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Oct. 27th, 2004 11:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
noahgibbsEvery so often I find time to talk to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
atziluth about random things like the Enneagram and Ayurvedic medicine that he spends his time on. He actually knows this stuff, I just pick up a bit from him and occasionally contrast it with stuff I *do* have a clue about.
Every so often, according to Ayurvedic medicine, something happens. I forget what the word for it in Sanskrit is, but it means something like "Saturn return" and has to do with the planet Saturn being in a particular section of the sky or perhaps moving retrograde. Ignore those specifics for a minute because I'm fuzzy on them. But there's a period of about seven years where you've got some new and specific worries - where you're effectively trying to satisfy a cranky old man (Saturn, roughly personified). During that time discipline and self-control are reasonably rewarded, and indulgence and squandering are punished unusually harshly. Again, imagine a cranky old man was getting a larger-than-usual say in the consequences of your actions.
Why do I bring this up? Because mine, according toatziluth, started about two years ago, so I've got five more to go. Because I think I've just gotten used to it... Being strong and disciplined lately and trading some self-denial for some new and important skills has been paying off for me remarkably well.
Because I need to get myself to do more of that, maybe I'll think about my Saturn Return more often if I mention it here :-)
It's time I get myself back into classes. Not college. But classes, or their very definite equivalent.
atziluth about random things like the Enneagram and Ayurvedic medicine that he spends his time on. He actually knows this stuff, I just pick up a bit from him and occasionally contrast it with stuff I *do* have a clue about.Every so often, according to Ayurvedic medicine, something happens. I forget what the word for it in Sanskrit is, but it means something like "Saturn return" and has to do with the planet Saturn being in a particular section of the sky or perhaps moving retrograde. Ignore those specifics for a minute because I'm fuzzy on them. But there's a period of about seven years where you've got some new and specific worries - where you're effectively trying to satisfy a cranky old man (Saturn, roughly personified). During that time discipline and self-control are reasonably rewarded, and indulgence and squandering are punished unusually harshly. Again, imagine a cranky old man was getting a larger-than-usual say in the consequences of your actions.
Why do I bring this up? Because mine, according to
atziluth, started about two years ago, so I've got five more to go. Because I think I've just gotten used to it... Being strong and disciplined lately and trading some self-denial for some new and important skills has been paying off for me remarkably well.Because I need to get myself to do more of that, maybe I'll think about my Saturn Return more often if I mention it here :-)
It's time I get myself back into classes. Not college. But classes, or their very definite equivalent.
