in this lifetime that I am working on. All about love that was lost (which has not happened in this lifetime as of yet?!!?!). Anywhoo, way to much info I'm sure, but, having said that, this article has taken spark in my being. I really needed the message about just letting go and trusting in the Universe to place you correctly and accordingly. This article reminds me of something that Richard Bach wrote: quote: 11. ..."Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great river.12. "The current of the river swept silently over them all - young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self. 13. "Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth. 14. "But one creature said at last, 'I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.' 15. "The other creatures laughed and said 'Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you will die quicker than boredom!' 16. "But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks. 17. "Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more. 18. "And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, 'See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to save us all!' 19. "And the one carried in the current said, 'I am no more Messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.' 20. "But they cried the more, 'Saviour!' all the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a Saviour."
The Lady of Shalott: **edit - the 1st time I tried to post this it wehn 'poof!' So here's to hoping I don't double it up!... ------------------ `Who are you?' said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, `I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.' ~Lewis Carroll (Formerly known as Hexxie) IP: Logged |
taurusvirgoleolady1974 Knowflake Posts: 108 From: a previous life Registered: Apr 2009
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posted August 18, 2009 12:34 PM
heres something by Pastor TD Jakes i would like to share...Let It Go By T. D. Jakes There are people who can walk away from you. And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you: let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone. When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. The bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19] People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay. Let them go. And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead. You've got to know when it's dead. You've got to know when it's over. Let me tell you something. I've got the gift of good-bye. It's the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in good-bye. It's not that I'm hateful, it's that I'm faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it. Stop begging people to stay. Let them go!! If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to...... LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to past hurts and pains ..... LET IT GO!!! If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth..... LET IT GO!!! If someone has angered you ........ LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge...... LET IT GO!!! If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction...... LET IT GO!!! If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents ... LET IT GO!!! If you have a bad attitude....... LET IT GO!!! If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better...... LET IT GO!!! If you're stuck in the past and God is trying to take you to a new level in Him...... LET IT GO!!! If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship....... LET IT GO!!! If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves...... LET IT GO!!! If you're feeling depressed and stressed ....... LET IT GO!!! If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself and God is saying "take your hands off of it," then you need to...... LET IT GO!!! Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. GOD is doing a new thing for 2007!!! LET IT GO!!! Get Right or Get Left .. think about it, and then .... LET IT GO!!!
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