Daily Meditation: Thursday, September 4, 2008

So many people have a materialistic idea of happiness! Even …

09/04/2008

So many people have a materialistic idea of happiness! Even astrologers can be caught up in this way of thinking. When they have to say something about someone’s destiny, they say, for example, ‘Oh, it’s amazing. You have Jupiter in the second house, the Sun in the tenth house and Venus in the seventh house. You will be rich, influential and lucky in love; it will all be yours.’ Whereas, if your birth chart shows squares and oppositions or planets in fall or detriment, they’ll conclude the future has nothing good in store for you. If, however, you present your horoscope to an initiate, he will look to see whether you have a high ideal and are capable of directing all your energy to serving the good. If this is the case, he will predict a magnificent destiny for you, without concerning himself with squares, oppositions or planets in fall, for he knows that you will be able to use your trials and failures to progress spiritually. Present-day astrologers don’t really have this same light, this different way of looking at things. They remain slaves to their ordinary mentality and judge things the way all materialists do. They don’t understand that man’s happiness depends on his capacity to place everything destiny has given him at the service of his spiritual progress.