September 27
“A man teaching the true inner knowledge” Libra 5
Sabian Sage © 2014 Blain Bovee boveeastrology.com
This symbol is illuminated at 12:26 AM EDT, September 27
Inner trust
It is intriguing. What, one might ask, is “the true inner knowledge”?
Today, many will journey through the felt sense of inner trust that aligns with acuity of mind. As the day unfolds, some will come to realize, in some regard, such as social or political conformity, that they have had enough.
So, for example, with regard to complying to the mind-numbed conditioning of so-called educational systems, one could say, “No thanks.”
In regard to media and the political soaps, one could turn off the news, realizing that to be decent, to respect others and to be kind, is a huge statement far surpassing political stripe.
One could stand away from the unconscious addiction of consumerism, perhaps realizing that few would know how to survive and care for loved ones if it all came crashing down.
Keep your kit small, packed with essentials, and be ready to travel light.
I frequently use the word ‘conviction’ intending a strong and positive sense of the word like something that grabs and holds you from within such as the true inner knowledge.
I was going to use the word ‘conviction’ as the keyword today, however the less than comforting related senses of ‘conviction’ just now seem to jump out in alarming ways. ‘To convict’ is to find guilty. A ‘conviction’ can be a determination of guilt. A ‘convict’ is one who lives branded as such, perhaps signified by a time in prison. Why, then, would the belief sense of conviction sound appealing or apt?
What do we mean when we use ‘conviction’ in a positive sense? It is a belief, a feeling, a sense of inner knowing often associated with a gut instinct or a heart feeling. Associative words and sense comes from ‘trust’, ‘feeling’, ‘faith’, ‘fidelity’. These words all carry the added sense of a harmony of inner feeling and outward expression in word or deed. Thus, to act out of inner trust is to express a harmony between the individual and the grander reach of others, the world, of life. To employ the word conviction, however, requires qualifying terms such a ‘feelings of deep inner conviction’, plus, there is no echo of harmony, accord, alignment suggested, but rather, one would be led to say, “He is guilty of holding a belief or opinion’.
Now, I can turn the word guilt in an appealing way by way of an existential analytic and root senses of guilt as owing such that the reader will find an uplifting positive sense in the employment of these words. However, guilt, owe, and want are all lack words. When used, they trigger subconscious patterns of lack, wanting, of being in debt or being in the wrong.
Alternatives? Faith, trust and confidence… “Let me confide with you my inner thoughts. The time presses for our faith to be shared, not that we speak as one, but that we go forward true to our own inner faith and trust, and thereby in trust with one another. “ … my Shakespearean attempt to express my meaning.
“Sirrah, I confide in you, for an inner faith shared in trust is the flower and force of confidence, whereas a secret held too long within the heart bears a weight of being convicted and therein held prisoner to self reproval and doubt. Thus imprisoned, suspicion ferments and intoxicates a man’s soul with distrust and thereby the fabric of community, by prick of this disquieting inner thorn, is torn.
Come, let us be freer with our feelings, for trust is a bird that knows the open sky intimately. A man at peace with his heart and his ways of being in this world, keeps a faith with others to likewise do, and therefore, in faith are men joined truly together as confidence doth prove. This is my confidence I confide to you. Keep the faith and to thine own self be true.”
I have a very dear friend who signs off “Keep the Faith”. I have always heard a question echoing in that signature. It implies a faith in something, therefore ‘what’? Now, I appreciate the beauty of that signature. What I used to think I conveyed through use of the word conviction, I now replace.
And so, dear readers, I bid you keep the faith,
Blain Bovee
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