Tuesday, July 16,
2013:
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| When Astrology Was Science |
I find it curious, as
I think back on it, Mercury went retrograde right after Bonnie’s surgery. You
astrologers know that Mercury is the planet associated with communication and
the medical arts/sciences. An astrologer would have advised us to wait on the
surgery until the planet was no longer retrograde. They would've said that it
is no wonder at all that Bonnie’s surgery went well but that she had a
difficult time recovering. In retrospect, I would have to give them that much. However
skeptical I might be of what I consider to be oogah-boogah sciences, I can
suspend my beliefs enough to allow room for beliefs I think of as primitive,
superstitious, and of no discernible consequence. I am grateful for the skills
and the knowledge gained by medical practice since science superseded
superstition, but that doesn't mean that I sneer at what practitioners have
employed for aeons before the ascension of the sciences. After all, I had
to set aside my biases against the power of the Heart of Compassion to see that
there was a better way of living that incorporated beliefs beyond my limited
comprehension. I haven’t abandoned my preferences towards scientific empiricism
in my spiritual practice. I simply employ that which works and shelve that
which I don’t understand under the category of “To Be Revealed”.
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