Today’s Oracle takes us to the Taurus monthly for May 31, 2013.
You may think you know what you’re saying, but do others understand what’s on your mind? I ask not for their sake but your own. You need to feel understood. You also need to feel like you understand yourself, though over the next couple of months that’s likely to come in layers rather than to burst out of the ground like a gusher. I suggest you be patient with yourself, and express your uncertainty gently. If you do, what you may notice is the presence of a rare kind of confidence that has roots going deeper than any questions your mind could come up with. Therefore, if you ask a question, assume that it has an answer. If you see a problem, assume there is a solution. It may not manifest overnight, though it will help move things along if you keep adjusting your point of view. You will see different things from different perspectives.
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Okay. so we have dancing metaphors, we have military metaphors, we have nature metaphors, we have geographical metaphors, (“The map is not the territory” – Alfred Korzybski) and so on, but they are all metaphors. Why use metaphors at all? Why point at the moon? What other options do we have?
‘Military metaphors are frequent in the spiritual tradition of nearly every nation: the Christian “New Testament” and the Hindu “Bhagavad Gita” are two examples among
many. The aphorism 103, Chapter Eight of the “Dhammapada”, says:
“Better than a man who conquers in battles a thousand times a thousand
men is he who conquers himself. He indeed is the mightiest of warriors.”’
https://www.theosophyonline.com/ler.php?id=4157
Sexual metaphors are also ‘frequent’: passions, ecstasies and the naked truth.
Note to self: add ‘pleasure/pain’ to false dichotomies of sexuality; at least as a theoretical measure both can be considered as interpretations of ‘signals’ through neural pathways.