Answer to meme question #6
I'd like to know which spiritual studies (astrology, tao, numerology, etc...) are your favorites and why.
I feel like what I've studied is just a tiny drop in the huge ocean of spiritual beliefs and systems that are out there to be studied. Of what I've studied, I feel I've only barely scratched the surface of potential for each one. The Renaissance Soul in me hates choosing favorites of anything because I fear I'll be stuck with that choice forever. Though I know that's not true and I'm always free to change my mind as I discover new information. So that said, there are a couple of studies that have range perhaps a bit more truly to me than any others thus far.
Of course, Taoism comes to mind immediately. But again, I feel I've only barely touched on it. So, I don't have much to say about it other than it just makes complete and utter sense to me. It's empowering and humbling at the same time. The challenge to live life in subtlety. To quiet yourself enough to hear the natural beatings of this world, or not just hear them, but really listen and let them guide you. To walk forward, always as a whole being, one foot in this world, the other foot in the other world. A perfect harmony between you're physical (which includes intellect) and spiritual self. To strive for balance and maintain it. It's as if I'm reading what I've always known to be true.
Perhaps my second favorite study is Tarot. I see it as a system of images meant to bring forth only what I already know to be true, but perhaps what's been locked away from me within my subconscious. We hide a lot from ourselves, but you can not lie to a Tarot deck. I don't use it as a method of revealing real unknowns or telling the future or anything of that nature. It is just something to jar from my own mind things I seek to hide from myself and make me face them. Sometimes it takes just a single card. Sometimes an entire spread. But it never ceases to amaze me how true it really is.
I feel like what I've studied is just a tiny drop in the huge ocean of spiritual beliefs and systems that are out there to be studied. Of what I've studied, I feel I've only barely scratched the surface of potential for each one. The Renaissance Soul in me hates choosing favorites of anything because I fear I'll be stuck with that choice forever. Though I know that's not true and I'm always free to change my mind as I discover new information. So that said, there are a couple of studies that have range perhaps a bit more truly to me than any others thus far.
Of course, Taoism comes to mind immediately. But again, I feel I've only barely touched on it. So, I don't have much to say about it other than it just makes complete and utter sense to me. It's empowering and humbling at the same time. The challenge to live life in subtlety. To quiet yourself enough to hear the natural beatings of this world, or not just hear them, but really listen and let them guide you. To walk forward, always as a whole being, one foot in this world, the other foot in the other world. A perfect harmony between you're physical (which includes intellect) and spiritual self. To strive for balance and maintain it. It's as if I'm reading what I've always known to be true.
Perhaps my second favorite study is Tarot. I see it as a system of images meant to bring forth only what I already know to be true, but perhaps what's been locked away from me within my subconscious. We hide a lot from ourselves, but you can not lie to a Tarot deck. I don't use it as a method of revealing real unknowns or telling the future or anything of that nature. It is just something to jar from my own mind things I seek to hide from myself and make me face them. Sometimes it takes just a single card. Sometimes an entire spread. But it never ceases to amaze me how true it really is.