The Ascent to the Divine with P.D. “Danny” Newman

New Thinking • Jan 11, 2024 Danny Newman is author of Alchemically Stoned: The Psychedelic Secret of Freemasonry and also Angels in Vermilion: The Philosopher’s Stone from Dee to DMT. His newest book is Theurgy: Theory and Practrice – The Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine. He is a 32nd degree master mason. Here he focuses on the practice of theurgy as it was practiced by the neoplatonic philosophers who suggested that their rituals were derived from Homer. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:49 Early Greek practices 00:10:55 Mainstream scholarship 00:18:31 The neoplatonists 00:28:46 The rituals 00:49:03 Ancient controversies 01:02:47 Contempory theurgical practice 01:06:30 Theurgy in Orthodox Christianity 01:10:32 Conclusion New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. (Recorded on December 5, 2023)

Today I was Reminded That I Can Trust the River of Life

We are all in the flow whether we know it or not.

Grace Delphia

Grace Delphia

Published in The Taoist Online

2 days ago (thetaoist.online)

A blue green river flows through a landscape of hills with trees.
Image by 27707 from Pixabay

Today is an incredible day for my family. Yet the significance fully hit me only moments after I woke.

My daughter Cora is returning to work after over a year of maternity leave following the birth of Isla last November. Isla was born twelve weeks prematurely and had an intense and traumatic beginning. I’ve documented the first year of her life here in Modern Women for those who aren’t familiar.

Her older sister, Roisin, a well-qualified and experienced early childhood practitioner, is going to provide daycare for Isla for three days per week, and I am going to care for her every Friday. Roisin also home-educates her own ten-year-old daughter, Amari, who is autistic. Again, more about that here if you’d like to know.

What might seem like an everyday situation is, to us, breathtakingly wonderful because of our unusual and traumatic family history. Today, I’m yet again blown away by the flow of life — of a Universe that is always working in the direction of our healing and well-being.

Roisin and Cora were separated in childhood during what I’ve always referred to as the divorce from hell. Cora and her two younger siblings were abducted by their father over twenty-five years ago and taken to live on another continent. Roisin and her older sister remained with me.

Other events happened that estranged my oldest daughter from the rest of the family, and Roisin and I found ourselves alone with one another.

It was very hard for her to grow up without her brother and sisters, and I know that she has struggled with feeling like the one on the periphery of sibling relationships. The separation of children from their parents and from one another has devastating effects, many of which are lifelong.

There were many years of both joyful reunions and heart-wrenching goodbyes at airports. For those who have never experienced it, there is little that comes close to the agony of letting go of the hands of our children at a boarding gate, not knowing when we would see each other again.

Roisin and Cora spent their entire lives having intense sisterly reunions lasting no more than a couple of weeks each time, then being forced to unhook themselves from the bond they had formed and let go again. It was the same for their brother and sisters — for all of us.

Our hearts have been excoriated from all of that repeated ripping apart.

When, a decade ago, Cora chose to take advantage of her dual nationality and come to live here in the UK, we were delighted but could not have foreseen how events would unfold.

All she knew was that she was following the pull of her heart in taking such a giant leap out of the familiarity of her upbringing and extended family in the USA. No sooner had she arrived, but her partner of eight years broke up with her, and she found herself broken-hearted in a strange country with nobody to hold on to but me.

That terrifying circumstance, which initially felt so unbearably cruel, turned out to be exactly what she needed. The bereavement opened up her original mother’s wound at being separated from me as a five-year-old.

There were moments when we feared being swept away by the emotional pain and seemingly impossible circumstances in which we found ourselves.

Through this shocking situation, she was given the opportunity to be re-mothered, and I was given an opportunity to redeem my guilt-ridden mother’s heart. There were many weeks of sobbing and holding one another. My broken-hearted daughter became her five-year-old self again, and it was she who I was wrapping my arms around.

Only a matter of weeks later, feeling terrified and not at all ready, she took another leap of faith and accepted a job in the environmental sector. She met Isla’s father on her first day in that job, and they both knew instantly that they had each met their soul mate.

It still makes us smile in wonder at the intricate weaving of events in each of their lives that needed to happen to bring them together. They didn’t sit down with a plan for their lives, carefully working out all the steps and details involved in finding the perfect job and partner. They each simply followed their hearts in the everyday, ordinariness of their day-to-day lives.

They found one another, both in spite of and because of huge events that happened many years before. Events that they had no part in planning.

My part in our family story has been to stop trying to control the bigger things that I can’t understand, to learn to forgive, and to listen with trust to my inner wisdom.

Be still like a mountain, and flow like a great river.

Lao Tzu

Every one of us is living our ordinary lives, mostly unaware of the flow of something far greater that runs underneath and around us. To me, it feels similar to swimming in a warm river that supports me from beneath and all sides while I breathe above its surface.

Sometimes, we might feel as though we are drowning in this river. We thrash about, fearing for our lives, exhausting ourselves in our attempts to swim to an uncertain shore. We cling to bits of driftwood in the form of our identities, relationships, jobs, and habits.

Twenty-five years ago, the flow of this river took us through the equivalent of some difficult rapids and over a vast waterfall. There were moments when we feared being swept away by the emotional pain and seemingly impossible circumstances in which we found ourselves.

A waterfall over rocks
Photo by Author — Northern Thailand

The river continued to flow on, and we had no choice but to flow with it. Sometimes, thrashing around and sometimes floating.

The river doesn’t mind what we do. It will reach its destination regardless, and we can either exhaust ourselves with attempts to swim upstream, or go with the flow and glide gently downstream.

Time and again, life has presented me with these questions;

‘What happens when you stop trying to divert the flow of the river?’

‘What changes when you simply let go, and float?’

Over the past year, Roisin has moved away from the town in which I raised her, taking her own leap of faith to uproot her family and move closer to the city where Cora and I reside. It was a big step, and the birth of baby Isla was a massive catalyst for a change which she may not have initiated without her.

This tiny baby, who was born under such difficult circumstances, is playing her own part in drawing us even closer together. She has ushered in the next stage of family healing.

None of us sat down together a year ago and planned the details of Cora’s eventual return to work. Yet, through natural events which have unfolded over the past few weeks, both Roisin and I have found ourselves freed up from unnecessary obligations and available to offer care for Isla.

There have been almost no obstacles to overcome because we have all allowed ourselves to be carried by the natural pace and flow of the river of life. Our shared history reassured us that, somehow, everything would work out.

This morning, I am both profoundly grateful and filled with awe to witness my family flowing together into the next part of our journey.

I could not have foreseen this remarkable day.

Grace Delphia

Written by Grace Delphia

·Writer for The Taoist Online

Stubborn optimist, sharing stories of resilience. Grace is a therapist and former midwife. For privacy, names have been altered,

Weekly Invitational Translation

Translation is a 5-step process of “straight thinking in the abstract.” The first step is an ontological statement of being beginning with the syllogism: “Truth is that which is so. That which is not truth is not so. Therefore Truth is all there is.” The second step is the sense testimony (what the senses tell us about anything). The third step is the argument between the absolute abstract nature of truth from the first step and the relative specific truth of experience from the second step. The fourth step is filtering out the conclusions you have arrived at in the third step. The fifth step is your overall conclusion.

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 only, therefore one, therefore united, therefore harmonious, therefore orderly. 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 have all the attributes of Truth.  Therefore I, being, am total, whole, complete, only, one, united, harmonious, orderly. Since I, being, am consciousness and since I, being, am Truth. therefore Truth is Consciousness.  

2)    The metamorphosis from genetics to epigenetics can be painful.

Word-tracking:
metamorphosis: the change form later, to transform later
form:  to shape, to create, to make
genetic:  genes, genesis, native, origin, starting point, phylogenetic
epigenetic:  after or in addition to genetics, ontogenetic
painful:  punishment for wrong doing or wrong being, payment
limit:  boundary

3)    Truth being all that is, there can be no limit to Truth, otherwise there would be something other than Truth, something beyong Truth.  Therefore Truth is limitless.  Since Truth is limitless and since beginnings and endings are limits, therefore Truth has no starting point (or ending point).  Since Truth has no starting point, therefore Truth has no genesis, no beginning.  Since Truth has no beginning, no genesis, there can be no epigenesis (after genesis). Since there is no genesis in Truth, there is no creation in Truth.  Therefore Truth is birthless, deathless, uncreated.  Since there is no creation in Truth, there is no Creator in Truth.  Since there is no Creator, there is no God.  Therefore Truth stands alone and always has and always will.  Since there is no creation in Truth, there is no metamorphosis in Truth.  Since Truth is all, therefore Right is all.  Therefore there is no wrong doing or wrong being.  Since there is no wrong doing or wrong being, there is no pain, there is no punishment, there is no payment since there is no cause for pain or punishment or payment. Therefore the effect of Truth is painless, guiltless and  paid in full.  

4)    Truth is limitless.
         Truth has no starting point (or ending point). 
        Truth has no genesis, no beginning.
        There can be no epigenesis (after genesis).
        There is no creation in Truth. 
        There is no Creator in Truth.
        There is no God. 
        Truth stands alone and always has and always will. 
        There is no metamorphosis in Truth. 
        Therefore there is no wrong doing or wrong being.
        There is no pain, there is no punishment, there is no payment
        The effect of Truth is painless, guiltless, and paid in full.  

5)    The effect of Truth is painless, guiltless, and paid in full. 

For information about Translation or other Prosperos classes go to: https://www.theprosperos.org/teaching

Tarot Card for January 12: The Tower

The Tower

The Tower is numbered sixteen and shows a tower struck by lightning, with raging fires within and the top of the tower falling. There are usually figures falling, head-first, from the ruins.The Tower shows us a basic fact of spiritual life – the power of the Gods can strike unexpectedly to break down all the long-established patterns and assumptions that we have taken for granted for so long.Sometimes our limited vision of reality blocks our understanding and perception of truth. We begin to believe that the Tower – which we have been building higher and higher in order to reach the Gods – is the only reality. A cataclysmic force is needed to destroy this fantasy so as to allow us to recognise the powers which surround us. When this happens we must react with hope, letting go of our fears. The highest truths can now be realised.

Prosperos Sunday Meeting with Richard Hartnett, H.W., M.

Talking about Releasing The Splendour

  • Sunday, January 14, 2024
  • 11:00 AM  to 12:00 PM

Richard Hartnett talks about the Releasing The Splendour technique and the hidden gifts for students who practice regularly.

Find the Zoom link to today’s Sunday Meeting below.

Sunday Meeting: (Starts at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time)

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/332275676

The power of humility

Reading chapter 61 of the Tao Te Ching

Dennis Hambeukers

Dennis Hambeukers

Published in Tao Notebook

Dec 16, 2023 (Medium.com)

“A large state is the lower reaches of a river — the place where all the streams unite.
In the union of the world, the female always gets the better of the male by stillness.
Being still, she takes the lower position. Hence the large state, by taking the lower position, annexes the small state.
Thus the one, by taking the lower position, annexes the other. The other by taking the lower position is annexed.
All that the large state wants is to take the other under its wing; all the small state wants is to have its services accepted by the other. If each of the two wants to find its proper place, it is of meet that the large should take the lower position.”

What I like about the Tao Te Ching is that it is a riddle. The fun and value lies in the interpretation. You have to read it multiple times and revisit it multiple time to get into the depth of it. Take this chapter. It talks about big and small, union, stillness, annexing and higher and lower. What is that about?

The Tao Te Ching uses water as a metaphor in more places. It also does here. The Tao, the way, life can be seen as a river. A river flows from high to low. So the more advanced you are, the lower you are if you are a river. Lao Tzu states here that the lower place, the place you get to as you advance, is the large state. So the large state is a place of knowledge, of skill, of experience. We are all on different paths and we are all more or less advanced in certain skills, knowledge fields. We all end up in a lower place as we advance.

Then he talks about stillness and about the female and the male. The female energy is often associated with being, the male with doing. That is underlined by the fact that Lao states that the female will get the better of the male by being still. So just being (still) will get the better of doing.

He then goes on to combine these two concepts of the lower state (which is the more advanced state) and stillness (which is about doing nothing). Unity is achieved, the proper order is achieved, if the lower state does nothing. In the end, all will end up in the lower state anyway.

But we have a tendency to try to dominate if we are more advanced. If we know more about a subject, we have the tendency to want to call the shots. But this will frustrate the people in the higher position (so the less advanced on the river). They want to be seen and prove their worth so they can learn and get to a lower state. If the people in the lower position can hold back their urge to act, to dominate from their more advanced position, all the annexing can stop and the people in the higher position will flow naturally to the lower position in time. The large state should take the position of stillness, of not doing.

This requires humility and patience. The ego wants to show off and tell other people they are wrong. We have put in work to become more advanced in a subject so we want to show that to people. But this will create frustration because the less advanced people will fight back because they also want to be seen. One will want to annex the other. This annexing is not what people want. People in the lower position want to take people under their wing and people in the higher position want their services to be accepted. What Lao Tzu seems to be saying here is that it is the responsibility of the more advanced people to be humble and patient. The less advanced do not know what they don’t know. The more advanced do know. They should be patient and let the less advanced flow to them. All will end up in the large state in the lower reaches of the river in time.

The first chapter of the Tao Te Ching states that the Tao is indefinable, teaching that each person can discover the Tao for themselves. This is my reading of the Tao. Thank you for taking the time to read this essay. I hope you enjoyed it. If you clap for this essay, I will know I connected with you. If you follow me here on Medium, you will see more essays pop up on your Medium homepage. You can also subscribe to an email service here on Medium which will drop new essays right into your inbox. You can also connect with me on LinkedIn to see new articles in your timeline or chat with me there.

Dennis Hambeukers

Written by Dennis Hambeukers

·Editor for Tao Notebook

Design Thinker, Agile Evangelist, Practical Strategist, Creativity Facilitator, Business Artist, Corporate Rebel, Product Owner, Chaos Pilot, Humble Warrior

New Moon In Capricorn – New Year Resolutions

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On January 11th, 2024 we have an auspicious New Moon in Capricorn.

The new Moon is at 20° Capricorn and it is trine Uranus and sextile Neptune, bringing creative vision and a dose of magic to our aspirations and dreams.

The Capricorn New Moon is THE best time to come up with New Year’s resolutions.

Have you already set your 2024 intentions? You can still use the potent energy of this lunation to revise and refine them.

Seriously, if there is one time to plan for the future, this is it. Even if you’re not big on New Moon intention-setting, give this one a try.

Not only is this New Moon particularly auspicious – but the New Moon (the Sun and the Moon) allies with the most resourceful and productive planets: Mars and Pluto. Mars is actually exalted in Capricorn – which means it’s particularly resourceful – and Pluto is the planet of power and resilience.

These are the last days of Pluto in Capricorn; we will never have another New Moon in Capricorn with Pluto in the sign for the rest of our lives. If you have an ambitious goal NOW it’s the time to pursue it.

This Capricorn season, let’s plan for the future like a Capricorn.

This means, not just setting goals (Sagittarius) and then waiting for things to happen. It means committing to actually doing the work to achieve those goals.

We all have plans that didn’t go through. Ambitious goals that failed. So we might feel a bit reluctant to face ‘another disappointment’.

Why do we fail to achieve our goals?

There are 2 main issues: a) lack of clarity around the type of intentions that best serve our unique path and b) lack of commitment to making these happen.

a) Lack Of Clarity

Society bombards us with aspirational goals around what it means to be successful: having a family, a successful career or business, having a certain number of Social Media followers, or a certain level of fitness.

The issue with these goals is that they are not necessarily ours. It’s what we believe will make us feel happy and accomplished – it’s not actually what will make us feel happy and accomplished.

In our natal chart, the Midheaven, the Sun and the North Node give us hints into our unique path, and the type of qualities our soul is called to expand into.

Sometimes it’s difficult to figure out what these qualities are, or what exactly it is that we need to do to fulfill our path.

“What is your purpose in life?”.

This is such a tough question. Many of us have no idea what our purpose in life is.

If you feel confused or lack clarity around your path, here is one exercise I always recommend: make a list of 3-5 people you deeply admire, and then look for some common traits or qualities they share.

THESE are the qualities you are asked to develop. This is the highest version of yourself, this is the potential you’ve been designed to grow into.

Whatever we find aspirational, these qualities and achievements resonate because we know at a deeper level that we are absolutely capable of achieving them. If you wouldn’t be able to do it, you wouldn’t find it aspirational.

“If you can dream it, you can become it”

b) Lack Of Commitment

The second reason why people don’t achieve their goals is that they don’t put in the work to make them happen.

In Sagittarius, we formulate our vision and our goals. In the next sign, Capricorn, we employ the discipline and persistence to make them happen.

This is of course, not easy. Change requires a high energy consumption, and our brain is literally wired to consume as little energy as possible. That’s why we give up, falling back into old patterns of behavior.

However, if we want something to change in our lives, we need to put in the work. There’s really no other way.

All the successful people I know, absolutely all of them – including those who don’t want to show it, or admit it – are very hard workers. They have become successful because they have committed to their goals, and have worked hard to achieve them.

And by “hard work” I don’t mean working 16 hours a day every day – this is oftentimes a symptom of running away from the real issues, by burying yourself in work.

By “hard work” I mean committing yourself to reaching your “next level” – whatever that means for you. Facing your demons. Trying things out – knowing that failure and rejection are an inevitable part of the process. Pushing through resistance even when you don’t feel like it. Having a great work ethic. Wanting to achieve some sort of excellence in what you do. Caring about the quality of your work and about the people you are serving.

New Moon In Capricorn – Bring Your Vision To Reality

When we follow our path the “Capricorn way” i.e. without shortcuts, we may not be an “overnight success”. Real mastery takes time.

However, when we build our skills and knowledge sustainably, then success that eventually materializes is also sustainable.

It doesn’t come and go. Real success, built on real mastery, is there to stay.

Capricorn is THE sign of the zodiac that excels at both a) and b), so the New Moon in Capricorn is really the best time of the year to embody Capricorn’s discipline and persistence and bring your vision to reality.

2024 has the potential to be an extraordinary year.

Let’s commit to the disciplined work needed to make our goals a reality!

Free Will Astrology: Week of January 11, 2024

BY ROB BREZSNY | JANUARY 9, 2024 (newcity.com)

Photo: Matt Seymour

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Why do birds sing? They must be expressing their joy at being alive, right? And in some cases, they are trying to impress and attract potential mates. Ornithologists tell us that birds are also staking out their turf by chirping their melodies. Flaunting their vigor is a sign to other birds of how strong and commanding they are. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you Aries humans to sing more than ever before in 2024. Like birds, you have a mandate to boost your joie de vivre and wield more authority. Here are ten reasons why singing is good for your health: tinyurl.com/HealthySinging

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Which zodiac sign is most likely to have a green thumb? Who would most astrologers regard as the best gardener? Who would I call on if I wanted advice on when to harvest peaches, how to love and care for roses as they grow, or how to discern which weeds might be helpful and useful? The answer, according to my survey, is Taurus. And I believe you Bulls will be even more fecund than usual around plants in 2024. Even further, I expect you to be extra fertile and creative in every area of your life. I hereby dub you Maestro of the Magic of Germination and Growth.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Research I’ve found suggests that seventy percent of us have experienced at least one traumatic event in our lives. But I suspect the percentage is higher. For starters, everyone has experienced the dicey expulsion from the warm, nurturing womb. That’s usually not a low-stress event. The good news, Gemini, is that now and then there come phases when we have more power than usual to heal from our traumas. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming months will be one of those curative times for you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): At their best, Libras foster vibrant harmony that energizes social situations. At their best, Scorpios stimulate the talents and beauty of those they engage with. Generous Leos and Sagittarians inspire enthusiasm in others by expressing their innate radiance. Many of us may get contact highs from visionary, deep-feeling Pisceans. In 2024, Cancerian, I believe you can call on all these modes as you brighten and nurture the people in your sphere—even if you have no Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Leo or Pisces influences in your astrological chart.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here are my wishes for you in 2024. 1. I hope you will rigorously study historical patterns in your life story. I hope you will gather robust insights into the rhythms and themes of your amazing journey. 2. You will see clearly what parts of your past are worth keeping and which are better outgrown and left behind. 3. You will come to a new appreciation of the heroic quest you have been on. You will feel excited about how much further your quest can go. 4. You will feel gratitude for the deep inner sources that have been guiding you all these years. 5. You will be pleased to realize how much you have grown and ripened.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo author Eduardo Galeano mourned how our institutions condition us to divorce our minds from our hearts and our bodies from our souls. Even sadder, many of us deal with these daunting schisms by becoming numb to them. The good news, Virgo, is that I expect 2024 to be one of the best times ever for you to foster reconciliation between the split-off parts of yourself. Let’s call this the Year of Unification. May you be inspired to create both subtle and spectacular fusions of your fragmented parts. Visualize your thoughts and feelings weaving together in elegant harmony. Imagine your material and spiritual needs finding common sources of nourishment.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to ancient Greek myth, the half-divine hero Heracles consulted the Oracle of Delphi for guidance. He was assigned to perform twelve daunting feats, most of which modern people would regard as unethical, like killing and stealing. There was one labor that encouraged integrity, though. Heracles had to clean the stables where over a thousand divine cattle lived. The place hadn’t been scrubbed in thirty years! As I meditated on your hero’s journey in the coming months, Libra, I concluded that you’d be wise to begin with a less grandiose version of Heracles’ work in the stables. Have fun as you cheerfully tidy up everything in your life! By doing so, you will earn the power to experience many deep and colorful adventures in the coming months.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I will name two taboos I think you should break in 2024. The first is the theory that you must hurt or suppress yourself to help others. The second is that you must hurt or suppress others to benefit yourself. Please scour away any delusion you might have that those two strategies could genuinely serve you. In their place, substitute these hypotheses: 1. Being good to yourself is the best way to prepare for helping others. 2. Being good to others is the best way to benefit yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Doubt has killed more dreams than failure ever will,” says Sagittarian author Suzy Kassem. Many of us have had the experience of avoiding a quest for success because we are too afraid of being defeated or demoralized. “Loss aversion” is a well-known psychological concept that applies when we are so anxious about potential loss that we don’t pursue the possible gain. In my astrological estimation, you Centaurs should be especially on guard against this inhibiting factor in 2024. I am confident you can rise above it, but to do so, you must be alert for its temptation—and eager to summon new reserves of courage.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 2024, I predict you will be blessed with elegant and educational expansion—but also challenged by the possibility of excessive, messy expansion. Soulful magnificence could vie for your attention with exorbitant extravagance. Even as you are offered valuable novelties that enhance your sacred and practical quests, you may be tempted with lesser inducements you don’t really need. For optimal results, Capricorn, I urge you to avoid getting distracted by irrelevant goodies. Usher your fate away from pretty baubles and toward felicitous beauty.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Some people feel that “wealth” refers primarily to financial resources. If you’re wealthy, it means you have a lot of money, luxurious possessions, and lavish opportunities to travel. But wealth can also be measured in other ways. Do you have an abundance of love in your life? Have you enjoyed many soulful adventures? Does your emotional intelligence provide rich support for your heady intelligence? I bring this up, Aquarius, because I believe 2024 will be a time when your wealth will increase. The question for you to ruminate on: How do you define wealth?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” said philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Here’s my response to that bold declaration: It’s utterly WRONG! No one in the history of the world has ever built anything solely by their own efforts, let alone a bridge to cross the river of life. Even if you are holed up in your studio working on a novel, painting or invention, you are absolutely dependent on the efforts of many people to provide you with food, water, electricity, clothes, furniture, and all the other goodies that keep you functioning. It’s also unlikely that anyone could create anything of value without having received a whole lot of love and support from other humans. Sorry for the rant, Pisces. It’s a preface for my very positive prediction: In 2024, you will have substantial help in building your bridge across the river of life.

Homework: I invite you to redefine what it would look and feel like to be your best self. Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com

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