I love the poet Rumi. I think many of us who tend toward addiction also tend toward desperate, chaotic attempts at "love," which in the end are not true, real, pure love from the heart. Love that comes of pleading and coercing is not real love. We cannot truly love another until we learn to truly love ourselves. How can I love myself today?

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I set my orange flowers in a boat and send them off to heaven.
I feel heaven raining down in drops of orange-scented love.
--Gabby Turner

This song is meant to be sung with the first line repeating 8 times, followed by 8 repetitions of the second line. That form is inspired by the singing I've been doing at the Kirtan and Meditation I go to twice a month. Devotional singing/chanting does not need variety, so much as devotion! The meaning is not lost through repetition, it is transcended, so that...
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 "[Vesta] is an elemental force that must be tended, within and without, and tending that flame becomes one of the closest things to an organic religion in existence." --Eric Francis

     When our Vesta nature is bruised from love (which may happen when she is activated by synastry contacts with a lover or potential lover or by transits or progressions) we can find ourselves turning away from romantic love toward some inner devotion to real spiritual love. Vesta makes us learn about how to l...
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When we want to feel aligned with the Divine, the easiet way to achieve that from an astrological standpoint would be to concentrate on expressing your divinity through the energies of your Sun sign. Aspects and house positions of the Sun are also important, but you might want to concentrate first on the sign that your Sun is in. What is the divine Capricorn? Or the divine Libra?  What does it feel like to truly express the warmth and heart-centered intensity of the Sun in your sign? Training...
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