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Self-Love is One of the Greatest Acts of Service

Posted by Gabby Turner on Tuesday, June 30, 2020, In : Spiritual

This, self-love, has been one of my own greatest lessons. I have spent a lifetime questioning my own worthiness and my own goodness. I have been, as many of you may relate to, a compulsive giver. Giving my time, energy, love, and resources to others in a compulsive bid to find validation. Is that true giving? Selfless on the one hand, self-seeking on the other.

One of the greatest acts of service one can engage in is self-love. Unlike compulsive over-giving, which inevitably leads to depleti...

Rumi and Real Love

Posted by Gabby Turner on Sunday, January 27, 2013, In : Other Metaphysical

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?

Love

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?
What do you know of Love except the name?
Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,...

I Set My Orange Flowers in a Boat and Send Them Off to Heaven

Posted by Gabby Turner on Monday, September 26, 2011, In : Other Metaphysical

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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How a Taurus "Makes Love to You"

Posted by Gabby Turner on Wednesday, September 14, 2011, In : Astrology

"Let's go slow, I ain't got nowhere to go...
I'll make you love to you, like you want me to."

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The Difficulty and Beauty of Vesta in Love

Posted by Gabby Turner on Monday, August 22, 2011, In : Astrology

"[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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