My sun sign is Virgo and it seems that living has taken on a new dimension and intensity. Im wondering if it is because I am 59, my karma, or my own intensity. I've taken into consideration mercury in retro and the confusing nature of the world, as my ego knows it. It seems like the world around and separate from me is speeding up and getting more out of control. How do you see the situation? Is it guiding our society into more love or more fear?
Dear W.
Yes, I do think that there is an acceleration effect. However, as we age, our relationship to time changes. I recall as a child thinking that summer holidays lasted a year.... (Plus as I always say - times flies when you're unconscious.)
However, our perception of time is subjective. Einstein said, "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."
On the other hand, your ability to meditate, and reduce the busyness of your life, and cut out television can make life slow down again. I don't have TV (but I do have a monitor so I can rent movies - but a week can go by without me watching one) and TV is a big time suck. Major!
Also even if society is unraveling around you, this does not mean that your own personal development has to go to hell in a hand basket. In fact, when things around you are bad, you actually have more opportunity to practice kindness and generosity and patience and tolerance. And you can often make greater 'progress' in your own personal growth.
I think the main thing to remember is that we each have 24 hours a day - rich or poor, old or young. What we do with that 24 hours is our life. (In an accumulated way.)
Ben Franklin said, "Time is the stuff life is made of." I think of life as a moving belt - from the moment we are born we are moving towards our death. The interval between birth and death is our life.
Simple. Well, I must pour another coffee and get back to my Suduko.
Cheers
Georgia
