Hudson Valley Astrologer

If you find yourself driving anywhere in Dutchess County, New York in the beautiful Hudson Valley, you might get stuck behind a transit bus. Just before blaring on the horn in frustration and anger you might read this message: “Think Differently.” This phrase was the brainchild and a thoughtful campaign launched by the county executive (Marc Molinaro) to promote inclusion and to breakdown the barriers for individuals with disabilities. The idea was to create greater understanding and promote awareness around issues like accessibility and individual ability. The campaign was very successful and impactful.

But that phrase! “Think Differently,” has such a ring to it. What if we could be more aware and understanding of not only people with disabilities but of everyone, including ourselves? What would you do differently? I mean if that were really an option? Wouldn’t you be doing it already?

In his book As a Man Thinketh, James Allen wrote “Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.” 136 years and an entire industry burgeoned from the humble beginnings of a nascent pamphleteer named Cotton Mather before finally landing in the mind of the man who wrote his most famous work in 1903, based on Proverbs 23:7: “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Another 202 year after that, the notion is affixed to a sign on the back of a bus in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

You asked, what would I do differently? If I could? If I could think differently? I suppose there is something to the idea Napoleon Hill wrote that “whatever the mind can conceive man can achieve,” but it doesn’t seem to be the truth except for the rarest of individuals, so how true can it be?

Aurobindo’s quote makes more sense to me, in that I think it is much closer to the truth, if not the whole Truth. Maybe the goal is not to do something different or to even think differently, but to simply be what you are, and by doing so, to be what you become.

This is the premise behind the Astral Core, the essence of the horoscope as it relates to the individual’s life being lived, and not the other way around: relating the person to the chart and confining them to what we understand about astrology is an approach beyond its expiration date.

HVA

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