Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love, Part 1
"You were created to be completely loved and completely lovable for your whole life."
All of us need to believe that we are loved and lovable. We began life with confidence on both points, bathed in a mother's love and swaddled in our own innocence. Love was never in question, but over time our certainty clouded. When you look at yourself today, can you still make the two statements every infant could if it had the words?
I am completely loved.
I am completely lovable.
Few people can, for looking at yourself honestly you see flaws that make you less than completely lovable and less than perfectly loved. In many ways this seems right to you, for perfect love is supposedly not of this world. Yet in a deeper sense, what you call flaws are really just the scars of hurts and wounds accumulated over a lifetime. When you look in the mirror, you think you are looking at yourself realistically, but your mirror doesn't reveal the truth that endures despite all hurt:
You were created to be completely loved and completely lovable for your whole life.
In a way it is amazing that you do not realize this, because underneath everything you think and feel, innocence is still intact. Time cannot blemish your essence, your portion of spirit. But if you lose sight of this essence, you will mistake yourself for your experiences, and there is no doubt that experience can do much to obliterate love. In an often hostile and brutal world, maintaining innocence seems impossible. Therefore, you find yourself experiencing only so much love and only so much lovability.
This can change.
Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love, Part 2
"In spirit you are unbounded by time and space, untouched by experience. In spirit you are pure love."
Although you perceive yourself in limited terms, as a mind and a body confined in time and space, there is a wealth of spiritual teaching that says otherwise. In spirit you are unbounded by time and space, untouched by experience. In spirit you are pure love.
The reason you do not feel completely loved and completely lovable is that you do not identify with your spiritual nature. Your sense of love has lost one thing it cannot afford to do without: its higher dimension. What would it be like to restore this lost part of yourself?
Mind, body, and spirit would unite--this union creates the love you have to give. You and your beloved would unite--this creates the love you have to share.
In our deepest nature each person is meant to be the hero or heroine of an eternal love story. The story begins in innocence, with a baby's birth into a mother's loving arms. It proceeds through stages of growth, as the young child step' out into the world. With more and more experience the circle of love widens, including first family and friends, then intimate partners, but also taking in love of abstract things, like learning and truth. The ripening journey brings us to love of giving, and the blossoming of higher values, such as compassion, forgiveness, and altruism. Finally there is the direct experience of spirit itself, which is pure love. The journey climaxes in the same knowledge that a baby began with, although it couldn't voice that knowledge: I am love.
You know that you have fully experienced love when you turn into love--that is the spiritual goal of life.
Not many people find the spiritual goal of life. The aching need created by lack of love can only be filled by learning anew to love and be loved. All of us must discover for ourselves that love is a force as real as gravity, and that being upheld in love every day, every hour, every minute is not a fantasy-it is intended as our natural state.
Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love, Part 3
"However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is a mirror of who you are inside."
This book is about reviving love stories that should never have faded. The union of self and spirit is not only possible but inevitable. The spiritual meaning of love is best measured by what it can do, which is many things.
Love can heal.
Love can renew.
Love can make us safe.
Love can inspire us with its power.
Love can bring us closer to God.
Everything love is meant to do is possible. Knowing this, however, has only made the gap between love and non-love more painful.
Countless people have experienced love--as pleasure, sex, security, having someone else fulfill their daily needs--without seeing that a special path has opened to them. Socially, the "normal" cycle of love is simply to find a suitable partner, marry, and raise a family. But this social pattern isn't a path, because the experience of marriage and raising a family isn't automatically spiritual. Sad to say, many people enter lifelong relationships in which love fades over time or provides lasting companionship without growing in its inner dimension. A spiritual path has only one reason to exist: it shows the way for the soul to grow. As it grows, more of spiritual truth is revealed, more of the soul's promise is redeemed.
When you find your path, you will also find your love story. People today are consumed by doubts about their relationships: Have I found the right partner? Am I being true to myself? Have I given the best part of myself away? As a result, there is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right" one can be found by toting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standard. The path to love, however, is never about externals. However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is a mirror of who you are inside. Our culture hasn't taught us this (as it has failed to teach us so much about spiritual realities). When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself. Every conflict you wage is an excuse not to face a conflict within. The path to love therefore clears up a monumental mistake that millions of people make--the mistake that someone "out there" is going to give (or take) something that is not already yours. When you truly find love, you find yourself.
Therefore the path to love isn't a choice, for all of us must find out who we are. This is our spiritual destiny. The path can be postponed; you can lose faith in it or even despair that love exists at all. None of that is permanent; only the path is. Doubt reflects the ego, which is bound in time and space; love reflects God, eternal divine essence. The ultimate promise on the path to love is that you will walk in the light of a truth extending beyond any truth your mind presently knows.
Excerpted from The Path to Love by Deepak Chopra. Copyright ¸ 1997 by Deepak Chopra. In spirit you are pure love.
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LOVE AND SPIRIT a conversation with Deepak Chopra
Love makes the world go around, or so the saying goes. No other living creature's offspring needs as much love and caring from it's mother as a human infant. None of us would grow up without love at the beginning. We've all received it, and we're all looking for it. What is this magic elixir of love all about? And why is so important to our lives? Dr. Deepak Chopra explores these questions in the following dialogue.
Deepak Chopra, founder and educational director of the Chopra Center for Well-Being in La Jolla, California, is a pioneer in helping individuals maximize their abilities to achieve success and fulfillment through mind-body techniques. A best-selling author and an internationally recognized motivational speaker, Chopra expands the concept of good health and self-knowledge through a blending of Western medicine and ancient Ayurvedic techniques from India. The basic tenet of Ayurveda is that one's physical health is the balanced integration of body, mind, and spirit.
His many books have sold nearly three million copies in English alone, and have been published in twenty-five languages. His books include The Way of the Wizard; The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, The New York Times bestseller Ageless Body, Timeless Mind; and his first novel, The Return of Merlin. He is also the author of The Path to Love: Renewing the Power of Spirit in Your Life (Harmony 1997).
Michael Toms: This is a departure for you in some sense, your books have been largely oriented to healing and the body, body-mind connection and so forth, and here you've gone on to the path of love. What motivated that?
Deepak Chopra: In many ways it is not a departure; it's a continuing evolution of the same exploration into the realm of consciousness and how it influences our lives, and particularly how it influences the healing process. I've become aware of a number of scientific studies that show very clearly the power of love to heal, to renew, to rejuvenate, and actually change your biological age. There is no doubt in my mind now that love heals, love renews, love makes you feel safe, love inspires you, love empowers you, love can bring you closer to God.
I've been looking at some of the medical evidence, which is absolutely astonishing. If you happen to have had a heart attack and a nurse or social worker calls you once a week on the phone for about a minute and says, "Mr. Smith, how are you doing? We care about you; we love you," your mortality rate post-infarction drops by 60%. That's with one phone call lasting less than a minute! If a drug did that and you didn't use it, you would be sued for malpractice. But such is our bias that this is not considered remarkably effective therapy.
There are other studies that show when nurses bond with cancer patients, particularly women with breast cancer, if they give loving support to each other, the survival rate of the patients doubles.
It's about time that we examined the phenomenon of love much more seriously than we've ever done before, because in a sense we're in a crisis. With racism and ethnocentrism and prejudice and bigotry and hatred and war and violence and terrorism, we are certainly suffering from a world deficiency of love.
MT: What's intriguing to me, Deepak, is that in the West, particularly in a highly materialistic culture like America, our concept of love doesn't really include the spiritual.
DC: Actually, what I'm saying is that love and spirit are the same force. That at the core of every being there is only love, because the core of every being is only spirit. The two are the same force--an abstract, unifying force in nature, not just in the human experience, but in nature. It's all pervasive. And we experience it in our lives in the flavors of human relationship--with attraction, infatuation, communion and courtship, intimacy and sexuality, surrender and non-attachment, and passion and ecstasy. These are the different flavors of love in human relationships that I've examined in this book. But my intent was to show that each of these is actually a window into the experience of the spirit as a real force.
MT: I want to take love into its aspect in relationship, because that's where I think most of us experience love. You wrote that partners are mirrors of ourselves, and so in falling in love we're falling in love with some aspect of ourselves.
DC: Yes, when we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a shift in our perception, because the same person is not necessarily attractive to other people.
In relationship, whenever we're drawn to someone or repelled by someone, they're both mirrors of the self. We're attracted to people in whom we find traits that we want or desire in our own selves. And we are repelled by people in whom we find traits that we're denying in ourselves. So relationship is a true mirror of where we are in our evolution in consciousness.
In relationship then, you can either borrow those traits from your loved one, which would be a loving relationship born out of need--ultimately not a healthy situation. If it's born out of need it would lead to an addictive relationship.
On the other hand, we could decide to become those qualities. I'm drawn to this person because of her inner beauty, because of her naturalness, because of her affectionate nature, because of her tenderness, because of her nurturing qualities, because of her intuition and wisdom. Well then, these are the qualities I need to culture in my own self. So I don't borrow, I become.
Or I might be repelled by this person because he seems to be racist, he seems to be bigoted, he seems to be prejudiced, he seems to be angry and confrontational. I'm so charged by this, I must examine these qualities in my own self and see that, to some extent, I do have these, because everyone of us is a conglomeration of ambiguities of opposing archetypal energies. So if we have the divine, we also have the diabolical. If we have the sacred, we also have the profane. If we have the saint inside us, we also have the sinner inside us. We usually deny that, but it's true. We have forbidden lust and unconditional love at the same time. When we embrace our shadow energies, when we confront them, and we're honest about them, and we recognize that that's what is going on inside us, then we spontaneously become less judgmental of others. The best way to achieve that so-called exalted state of non-judgment is to confront your own shadows.
MT: Isn't it possible that, if we're falling in love with aspects of ourselves we're suppressing, we'll become dependent on the other person? Because we're still suppressing those things, and we're looking for them to be filled by the other person?
DC: Yes, and that's what happens frequently. That's why I said we can either borrow or we can become. And that's part of the whole stage of love that I address as communion--that's the third stage of love, the first two being attraction and infatuation. And in communion, if it is to succeed, there has to be a process of soul connecting to soul, spirit connecting to spirit. And, of course, body connecting to body, too, is part of the intimacy of the relationship. If you really want to connect on the level of soul, then there are three things that you must understand: equality, sensitivity and communication.
Equality means no one, no one in the world, is either superior or inferior to me at the level of spirit. We have different qualities of spirit, but we are equal. And when we are drawn to somebody, it is to mutually nourish each other. In order to cultivate that, we have to begin to become aware of what I just said--why we are drawn.
Sensitivity is the ability to know what is going on in the other person. Sensitivity implies that you are comfortable with the fact that people can be emotionally quite troubled and still be normal, and that emotions are frequently conflicting, confusing, paradoxical, contradictory.
So when we make statements like, "I don't know what the heck is going on inside you," or "I don't see why you're reacting like this," or "I don't see why you're so emotionally charged about this," we're not really being sensitive. In order to be sensitive, we have to, at least for the time being, abandon the need to be right all the time. We have to abandon the need to be in control all the time. We have to, for the time being at least, ignore our own needs. That's what sensitivity means.
And communication is about exposing your own vulnerabilities, particularly your own fears. So, if you pay attention to these three qualities of communion: equality, sensitivity and communication, then you have a chance of connecting; otherwise, most relationships end up as co-dependent.
MT: Deepak, you wrote, "Surrender is the door to find passion." So that's really what you're talking about.
DC: Right, and when I speak of passion in love, I also mean passion in life. When you lose passion in love, then you lose passion for everything else, because life is an expression of that passion that you have in love. One of my favorite poets has been Rumi, whom I quote very frequently.
He said,
the most important thing you can do in your life
is to become a passionate lover,
and if you are a passionate lover,
then you'll be a lover in life,
you'll be a lover in death,
you'll be a lover in the tomb,
you'll be a lover on the day of Resurrection,
you'll be a lover in Paradise,
and you'll be a lover forever.
And if you've not been a passionate lover,
then don't count your life as having been lived.
Passion is crucial for existence.
It is the source of our creativity.
And passion is the next stage beyond detachment and surrender.
In the Hindu world view, from where I've borrowed a lot of my concepts, passion is the dynamic dance of the male and feminine energies of the universe, often symbolized as Shiva and Shakti.
The five male qualities and the energies of the universe are creation, protection, destruction (of that which is obsolete and effete and unnecessary and toxic), revelation and concealment. You can find these qualities in anything that's alive. Look at a flower and you see that there's that creative energy inside it; you see there's that energy that protects the integrity of it against the onslaughts of the environment; and you see that destructive energy which is getting rid of all the toxicity as it accumulates through strains and stresses. And at the same time, you see that the spirit is hiding within it, that's concealment. And if you're careful, and you look carefully, then you can see that the spirit is also shining through it. If you can't see spirit in a flower, or God in a flower, if you can't see God in the rainbow, or you can't find God in the blade of grass, or in the eyes of a being, you won't find God in a book of religion. God is life-centered, present-moment spirit in all that lives. God is passion. So those are the five male qualities.
The five female qualities, or the feminine qualities of the universe--often referred to as Shakti--are pure consciousness, pure bliss, pure knowledge (which means that knowledge which organizes and orchestrates the infinite correlative activity of the universe), pure action (action which is non-binding--doesn't have the bondage of karma. Action which has the bondage of karma comes from the ego. It's based on beliefs and expectations and interpretations and fears and judgments and past memories, whereas non-binding action, which is non-Karmic, is called kriya--action rooted in pure awareness and creativity. So you've gone beyond the being the bundle of conditioned reflexes that's either in a fight or flight mode. You're in the intuitive, in the creative, in the visionary and the sacred mode. And that's an expression of Shakti). And finally, of course, there is the expression of desire, the fifth female quality.
Desire is pure potentiality seeking manifestation.
When you have Shiva and Shakti dancing and in synchronicity with each other--the dynamic interplay of these energies--then you have the experience of passion, which is ultimately still a prelude to the state of ecstasy.
MT: Yes, in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, there's the Vajrasattva, where you see the man entwined with the woman, and it's the same energy.
DC: Right, it's the same energy. In this book, I think for the first time in my writing, I've addressed the whole issue of sexuality and how it relates to spirituality. In our culture we have considered sex profane and love sacred, when in fact, sex is an aspect of love, and sexual energy is, in fact, the creative energy of the universe--so could it be spirit. I address that, very strongly, and make a good case for it, I think, because I examine the peak experience, for example, in sexuality, referred to as orgasm. You can see, if you examine the qualities of that experience, there's timelessness, there's loss of ego, there is naturalness, there is surrender, there is communion, there's lack of defensiveness and vigilance. These are sacred qualities, so peak experiences in physical love actually are a temporary window into the state of true liberation or freedom.
This is an insight into ecstasy. And ecstasy is an experience of primordial energy state. Have you seen babies? They spontaneously bubble with bliss sometimes. There's no reason, they just do it. That's a primordial energy state.
Addictive behavior is the number one disease in our civilization--it's not heart disease, not AIDS, and not cancer, but addiction. It is my belief, and the belief of a number of people who looked at the problem of addiction, that addictive behavior-- whether it's to drugs, food, alcohol, work, sex, or whatever-- is actually a search for ecstasy. I used to work in a VA Hospital and treated a lot of hard-core addicts. And they were the most spiritual people I've known in my life. Addicts are searching for what we're all searching for.
MT: That experience of Oneness.
DC: That experience of oneness, of the ecstatic state. The word ecstasy comes from the Greek word ectosis, which means, to step outside of the world of space, time, form and phenomenon into the experience of unboundedness, into a world that is causeless, timeless and eternal. That's what ecstasy truly means. And ultimately ecstasy is a combination of physical, mythological and sacred needs. When physical sensuality or sensory experience is carried to it's ultimate, you have ecstasy, whether it's in the physical contact or sensory delight.
But then there's another kind of ecstasy, which comes from our mythical motivations. Beneath the turmoil of our daily activity, our unconscious motivations dwell within the mythical world, In other words, inside us there are primal gods and goddesses. And we know this without knowing it, in that we act out our mythical drives without necessarily bringing them into our conscious awareness. So striving to succeed in the corporate takeover bid partakes of the hero's quest as much as the Argonaut seeking the golden fleece. Climbing Mt. Everest is driven by the same ambition--to reach the abode of the gods--as Icarus flying toward the sun. In mythical terms, ecstasy is a sacred journey into the underworld, or the unconscious. It's been portrayed in countless versions, from Persephone's abduction by Pluto to Orpheus seeking his bride in the shades of Hades.
Why don't we know this? Because we are actually acting out our mythical needs. The reason is, we're so caught up by the trivial and the mundane in our daily activity. Ulysses didn't have to commute through tangled traffic every day. And Athena's mind wasn't full of worries about meeting the mortgage this month. And yet there is such a primal need for this kind of ecstasy.
We are an emotionally and spiritually bankrupt civilization right now, because we've lost mythology. Joseph Campbell once said, mythology is much more important than history. If you want to know a people, understand their mythology.
So, there's physical ecstasy, then there's mythical ecstasy, and finally there's sacred ecstasy. Sacred ecstasy comes from stepping out of our ordinary states of waking, dreaming and sleeping consciousness into what has been called glimpsing the soul, or cosmic consciousness, divine consciousness, unity consciousness. When Walt Whitman says "I must not be awake now, for everything looks to me as it never did before. Or else I'm awake for the first time, and all that was before was just a dream," he's talking about the transcendent, and, of course, the great writers and philosophers like Thoreau and Emerson (from this tradition) and, of course, all the great sages of the East, have spoken of the same thing. When you have the combination of all three--physical, mythical, and sacred--then you have true bliss consciousness.
Read the Song of Solomon and the Torah when Solomon says, "You split me open, you tore my heart and poured your love into me. You poured your spirit and filled me with it. I knew you as I know myself. My eyes are radiant with your light; my nostrils filled with your fragrance. My ears delight with your music and my face is covered with your dew. You have made all things new. You have made me see all things shinning. You have granted me perfect ease. I have become like Paradise." Here in the Torah, in the Book of Genesis itself, we find the best description of ecstasy. And that is the final culmination of the experience of love.
MT: Pretty powerful stuff.
DC: Right, that's why it heals!
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Dear marek,
Here is your single's love horoscope
for Thursday, June 23:
Harmony guides your day today.
You're in tune with just about everyone you deal with,
especially a certain someone who is always impressed by your ideas.
They'll help you put your plan into action, if you ask.
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Birth Data for marek:
Birth Date........... November 2, 1977
Birth Location.... Gdansk
Sun Sign.............. Scorpio
Your Reading:
Sun Conjunct Uranus with an orb between 1 and 3 degrees
You are restless and independent and, no matter how close you become to someone, you always remain your own person and there is a part of yourself you cannot share. You are uncompromisingly true to your convictions which must be shared by those close to you.
Sun Trine Jupiter with an orb between 3 and 5 degrees
You have a genial, pleasant quality which inspires confidence in others. It sometimes surprises you the way people trust you with their innermost thoughts. Moral integrity is important to you and, while you are not judgmental, you will not violate a principle.
The Stars...
The Zodiac is made up of 12 different sun signs.
Your date of birth determines which one you are.
Aries - March 21 - April 20
Taurus - April 21 - May 21
Gemini - May 22 - June 21
Cancer - June 22 - July 22
Leo - July 23 - August 23
Virgo - August 22 - September 22
Libra - September 24 - October 23
Scorpio - October 24 - November 22
Sagittarius - November 23 - December 21
Capricorn - December 22 - January 20
Aquarius - January 21 - February 19
Pisces - February 20 - March 20
The Stars....for yours truly...
Astrology Insight's Scorpio Page is nice too.
The Scorpion
October 24 to November 22
Traditional Scorpio Traits
Determined and forceful
Emotional and intuitive
Powerful and passionate
Exciting and magnetic
On the dark side....
Jealous and resentful
Compulsive and obsessive
Secretive and obstinate
Scorpio! About Your Sign...
Scorpios are the most intense, profound, powerful characters in the zodiac. Even when they appear self-controlled and calm there is a seething intensity of emotional energy under the placid exterior.
They are like the volcano not far under the surface of a calm sea,
it may burst into eruption at any moment.
But those of us who are particularly perceptive will be aware of the harnessed aggression, the immense forcefulness, magnetic intensity, and often strangely hypnotic personality under the tranquil, but watchful composure of Scorpio.
In conventional social gatherings they are pleasant to be with, thoughtful in conversation, dignified, and reserved, yet affable and courteous; they sometimes possess penetrating eyes which make their shyer companions feel naked and defenseless before them.
In their everyday behavior they give the appearance of being withdrawn from the center of activity, yet those who know them will recognize the watchfulness that is part of their character.
They need great self-discipline, because they are able to recognize the qualities in themselves that make them different from other humans, and to know their utterly conventional natures can be used for great good, or great evil.
Their tenacity and willpower are immense, their depth of character and passionate conviction overwhelming, yet they are deeply sensitive and easily moved by their emotions. Their sensitivity, together with a propensity for extreme likes and dislikes make them easily hurt, quick to detect insult or injury to themselves (often when none is intended) and easily aroused to ferocious anger.
This may express itself in such destructive speech or action that they make lifelong enemies by their outspokenness, for they find it difficult not to be overly critical of anything or anyone to whom they take a dislike.
They can harness their abundant energy constructively, tempering their self-confidence with shrewdness and their ambition with magnanimity toward others provided they like them. They relate to fellow workers only as leaders and can be blunt to those they dislike to the point of cruelty.
In fact they are not above expressing vindictiveness in deliberate cruelty.
They are too demanding, too unforgiving of faults in others, perhaps because they are not aware of the shortcomings within themselves, and extravagantly express their self-disgust in unreasonable resentment against their fellows.
They do, however, make excellent friends, provided that their companions do nothing to impugn the honor of which Scorpios are very jealous.
Part of the negative side of the Scorpio nature is a tendency to discard friends once they cease to be useful, but the decent native is aware of, and fights this tendency.
They are fortunate in that their strong reasoning powers are tempered with imagination and intuition, and these gifts, together with critical perception and analytical capacity, can enable the Scorpions to penetrate to profundities beyond the average. They have a better chance of becoming geniuses than the natives of any other sign. But charismatic "twice-born" characters such as they can sink into the extremes of depravity if they take the wrong path, and the intensity of their nature exaggerates their harmful tendencies into vices far greater than the normal. Rebelliousness against all conventions, political extremism to the point where hatred of the Establishment makes them utterly unscrupulous terrorists. Brooding resentment, aggressive and sadistic brutality, total arrogance, morbid jealousy, extreme volatility of temperament, these are some of their vices.
At the other extreme is the procrastinator, the man or woman who is capable of so much that they do nothing and become indolent and self-indulgent, requiring extravagant praise and flattery from those whom they make their cronies.
Being so gifted, they can find fulfillment in many employments.
Their inner intensity can result in the ice-cold self-control and detachment of the surgeon, the concentration of the research scientist, and the heroism of the soldier. Any profession in which analysis, investigation, research, dealing with practicalities, and the solving of mysteries are relevant, can appeal to them.
So police and detective work, espionage and counterespionage, the law, physics or psychology may attract them, and they can become masters of the written and spoken word. They may be most persuasive orators and find fulfillment as diplomats or preachers and, if they make the Church their profession, their inner intensity can express itself in the spiritual fervor of the mystic or the thaumaturgy.
Scorpio is the symbol of sex and Scorpios are passionate lovers, the most sensually energetic of all the signs.
For them, union with the beloved is a sacrament,
an "outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.".
Their overriding urge in loving is to use their power to penetrate beyond themselves and to lose themselves sexually in their partners in an almost mystical ecstasy,
thus discovering the meaning of that union which is greater than individuality, and is a marriage of the spirit as well as of flesh.
They are thus capable of the greatest heights of passionate transport,
but debauchery and perversion are always dangers, and Scorpios can become sadistic monsters of sensuality and eroticism. Their feelings are so intense that even when their love is of the highest, and most idealistic kind, they are nevertheless frequently protagonists in tragic, even violent romances, "star-crossed lovers".
Possible Health Concerns...
Scorpio governs the pelvis and reproductive and urinary systems and its subjects are said to be prone to ailments of the liver and kidneys, stones and gravel in the bladder or genitals, and other genital ills such as priapism. Abscesses, boils, carbuncles, fistulas, piles, ruptures and ulcers may also affect the Scorpions.
LIKES
Truth
Hidden Causes
Being involved
Work That is Meaningful
Being Persuasive
DISLIKES
Being Given Only Surface data
Taken Advantage of
Demeaning Jobs
Shallow Relationships
Flattery and Flattering
PROBLEMS THAT MAY ARISE FOR YOU, AND THEIR SOLUTIONS
As with all sun signs, we all have unique traits to our personalities.
When these traits are suppressed, or unrealized, problems will arise. However, with astrology we can examine the problem and assess the proper solution based on the sun sign characteristics. As a Scorpio you may see things below that really strike home.
Try the solution, you most likely will be amazed at the results.
If you find yourself on the receiving end of the negatives below, it is because you are failing to express the positive.
Problem: Suffering from an inferior complex where you feel self disgust and are disdainful of help from others.
Solution: You should try to admit that others, as well as yourself, have weakness and then practice forgiving those weaknesses until you notice them becoming less and less. Unbend and accept that you can be helped in your problems.
Problem: After you get everyone to agree with you and you get your own way, you are still not satisfied with the results.
Solution: Looking deeply within will show you that: having reached the point where you have nothing more to want for in a given situation you then realize just what you were really after. Look within first.
Problem: Disruptive marital relations or a breakup with a loved one.
Solution: You should try not to be scornful of what you perceive as a shortcoming in your partners personality and soften up your rigid, unbending attitude.
Problem: The peers in your group begin to avoid you, or drift away when you walk up.
Solution: If you feel persecuted and put upon you will express it in conversation, this causes people to be 'turned off' of you so try to change your attitude or, guard what you say.
Your ruling planet is PLUTO
Mean Distance from the Sun (AU) 39.4
Sidereal period of orbit (years) 247.68
Equatorial Radius(km) 1,140
Body rotation period (days) 6.4
Tilt of equator to orbit (degrees) 96
Number of observed satellites 1
Mean Radius Distance from Planet
(km) (km)
Satellite:
Charon 600 20,000
The color of choice for Scorpio is DARK RED TO MAROON
Your Starstone is OPAL
Mysterious Opals contain the wonders of the skies - sparkling rainbows, fireworks, and lightning, shifting and moving in their depths. Opal has been treasured throughout history all around the world. Archaeologist Louis Leakey found six-thousand year old Opal artifacts in a cave in Kenya! It is an old myth that anyone who does not have the opal as a starstone will be the receivers of bad luck should they choose to wear it.
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STARSTONE CONTROVERSY
There is, and always have been, a controversy over "starstones". Starstones are NOT birthstones. I give you here in these pages the stones that are called your starstones, (planet stones), which viberates the strongest to your planet or sign, NOT to the month that you were born. I would also like it if those who think they know precisely what their stone is to go to the library and reference some good Astrology books such as 'Parkers Astrology'. Sorry for the confusion, but confusion over this topic has raged for hundreds of years.
posted by marekdariusz @ 5:15 AM 0 comments
desire...
A lover knows only humility,
he has no choice.
He steals into your alley at night,
he has no choice.
He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret,
he has no choice.
In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of
his imprisonment,
he has no choice.
A lover asked his beloved,
Do you love yourself more than you love me?
Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you.
I've disappeared from myself and my attributes,
I am present only for you.
I've forgotten all my learnings,
but from knowing you I've become a scholar.
I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able.
I love myself...I love you.
I love you...I love myself.
I am your lover, come to my side,
I will open the gate to your love.
Come settle with me, let us be neighbours to the stars.
You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love.
Even so, you have always been connected to me.
Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest.
I am life itself.
You have been a prisoner of a little pond,
I am the ocean and its turbulent flood.
Come merge with me,
leave this world of ignorance.
Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.
I desire you more than food or drink
My body my senses my mind hunger for your taste
I can sense your presence in my heart
although you belong to all the world
I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance
from you.
The most beautifull love poem I´ve ever heard!
song by Deepak Chopra and Demi Moore,
Buddha Bar collection
http://www.chopra.com/
http://www.buddha-bar.com/
posted by marekdariusz @ 3:49 AM 0 comments
Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
That old dog has chained you up alright
Give you everything you need
To live inside a twisted cage
Sleep beside an empty rage
I had a dream I was your hero
Damn I wish I was your lover
I'll rock you till the daylight comes
Make sure you are smiling and warm
I am everything
Tonight I'll be your mother I will
Do such things to ease your pain
Free your mind and you won't feel ashamed
Open up on the inside gonna fill you up gonna make you cry
This monkey can't stand to see you black and blue
Give you something sweet each time you
Come inside my jungle book
What is it just too good
Don't say you'll stay
'Cause then you go away
Damn I wish I was your lover
I'll rock you till the daylight comes
Make sure you are smiling and warm
I am everything
Tonight I'll be your mother I will
Do such things to ease your pain
Free your mind and you won't feel ashamed
Shucks, for me there is no other
You're the only shoe that fits
I can't imagine I'll grow out of it
Damn I wish I was your lover
If I was your girl believe me
I'd turn on the Rolling Stones
We could groove along and feel much better
I could do it forever and ever
Give me an hour to kiss you
Walk through heaven's door I'm sure
We don't need no doctor to feel much better
Let me in
Forever and ever and ever and ever
I sat on a mountainside with peace of mind
I lay by the ocean making love to her with visions clear
Walked for days with no one near
And I return as chained and bound to you
Damn I wish I was your lover
I'll rock you till the daylight comes
Make sure you are smiling and warm
I am everything
Tonight I'll be your mother I will
Do such things to ease your pain
Free your mind and you won't feel ashamed
Shucks, for me there is no other
You're the only shoe that fits
I can't imagine I'll grow out of it
Damn I wish I was your lover
Just open up I'm gonna come inside I wanna fill you up I wanna make you cry.....
(Damn I wish I was your lover)
Gettin' on the subway and I'm comin' uptown....
(Damn I wish I was your lover)
Standing on a street corner waiting for my love to change....
(Damn I wish I was your lover)
Feelin' like a school boy, too shy and too young....
(Damn I wish I was your lover)
Open up I wanna come inside I wana fill you up I wanna make you cry....
(Damn I wish I was your lover)
Gettin' on my camel and I'll ride it uptown....
(Damn I wish I was your lover)
Hanging around this jungle, wishing that this.....
Then...
I´ll...
be
Right Beside You !
I'm dancing in the shadows of life
And death is all around me tonight
I miss you making love to me right
Beside myself I'm holding you tight
Someone is waiting for me to rise
And dive into the ocean I cried
And I cried and I cried my baby to sleep
Beside myself my soul to keep
Right beside you I see
Right beside you I stay
Right beside you I'll be
Right beside you always
We're dancing in the shade of the summer sun
The drums are playing the change to come
Was yesterday in the heat
Beside myself I need to keep
Right beside you I feel
Right beside you I am
Right beside you I kneel (beside you)
Right beside you I stand
Right beside you I see (oooh)
Right beside you I stay
Right beside you I'll be
Right beside you always
Driving into town with the top down
Sun sinking low into the water I can feel your speed
One hand on the wheel one hand on my knee
I can tell you what I want you can tell me what you need
Darling nights are getting cooler and the city's so close
There's a place we can do it somewhere right along the coast
We'll arrive on time just a little bit late
It's not a matter of style just a lesson in taste
I remember when I was a child
You made me up to be your lover
Now I'm sitting right beside you
Other people still exist
I don't pretend to love them less but darling
When you drive this way I lose my breath
Right beside you I feel
Right beside you I am
Right beside you I kneel (beside you)
Right beside you (oooh) I stand
Right beside you I see (beside you)
Right beside you (oooh beside you) I stay
Right beside you (oooh) I'll be
Right beside you
Always
Right beside you I feel
Right beside you (oooh) I am
Right beside you I kneel (beside you)
Right beside you I stand
Right beside you I see (beside you)
Right beside you (oooh) I stay
Right beside you (beside you) I'll be
Right beside you (oooh) always
http://www.sophiebhawkins.com/
posted by marekdariusz @ 3:44 AM 0 comments
what do we have in offer...
On Sale!
1. Dancepartner... ?
2. Personal Trainer... ?
3. Dieet expert... ?
4. Legal adviseur... ?
5. Hugging bear... ?
6. Personal Yoga - Tantra - Kama Sutra - ...Spamm you to enlightement..!;)
no, bliss!
Ecstasy!
transcendence...?
..bliss.?
Let´s get this 1001 orgasms euh..,
nights thing started, sweetie!
(Your highr self knows that life, it´s all foreplay!
but your ego...)
(be a passionate lover of life with me..?
Spamm me!
if you dare....;)
The Fresh Prince
(because..)
(I have this certain Desire, pure potentiality that is seeking manifestation...)
Let´s get our Kundalini energy flowin´!
Good for the chakra´s!
Good (spiritual...;) Vibrations!
Satisfaction guaranteed!
- playmate... ?
7. Spiritueel orietated (but to lazy to do a spelling check...)
8. A fiend of the stars, Astrology and stuff...
9. Big fan of Peter Pan and Aladin and his...1001 nights of passion...?
(don´t need a magic carpet to sweep you off your feet, Princess!)
10. and other fairy tails with a moral
11. Tons of babysit experience, especially on students and ´other´ difficult folks!
12. Always in voor a good, but nice and clean joke
13. Perfect house man! (don´t need a Toga to kick people´s ass!, gimme a komputer and I Spamm away!!!) (I´ll do even the dishes...)
14. who would love to see a delicous booty effortlessly slippin´...
in his life..?
15. Storyteller
16. Adventurer in search for a soulmate
17. Lover of life!
18. Philosopher
19. Big kid that never wants to grow up!
20. Partner?
in a Legal sense, Love´s, civil partnership, in crime?
or in the sandbox..?
oh, almost forgot, I have this ´thing´ with applepie...
haha,
Dear Ladies,
what else do you need from a man?
Please tell,
Spamm me,
marekpodsiadlo@gmail.com
Appeltaart!
With Passion!,
getekend,
Awaiting your answer,
Yours Truly,
Peter Pan
or was it the Polish Gentleman?
no, the Fresh Prince!
no,
just a guy lookin´for a nice girl..;)
why don´t you..
Runaway!
with me!
because,
I've seen the world
Been to many places
Made lots of friends
Many different races
I've had such fun
Around the world it's true
African skies with Nairobi mood
I fell asleep in Tuscany and dreamed
The one thing missing was you
Runaway with me my love
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
The one thing missing was you
Runaway with me my love
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
I woke up with an Australian breeze
And danced the dance with Aborigines
Oh under the moon glow
Down in Mexico
I dreamed
One thing was missing that's you
We'll sail the water of many colours
Won't need no compass
Love will guide our way
Don't need nobody
Long as we got each other
No need to hurry
We've got everyday
I want to share
The world with you you see
Springtime in Paris
Was so good to me
Oh this is for me and
Reality so please
Make all my wishes come true
Runaway with me my love
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
The one thing missing was you
And I just want to have a good time
Yeah
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
And I just know we'll have a good time
Yeah
Oh please come with me
And I just know we'll have a good time
It'll be fun walking in the rain in Spain
Haha
And I just know we'll have a good time
Oh didn't quiet hit the note
That wasn't such a good time
And I just know we'll have a good time
Yeah
Don't you think so?
Yeah
I do
And I just know we'll have a good time
Yeah
And if you DO.....
I´ll...
Give It To You !
You say its been too long
since you, had some
You say I turn you on
like a fire that's burning inside
You think that I'm the one
You see in your dreams
I know what you mean yeah
It's creepin around in your head
me holding you down in my bed
You don't have to say a word
I'm convinced you want this
Baby you know I can give it to you
I can't deny, you do it right
Just let me know and I'll give it to you
Just show me where, I'll taste you there
Baby you know that I'll give it to you
Your body needs a man like me
Anything goes when I give it to you
You know without a doubt, I'll turn you out
I'll give it to you
The feeling is fine, giving you everything of mine
I'm the place to be
and soon, you'll see
I don't care who leads
As long as we move forward
Anyone can make you sweat
But I, can keep you wet
It's creepin around in my head
Me holding you down in my bed
I can't wait to give you some
I'm convinced you need it
It's creepin around in my head
Me holding you down in my bed
You don't have to say a word
Just relax, I'll do the work
I can't wait to give you some
I'm convinced you need one
I want to satisfy your every wish and mine baby
I know just what you need, (you need) to get you off
No one could ever do you like I do you right baby !
There's nothing we can't.....
The feeling is fine giving you everything of mine
http://www.jordanknight.com/
posted by marekdariusz @ 2:59 AM 0 comments
because....
I have this certain Desire,
pure potentiality,
that is seeking manifestation...
(do I have to draw it?)
(...No, I don´t wanna cookie!!...!)
posted by marekdariusz @ 2:57 AM 0 comments
Judge for yourself....
"Frogs & Princes"
The in and out of dating got me all cofused
I built up expectations and I'm feeling used
Seems that everybody's into fast food,
Everybody's into quick
I want some one to take the time fine dining not rushing
Now it's nearly 7:30, I'm slipping on a dress
I keep my fingers crossed, you're not like all the rest,
So when you come to pick me up come right to my door
Don't stay in your car and beep beep the horn
Baby I'm a hopeless romantic
You pick the sounds for the background to our drive into town
Baby don't be one of the traffic
Had too many nights with the wrong guys
Caught me at red lights
Tell me how many frogs do I have to kiss
Before I find my prince, before I find my prince
All you girls that are going through this
Tell 'em how it is, tell 'em how it is
Pull up to a premire, red carpet good
You take my coat, get my chair, like I hoped you would
You're funny and your flirting is really working for me
But where it goes from here
Better wait and see
Baby I'm a hopeless romantic
You pick the view to kiss to
Make me go ooo ooo
And baby it'll all turn out tragic
And you'll push for more
Back at my front door
More than I'm ready for
Tell me how many frogs do I have to kiss
Before I find my prince, before I find my prince
All you girls that are going through this
Tell 'em how it is, tell 'em how it is
Tell me how many frogs do I have to kiss
Before I find my prince, before I find my prince
All you girls that are going through this
Tell 'em how it is, tell 'em how it is
You gotta tip the waiter, that's how it works
You cant skip the starter and go straight to desert
You've gotta pop the cork before you taste the wine
is woah,
We get hooked up but the shame is
Too much connection followed by rejections
Gonna hurt a girl 'til she learns her lesson
Tell me how many frogs do I have to kiss
Before I find my prince, before I find my prince
All you girls that are going through this
Tell 'em how it is, tell 'em how it is
Tell me how many frogs do I have to kiss
Before I find my prince, before I find my prince
All you girls that are going through this
Tell 'em how it is, tell 'em how it is
Oh, yeah yeah
