2-All re. Finding God.... through Astrology M.Kincaid

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Dear Astrology Friends:

 

I thought you might like to receive this interesting piece I wrote

this morning, about how to Find God, especially utilizing one's

Astrology, which after all has many insights regarding our

Spirituality, and the unique , and personal paths that we're all

on. If you want to participate in this discussion, feel free to join

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Mark Kincaid

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finding God

 

Today, I thought it might be very exciting to focus on how to " Find

God " , according to Astrology and especially, the Vedic

Knowledge, that Jyotish Astrology is a part of.

 

Finding God....

 

Ahhh, how sweet it is to say such a thing....

 

All of my love, like many people I wondered about God, and

where was he?

 

Why was he not more around, and why did he allow soooo

much suffering!

 

Years later, when I discovered Astrology, (Jyotish), I realized

why I had asked those very questions.

 

My Jupiter in Pisces, was why I believed in him,.

but my very small Moon in Virgo, in the 12th, with Sun in Leo,

(11th), was why I couldn't 'feel' him.

 

I knew he existed, I had great faith, but where was he!

 

It's interesting because my Saturn, also being in the 12th,

which gave me so much great grief! growing up, also lead me

to mantras, being lord simultaneously of my 4th & 5th house

of mantras.

 

So, I learened to meditate, had really given up to know God,

seemed to big a problem and so many millions of others, who

were brighter and more intelligence, and wiser then me, hadn't

found him, so I let it slide...

 

But, I learned to meditate, and for the first time in my life,

Saturn started to be more balanced!

ahhhhhhhh, can you sense it....

Ahhhhhhhh,.....soooo great...when you learn to meditate...

and that deep quietness of our inner Selves...begins to be

enlivened!

 

For me, personally, it took me almost 4, or 5 months, meditating

regularly before I noticed a big change. Sooo, happy I continued!

 

After that time, it struck me, wow, I'm really calmer, I feel so much

more happy!

 

Eureka.... So, I continued with that,.....

 

I even, began my active thinkings and searchings about God,

because now, I was feeling better....

 

Then, I came across a little book in college, called, " How to

Know God! "

 

Wow, not that seemed like a great book. It was about the yogi,

saint, Patanjali, any of you ever hear about him?

He was the main, founder, of the Vedic Yoga system, and in

there I came across this passage, which literally jumped out

at me...

 

" The key to Spiritual life, is the experience of God " !

 

Oh, my God, no one ever told me, he could be experienced!

Wow, my mind was a tissy. Could it be possible. I'd only

thought about him!

 

Then, I reflected on my chart. Well, that makes sense, cuz

my Moon's in Virgo, and Mercury rules both my 9th & 12th

houses, which are two of the most important spiritual houses,

in our charts...

and it's all intellect!

 

I realized why I was trying sooo hard to understand God,

intellectually, it was in my chart!

 

So, I settled into my new meditative self, and I reflected on that.

I read up on the lives of Christian and Vedic saints and they

all, talked about their own, personal experiences of God!

 

Wow, now, this was more like it! This is what I really wanted.

 

I really got enthused, about my meditation, now.

 

Even though it wasn't taught to me as a God seeking, or God

realization meditation, as I read between the lines, it was

there!

 

" As one fathoms deeper and deeper levels of the mind, through

deep meditation, one comes across a state of Being, which

is transcendental, to one's normal, every day life.

 

As one continues with this experience, day after day, a day

will come, when the full potential of that deep, unbounded,

eternal part of us, becomes fully active and available for daily

life. "

 

Now, I had a plan. Wow, I knew God existed, I even understood

him, intellectually, but now...wow, a plan to find him, to exper-

ience him, ...what....? in my consciousness...? my I,... my

spirit....my soul....

 

All good adjetives, of Being....

 

About a year passed and I had my first experience of God.

 

I was still meditating, regularly, but I was going to school full-

time, I was driving a cab, full-time, at night, to try and make some

money, and I was a wreck!

hehe

 

One morning, after getting off the graveyard shift, I mossied on

over to my college student union, and I just collapsed upon

a small bench.

 

I was also missing my mother, deeply. My mother, who was in

Chicago, and this was the first time, I was away from her, since

I can remember.

And, she had told me I could not come back, anyway. When I

had been home for Christmas, I announced I was hopeing to

come home again, after my first year, and collect my thoughts,

you know take a year off, .....

And before I could finish my thought, my mother, my dear, sweet,

loving Mother, said: " You can't come back, I've got 5 other kids

to get out of the house! "

Shock! Oh, grief, .... you can't go home, again.

My poooor Moon was devasted.... hehehe Moon & Saturn

together,.... attachment to my mother, and grief! ugh.

Though not knowing Astrology, of course, I didn't know why, at

the time.

So, I went back to school, struggled along, and I'm back at that

park bench, missing here, sooooo much.

 

All of a sudden I'm awake. I've had a dream. Ahhhh, it was of

my beloved Mother,....soooooo satisfying. I felt refreshed, re-

markably renewed.... She had been sitting on a coach and I

was on the floor, sitting at her feet, and she was patting me on

my head.

Oh, joy, my mother really loved me!

I was ecstatic.

Then, I started to think..... " but she didn't look like my Mother, in

Chicago, ..... " And, then, I knew, like a bolt of lightning....

" That wasn't my mother,....that was my Mother!.... and how, do

I say it...? She was more,....like,....my God Mother! "

 

Such bliss, deep, cosmic realization, and I had previously, NO,

concept of God as a Mother.

 

Growing up in a Christian tradition, God was always, God the

Father, and I knew Him, I knew he existed, but as Mother...

unbelievable!

 

Very ironic, now, looking backwards, that the first, real, clear

experience I had of God, would be as my Mother!

 

But, from the point of view of my Astrology, it's not surprising.

Moon, which represents my emotions, my feelings, my heart,

and my relationship with Mother, and her Mother, and her

Mother, and all the way to Mother Divine,... is in my 12th house

of Transcendental experience, and being fully aspected by

my great Jupiter in Pisces, in the 6th.

 

This of course, was to change my life.

 

Wow, God's a Mother, too. Who would ever have thought.

 

Over the next few years, I read up all I could about God, as the

Mother.

 

In the West, people talk about Mother Mary, Mother of Christ, in

ways that remind me of God, the Mother.

 

In the East, such a great treasure of wonderful stories and ex-

amples of Saints whose whole lives is wrapped up in Mother

Divine.

 

One of my favorite Gurus was the Indian, Ramakrishna, who

thought of himself, always as a child and approached God, the

Mother, as his mother, and he, as a simple child.

 

His stories of God realization, and seeing her, every day, even

in the flesh, so to speak, warmed my heart sooo much.

 

Ahhhh, now this is another great goal!

 

 

 

( end part one, on Introduction to New book:

 

Finding God)

 

 

My friends, I hope this starts some wonderful discussions,

about all of your own, spiritual interests and paths, and we

can reflect upon your Astrology, and how each of our charts,

shows exactly the paths we're on, and how we can better

understand our lessons, and especially, obstacles along the

way, which will help us emmensely in the pursuit of our

Spiritual Goals...and to

'Finding God'!

 

 

Jai Guru

 

 

Sincerely,

 

 

Mark Kincaid