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The Buddha Had a Mowhawk
The Buddha Had a Mowhawk

The Punk movement began in the mid-1970's, when Saturn and Uranus were in a particularly tense angular alignment known as a "square" (I was born under this very alignment). Saturn's archetype symbolizes authority and conservative values, as well as traditions and austerity. Uranus is in many ways the opposite of Saturn. It is the archetype of rebellion, disruption, revolution and freedom. Since the two planets, and thus their archetypes, were combined in a tense square angle in the mid-1970's we saw them struggling against one another, yet embodying one another...

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Spirituality, Astrology, MeditationJames MoranPunk Rock, The Buddha, J. Krishnamurti, Saturn, UranusComment
We Are Our Stories, But They Are Not Us
We Are Our Stories, But They Are Not Us

Every single human life, no matter what the content, from the most trauma-filled to the most boring, is merely a story. Not only is every human life a story, but it is a story telling itself to itself; there is no fixed underlying main character in the story. This is the aspect of reality that allows every human life equal access to freedom. By freedom I do not mean a mundane freedom involving physical, political, and/or economic freedom. No. That is more story. I mean freedom from the past, freedom from trauma, regret, remorse, depression, anger, negativity, in short: freedom from suffering...

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Astrology, Meditation, SpiritualityJames MoranFreedom from suffering, Freedom from story, story, mindfulness, psychedelic therapyComment
Resourcefulness=Nonviolence
Resourcefulness=Nonviolence

Tony Robbins likes to say that when things don't go your way it's not due to a lack of resources, but rather a lack of resourcefulness. For instance, it's easy to say, "Things would have worked out differently if I'd had more time, money, help, approval, etc." You fill in the blank. I like to point out a similar realization using different wording. For instance, I sometimes use the word nonviolence...

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SpiritualityJames MoranNonviolence, Tony Robbins, Resourcefulnness, Funkadelic, Balance, Problems and SolutionsComment
Taboo Love and Ultimate Sacrifices: Selena Gomez and Venus/Saturn/Pluto
Taboo Love and Ultimate Sacrifices: Selena Gomez and Venus/Saturn/Pluto

Saturn symbolizes the great reality principle that bounds, blocks and negates. Pluto is the archetype of volcanic power and drive. If you combine these archetypes and apply them to the archetype of Venus (love, art and beauty) you get a volcanic drive to love that is just as volcanically negated or blocked, birthing the taboo love...

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Astrology, SpiritualityJames MoranSelena Gomez, Kidney transplant, Venus, Saturn, Pluto, Friendship, Mortality, Hands to MyselfComment