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.
