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On endless purification, and maybe also on the small satisfying cleaning bursts and urge to paint the door and baseboards:

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To truly come clean is to lift up the carpets and sweep away all that's accumulated underneath, to take everything from the cabinets and scour 'em down, and to dust out cobwebs from the deepest corners. A comprehensive airing-out, Gemini, is how you'll reacquaint yourself with what's actually there, what's been allowed to build up, and what must be disposed us to help you sleep better at night. Anything less thorough, though possibly 'more convenient' (and almost certainly less upsetting to all parties who stand to lose an illusion from such an accurate inventorying), brings the remnants of your old life along with you to the next chapter, to replicate eerie reruns like an indestructible virus. Despite the melodrama in these descriptions, however, this effort is quite personally beneficial to you—and I'm not just talking in the abstract 'someday my prince will come' sense (though the most glamorous results could still be months away). Immediately upon clutching the scrub-brush and/or dumping the bags of garbage at the curb, you will feel potent… not just in your relation to a certain someone, but in your stance toward the world at large, unafraid of confronting any-sized trash heap.
(from astrobarry)

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I just finished reading Healing Wise. In it, Susun Weed identifies 3 different traditions of healing, all of whose techniques can interpenetrate in any number of ways: the scientific, the heroic, and the wise woman. (You can see more here if you don't have her wonderful book.) She talks about the Heroic tradition as one that identifies health with stringent purification and purity. On this model, illness comes from accumulated toxins: physical, spiritual, emotional. So taking care of one's own health means taking responsibility for having accumulated these toxins and having "made" yourself sick; your charge is to be spiritually and physically pure enough to be Healthy.

If you were only spiritual/magical/powerful/kala enough, you wouldn't be sick/feel cranky/have anxiety.

I just started reading The Wisdom of No Escape, Pema Chodron points out that the goal is not to transcend our supposed limitations or faults. The point, as she articulates it, is simply to see yourself as you are, with gentleness and precision. "So whether it's anger or craving or jealousy or fear or depression--whatever it might be-- the notion is not to try to get rid of it, but to make friends with it," she writes. "That means getting to know it completely, with some kind of softness, and learning how, once you've experienced it fully, to let go."

As [livejournal.com profile] loveandpower points out, kala is not a hammer.

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