Famous Taureans
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Celebrity Birthdate
Carmen Electra April 20
Jessica Lange April 20
Andie MacDowell April 21
Jack Nicholson April 22
Sandra Dee April 23
Scott Bairstow April 23
Barbra Streisand April 24
Shirley MacLaine April 24
Al Pacino April 25
Renee Zellweger April 25
Carol Burnett April 26
Jordana Brewster April 26
Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins April 26
Coretta Scott King April 27
Sheena Easton April 27
Jay Leno April 28
Penelope Cruz April 28
Saddam Hussein April 28
Andre Agassi April 29
Daniel Day-Lewis April 29
Jerry Seinfeld April 29
Michelle Pfeiffer April 29
Uma Thurman April 29
Cloris Leachman April 30
Isiah Thomas April 30
Kirsten Dunst April 30
Willie Nelson April 30
Mitzi Kapture May 01
Rita Coolidge May 01
Christine Baranski May 02
James Brown May 03
Audrey Hepburn May 04
Lance Bass May 04
Randy Travis May 04
Danielle Fishel May 05
Tammy Wynette May 05
George Clooney May 06
Mare Winningham May 06
Tony Blair May 06
Breckin Meyer May 07
Eva Peron May 07
Traci Lords May 07
Enrique Iglesias May 08
Melissa Gilbert May 08
Billy Joel May 09
Candice Bergen May 09
Bono May 10
Linda Evangelista May 10
Natasha Richardson May 11
Christian Campbell May 12
Gabriel Byrne May 12
Katherine Hepburn May 12
Stephen Baldwin May 12
Dennis Rodman May 13
Harvey Keitel May 13
Stevie Wonder May 13
Cate Blanchett May 14
George Lucas May 14
David Krumholtz May 15
James Mason May 15
David Boreanaz May 16
Debra Winger May 16
Janet Jackson May 16
Pierce Brosnan May 16
Tori Spelling May 16
Andrea Corr May 17
Dennis Hopper May 17
Chow Yun-Fat May 18
Nora Ephron May 19
Busta Rhymes May 20
Cher May 20
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Adela Rogers Saint Johns
Andre Agassi
Anouk Aimée
Jessica Alba
Anna Maria Alberghetti
Eddie Albert
Madeline Albright
Alexander II of Russia
Margery Louise Allingham
Hieronymus Aquapendente
Eve Arden
Eddy Arnold
Beatrice Arthur
Fred Astaire
Nancy Astor
Susan Denise Atkins
Debbie Atwell
John James Audubon
Marcus Aurelius
Hank Azaria
Burt Bacharach
Stephen Baldwin
Balzac
Christine Baranski
James M. Barrie
Lionel Barrymore
Anne Baxter
Cool Papa Bell
Candice Bergen
Irving Berlin
Yogi Berra
Valerie Bertinelli
Theodore Bikel
David Birney
Bishop Fulton Sheen
Billy Bitzer
Shirley Temple Black
Antoinette B. Blackwell
Taurean Blacque
Cate Blanchett
David Bogosian
Bono (U2)
John Wilkes Booth
David Boreanaz
Belle Boyd
Bruce Boxleitner
Johannes Brahms
Georges Braque
William J. Brennan Jr.
George Brett
Teresa Brewer
Charlotte Bronte
Foster Brooks
James L. Brooks
Pierce Brosnan
James Brown
John Brown
Roscoe Lee Brown
Robert Browning
James Buchanan
Carol Burnett
David Byrne
Gabriel Byrne
Glen Campbell
Frank Capra
George Carlin
Tucker Carlson
Scott Carpenter
Pat Carroll
Howard Carter
Ron Carter
Peggy Cass (Gemini Cusp)
Laetita Casta
Edmund Cartwright
Catherine the Great
Fanny Cerrito
Leslie Charteris
Cher
Howard C. Chinatti
Chow Yun-Fat
Edwin P. Christy
Steve Clark (Def Leppard)
Marcus Clarke
Kelly Clarkson
Jill Clayburgh
George Clooney
Joe Cocker
Judy Collins
Betty Comden
Perry Como
Jacque Cook
Rita Coolidge
Gary Cooper
Cosimo II
Arthur Thomas Cotton
Joseph Cotton
Francois Coty
Oliver Cromwell
Bing Crosby
Christopher Cross
Lindsay Crouse
Penélope Cruz
Constance Cummings
Pierre Curie
Richard J. Daley
Salvador Dali
Tony Danza
Bobby Darin
Alphonse Daudet
Ann B. Davis
Moshe Dayan
Daniel Day-Lewis
Blossom Dearie
Sandra Dee
Eugene Delacroix
Martin Delany
Sandy Dennis
Frances Densmore
Joyce DeWitt
Eduardo Diaz
Grace Dodge
Donovan
Stephen Arnold Douglas
Luis Drago
Henri Dunant
Thelma V. Dunlap
Kirsten Dunst
Albrecht Durer
Dale Earnhardt #3
Sheena Easton
Ira Einhorn
Larry Elder
Carmen Electra
Queen Elizabeth II
Duke Ellington
Oliver Ellnsworth
Enya
Nora Ephron
Emilio Estevez
Eugenie, empress of the French
Linda Evangelista
Daniel G. Fahrenheit
William G. Fargo
Louis Farrakhan
Henry Fielding
Albert Finney
Ella Fitzgerald
Williamina Fleming
Florence Nightingale
Nina Foch
Henry Fonda
Margot Fonteyn
Cynthia Hayward Ford
Glenn Ford
Joseph Fouche
James Fox
Peter Frampton
Douglas Freeman
Ace Frehley
Sigmund Freud
Elizabeth Fry
James Gadsden
Thomas Gainsborough
Dorothy Garrod
John Warne Gates
Larry Gatlin
Edward Gibbon
Mifflin Gibbs
Melissa Gilbert
John Gill
Stephen Girard
George Gobel
Mary W. Godwin
Tracey Gold
Tony Goldwyn
Cuba Gooding
Martha Graham
Ulysses S. Grant
John Grierson
Charles Grodin
Greg Gumbel
Walter A. Haas
Halston
Page Hamilton (Helmet)
Oscar Hammerstein
Thomas Hancock
Lorraine Hansberry
David Hartman
Melissa Hayden
Darren Hayes
Gabby Hayes
William Randolph Hearst
David Helfgott
Doug Henning
Lance Henriksen
Audrey Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
Theodor Herzl
Rudolph Hess
Peter Cooper Hewitt
Hirohito
Adolf Hitler
Ho Chi Minh
Celeste Holm
Josh Homme (QOTSA)
Honen
Jan Hooks
Johns Hopkins
Dennis Hopper
Lee Horsley
Hsu Kuang ch'i
Engelbert Humperdinck
Saddam Hussein
Ibn al Athir
Higuchi Ichiyo
Enrique Iglesias
Jørgen Ingmann
Jill Ireland
Queen Isabella I
Glenda Jackson
Janet Jackson
Abraham Jacobi
Bianca Jagger
Judith Jamison
Keith Jarrette
Edward Jenner
Alfred Jodl
Billy Joel
Grace Jones
The Reverend Jim Jones
Niels Juel
Henry J. Kaiser
Lawrence Kane
K'ang-hsi, emperor of China
Yoko Kanno
Immanuel Kant
Kasey Kasem
Lainie Kazan
HarveyKeitel
David Keith
Aleksandr Kerensky
Hendrick de Keyser
Mohammad Ayub Khan
Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini
Soren Kierkegaard
Perry King
Coretta Scott King
Bruno Kirby
Jack Klugman
Charles Knowlton
Lamarr Koford
Mindy Kohen
Mort Kondracke
Olga Valentinovna Korbut
Gerard B. Lambert
Edwin H. Land
Jessica Lange
Walter Lantz
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Joey Lawrence
William Lazear
Cloris Leachman
Edward Lear
Franz Lehar
Vladimir Ilyich Ulanov (Nikolai Lenin)
Jay Leno
Sugar Ray Leonard
Al Lewis
Jet Li
Liberace
Thomas J. Lipton
Henry Cabot Lodge
Traci Lords
Louis I de Bourbon Conde
Louis IX of France
Joe Louis
William Lovett
George Lucas
Patti LuPone
Machiavelli
Andie MacDowell
Shirley MacLaine
Bill Macy
Dolley Madison
Lee Majors
Bernard Malamud
John Manley :)
Horace Mann
Gugliemo Marconi
Walter John de la Mare
Margaret of Valois
Ann Margaret
Maria Theresa of Austria
Billy Martin
Karl Marx
Master P.
Daphne du Maurier
Elaine May
Rollo Reese May
Willie Mays
Paul Mazursky
Bernadette Devlin McAilskey
Cyrus McCormik
Darren McGavin
Rod McKuen
Timothy McVeigh
Meadowlark Lemon
Zubin Mehta
Golda Meir
Yehudi Menuhin
John Stuart Mill
R.J. Mitchell
James Monroe
Michael Moore
Marguerite Moreau
Henry Morgenthau
Robert Morse
Samuel Morse
John Mortimer
Mark Mothersbaugh (DEVO)
Hosni Mubarak
Ted Mueller
John Muir
Kate Mulgrew
Patrice Munsel
Michael Murphy
Edward R. Murrow
Dr. Charles A. Muses
Napoleon III
Paul Nash
Ricky Nelson
Willie Nelson
Nicholas II of Russia
Jack Nicholson
Birgit Nilsson
Tenzing Norgay
Sam Nujoma
Charlie O'Connell
Dan O'Herlihy
Fredrick Law Olmstead
Ryan O'Neal
Jan Hendrik Oort
Roy Orbison
Jack Paar
Al Pacino
Betty Page
Chazz Paliminteri
Michael Palin
Frederic Passy
Bill Paxton
Elizabeth Peabody
Sarah Peale
Robert E. Peary
I.M. Pei
Henry Percy
Rosie Perez
Eva Peron
Roberta Peters
Laci Peterson
Michelle Pfeiffer
Philip II, king of Spain
Kate Pierson (B-52's)
Bronson Pinchot
Edio Pinza
Pope John Paul II
Iggy Pop
Pope Alexander
Katherine Anne Porter
Tyrone Power
William H. Prescott
Sergei Prokofiev
Tito Puente
Anthony Quinn
Martha Quinn
Rachmaninoff
Charlotte Rae
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey
Joey Ramone
Judge Reinhold
Trent Reznor
Ving Rhames
John Rhys-Davies
Thomas Dartmouth Rice
Natasha Richardson
Baron Von Richthofen
Don Rickles
Bernardino Rivadavia
Henry M. Robert
Pernell Roberts
Robespierre
Sugar Ray Robinson
Dennis Rodman
Ole Edvart Rolvaag
Saint Rose of Lima
Dante Rossetti
Tim Roth
Darius Rucker
Juan Perez Rulfo
Bertrand Russell
Bob Saget
Mort Sahl
Andrei Sakharov
Paul Anthony Samuelson
Coral Sands
Tony Scalzo
Alessandro Scarlatti
Nelly Bly Seaman
Pete Seeger
Bob Seger
Jerry Seinfeld
David O. Selznick
Andy Serkis
William Henry Seward
Muhammad Isma'il Shahid
William Shakespeare
Craig Sheffer
Talia Shire
Grant Show
Phil Silvers
John Simon
Kate Smith
Robert Smith (The Cure)
Hank Snow
Tom Snyder
Socrates
Aaron Spelling
Tori Spelling
Herbert Spencer
Dr. Benjamin Spock
James Stephens
St. Sergius of Radonezh
Germaine de Stael
John Stetson
James Stewart
William Still
George Strait
Robin Strasser
Barbra Streisand
Charles Sturt
Arthur S. Sullivan
Debendranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
George Takei
Buck Taylor
Tchaikovsky
Toni Tennille
Studs Terkel
William Thornton
Uma Thurman
Josip Tito
Alice B. Toklas
Fujita Toko
Sidney Toler
David Tomlinson
Peter Tompkins
Pete Townshend
Randy Travis
Anthony Trollope
Harry S. Truman
Johnny Unitas
Eric Vale
Richie Valens
Rudolph Valentino
Frankie Valli
Luther Vandross
Hervé Villechaize
Violent J (Joseph Bruce)
Andrey Voznesensky
Bea Wain
Mike Wallace
Fats Waller
John Waters
Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins
Max Weber
Orson Welles
Arthur Wellesley Wellington
Theodore Harold White
William I, Prince of Orange
Gene Williams
Spice Williams
Meredith Wilson
Debra Winger
Mare Winningham
Steve Winwood
Joseph Wiseman
Stevie Wonder
John Woo
D'arcy Wretzky (SP)
Gary Wright (Spooky Tooth)
Tammy Wynette
Malcolm X
Inoue Yashushi
Burt Young
Yung-lo, emperor of China
Renee Zellweger
Robert Zemeckis
Anthony Zerbe
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Famous Taurus Writers
April 20 to May 20 is Taurus.
(Index to all 12 signs)
Brontë, Charlotte (21 April)
Browning, Robert (7 May)
Cook, Robin (4 May)
Dobson, James (21 April)
Fadiman, Clifton (15 May)
Heller, Joseph (1 May)
Khayyam, Omar (18 May)
LaHaye, Tim (27 April)
Lear, Edward (12 May)
Machiavelli, Niccolo (3 May)
Moore, Michael (23 April)
Muir, John (21 April)
Paulsen, Gary (17 May)
Porter, Katherine Anne (15 May)
Pynchon, Thomas (8 May)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (12 May)
Sebald, W.G. (18 May)
Shakespeare, William (23 April)
Spock, Dr. (2 May)
Trethewey, Natasha (26 April)
Wilson, August (27 April)
*Taurus - April 20 - May 20
People born between April 20 and May 20 have their Sun in Taurus. Taurus is represented by the bull, and is dogged and determined. Taurus is patient, focussed and the traditional, slow and steady worker.
Taurus is a sign that stands for responsibility and tradition. Taurus individuals have a favorite chair, a favorite thing to eat in the morning, a favorite tradition to follow on the holidays.
A taurus is the perfect friend. They will be there for you through thick and thin. The Taurus is the one who will show up at 3am when your car breaks down. They aren't necessarily ready to jump into anything, but when they commit, they mean it.
A taurus is also slow to anger, but very determined once they get angry. A taurus may forgive many times, but if you cross that threshhold, they will never speak to you for the rest of your life. Really. If a taurus decides you're not worth it, they won't change their mind.
Taurus enjoy quality items in life. They will spend weeks and weeks researching the perfect guitar, coat, oven, jewelry, or whatever. They'll finally decide on the perfect item, get it, and then be quite content.
Symbol: Bull
Element: Earth
Planet: Venus
Animals: Cattle
Color: Pale Blue
Gemstone: Emerald
Flower: Poppy
Part of the Body: Neck
Lucky Day: Friday
Lucky Numbers: 4 and 6
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Taurus Celebrity Birthdays
What famous people were born under the sign of Taurus? They include Queen Elizabeth II, William Shakespeare and Uma Thurman!
Apr 21 : Queen Elizabeth II, Charlotte Bronte, Andie MacDowell
Apr 22 : Peter Frampton, Jack Nicholson
Apr 23 : Sandra Dee, Lee Majors, Vladimir Nabokov, William Shakespeare
Apr 24 : Barbara Streisand, Jill Ireland
Apr 25 : Renee Zellweger, Al Pacino, Ella Fitzgerald
Apr 26 : Jet Li, Carol Burnett, John James Audubon
Apr 27 : Sheena Easton, Jack Klugman
Apr 28 : Penelope Cruz, Jay Leno
Apr 29 : Uma Thurman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daniel Day-Lewis
Apr 30 : Eva Arden, Willie Nelson
May 1 : Judy Collins
May 2 : Dr. Benjamin Spock
May 3 : Bing Crosby, James Brown
May 4 : Audrey Hepburn
May 5 : Tyrone Power
May 6 : Rudolph Valentino
May 7 : Eva Peron
May 8 : Melissa Gilbert
May 9 : Billy Joel
May 10 : Fred Astaire
May 11 : Irving Berlin
May 12 : Emilio Estevez, Tony Hawk, Katharine Hepburn
May 13 : Stevie Wonder
May 14 : Cate Blanchett, Tim Roth
May 15 : Trini Lopez
May 16 : Tori Spelling, Janet Jackson, Pierce Brosnan
May 17 : Enya
May 18 : Chow Yun-Fat, Perry Como
May 19 : Grace Jones
May 20 : Cher, Jimmy Stewart, Joe Cocker
Moon Sign in Taurus
Dr. Carl Jung, psychologist
William Shakespeare, writer
F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer
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Taurus Quotes and Sayings
The Taurus is the perfect poet and writer, and also works hard at acting on stage. Here are some great quotes from taurus speakers!
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist
"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. "
Martha Graham, dancer
"The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused."
Shirley MacLaine, actress/author
"I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor."
Jack Nicholson, actor
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
Vladimir Nabokov, author
"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body."
Harry S. Truman, U.S. President
"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance man
"I can't stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I'm Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly."
Barbra Streisand, singer/actress
"If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen."
Cher, singer/actress
Other Famous Taureans
Al Pacino
Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky
Johannes Brahms, composer
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Taurus Writers and Poets
Taurus is the steady sign that enjoys being at home. This is the PERFECT sign for writers and poets!
William Shakespeare, playwright, is perhaps the most famous Taurus poet of them all. His collection of plays and sonnets is still enjoyed in modern times, and entire theaters are dedicated to his works. He is famous for saying, "The reward of suffering is experience." This could be the motto of the Taurus bull!
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Taurus - Love Sign Pairings
A Taurus is a sensual and seductive lover. That doesn't mean they're wishy-washy. Love is serious business for bulls. Once they fall, they're passionate and devoted.
"Steadfast of thought, well made, well wrought, far may be sought ere that ye can find so courteous, so kind as Merry Margaret."
From To Mistress Margaret Hussey by John Skelton (tutor of Henry VIII)
Suggested Romancing of a Taurus
Love isn't a fling for a Taurus. Give a gift from the heart, that speaks of the bond between you two. They aren't after glitz. Write a poem about your love and give them a framed copy. Weave a bracelet for your love to wear always.
Taurus is Most Compatible With
Capricorn
Pisces
Virgo
Cancer
Taurus is Least Compatible With
Gemini
Libra
Scorpio
Sagittarius
Aquarius
Love Signs Master Index
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: How many Taureans does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: None. No Taurean would do it in such an uncomfortable place!
Oh, you mean DO WORK? But if a Taurean puts it off long enough, a Virgo will come along and do it for him!
Q: What sun-sign type is most likely to lose her bikini top while surfing?
A: LiBRA-less!
Q: What sun-sign is most likely to get lucky in a singles bar?
A: SCORe-PIO!
Q: Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder which you are... a Star or a Planet?
A: Stars appear to twinkle, but the brightest "stars" are actually the nearby Planets reflecting the light of the Sun. Planets appear to give a steady light, and do not twinkle. Twinkle, twinkle, little planet? -- hey, no way! Wouldn't rhyme, and has no reason -- planets shine, and shift by season.
Q: What's the Morning Star and Evening Star?
A: The brightest "star" in the night sky is actually the Planet Venus, and it's BOTH! For about half the year, it rises in the East shortly before Sunrise, and is called the Morning Star (Eosphorus in Greek mythology). For about half the year it sets in the West shortly after Sunset, and is called the Evening Star (Hesperus in Greek mythology).
Hey, it's all I've got to work with right now... send your own contributions if you can do better (or worse)! Use the word GEMS as your topic header in your E-mail message.
-- Michael
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GEMs: PLANETARY POETRY
Watch this section for more Planetary Poetry (but not "Vogon Poetry") in the weeks to come. You're hereby invited to submit your own stuff, as long as you're not so sensitive you'll feel rejected if your poem is. If it's bad, but it's funny, it might make it onto these pages anyways! You get your work on the Web, and your name up for fame or blame. Just remember that it has to have SOMETHING to do with ASTROLOGY.
-- Michael michael@astrologyzine.com
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PSYCHOLOGY / ASTROLOGY
(Why I Ditched the Damn Degree)
When Jung and Gestalt leave you weary
And you can't take another theory
Move the goalposts, learn the art:
Interpreting a natal chart!
You really do not stand much chance
Your life's decided in advance.
No need to worry what you lack
So think of England and lay back...
Enjoy yourself between the crises
If your Sun resides in Pisces.
If you're overweight and bore us
Tantamount it's due to Taurus.
Libra's shopping, Virgo's prissy,
Scorpio won't be a sissy.
Leo's bossy, Aries wins,
(That Aquarius never sins).
Seagoat's serious, Twins are light
Cancer can't quite get it right.
If you accident'ly smother
Your delightful little brother,
If you're overcome with lust,
Or cannot earn an honest crust,
Accountability's null and void --
Blame the Planets, bugger Freud!
(c)1996 by Sue Armitage, London, England
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THEOLOGY
If horses haven't got a soul
That really puts me in a hole.
What's the point of being good
And always doing what I should,
If when I reach the Pearly Gate,
Saint Peter says "I'm sorry, mate!
Your horse is only bones and hair,
And if he's dead, he isn't there.
But anyway, no need to cry --
Why ride, now you have learned to fly?"
After thoughtful meditation,
My bet's on reincarnation!
(c)1996 by Sue Armitage, London, England
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REMs from REMarkable Writers NOV 25 1996
[All material in quotation marks is original text COPYRIGHTED by the author and publisher, which is included here FOR REVIEW PURPOSES ONLY.]
This week's emphasis is on the wisdom of Bartholomew (as channelled through Mary-Margaret Moore).
The following passages are quoted from the book:
Bartholomew (Mary-Margaret Moore), FROM THE HEART OF A GENTLE BROTHER,
(Taos NM: High Mesa Press, 1987)
"For many centuries you have been living in your world with a powerful symbol. It is the symbol of the balanced cross. Long before the advent of Christianity, the symbol of this cross has been observed as one of the most strengthening symbols the world has to offer. Its explanation is very simple. You have at your disposal two constant streams of energy and the balanced cross is a reminder of this. One of them is a horizontal stream of energy. It is the one that connects you with all of the manifest world. It connects you with other people's egos, with the material plane, the emotional field, and with the mentalizations of life. The horizontal stream is what is constantly before your physical eyes. Since it is this stream that has fed you throughout centuries and lifetimes, the second, vertical stream of energy has been forgotten. Therefore, you have a very weakened balance point within you because it is through the forgotten vertical you connect with the Divine."
-- Bartholomew, p.65
"Understand the basic law from which everything arises -- ENERGY FOLLOWS THOUGHT. Put another way, energy follows visualization, and put another way, power follows what you visualize. If you create a visual and thoughtful link with the vertical stream of energy, you will begin to manifest it daily in your life. Many of you are looking for a centering device. THE DEGREE TO WHICH YOU WANT TO BE CENTERED IS THE DEGREE TO WHICH YOU WILL BE. The degree to which you enjoy the horizontal is the sense of motion you experience when your ego energy moves out and blends with other similar energies, now side to side, now backward and forward. It makes you feel alive, as though you are `doing' something."
-- Bartholomew, p.66
"The power of the vertical is so much stronger than the small, horizontal motions you make. But you continue to think those small back and forth motions are life. Eventually you must realize even the more frantic of the horizontal motions are not enough. What you are longing for are the vaster sweeps of energy that you have all sensed moving through you on occasion. It is the incredible power of the vertical stream of energy that gives you a feeling of groundedness. The horizontal can't contain too much of that energy because you would simply fall right over. You have to begin to empower yourself in a totally new way."
-- Bartholomew, p.66
[In astrological terms, the cross described by Bartholomew is called the "Cross of Matter" and the horizontal line represents Earth's horizon line. The vertical line points to "the Midheaven", the place where the Sun appears when it reaches its highest point in the sky at noon and gives the most light and heat to the Earth. Do you see any symbolic connections between the astrological symbolism and Bartholomew's? -- Michael Star]
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REMs from REMarkable Writers NOV 04 1996
This week's emphasis is on the great Swiss psychologist, Dr Carl Jung.
"But he [Carl Jung] recognized that man, the symbolic animal, could resolve even the deepest divisions within him upon the symbolic plane; and he invented a technique of psychotherapy by which this could be accomplished."
-- Anthony Storr, JUNG, (Glasgow: Fontana/Collins: 1973), p.105
"He does offer a method of understanding dreams which is unmatched by psychoanalysis. Moreover, he understood the difference between a sign and a symbol in a way which Freud did not. When Freud alleged, as he did in `The Interpretation of Dreams', that all weapons and tools are used as symbols for the male organ, he might equally well have used the word `sign' instead of symbol. In Jung's view, a symbol was more than this. A true symbol always possesses overtones, so that its full significance cannot be grasped intellectually, at least immediately, if it becomes fully definable in rational terms, it is no longer a living symbol. ...A work of art is a true symbol in the Jungian sense, in that it is pregnant with meaning, partakes of both `conscious' and `unconscious', yet cannot be sharply defined in intellectual terms."
"...Yet parts of the body can be used to signify something other than their usual function. The male genitals, for example, were used by the Romans and others as a magical charm to ward off intruders, and may be seen on Hadrian's Wall pointing towards the enemy. It is alleged, probably apocryphally, that Jung once stated: `After all, the penis is only a phallic symbol.'"
"...sexual intercourse can signify [symbolize?] the integration of the personality and the experience of the irrational union of opposites."
-- Anthony Storr, JUNG, (Glasgow: Fontana/Collins: 1973), pp.112-113,115
Jung on SIGNS and SYMBOLS
"The sign is always less than the concept it represents, while a symbol always stands for something more than its obvious and immediate meaning."
-- Dr Carl G. Jung, MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS, Part 1, (1964), p.41
"What we properly call instincts are physiological urges, and are perceived by the senses. But at the same time, they also manifest themselves as fantasies and often reveal their presence only by symbolic images. These manifestations are what I call the archetypes."
-- Dr Carl G. Jung, MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS, Part 1, (1964), p.58
"But if we are to see things in their right perspective, we need to understand the past of man as well as his present. That is why an understanding of myths and symbols is of essential importance."
-- Dr Carl G. Jung, MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS, Part 1, (1964), p.45
Jung on DREAMS
"In dreams, symbols occur spontaneously, for dreams happen and are not invented; they are, therefore, the main source of all our knowledge about symbolism."
-- Dr Carl G. Jung, MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS, Part 1, (1964), p.41
"It [dream analysis] is not so much a technique that can be learned and applied according to the rules as it is a dialectical exchange between two personalities."
-- Dr Carl G. Jung, MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS, Part 1, (1964), p.44
"Thus, if you want to understand another person's dream, you have to sacrifice your own predilections and suppress your prejudices."
-- Dr Carl G. Jung, MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS, Part 1, (1964), p.50
"Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it all when you are analyzing a dream. ...in order to check the flow of my own associations and reactions, which might otherwise prevail over my patient's uncertainties and hesitations."
-- Dr Carl G. Jung, MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS, Part 1, (1964), p.42
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REMs from REMarkable Writers OCT 28 1996
This week's emphasis is on philosopher-poet-artist Kahlil Gibran
GIBRAN ON TRUTH
"Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content with our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."
-- Kahlil Gibran, SPIRITS REBELLIOUS, t.255
"God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith."
-- Kahlil Gibran, SECRETS OF THE HEART, t.138
"Truth calls to us, drawn by the innocent laughter of a child, or the kiss of a loved one; but we close the doors of affection in her face and deal with her as an enemy."
-- Kahlil Gibran, THE VOICE OF THE MASTER, st.47
"To be modest in speaking truth is hypocrisy."
-- Kahlil Gibran, THOUGHTS AND MEDITATIONS, st.95
"You may deprive me of my possessions; you may shed my blood and burn my body; but you cannot hurt my spirit or touch my truth."
-- Kahlil Gibran
"Great truth that transcends Nature does not pass from one being to another by way of human speech. Truth chooses Silence to convey her meaning to loving souls."
-- Kahlil Gibran, THE VOICE OF THE MASTER, st.75
"They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom.
I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom."
-- Kahlil Gibran, MIRRORS OF THE SOUL, p.72
"He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man."
-- Kahlil Gibran, THE VOICE OF THE MASTER, st.67
GIBRAN ON ILLUSION
"How unjust to themselves are those who turn their backs to the sun, and see naught except the shadows of their physical selves upon the earth!"
-- Kahlil Gibran, SECRETS OF THE HEART, t.130
"Man is empowered by God to hope and hope fervently, until that which he is hoping takes the cloak of oblivion from his eyes, whereupon he will at last view his real self. And he who sees his real self sees the truth of real life for himself, for all humanity, and for all things."
-- Kahlil Gibran, SECRETS OF THE HEART, t.140
"How ignorant are those who see, without question, the abstract existence with SOME of their senses, but insist on doubting until that existence reveals itself to ALL their senses. Is not faith the sense of the heart as truly as sight is the sense of the eye?"
"...How strange is the one who dreams in truth of a beautiful reality, and then, when he endeavours to fashion it into form but cannot succeed, doubts the dream and blasphemes the reality and distrusts the beauty!"
-- Kahlil Gibran, SECRETS OF THE HEART, t.148
"Society
Is of naught but clamour and woe
And strife. She is but the web of
The spider, the tunnel of the mole."
-- Kahlil Gibran, T, p.376
"The appearance of things changes according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves."
-- Kahlil Gibran, THE BROKEN WINGS, st.51
"Man's eye is a magnifier; it shows him the earth much larger than it is."
-- Kahlil Gibran, MIRROR OF THE SOUL, p.71
"How small is the life of the person who places his hands between his face and the world, seeing naught but the narrow lines of his hands!"
-- Kahlil Gibran, SECRETS OF THE HEART, t.150
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REMs from REMarkable Writers SEP 30 1996
This week's emphasis is on philosopher-poet-artist Kahlil Gibran
GIBRAN ON LOVE
"Love is the offspring of a spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created in years or even generations."
-- Kahlil Gibran, THE BROKEN WINGS, p.42 (recommended reading!)
"The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch, it will suffer but it does not die. It will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place."
-- Kahlil Gibran, THE BROKEN WINGS, st.93
"For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so he is for your pruning."
-- Kahlil Gibran, THE PROPHET, (1970), p.11
"Every young man remembers his first love and tries to recapture that strange hour, the memory of which changes his deepest feeling and makes him so happy in spite of all the bitterness of its mystery."
-- Kahlil Gibran, THE BROKEN WINGS, st.12
"Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself."
-- Kahlil Gibran, THE BROKEN WINGS, p.106
"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
When you love you should not say, `God is in my heart,' but rather, `I am in the heart of God.'
And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself."
-- Kahlil Gibran, THE PROPHET, p.14
"And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-- Kahlil Gibran, THE PROPHET. p.9
"Gibranism does not inhibit Eros, he simply subordinates it to Agape. Also, authentic love is not a love that 'reckons' and 'sorts out' for personal interests, such as financial purposes, social prestige. On the contrary Gibran has all reasons to believe that a calculative love is a self-love that neurotically has never transcended the Freudian primary narcissistic stage of a masochist child."
-- Andrew Dib Sherfan, in A THIRD TREASURY OF KAHLIL GIBRAN, 1975, p.286
(quoting from Gibran's SPIRITS REBELLIOUS, p.17-20)
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REMs by REMarkable Writers SEP 23 1996
This week's emphasis is on mythologist Joseph Campbell
"In later traditions where the cosmic order has been recognized -- the round of the stars -- very often the planetary dieties are regarded as tricksters because they introduce disorder. They move a different way and anything that is a disordering principle is associated with a trickster -- the diabolical as opposed to the demonic.
...Our interpretation of the word demon as meaning the demonic is a very interesting thing. The demonic comes from the Greek, and it refers to the dynamic of life -- your demon is the dynamic of life. In our tradition we are so against the dynamic of life that we've turned it into a devil. Demon has negative meaning in our tradition. This is fantastic.
Similarly, the serpent, which also represents the dynamic of life, has been turned into a negative principle in our tradition. The serpent can shed its skin to be born again and so represents the power of life to throw off death and represents the bondage of life to time. It's the dynamic of life and consciousness in the field of temporal pairs of opposites, birth/death, and all that, and life goes on through it. It's as though our tradition is against life. Even our diety himself is against life. We have a diety who talks about supernatural grace and virtue but life itself is something to be despised instead of celebrated, and a body is something awful rather than awesome. It's a strange world."
-- Joseph Campbell
"...Man had eaten fruit from the forbidden tree and had thereby gained knowledge of the duality of all things. So he was thrown out of the garden. And God said, `Now if man should eat of the tree of immortal life, he would be as we are. Therefore keep him out.' And he placed the guardian figures, the two cherubim at the gates into the garden. Now the Buddha says, `Don't be afraid. Come on through. The tree's right here. Don't be afraid of those boys.' Jesus went through and hangs on the tree of immortal life. Jesus and the Buddha are the same figure. The Buddha sits under the tree and says, `Don't be afraid.' Christ hangs onto that tree and says, `Come, die as I've died to immortal life.' It's wonderful the way these great images play across the ground."
-- Joseph Campbell
"Are you affirmative enough with your relationship to life to say `yes' no matter what? The extent of your power to say `yes' is the extent of your power to love, and when you begin to have hates, and when you begin to knock people down, and say `No! No! This one, this Hitler, or Stalin, they're monsters!', then you have lost your bliss. They are manifestations of life too. Your limitation and understanding and experience is measured by the boundary of your love."
-- Joseph Campbell
"The purpose of the first part of your life is to give you the experiences out of which you can draw your spiritual realizations."
-- Joseph Campbell
The Joseph Campbell quotes are taken from a Canadian book of transcripts of some of his interviews before his death in 1987. I regret I have lost the title of the book. For the best of Joseph Campbell, see:
A JOSEPH CAMPBELL COMPANION, Diane K. Osbon, ed.,
(New York NY: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1991)
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Next week's emphasis is on the insights of "Kriyananda" (J. Donald Walters.
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Random REMs - NOV 04 1996
"Our word PLUTOCRATIC is derived from Pluto, and means power of domination through wealth derived from sources other than one's own labor. Such wealth is within the jurisdiction of the eighth house, the natural zodiacal position of Scorpio. It stems from inheritances, legacies [things which go on "living" after death --MS], bonuses, windfalls, insurance, and similar sources. It has been earned in a previous incarnation and comes from hidden sources as an inheritance in the present life."
-- Max and Augusta Heindel, THE MESSAGE OF THE STARS, p.728
(Rosicrucian Fellowship, A.M.O.R.C.)
"There is an ancient saying in occultism, namely that until the tongue has lost the power to wound, it can never utter the truths of the spirit."
"The regular utterance of falsehood, blasphemy, criticism or sarcasm designed to hurt others literally erects a wall about the person responsible, through which no light of spiritual truth can enter. This effectively prevents that person from ever giving voice to the truths himself."
"When the words one speaks are cleared of all negativity, then the door is opened to allow the great inspirations from higher planes to come through."
-- Hilarion, OTHER KINGDOMS, p.31
"You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace...The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love."
-- St. Paul, GALATIANS 5:4, 5:6 (NIV)
"For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you will find disaster and every evil practice."
-- St. Paul, JAMES 3:16 (NIV)
"People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs."
-- St. Paul, I TIMOTHY 6:6-10 (NIV)
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