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The mystery of fire permeates one’s life. Its paradox of polarity is met at every turn: protector and destroyer. The fire is bright and active, yet depends on something dark and passive to sustain it. Your brightness and vitality captures notice, but be careful to also nurture the fuel—the dark partner that gives the fire’s brightness the capacity to exist. |
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From Mars we find a tendency for the body-mind at times to be easily aroused to anger. Anger is correct, provided it is governed. For it is as material things in the earth that are not governed. There is power even in anger. He that is angry and sinneth not controls self. He that is angry and allows such to become the expression in the belittling of self, or the self-indulgence of self in any direction, brings to self those things that partake of the spirit of that which is the product or influence of anger itself. 361-4 In Mars with Uranus, beware that the temper does not overcome the better self; or beware of the associations that would make for the arising in the experience of those things when doubts respecting others bring an activity when wrath or madness, or tendencies in these directions, might bring destructive forces not only in this present experience but that which may make for development or retardment in the soul’s sojourn also. For, this is as the warning: Keep thine own judgments, yes. He that hath no temper is of little value, but he that controls not his temper is worse than though he had none at all! 524-1 We find from Mars that the entity has a very good temper; this isn’t bad temper, but a good temper! One without a temper is in very bad shape, but one who can’t control his temper is in still worse shape! 1857-2 Grit, or "get-up"—termed by many. This an element that may be both constructive and destructive in the make-up of an individual. Woe to him who may be ruled by wrath. Woe to him who is also of such a nature as to allow the temper, or the elements that make for impulses, to be so overshadowed by that as is momentarily necessary for the activities of a life and not grounded in Truth, that arises from spiritual concepts. 412-5 From the influences in Mars, as well as Jupiter, we find indicated rather anger or madness or wrath on the part of others more than of self. For while the entity has not gotten to where it is not able to be angry, we find that it has attained to that position where it may be angry and yet sin not. But leave off rather those inclinations to hold grudges. Let such experiences be rather as not having been. See the light! For know, as ye may learn from the study of the motivative forces of mind, matter and spirit, if one but sets the face toward the light the shadows fall far behind. 1695-1 | |
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