It’s difficult to say exactly when it happened. Somewhere along the line, love and money became contenders for humanity’s universal language. They have a lot an common with each other. For example, the distribution of both is not equal. Also, nearly anybody knows either upon sight. Yet, it would also be difficult to find two things more different.
Perhaps the most intriguing thing love and money have in common is their mutability. Anybody of a certain age knows love is manifold. There are even compelling, but less than empirical, accounts of love having manifested in living flesh. Arguably, however, love at its most viable is without tangible form.
Money has also transformed in many ways, uncounted times. Even so, there has been a through-line of sorts. First, perhaps, essential goods and services served as means of exchange. Later came agreement regarding the value of uncommon (and often reasonably uniform) materials. Manufactured currency followed.
Then, in one short lifetime, money has somehow been abstracted out of tangible existence while losing none of its potency. Were you to total all of today’s monetary transactions in the world, close to one hundred percent of them would be entirely digital from start to finish.
Now, one speculative way of explaining the times in which we live is to say that money has manifested in the living flesh. Granted, that is a distressing, and spurious, possibility. Nonetheless there would be at least two upsides were it true. First, there would be yet another way to tell the difference. More importantly, were money to somehow take life, it would be tangible evidence of the power of your mind.
For love and money have yet another thing in common. Both depend on your mind as at least a tributary to their reality. History is full of examples of what happens when people no longer believe in money. Unfortunately, that is also true of love.
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Beginning tomorrow morning at the latest (depending on your time zone) we will have again entered the roughly two-week period that typically separates matched eclipses. Some of us here at Planet Waves have taken to calling this period ‘the eclipse zone’ because (just as Rod Serling described his conception of “The Twilight Zone”) it is largely a dimension of mind.
Just as with love and money, nearly everybody knows the Sun and Moon on sight. When eclipses happen, it is because the Sun and Moon align with two invisible and intangible (albeit calculated) points called the lunar nodes. Hence, eclipses combine the same elements as love and money: that which is plain to see and that which cannot be seen at all.
For technical reasons that you will not be taxed with here, the particular eclipse zone we are all about to enter and travel through together has (among its many melodic lines), a distinct astrological tone. It will implicitly be an opportune time to make your own mind up somehow regarding love and/or money — plausibly becoming a bit more powerful as regards to both. If you can keep just that one theme in mind over the next two weeks or so, chances are you will emerge having somehow transformed yourself.
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Looking forward to amazing revelations and power; thank you for pointing the way.
As a Leo-sun, Aquarius-moon, I am knowing this all to well! E.g.1999. Your ability to explain the nuances serve me well! Thanks for clarity! I am a fan!
Ah, love and money! It’s been my observation that the two have almost become equal and/or interchangeable in many minds. “If you love me, you’ll give me money”….or “if you don’t give me love (usually meaning sex), I won’t give you money for groceries”…and such.
Given the values our culture seems to have evolved, I guess it’s not surprising that some who feel unloved pursue money, especially conspicuous wealth, hoping to feel better by having “the best of everything”. Of course, things can never replace people in our lives.
For me, this “eclipse zone” will include spending some money on garden seeds/plants, art supplies, and improvements to my living space. I see money as a means, not as something I need to amass. As for love, well, Valentine’s Day notwithstanding, I’m quite content living and working alone. But I’m not saying “never”, either.
Thanks, Len, for engendering some useful thought and throwing some light on the path.
Love is made flesh in each of us. The absence of love may also be an attribute acted out in the flesh in us all, but at least one author opines that money and the reality we connote to it comes from our relationship to the sacred divine. Charles Eisenstein, in his book Sacred Economics, argues that a gift society, where money is valued by giving in lieu of taking and hoarding, is what the world now needs to survive. Why do I feel compelled to share this with PW readers? Not only do I think it a valid idea to ponder as we ponder love and money but currently solar Mars is conjoin with my natal Venus, I was born during an eclipse zone (three days after a full solar eclipse), my Sun’s natal return is Saturday, which interestingly is also when the Sun enters Pisces. I say interestingly because if you note the date, it is not one that reflects Pisces by many, many (pretty much all) Astrologers. So I guess I am compelled to underscore Len’s message that as we ponder love and money, let us also ponder our relationship with the sacred divine and how that manifests through our use of money?
To Love is to Value, so maybe the the subject of “Worth” is what we need to ponder?
What many of us have known “love” to be is, in Reality, a lack of it – need. Those who satisfy and cater to our need are said to “love” us.
So what is the Worth of any value system based upon a lack of it?
How much money does it take to build a safe for all the money I don’t have?