Rx Mercury in Pisces sermon…
Some western astrologers who use North and South Nodes nevertheless do not believe in reincarnation. That’s fine, I’m not out to convert anyone, but I think it’s important to understand the concept before throwing it out.
The detective in me likes to look for clues to past lives in a chart reading, but it’s not the entire purpose of the reading. Sometimes what I find really resonates with a person, sometimes it doesn’t, but to think every person begins everything from scratch at birth falls short. How do you explain a child prodigy like Mozart, for example? Just genetic info being passed down? Perhaps.
The Hindus may have invented the Nodes, but they did not invent the idea of reincarnation. Many ancient/indigenous peoples, including the Greeks, Inuit, Celts and others subscribe(d) to the idea that, like all things observed in nature, we return. Probably what JC was trying to tell his followers, too, but they didn’t get it and saw ‘being raised from the dead’ as a kind of zombie apocalypse. Likely it was only really taught in earnest to a handful of Gnostics.
In Tibetan Buddhism, reincarnation does not just involve being reborn into another body in this realm, they take into account other realms. There is nothing to say that a soul can’t be occupying different realms simultaneously, or that reincarnation is some sort of assembly line thing, since ‘linear time’ does not exist outside this one. Your cells are in fact being reincarnated at this very moment.
Also, ‘karma’ is not just an ‘eye for an eye’, that’s the westernized idea. Teaching people that if you behave in this life, the next one might be better is no diff than saying heaven or hell awaits. Something to control people with, or maybe just something they’ll ‘get’ in simple terms.
Even if you never came into contact with another human being you have karma – ie, an accumulation of memory resonance in every particle in your body, which has indeed had another life, previous – that’s just quantum science. Our karma influences the choices we make, as well as our thoughts, so the more consciously aware and less emotionally invested in it we are, the better. (Why astrology is a great tool). Again, the idea is that everything returns, hence, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
It’s all a beautiful mystery, and the idea is to focus on the here and now, not get seduced by the romance of what we may have been, once upon a time. Past life memories (or parallel universes) can and do pop up from time to time, in dreams, altered states of consciousness or perhaps simply as a kind of deja-vu type of feeling when visiting a foreign place. Sometimes you meet someone and feel you’ve known them before. Like present life memories, past ones are worth examining for clues they may hold to otherwise unexplainable behaviour patterns or talents, to provide inspiration, or, as in evolutionary astrology, to check in with our soul’s progress, but should not be dwelt on or attached to beyond this.
Reincarnation cartoon by David Coverly speedbump.com
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