Dear Friend;

I woke up this morning in the same room, the same flat, the same town, the same country — but it was also the ‘first time’ I did so. And this made all the difference…

Do you ever feel you complicate your life beyond measure? Do you sometimes look back and wonder when it was that you left the Highway of Joy and found yourself on a meandering road filled with potholes and scattered with boulders and debris? Could it simply be a matter of perception?

Pluto can help you change the prescription of your perception. It pushes you to experience your highest aspiration — to experience your infinite nature. Pluto means transformation and its retrograde status in Aquarius now through 13 October is an opportunity to reinvent yourself along your highest potential and your most cherished dreams. It’s a “second chance” you won’t want to miss and only your contrived opinions and self-defeating notions stand in the way.

Opinions are unique to human beings. In the madness of opinion, however, we confuse what we think is real for what is and thus, we become the agent of our own undoing and the suffering of others. Skilful driving will get you back on the highway, but first you need to stop and survey the road ahead as it is, then decide what you can do with the resources you have. No benefit to “what if” your life away, but please remember the wise words Shakespeare wrote for Hamlet: There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Hamlet was right: thinking shape’s our perception of reality. What we call the world is simply a play of light and shadow picked up by light sensitive cells in our eyes and filtered through the brain where it is compared to past experience. Considering we not only have experiences in this life tucked away but countless experiences from innumerable lifetimes lodged in our subconscious, we have quite an extensive file our brain can access. This file is fine as a tool of survival, a mechanism the brain evolved because it got tired of being devoured by sabretooths and Pleistocene wolves, but how many of us need to call upon this tool in our everyday lives?

The survival brain has its use, but somewhere in our childhood we set it on automatic and forgot to take back control. For an observer detached from the consequences, it can appear as if we are intentionally choosing to self-sabotage our life through questionable choices. It’s not intentional, of course, but our “reshaping” of reality can alter the course of life in tragic ways.

Opinions are the castle we hide behind and a primary reason our life is the way it is. Untold amounts of energy and resources are expended in dead-ends and falsehoods. Still, we are going to make mistakes. What can we do if we find ourself in an intolerable situation? Ekhart Tolle addressed this situation in his bestseller, the Power of Now:

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your “here and now” intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Pluto in Aquarius is asking you to rework your life in specific areas. Consult the “noteworthy notes” section below to discover these areas relative to your Sun sign. Then sit quietly. Chances are, you have already felt the stirring of some of these needing to be addressed, of a change you need to embrace so that transformation can begin. 

Now’s the time to rework, redo, and reinvent… it’s the prescription that will make all the difference!

 🤗

David 🔆

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