Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract” comparing and contrasting what you think is the truth with what you can syllogistically and axiomatically prove is the truth.
The claims in a Translation may seem outrageous, but they are always (or should always be) based on self-evident syllogistic reasoning. Here is one Translation from this week.
1) Truth is that which is so. That which is not truth is not so. Therefore Truth is all that is. Truth being all is therefore total, therefore whole, therefore complete, therefore perfect. I think therefore I am. Since I am and since Truth is all that is, therefore I, being, am Truth. Since I, being, am Truth, therefore I, being, have all the attributes of Truth. Therefore I, being, am total, whole, complete, perfect. Since I, being, am Truth and since I am mind, therefore Truth is Mind/Consciousness. (Two things equal to a third thing are equal to each other.)
2) Allopathic medicine doesn’t take the whole person into account.
Word-tracking: allo-: means other, different -pathic: disease medicine: to heal heal: to repair, to rectify repair: to make ready rectify: to make right person: mortal
3) Truth being all that is, therefore true is all that is, therefore right is all that is. To rectify is to make right. Since right is all that, therefore All is rectified. Since All is rectified therefore All is repaired (made ready). Since Truth is all that is and since Truth is one, therefore whole, to fight against disease (allopathy) implies that there is something other than Truth, which is not so. Therefore Truth is one in harmony with Itself. Since Truth is one in harmony with Itself, it cannot at the same time be diseased, distressed, Therefore harmonious functioning is all that is. Truth being all is therefore limitless, therefore immortal. Therefore the personification of Truth is immortal.
4) All is rectified. All is repaired (made ready). Truth is one in harmony with Itself. Harmonious functioning is all that is. The personification of Truth is immortal. 5) I, being immortal, am the personification of wholeness.
The Lord of Luxury is a card with a hidden sting in its tail. On the surface it indicates a wealth of loving affection, showing a person who is lucky enough to receive a great deal of devotion and tenderness.At first look, you would think we would be all too pleased with this situation wouldn’t you? However, the sting is this – sometimes, when we are loved deeply and for a long period of time, we are foolish enough to forget what it feels like when we are lonely and unloved. And as soon as we make that mistake, we start to undervalue the tenderness and emotional investment that others are making in us.We begin to get careless about the ways in which we treat those people who love us. We may hanker after love from some-one outside our circle, instead of valuing those people closer to hand who love us from the bottom of their hearts.In other words, we can begin to take love for granted. And there are three things in this world we are all silly to take for granted – love, good health and tranquillity. Every one of them slips away silently if we stop paying it due attention.So, when the Lord of Luxury appears, whilst you will know that there is a great deal of love in the air, there’s also a warning which must be taken on board – count your blessings, reciprocate, and don’t get your priorities in a mess. That way you’ll carry on being loved for a very long time.
SANTA CRUZ, CA—Staring in awe as the gasping, waddling figure struggled to pull himself to shore, eye witnesses confirmed Wednesday that a naked man spotted emerging from the ocean must have just finished evolving. “Oh my god, look at that thing, it’s making its way out of the water and, for the first time, using its legs to crawl on land,” said beachgoer Shauna Whitley, adding that the nude, seaweed-covered individual—who dragged himself out of the ocean with his arms, uttered several terrifying hacks, and then vomited up a sizable amount of seawater—was likely in a transitional stage between man and fish. “Everyone, keep your distance, he’s in a very fragile state where he likely doesn’t know how to walk, talk, or even stand. In fact, he’s probably still trying to breathe through his gills right now. That’s why he keeps flopping around.” At press time, spectators banded together to push the man back into the ocean after he clutched his chest, fell to the ground, and his eyes rolled back in his head.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): This may sound weird, but I think now is a perfect time to acquire a fresh problem. Not just any old boring problem, of course. Rather, I’m hoping you will carefully ponder what kind of dilemma would be most educational for you—which riddle might challenge you to grow in ways you need to. Here’s another reason you should be proactive about hunting down a juicy challenge: Doing so will ensure that you won’t attract mediocre, meaningless problems.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Now is an excellent time to start learning a new language or to increase your proficiency in your native tongue. Or both. It’s also a favorable phase to enrich your communication skills and acquire resources that will help you do that. Would you like to enhance your ability to cultivate friendships and influence people? Are you interested in becoming more persuasive, articulate and expressive? If so, Taurus, attend to these self-improvement tasks with graceful intensity. Life will conspire benevolently on your behalf if you do. (PS: I’m not implying you’re weak in any of these departments; just that now is a favorable time to boost your capacities.)
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Barbara Sher and Barbara Smith wrote the book “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It.” I invite you to think and feel deeply about this theme during the coming months. In my experience with Geminis, you are often so versatile and multi-faceted that it can be challenging to focus on just one or two of your various callings. And that may confuse your ability to know what you want more than anything else. But here’s the good news. You may soon enjoy a grace period when you feel really good about devoting yourself to one goal more than any other.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are entering a phase when you will be wise to question fixed patterns and shed age-old habits. The more excited you get about re-evaluating everything you know and believe, the more likely it is that exciting new possibilities will open up for you. If you are staunchly committed to resolving longstanding confusions and instigating fresh approaches, you will launch an epic chapter of your life story. Wow! That sounds dramatic. But it’s quite factual. Here’s the kicker: You’re now in prime position to get vivid glimpses of specific successes you can accomplish between now and your birthday in 2025.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How many different ways can you think of to ripen your spiritual wisdom? I suggest you choose two and pursue them with gleeful vigor in the coming weeks. You are primed to come into contact with streams of divine revelations that can change your life for the better. All the conditions are favorable for you to encounter teachings that will ennoble your soul and hone your highest ideals. Don’t underestimate your power to get the precise enlightenment you need.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Border collies are dogs with a herding instinct. Their urges to usher, steer and manage are strong. They will not only round up sheep and cattle, but also pigs, chickens, and ostriches—and even try to herd cats. In my estimation, Virgo, border collies are your spirit creatures these days. You have a special inclination and talent to be a good shepherd. So use your aptitude with flair. Provide extra navigational help for people and animals who would benefit from your nurturing guidance. And remember to do the same for your own wayward impulses!
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): We have arrived at the midpoint of 2024. It’s check-in time. Do you recall the promises you made to yourself last January? Are you about halfway into the frontier you vowed to explore? What inspirational measures could you instigate to renew your energy and motivation for the two most important goals in your life? What would you identify as the main obstacle to your blissful success, and how could you diminish it? If you’d like to refresh your memory of the long-term predictions I made for your destiny in 2024, go here: tinyurl.com/Libra2024. For 2023’s big-picture prophecies, go here: tinyurl.com/2023Libra.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio-born Gary Hug was educated as a machinist and food scientist, but for many years he has worked primarily as an amateur astronomer. Using a seven-foot telescope he built in the backyard of his home, he has discovered a comet and 300 asteroids, including two that may come hazardously close to Earth. Extolling the joys of being an amateur, he says he enjoys “a sense of freedom that you don’t have when you’re a professional.” In the coming weeks, Scorpio, I encourage you to explore and experiment with the joys of tasks done out of joy rather than duty. Identify the work and play that feel liberating and indulge in them lavishly.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your power spots will be places that no one has visited or looked into for a while. Sexy secrets and missing information will be revealed to you as you nose around in situations where you supposedly should not investigate. The light at the end of the tunnel is likely to appear well before you imagined it would. Your lucky number is eight, your lucky color is black, and your lucky emotion is the surprise of discovery. My advice: Call on your memory to serve you in amazing ways; use it as a superpower.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Happy Unbirthday, Capricorn! It’s time to celebrate the season halfway between your last birthday and your next. I hope you will give yourself a fun gift every day for at least the next seven days. Fourteen days would be even better. See if you can coax friends and allies to also shower you with amusing blessings. Tell them your astrologer said that would be a very good idea. Now here’s an unbirthday favor from me: I promise that between now and January 2025, you will create healing changes in your relationship with your job and with work in general.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): While sleeping, my Aquarian friend Janelle dreamed that she and her family lived in a cabin in the woods. When dusk was falling, a strange animal put its face against the main window. Was it a bear? A mountain lion? Her family freaked out and hid in a back bedroom. But Janelle stayed to investigate. Looking closely, she saw the creature was a deer. She opened up the window and spoke to it, saying, “What can I do for you?” The deer, who was a talking deer, said, “I want to give you and your family a gift. See this necklace I’m wearing? It has a magic ruby that will heal a health problem for everyone who touches it.” Janelle managed to remove the necklace, whereupon the deer wandered away and she woke up from the dream. During subsequent weeks, welcome changes occurred in her waking life. She and three of her family members lost physical ailments that had been bothering them. I think this dream is a true fairy tale for you in the coming weeks, Aquarius.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A psychologist friend tells me that if we have an intense craving for sugar, it may be a sign that deeper emotional needs are going unmet. I see merit in her theory. But here’s a caveat. What if we are currently not in a position to get our deeper emotional needs met? What if there is at least temporarily some barrier to achieving that lovely goal? Would it be wrong to seek a partial quenching of our soul cravings by communing with fudge brownies, peach pie and crème brûlée? I don’t think it would be wrong. On the contrary. It might be an effective way to tide ourselves over until more profound gratification is available. But now here’s the good news, Pisces: I suspect more profound gratification will be available sooner than you imagine.
Homework: Take a vow that you will ethically do everything necessary to fulfill your most important goal. Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com
Schwartz Re • Premiered Jun 21, 2024 In this episode, we explore the five transformative trends shaping our planet: food security amidst climate shifts, the critical challenge of managing global water resources, the profound consequences of melting ice on polar regions and beyond, the intricate dynamics of ocean currents and their impact on climate stability, and the urgent implications of rising sea levels for coastal communities worldwide. Join us as we navigate the complexities and innovations driving change in our rapidly evolving world. Thank you for listening.
MOSCOW—In an effort to strengthen ties with outside groups two years into Russia’s widely condemned invasion of Ukraine, an increasingly isolated Vladimir Putin confirmed Wednesday that he had tried joining an adult kickball league. “I found this intramural league that plays in central Moscow, and kickball might be a really fun way to get out there and meet new people, which I could really use right now with all the stuff that’s going on in my life geopolitically,” said the five-term Russian president, explaining that in addition to the opportunity to find friends and confidants after having become an international pariah, he hoped the regular practices and game schedule would provide structure and routine to an existence he acknowledged was “kind of rudderless” lately. “Maybe it sounds silly, but it’s nice to have a place where I feel like I belong at a time when it seems as if the whole world has turned against me. They go to craft breweries after every game to hang out, which is cool. There’s even a guy on the team who makes his own sauerkraut.” At press time, Putin had reportedly quit the kickball league in frustration after a lonely President Joe Biden also joined.
Yet you’re the biggest star in women’s basketball, and it often feels like you have the future of women’s sports on your shoulders. Also, maybe related, you’re a magnet for hard fouls.
Final ingredient: You’re playing on a team, the Indiana Fever, that wasn’t expected to be very good. You lost your first five games in the league, and went 2-8 to start the season.
Then, you start winning. And people lose their minds.
This is the latest chapter in the Caitlin Clark saga, and it’s one of the most interesting yet, because over the weekend, Clark’s Fever won their fourth game in a row. The scrutiny only intensified.
It’s part of the cost of being the game’s player of the future. But it’s also a test of Clark’s poise and focus, just as she’s facing her toughest tests yet on the court.
In short, we’ve gone from Clark fielding nonstop questions like, “How do you feel playing for the worst team in the league?” to questions like, “Do you think you guys are good enough to win the WNBA championship?” in the space of just a few days.
It would be quite a storybook ending, wouldn’t it, Caitlin?
Winning a professional championship in your first year, after failing ever to win the NCAA championship?
After the Fever got their fourth-in-a-row victory Friday, over the Atlanta Dream, 91-79, Clark had an answer for all of the hype. And it was pure emotional intelligence:
I think everybody just loves instant satisfaction in our world.
No one came in here and said we were going to be WNBA champions from day one in our locker room. That was never our goal. Our goal was to get back to the playoffs and we’re fighting for that every single night.
This is the first time we’ve won four home games in a row since 2015. You have to have perspective on things, and that goes for life, too. Like, have perspective on life. And there just needs to be solid perspective on what this team can accomplish. And I think everybody in our locker room had that.
Nobody ever hung our heads. We had the hardest schedule to start. We didn’t get to practice much and we’re playing with the most inexperienced team in the WNBA. So, I mean, I think this group is starting to click and build some chemistry and it’s one day at a time.
But like I said, everybody loves instant satisfaction.
That’s the key: Everybody just loves instant satisfaction.
It’s simply too much to expect Clark to land in the league and win a championship right away.
It took Michael Jordan seven years to win his first NBA championship, and it took nine years for LeBron James to win a trophy.
It’s a different sport, obviously, but it took Serena Williams four years after turning pro to win her first major open championship.
In that context, think about what Clark’s answer did:
First, it turned the tables — making the idea of “everybody just loves instant satisfaction” seem like a human failing that we need to improve.
Second, she was even-keeled, tempering the lows that she said she and the Fever felt as they started the season with the highs that they felt after winning.
Finally, she focused on long-term goals: getting the Fever into the playoffs this year, and (we presume) winning the WNBA championship somewhere down the road.
As Clark correctly pointed out, the philosophy she shared applies to life — and business, as well.
As I write in my free e-book 9 Smart Habits of People With Very High Emotional Intelligence, the entire point of building emotional intelligence is to learn to leverage emotions — both yours and other people’s — in a way that makes it easier to achieve your goals.
I think Clark demonstrated it very well here — along with resilience and balance.
Which is a good thing, because the Fever actually saw their winning streak come to an end in their next game: an 88 to 87 loss yesterday against the Chicago Sky.
That was an emotionally draining game, but afterward, Clark seemed to display the same even keel she did when her team came off a victory.
Some people love instant satisfaction.
Instead, the emotionally intelligent people among us — the ones who achieve success — learn to develop a little more patience. And fight to achieve their goals, every single night.RELATED STORIES
“In the wholeheartedness of concentration,” the poet Jane Hirshfield wrote in her beautiful inquiry into the effortless effort of creativity, “world and self begin to cohere. With that state comes an enlarging: of what may be known, what may be felt, what may be done.” But concentration is indeed a difficult art, art’s art, and its difficulty lies in the constant conciliation of the dissonance between self and world — a difficulty hardly singular to the particular conditions of our time. Two hundred years before social media, the great French artist Eugène Delacroix lamented the necessary torment of avoiding social distractions in creative work; a century and a half later, Agnes Martin admonished aspiring artists to exercise discernment in the interruptions they allow, or else corrupt the mental, emotional, and spiritual privacy where inspiration arises.
How to hedge against that hazard is what beloved poet Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935–January 17, 2019) explores in a wonderful piece titled “Of Power and Time,” found in the altogether enchanting Upstream: Selected Essays (public library).
Mary Oliver
Oliver writes:
It is a silver morning like any other. I am at my desk. Then the phone rings, or someone raps at the door. I am deep in the machinery of my wits. Reluctantly I rise, I answer the phone or I open the door. And the thought which I had in hand, or almost in hand, is gone. Creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration, without interruptions. It needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to, but does not necessarily have at once. Privacy, then. A place apart — to pace, to chew pencils, to scribble and erase and scribble again.
But just as often, if not more often, the interruption comes not from another but from the self itself, or some other self within the self, that whistles and pounds upon the door panels and tosses itself, splashing, into the pond of meditation. And what does it have to say? That you must phone the dentist, that you are out of mustard, that your uncle Stanley’s birthday is two weeks hence. You react, of course. Then you return to your work, only to find that the imps of idea have fled back into the mist.
Oliver terms this the “intimate interrupter” and cautions that it is far more perilous to creative work than any external distraction, adding:
The world sheds, in the energetic way of an open and communal place, its many greetings, as a world should. What quarrel can there be with that? But that the self can interrupt the self — and does — is a darker and more curious matter.
Echoing Borges’s puzzlement over our divided personhood, Oliver sets out to excavate the building blocks of the self in order to understand its parallel capacities for focused creative flow and merciless interruption. She identifies three primary selves that she inhabits, and that inhabit her, as they do all of us: the childhood self, which we spend our lives trying to weave into the continuity of our personal identity (“The child I was,” she writes, “is with me in the present hour. It will be with me in the grave.”); the social self, “fettered to a thousand notions of obligation”; and a third self, a sort of otherworldly awareness.
The first two selves, she argues, inhabit the ordinary world and are present in all people; the third is of a different order and comes most easily alive in artists — it is where the wellspring of creative energy resides. She writes:
Certainly there is within each of us a self that is neither a child, nor a servant of the hours. It is a third self, occasional in some of us, tyrant in others. This self is out of love with the ordinary; it is out of love with time. It has a hunger for eternity.
Oliver contrasts the existential purpose of the two ordinary selves with that of the creative self:
Say you have bought a ticket on an airplane and you intend to fly from New York to San Francisco. What do you ask of the pilot when you climb aboard and take your seat next to the little window, which you cannot open but through which you see the dizzying heights to which you are lifted from the secure and friendly earth?
Most assuredly you want the pilot to be his regular and ordinary self. You want him to approach and undertake his work with no more than a calm pleasure. You want nothing fancy, nothing new. You ask him to do, routinely, what he knows how to do — fly an airplane. You hope he will not daydream. You hope he will not drift into some interesting meander of thought. You want this flight to be ordinary, not extraordinary. So, too, with the surgeon, and the ambulance driver, and the captain of the ship. Let all of them work, as ordinarily they do, in confident familiarity with whatever the work requires, and no more. Their ordinariness is the surety of the world. Their ordinariness makes the world go round.
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In creative work — creative work of all kinds — those who are the world’s working artists are not trying to help the world go around, but forward. Which is something altogether different from the ordinary. Such work does not refute the ordinary. It is, simply, something else. Its labor requires a different outlook — a different set of priorities.
Part of this something-elseness, Oliver argues, is the uncommon integration of the creative self — the artist’s work cannot be separated from the artist’s whole life, nor can its wholeness be broken down into the mechanical bits-and-pieces of specific actions and habits. (Elsewhere, Oliver has written beautifully about how habit gives shape to but must not control our inner lives).
Intellectual work sometimes, spiritual work certainly, artistic work always — these are forces that fall within its grasp, forces that must travel beyond the realm of the hour and the restraint of the habit. Nor can the actual work be well separated from the entire life. Like the knights of the Middle Ages, there is little the creatively inclined person can do but to prepare himself, body and spirit, for the labor to come — for his adventures are all unknown. In truth, the work itself is the adventure. And no artist could go about this work, or would want to, with less than extraordinary energy and concentration. The extraordinary is what art is about.
No one yet has made a list of places where the extraordinary may happen and where it may not. Still, there are indications. Among crowds, in drawing rooms, among easements and comforts and pleasures, it is seldom seen. It likes the out-of-doors. It likes the concentrating mind. It likes solitude. It is more likely to stick to the risk-taker than the ticket-taker. It isn’t that it would disparage comforts, or the set routines of the world, but that its concern is directed to another place. Its concern is the edge, and the making of a form out of the formlessness that is beyond the edge.
Above all, Oliver observes from the “fortunate platform” of a long, purposeful, and creatively fertile life, the artist’s task is one of steadfast commitment to the art:
Of this there can be no question — creative work requires a loyalty as complete as the loyalty of water to the force of gravity. A person trudging through the wilderness of creation who does not know this — who does not swallow this — is lost. He who does not crave that roofless place eternity should stay at home. Such a person is perfectly worthy, and useful, and even beautiful, but is not an artist. Such a person had better live with timely ambitions and finished work formed for the sparkle of the moment only. Such a person had better go off and fly an airplane.
She returns to the problem of concentration, which for the artist is a form, perhaps the ultimate form, of consecration:
The working, concentrating artist is an adult who refuses interruption from himself, who remains absorbed and energized in and by the work — who is thus responsible to the work… Serious interruptions to work, therefore, are never the inopportune, cheerful, even loving interruptions which come to us from another.
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It is six A.M., and I am working. I am absentminded, reckless, heedless of social obligations, etc. It is as it must be. The tire goes flat, the tooth falls out, there will be a hundred meals without mustard. The poem gets written. I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame. Neither do I have guilt. My responsibility is not to the ordinary, or the timely. It does not include mustard, or teeth. It does not extend to the lost button, or the beans in the pot. My loyalty is to the inner vision, whenever and howsoever it may arrive. If I have a meeting with you at three o’clock, rejoice if I am late. Rejoice even more if I do not arrive at all.
There is no other way work of artistic worth can be done. And the occasional success, to the striver, is worth everything. The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
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Explore the potential of expanded states of consciousness for healing and transformation, including their impact on mental healthUnderstand the role of substances in accessing these states and how they compare to other methods of inducing altered statesLearn about the commonalities of expanded states of consciousness, including feeling connected to a higher power
Psychedelic Healing and the Intersection of Race and Culture with Monnica Williams, PhD Understand the importance of creating a safe environment for patients undergoing psychedelic therapy, particularly those dealing with racial traumaExplore the impact of culture and race on mental health care and how adopting practices from other cultures can be problematic without proper education and understandingGain insight into the role of therapists and guides in ensuring patient safety and supporting the healing process
The Science of Psychedelic States with David Nutt, DM Discover the overlap in the symptomology and neurology of meditation and psilocybin experiences Learn about the fascinating research around the integration of meditation and psychedelics within expanded statesUnderstand the relationship between cannabis and expanded states, and why medical cannabis trials are less popular than other psychedelic plant medicines
The Past, Present, and Future of Psychedelics: Microdosing and Beyond with James Fadiman, PhD Understand the concept of microdosing and how it differs from traditional psychedelic useExplore the potential therapeutic applications of microdosing, such as treating migraines and enhancing well-beingLearn about the citizen science approach to research and how it can be used to collect first-person reports on microdosing
Preparing for Extraordinary States of Consciousness: The Key to Successful Psychedelic Therapy with Sara Reed Learn about how expanded states of consciousness can impact mental wellness and how important preparation techniques are before entering into these statesExplore the intersection of digital health and psychedelics and its impact on mental healthDiscover the importance of finding trustworthy providers who can help you navigate vulnerable states during psychedelic therapy
Psychedelic Cosmological Exploration with Dr. Christopher Bache, PhD Discover whether psychedelic experiences are culturally constructed, tapping into dimensions that go beyond human historyLearn about the parallels between psychedelic work and contemplative/meditative practicesInsight into his own understanding of the existential crisis we face as humans
Trust, Caution, and Transformation: Insights from Psychedelic Therapywith Michael Mithoefer, MD & Annie Mithoefer, BSN Understand how psychedelic experiences can relate to practices like meditation and religious ceremoniesLearn about the potential for psychedelic-assisted therapies to offer inflection points and transformative experiences Understand the challenges of integrating psychedelic experiences into everyday life
Psychedelics and the Nature of Consciousness: Exploring New Frontierswith Christopher Timmermann, PhD Learn about the embodied nature of the self and how it is affected by psychedelic experiencesExplore the challenges of integrating psychedelic experiences into daily life and societyDiscover the potential of psychedelics as a tool for healing trauma and personal growth
Transforming Culture with Psychedelic Experiences and Interconnectednesswith Paul Austin Learn about the overlap of expanded states of consciousness, psychedelics, and well-beingUnderstand the skill of psychedelic literacy, including the different applications of psychedelics Explore the concept of microdosing and its potential benefits for creativity, problem-solving, and inflammation management
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The Chariot is numbered seven and usually depicts a warrior driving a chariot triumphantly home. The chariot is drawn by powerful and wild creatures. These creatures are our Will – a wayward beast to control at the best of times!The Chariot represents the principle that the human Will functions only when the whole being is behind it. This card is about the struggles we have with ourselves and with life. It promises that with diligence, honesty and perseverence we can overcome the most insurmountable of obstacles.This is a hopeful and encouraging card, reminding us that we can climb to the heights if we want to. Here we are taught how to master the opposing forces within us, in order to bring them and thus ourselves into harmony. We are cosmic warriors, unfurling, learning and growing – divine and vital parts of the Universe.
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It is a silver morning like any other. I am at my desk. Then the phone rings, or someone raps at the door. I am deep in the machinery of my wits. Reluctantly I rise, I answer the phone or I open the door. And the thought which I had in hand, or almost in hand, is gone. Creative work needs solitude. It needs concentration, without interruptions. It needs the whole sky to fly in, and no eye watching until it comes to that certainty which it aspires to, but does not necessarily have at once. Privacy, then. A place apart — to pace, to chew pencils, to scribble and erase and scribble again.
