These things go together: astrology, tarot, meditation. Meditation more than anything (or as much as learning/practicing the esoteric arts) will improve the intuition which I believe will make you a better reader (of cards, charts, etc). Of course, you also need a heart (rare), and soul (even more rare), and a brain (sigh). Raise your hands, how many of you have run into “psychics” or “healers” who had as much sensitivity as a ballpoint pen. I am mostly water and earth, chart-wise, so of course I am biased towards the feeling/sensory approach.
And of course not everyone needs to improve. My friend Lupa is a gifted Tarot reader and, hell, maybe she came out of the womb that way, and she don’t need to sit for nothing’ or nobody. But I do.
Meditation is not zoning out or sleeping or daydreaming. Meditation is paying attention. Yes, it is about observing something, often the breath, the out breath, say, and returning to that breath, gently, when your attention wanders. When you do this, you notice how the mind dances and where it dances and that you think about shopping at Whole Foods A LOT.
And the cats? Well, I figured out this quirky cat thing because when I would meditate… Damn, I still don’t have the words for it, but it was different. They were different. No. It was that I joined them. I went up to their level, their gift, their way of being in the world. Solid… and yet light.
Did I think I could read their thoughts? I already know my three cats well, their different personalities and quirks and needs and specialnesses. Kitty who must have her treats. Goldy who meows in my ear when he’s hungry. Cleo who has to sit by my head when I sleep.
And it was during those days of early meditation practice that I did that Tarot reading for my sister, the one where I got spooked. At that time, I was also living in the apartment from hell, but that’s another story, a story about transiting Saturn in the 12th, when you can’t even see what is oppressing you.
Impromptu prayer: Dear God/Goddess/Spirit/Somebody: I will forever be grateful for my exodus from Flatbush despite the torturous way you arranged it. F**K you Saturn in Virgo. Good riddance!
Note to self: write book of Astro-Psalms and follow me on Twitter, okay?
12 thoughts on “Meditation and Cats (part 2)”
Thank you so much for your emphasis on meditation before the healing/reading arts. SO important!
Thank you musingsofadisciple!
this is a good starting off point for my re-dedication to meditation. I’m going to read it again with all the layers. I am sad about being oblivious to my cats, too.
thanks for another good post, moonpluto.
not looking forward to Saturn through my 12th. I’m already freaked out enough. transit Saturn squared my sun last winter for a loooong time with his retrogrades, and it was not pretty. currently transit Pluto is on my progressed ascendant and my anti-vertex. I’m done.
@anita, ohhhhhh don’t be oblivious to the cats 🙂 They are waiting for you, for your company and attention. You are their whole world. I mean, besides Friskies and napping and watching birds. It’s a very special role. They are soooooooo deep.
Re: Saturn. My latest approach is escapism. I ignore Saturn until I can’t. 😉
ha! love it…ignoring Saturn! ha!! guess it’s my natal Saturn that’s kept my nose to the grindstone all my life. I feel the irony:)
however, I don’t ignore my cats, I fuss over them daily (you know, how can we resist?). but I’m sad about this whole other level I’ve been missing. I knew it too…but wasn’t being conscious of it…hope that makes sense. we get so busy with
everyday “stuff” that the real life gets lost in it all.
@anita, I’m sorry if I sounded all know-it-all in my other response. But don’t be sad. (uh oh there I go again!) Just sit down for a minute on the floor. In an instant, you’re connected. But quiet. No tv, no radio, just the sound of paws across the floor/carpet and your own racing mind which will stop racing because you know this minute is your entire world 🙂 Yes, I’m a cat lady 🙂 Stop me before I start in with the kitty pictures.
I think animals naturally vibrate from a very grounded place and as you ground, you join them. That’s my theory.
Our pal Dixie is usually right 🙂
Ugh, transiting Saturn in the 12th: it’s happening to my sister now and she just wrote something that sounds just like what you said, ‘when you can’t even see what is oppressing you’, but at least it’s in Libra: for me it was Virgo. Not quite off topic, but I’m heading for my 2nd Saturn return and it’s going to hit Neptune and then my lovely Venus Saturn conjunction while Pluto does a number on my Mars NN conjunction; the good news is that after that 12th house of hellish horrors, I feel sure I can survive just about anything. And they talk about school of hard knocks. I think we should invent a new astrological phrase for it!
Saturn School? 😉
Saturn on Venus Saturn hmm
MoonPluto, I must know about the “Apartment from Hell” and the tortuous escape from it. Please.
When you have the inclination and the time to write, of course.
Oh Joanna… some stories cannot be told, only forgotten 😉