We’re not all meant to be in the same spaces, competing in identical tasks and for identical rewards.
Vigorously seek out and insist on your own place(s) of best fit.
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If that isn’t the most eloquent way I’ve ever seen this been put, then I don’t know.
This needs to be in the Quotes in the Emperor’s Lounge 
Many seem to miss this important detail and it only occurred consciously to me recently.
The subs manifest the challenges in your life to make you overcome said hurdles. This is GOOD and important, although it seems negative at first.
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Thsnks Malkuth. Yes, limitations, both external and self imposed, have been a large aspect of my y artmaking. The biggest challenge has been figuring out how to make any of those astrological insights practical.
It was interesting, but I had a Hellenistic Astrology natal chart reading, and that modality is not particularly pyschological, and the guy spent nearly the entire hour talking about the function of Mars in my chart, as Mars rules my Scorpio Ascendant, and for that branch of astrologers, that is absolutely crucial.
I went in with a more psychological bent, having read people like Steven Forrest, and Hellenistic Astrology is much less psychological, and the astrologer pretty much ignored Venus, even knowing that I was an artist, and that it played a significant role in my life.
Anyway, this is your journal, not a thread on astrology.
Thanks.
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Forgetting this exact point is one of my talents. I’ll type it out and then forget it again a short time later.
It’s a slippery one.
I won’t pretend to have a handle on it. Especially not today.
Anyway, thank you for the positive energy.
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I don’t think I know anything about the Hellenistic approach. What kind of information did he tell you that was most useful to you?
At present, it’s a bit of both. I feel that my subliminals really manifested this topic (of astrology) and drew me to it. It seems to be serving as a kind of spiritual, archetypal map.
At present, the type of astrology that’s appealing to me the most is ‘Evolutionary Astrology’. Steven Forrest also is a proponent of that, but I’d skimmed through books of others before I ever heard of him.
A part that is similarly crucial in the evolutionary approach is the North Node. As regards our efforts to intentionally develop and grow, the North node may be the most important part of the chart.
Anyway. Brain’s not working now. Hope to share more perspectives on this with you.
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This is a nice interview with Chris Brennan, who is a representative of the Hellenistic current and Steven Forrest.
I listened to this a while ago but need to give it a re-listen.
These guys represent very different approaches to astrology and in listening again I sense a bit of tension from Forrest towards Brennan, who I think presents as very analytical and encyclopedic, while maybe lacking a bit in social skills and emotional intelligence.
I don’t sense rancor between them, though.
I was a bit underwhelmed by the Hellenistic reading I received from a moderately well known astrologer in that tradition.
I am now looking for a reading from someone trained in Evolutionary Astrology, though I am a bit constrained by attempting to find a relatively cheap natal consultation.
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Okay, this was a weird one.
I’ve mentioned that my subconscious is the ‘house DJ’ for my subliminals. It always seems to find a way, when necessary, to influence how many loops I play. If it’s night-time, I’ll find that the headphones have come off or some other thing that makes me not hear. If it’s daytime, I’ll find that circumstances seem to pop up that affect how and when i can listen to loops.
BUT
Today was the first time in my 1.5 years of listening that I woke up listening to subliminals when I had not been planning to or even been in the app that I use for playing them. I woke up like ‘huh?’.
It’s not paranormal or anything. I can see how the various coincidences would have happened…in my sleep(!)…to allow that.
Just pretty weird.
I woke up to Paragon Complete playing. It was at about 59:17. I managed to view the play history and saw that it was possible that two loops of another had played as well.
Interestingly, today is a planned subliminal day. I’m going to go ahead with my intended loops as planned.
Anyway. That was…interesting. Just wanted to share it somewhere.
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Have been meaning to post this.
The visual representations (sigils) of my stack.
I created these two symbols and posted them up above somewhere:
Last month, I realized that both of these diagrams made sense as follows:
The sigil represents the function of each element of my Nova Elite stack.
I also realized that if needed, I could reduce these to only two titles.
Paragon could be absorbed into Naissance, replacing either Astral Projection or Remote Viewing. Two modules which are included for fun and enjoyment.
Ascended Mogul and/or RICH could be absorbed into PATHS. Replacing EGO ADSUM.
No plans to do that. But it was cool to know that it could be done. If I were back in time creating it again, I just might have done that.
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I love how you use images or visualization for this.
Also tells the subconscious what exactly you aim to do with the subs. Lovely!
I see a lot of magic in this
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I played that Steven Forrest Youtube interview the same night that you shared it. Thank you! I fell asleep to it, and that was actually the same night after which I woke up with my subliminal playing.
I find Forrest’s approach and perspective very, very compelling.
I’m noticing places where I have been unintentionally oppressing my son.
One of his placements disposes him to learn to contend and express will through communication and ideas; through debate.
I’m okay with a good debate but I don’t have the same motivation to debate just for the sake of developing that muscle. So, I’ll disparage his motivation sometimes. ‘Why are you arguing about this point? Just for its own sake?’ The astrological framework gives me a lot of pointers and reminders for being more facilitative and less judgmental. (Which is very interesting given that one of the modules in my flagship subliminal is Dynasty: “helping other family members find themselves in life.”
I believe that our own intuition and self-knowledge practices will ultimately guide us to the insights of our birthchart, but it’s possible that this resource (i.e., astrology) can make the process more efficient and help us to hold down some particularly slippery, elusive, and hard-to-define issues.
I just got another very useful one. I’d known it, but it tended to be buried in the midst of other insights.
In a nutshell, I could see that the dimension of work and vocation that is 1) centrally important to me and 2) often sacrificed, is Imagination. I know that I need a creative job, and my primary work temperament is Artistic, but this clarified things a great deal. The label Imagination/Fantasy/Consciousness-oriented is more useful to me than Artistic, because it’s more specific and also I’m not an actual artist.
Finally,. the evolutionary paradigm seems extremely useful for organizing one’s approach to subliminals.
Gradually a picture emerges of something that might be called ‘one’s best version’. I have a certain developing sense of that, and of the places where things really went awry. Social norms and conventions are a kind of confounding factor that can get in the way of identifying and appreciating your actual potential. As a result, it’s easy to end up pursuing goals that are ill-fitting and ill-chosen. Then one either curses oneself for failing to realize those ill-fitting goals and standards, or, possibly even worse, one actually achieves the goal by unwittingly sacrificing one’s genuine potential and is then confused and troubled by the sense of emptiness that comes along with the so-called success.
Bottom-line: processing a bunch of astrology at the moment.
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In the past few days, I was experiencing depressive sensations.
Today less so. They’re still there, but decreased.
I label this as Processing.
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My anger is my own. It’s in my body.
Don’t blame it on other people.
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The irony of discouragement and of pessimistic expectations is that they actually worsen your performance.
You wanted a perfect 100. The reality is that if you gave it your all you could’ve gotten an 85. But now that you are discouraged, you end up performing down to the level of 40.
Especially if you’re not perfect, discouragement is a luxury that you cannot afford.
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Man, these pictures deserve to be in a book.
TRUTH!
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In the past 2 months, there has been a lot more rain and storming in the region. It’s normal for this time of year, but, particularly after a realized that I could get my 10000 steps inside of the apartment (and read while doing it), I had about a month in which, more often than not, I walked inside.
Now, it’s true that there are health benefits associated with getting 8000+ steps per day no matter where those steps are taken,
BUT!!!
There are major benefits of walking outside that just are not there as strongly with walking inside. And this seems to have had important ramifications for processing subliminals.
From June 2020 to May 2021 (or so), I walked outside most days. And about 1 to 1.5 miles of the walk is up a respectably steep hill. I walk up to a place that could be called ‘the top’. (It’s really more of a top than it is the top.) Then I turn around and come home.
Pretty much about 100% of the times when I take that walk, I return home and think, ‘That was medicine’. Feelings, thoughts, and sensations get processed. And I feel that some important healing has happened.
In May 2021, I started my new stack. I was in the middle of a very busy work period, and I also attended a 5 day workshop. All at the same time. That busyness extended until the end of May/early June. And it was stormy and rainy. So, it was natural for me to walk outside less.
Here’s the interesting part. For the last week or two of June, I found myself processing difficult realities in my life and having some depressive sensations. Heavy limbs. Tired in morning. Pushing past or pushing through heaviness in order to move. I described it a bit above. It wasn’t overwhelming. But it has been significant.
Fear, which is an important energy for me, also seeped out and laid on me a bit. Fear is secreted by our own system. And then we pretend that it’s about some external object. Like the way tinted glasses work. I could feel the atmosphere of fear laying on me. There was a pull to look at scary things to kind of ‘confirm’ the physical process that was already in my body.
Two days ago, I walked outside again, and it was like it was physically clearing that accumulated energy. I could feel the load decrease. It didn’t clear completely the way it often does when I’ve been going every day, but I felt the atmosphere dissipating. So, interesting. Then last night I went again, and the effect extended.
In contrast to walking inside, when I walk outside my heartrate increases, I breathe hard, I sweat a lot. There’s more (satisfying) effort involved. I think that is a big part of what makes the difference. It’s also true that as a person with withdrawing and isolationist tendencies, going outside shakes up my inertia and gives me a little reality-check.
It’s amazing to see what a difference it makes.
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I think that my current stack is activating my insecurities and my areas of doubt. I keep processing them. Much more than I normally might.
Maybe it’s Pride Unbroken and FEBRUUS.
My dysfunctional coping strategy of choice is numbing and avoidance.
Engaging a healing program is, sooner or later, going to challenge your dysfunctional habits. The issues that you like to tell yourself you had already ‘dealt with’ are going to seem to ‘reappear’ or ‘get worse’.
The fact is they were still there the whole time. Now there may be a chance to work through them more effectively. Hopefully.
Can fully confirm this.
Walking outside helps 10x better with processing. I guess it’s the fresh air.
Glad it works for you.
I like this journal a lot 
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I will note here that in yesterday morning’s meditation, I found that my attention wandered freely at certain points and I experienced sensations/views of particular locations. It was a bit vague, but it occurred to me, as I reflected on it later, that this could be the first stirrings of developments from Astral Projection and Remote Viewing.
I’m keeping those modules strictly for fun, appreciation, and enjoyment. Not homework. I’ll continue to meditate and, for now, allow those capacities to freely and organically develop as they will.
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Am now getting used to this Monday, Thursday listening schedule. Tomorrow is week 5.
Seems to be proceeding okay.