Habits die hard. This phenomenon restricts the free play of the mind. In fact, habits forcefully involve the mind so much into attending to its musings that it is not left with the time and space needed to independently discharge its functions.
Consequently, mind is unable to put its exploratory and discriminative faculties vital to its intelligent functioning to full use. It has to any way act upon the targeted desires, and also react and respond to situations coming its way. And then it allows itself to be mindlessly driven by instinct, not caring for due diligence. Naturally, if proper forethought is not applied, it becomes a matter of chance and luck, whether one would succeed, or fail in his/her endeavour. This chance or luck factor is usually mistakenly perceived as the calling of destiny, tempting one to explore astrologically what is likely to come about in life.
The truth, however, remains that we limit the scope of freedom that the mind is inherently endowed with. It fails to explore beyond what would be immediately at sight. If, on the contrary, the mind is allowed to exercise its freedom to expand its search-horizon, it will be able to strike upon more numbers of options. The mind, thus armed with a greater number of choices will be able to discriminate upon and pick up the best out of them. And then translate that into fruits. That calls for remaining conscious about trying to figure out and acknowledge one’s limiting habits and address them, so as to expand one’s scope of vision. Also, identify the inlaid potential, and then expand it through further learning and adding skills-set. Astrology, can work in this respect as a very effective diagnostic tool. It is in this spirit that Allen leo used to say: “Wise men use the stars, and fools obey.”
Having in mind the above human vulnerability, Ancient India’s learned masters stipulated for holistic learning. The process involved, character building, increasing the strength of mind, and sharpening of intellect. Accordingly, the disciples were first put to a mind-engineering process before being exposed to the subjects of study. As a part of the process, theguru and the disciples used to develop mutual trust as well. That made things easier for the guru to reach out their lessons to the inner realm of the disciple’s mind. And the disciples, too, received their guru’s words in all seriousness, and then with their sharpened intelligence could discriminate upon to grab the true import of the lessons had. To develop true understanding, they could put counter questions and also come up with their own ideas. The learning was never a one-way traffic from guru to the disciples. The two explored truth in togetherness, of course with the guru in the lead. The young minds were thus groomed well in time before their mind would get corrupted to resist fresh learning. But as the man grows and gets into complex dynamics of life, their mind becomes hardened. It then becomes difficult to receive the lessons if any with an open mind, even if it pertains to getting over habit tendencies. And in the present days of information explosion, they mindlessly go searching for all other alternative options on the net and either end up confused, or fall into trap of the marketers.
A case in point is that of someone who is aware of his frailties and is even keen to make necessary corrections. But the process has been very slow because his hardened and ever doubtful mind never allows him accept the lessons so easily. let us now look into the astrological pointers of his habit tendencies. He is born with Aries, a fiery and movable sign. Its lord Mars is locked in adverse formation with the mind-signifier Moon as well as the expansive Jupiter. That makes him temperamental, aggressive, impulsive, irritable, moody, and having an inflated ego stuck to his self-defined dos and don’ts, and usually not open to listening our counsel. Also, he carries the tendency to jump into action without applying proper forethought. The Sun placed opposite its planet of limitation Saturn accounts for his negative orientation of mind that makes him suspect the intent and even reasoning of the elders and mentors offering their advice and counsel. The Moon opposite intelligence-signifying Mercury, accounts for his ever doubtful and worrying mind, at times even doubting his own strengths. He lacks patience and focus often tempting him to impulsively act on his instinct. His potentials, otherwise quite immense, often gets compromised, and with obvious consequences.
The writer is an astrologer, vastu consultant and spiritual counsellor. Write to him at G-5, Basement, Jungpura Extension, New Delhi 14 Tel:9818037273/ 24310031 Email: pioneerqueries@bharatastro.co
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