Furthermore, the more astrological research I do the more it becomes clear that a strong natal chart even is no replacement for the cultivation of personal virtue: I've been appalled to see the large number of high ranking Nazis born under pretty highly favorable astral circumstances...it really does seem our will as conscious beings ultimately matters far more than any other consideration concerning who & what we become.
There's a good parable from Chuang Tzu on this:
There was a man whose family had, for generations, made their money by bleaching silk. The process left their hands awfully chapped, but they had developed a healing balm that protected them. A traveler was passing through town one day, and, hearing about the balm, offered the man one hundred pieces of gold for the recipe.
As it so happened, the king was troubled by a war he was waging: it was winter, and the hands of his soldiers were so raw from exposure that they had difficulty handling their weapons. As soon as he had obtained the recipe, the traveler went straight to the king and presented it to him. The balm proved instrumental to the king’s victory, and the traveler was awarded a fief in the conquered territory as a reward.
The balm had the power of preventing chapped hands in either case, but one man never got beyond bleaching silk while the other ended up with fief, simply because they used it in different ways.
These bodies—mere vehicles!—are like that balm. They are versatile enough to accomplish much, but what is accomplished depends on what they are turned towards.
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Date: 2021-01-19 09:52 am (UTC)There's a good parable from Chuang Tzu on this:
These bodies—mere vehicles!—are like that balm. They are versatile enough to accomplish much, but what is accomplished depends on what they are turned towards.