DAILY March 9, 2010 #263
Rumi wrote, “Seek the path that demands your whole being, ” which is a perfect dictate at any time, but particularly timely this week as Mars turns direct. It is important to dream again, to regain faith, especially if efforts have felt on hold, and projects waylaid. Our desires, our will, and intentions are resuming forward motion, and while we may have no more control than we did before, by next week we will feel like we do.
When faith and hope are stranded by low tides, it is particularly difficult to keep dreams aloft, never mind set sail on unknown seas. Creating ones life demands faith and hope to be front and center, not mired in needless drama, and wasted effort. To hoist sail toward the unknown, brings up fear. When fear is part of a process, then fear is part of the answer, and Rumi’s ‘whole being’ has little room for that. Fear stinks. We smell it and shrink, abandoning that large, whole, incandescent Self.
Becoming a whole being is to become efficient in what we are deficient. 15 years ago I had no patience, little compassion, and lots of judgment, but I had a dream. This dream has yet to manifest. But I have grown bushels of patience and compassion, and greatly reduced my judgment in the pursuit of this vision. Perhaps those were my true quests? Perhaps the vision I had hoped for was only a by-product to get me here, free of stanky low tides, sailing across wide oceans of discovery?
Who is to know these things? Sit with what brings you solace. Take faith as you may. Hold hope lightly. We are moving on, becoming and dreaming, dreaming and becoming.
Asana: Ganda Bherundasana/Feet to Cheek Pose, otherwise known as terrible or formidable Pose. This is an Asana I can only dream about, but in practicing toward it, I will learn invaluable strength.
(You may wish to do this with partner-help, or close to a wall.)
Lie on stomach, elbows bent, hands by chest, fingers point forward. Bend knees, moving feet in, lifting lower chest and belly. Kick legs straight up so only chin, neck, hands and upper ribs are touching floor. Remain here, or lower feet until they rest on top of head. Now it gets really interesting. Take hands off floor, clasping feet, and pull feet down on each side of cheeks. This one is a good 10 year dream. But what else do you have to do?
Health Notes: This pose greatly increases vitality and flexibility. It bathes nerve centers in 3 chakra centers, (pelvis, thoracic, and throat) bringing large amounts of blood to these areas for rejuvenation. It tones spine and abdominals. Think of the faith you’d have in yourself if and when you execute! Clearly, ‘a path of whole being.’
Astrology Notes: Aires people love a challenge! And with Mars, their ruler finally going direct, we are going to hear them roar. Martian energy is the asserting of our desires on the environment. “The Egyptians called him ‘artes’ giving us the word for arts. Mars symbolized ‘man’s personal, creative expression.” *Alan Oken
Ayurvedic Notes: In Ayurvedic medicine, feeling hopeless or helpless is dangerous because it deprives the immune system of support from Ahamkara, this is literally the ‘I am of a body, mind & spirit.’ “This ‘I’ that is mine has an indwelling voice, a fragment of Universal Soul, that is to be lived to its fullest if it is to repay the debt of receiving life.”
* Dr. Robert E. Svoboda
I suspect Rumi’s path of ‘whole being’ is this Ahmkara.
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