Today's DailyOM Offerings...
September 24, 2017
Pessimistic Point Of View
Sagittarius Daily Horoscope
Today you may be feeling pessimistic. You may be looking at your life from a limiting point of view, which could leave you feeling depressed or worried. This could merely be the result of low energy, in which case you can allow your feelings, but not give them any further weight until you can get some rejuvenation. This may also be an opportunity for growth which requires you to see the opposite point of view so that you can make a choice. Because we live in a world of dualities, we often need to understand the shadow before we can appreciate the light. We need not be overly critical of our human nature to feel down at times. Today you can allow yourself to feel down and let it move through you while waiting for the energy of light to shine upon us again.
Just as there are seasons and that day becomes night before returning to us, we also have cycles. We can learn to understand our cycles, which can help us accept the low tides when they come. We also know that our thoughts create our lives, so in times of depression we can work to keep ourselves from generating further negativity. If we can give our feelings the space to exist and nurture ourselves through them, the sun will rise and we can do the work necessary to move forward. Today you can know within yourself that these feelings are temporary, and wait for them to pass like clouds, knowing you will feel the sun again soon.
September 24, 2017
Free of Gravity
Flying Home
by Madisyn Taylor
We take flight mentally when we rise above our habitual ways of thinking about things and experience new insights.
As earthbound beings, humans have always had a fascination with winged creatures of all kinds. The idea of being able to spontaneously lift off from the earth and fly is so compelling to us that we invented airplanes and helicopters and myriad other flying machines in order to provide ourselves with the many gifts of being airborne. Flying high in the sky, we look down on the earth that is our home and see things from an entirely different perspective. We can see more, and we can see farther than we can when we're on the ground. As if all this weren't enough, the out-of-this-world feeling of freedom that comes with groundlessness inspires us to want to take flight again and again.
Metaphorically, we take flight whenever we break free of the gravity that holds us to a particular way of thinking or feeling or being. We take flight mentally when we rise above our habitual ways of thinking about things and experience new insights. This is what it means to open our minds. Emotionally, we take flight when the strength of our passion exceeds the strength of our blockages; the floodgates open and we are free to feel fully. Spiritually we take flight when we locate that part of ourselves that is beyond the constraint of linear time and the world of form. It is in this place that we experience the essential boundlessness that defines the experience of flight.
Taking flight is always about freeing ourselves from form, if only temporarily. When we literally fly, in a plane or on a hang glider, we free ourselves from the strength of gravity's pull. As we open our minds and our hearts, we free ourselves from habitual patterns of thought and emotional blockages. As we remember our true nature, we free ourselves from identification with the temporary state of our physical forms. The more we stretch our wings, the clearer it becomes that taking flight is a state of grace that simply reminds us of who we really are.
Pessimistic Point Of View
Sagittarius Daily Horoscope
Today you may be feeling pessimistic. You may be looking at your life from a limiting point of view, which could leave you feeling depressed or worried. This could merely be the result of low energy, in which case you can allow your feelings, but not give them any further weight until you can get some rejuvenation. This may also be an opportunity for growth which requires you to see the opposite point of view so that you can make a choice. Because we live in a world of dualities, we often need to understand the shadow before we can appreciate the light. We need not be overly critical of our human nature to feel down at times. Today you can allow yourself to feel down and let it move through you while waiting for the energy of light to shine upon us again.
Just as there are seasons and that day becomes night before returning to us, we also have cycles. We can learn to understand our cycles, which can help us accept the low tides when they come. We also know that our thoughts create our lives, so in times of depression we can work to keep ourselves from generating further negativity. If we can give our feelings the space to exist and nurture ourselves through them, the sun will rise and we can do the work necessary to move forward. Today you can know within yourself that these feelings are temporary, and wait for them to pass like clouds, knowing you will feel the sun again soon.
September 24, 2017
Free of Gravity
Flying Home
by Madisyn Taylor
We take flight mentally when we rise above our habitual ways of thinking about things and experience new insights.
As earthbound beings, humans have always had a fascination with winged creatures of all kinds. The idea of being able to spontaneously lift off from the earth and fly is so compelling to us that we invented airplanes and helicopters and myriad other flying machines in order to provide ourselves with the many gifts of being airborne. Flying high in the sky, we look down on the earth that is our home and see things from an entirely different perspective. We can see more, and we can see farther than we can when we're on the ground. As if all this weren't enough, the out-of-this-world feeling of freedom that comes with groundlessness inspires us to want to take flight again and again.
Metaphorically, we take flight whenever we break free of the gravity that holds us to a particular way of thinking or feeling or being. We take flight mentally when we rise above our habitual ways of thinking about things and experience new insights. This is what it means to open our minds. Emotionally, we take flight when the strength of our passion exceeds the strength of our blockages; the floodgates open and we are free to feel fully. Spiritually we take flight when we locate that part of ourselves that is beyond the constraint of linear time and the world of form. It is in this place that we experience the essential boundlessness that defines the experience of flight.
Taking flight is always about freeing ourselves from form, if only temporarily. When we literally fly, in a plane or on a hang glider, we free ourselves from the strength of gravity's pull. As we open our minds and our hearts, we free ourselves from habitual patterns of thought and emotional blockages. As we remember our true nature, we free ourselves from identification with the temporary state of our physical forms. The more we stretch our wings, the clearer it becomes that taking flight is a state of grace that simply reminds us of who we really are.