Guest guest Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 " To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven... " Astrology helps us recognize the seasons. And the reasons. We have the four seasons. Spring ends with the first Saturn return. Summer ends wth the second. Fall ends with the third. Winter ends with the fourth. So, dear Alice, enjoy your " Second Spring. " Saturn is also the Great Reminder. Of what has passed. Of what we must surrender. And perhaps of what we must surrender to. It's all in the chart. Saturn brings the storms. But also the rainbows. Surrender all the things of youth. Except the wisdom. That surrender to! >  > The unconscious > psyche of the child is truly limitless in extent and of > incalculable age. > >        > >        > III.  There is no > better reminder for > our youth-centered world than Jung’s casual remark that > the most valuable > period in life is Old Age. It is > here he implies that the > combination of values acquired in the first and second > parts of our lives > culminate and ideally, as from the fruit tree, the apples > of our personal > insights and wisdom fall as gifts to the collective > unconscious. Taking the tree of life > literally, > every tree depends on root (1st stage), growth (2nd), and > giving forth (3rd) > and looking back on the millennia of mankind one can see > nature’s wisdom in > recycling – also knows as > resurrection. >  >  Theodor > Kazantsakis wrote of a man who requested of an almond > tree: “Speak to me of > love!â€, and the tree blossomed! > . >          > > Consider the waste of a whole generation, shunted > off to nursing homes, > or retiring to Florida to play shuffleboard, and deprived > > in so many cases of offering the drop of a life’s > essence to the collective. > Every human life has some unique gem to add for the rest > of us. We desperately > need to respect our elders and listen to them. We might > have something worthy > of sharing! >  >          > > So, it truly seems that there is a menu to > history. Perhaps it lists > the values hidden in human old age. >  > Alice O. Howell hopes to > be 90 this year of 2012. >  >  > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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