Delight
There is delight everywhere. Seize it and make it yours.
A single grape. Pay it your entire attention, and feel its sweetness explode in your mouth.
Can you see a plant? A tree or a blade of grass, go to it and see its beauty. Say hello.
In places where there are no plants, human beings still like to create and possess things which have no purpose except beauty. If you can see it, in that moment it is yours. Its beauty enriches you, and if you turn away from it you hardly need the memory, there are so many new beautiful things to see and take in.
Consider the wonder you can see where you are. The electric light, the connection of your phone or computer, the ordered way in which strangers meet and pass in the street. What we have made together.
Consider the wonder in you, muscle and bone and sinew, perception intellection and decision, movement and repose. Look at the back of your hand, how perfect it is.
All things are a source of joy. Beauty and wonder and delight are everywhere, there, at all times and in all places, only needing to be noticed.
This post started as a comment on VerVitae, and grew from there. An astrologer inspired it.
Thanks to Gneiss Moon and Carlene O’Conner for educating me on astrology. However, I have made a decision on synastry: while astrologers should look to Venus and Mars for males and females, they should look to Mercury for Gynandrous or Neutrois people. That is, if it says the relationship I want is going to go well.
Whatever you call your state, whoever you are, one look in the mirror, a quick glance, is enough to tell you all you need to know. You breathe, you are beautiful. Who cares what that is called. Is a chaffinch more beautiful because we call it a name that sounds like barley grass? Does the owl know whether it is a grey, a barn, a great, a pygmy or a snowy? No, it just knows it is part of something grand, something planned on a great scale. We cannot see the higher perspective, though when we silently sit and wait, we are reminded it is there and that we are part of it. Yay! Ann F xx
Thank you, Ann. Yes. All human beings are beautiful.
What a lovely post and comment from Ann as well. You are a nice, friendly person, and that is who I see. I agree Claire, about Mercury, also, one might also look to the planet Uranus which rules magnetics and polarities. Glad to hear you are exploring, I found learning how to read my own chart very helpful.
Gneiss
It is the speed and changeableness of Mercury that appealed to me; and its heat.