Lessons from the 12th house
Someone
made a comment to a post yesterday that really got me excited. The post I made was done two years ago and concerned me having three planets in the 12th astrological house and making a possible link with that and the overall introspective tone of my life. His comment was that people with much 12th house activity have chosen the path of soul growth.
Upon reading that something just rang inside of me like, "that's so true!" The things I've chosen to believe on faith have all elicited such a resonate response from inside of me. You know, you absolutely can't prove what you're coming across is true in any way whatsoever, but something inside of you screams in delight at coming across it. After many years of doubting, and testing, that voice I've since come to rely upon it like a compass to discern truth.
One thing I've always detested are the life expectations that are created for us before we're even born. It goes like the structure of a pop song: you're born, have fun as a kid, rebel as a teenager, crash a car or two, get a girl pregnant/get pregnant. If you don't take that branch then you go to college, get drunk off your ass, graduate, get a job, party even harder now that have money, get married, have kids, go through a mid-life crisis, spend your last days doped up on medicines or vacationing or going senile, die. How boring.
Now certainly the script of life isn't so spelled out but it's just all the expectations people have of you. If you don't do such and such by such and such time then you're not on schedule and you're in trouble.
I could very well be following some typical life path but I've always thought I'm not. :) I've largely lived in my head and have always fancied myself an observer of life than a liver of one. Though I've had plenty of opportunities to get back on schedule I've always found myself drawn to studying people and the patterns we go through. I think that's probably why that guy's comment hit home with me so much. My life
has been primarily about soul growth! Truly every person is ultimately growing regardless of whatever they're doing, I believe. But just as everything is composed of atoms, we don't observe things on an atomic scale but on a higher level. And it's even at this higher level that I still feel my life path has primarily been focused on soul growth. More emphasis on that core goal perhaps, to say it another way. (Hmm, almost like how a crystal mirrors its atomic structure in macroscopic form. Hmm, something to ponder for later.)
Something else that guy said was about learning to accept yourself and using your intuition/faith to help with that. So so true, and it's exactly what I've learned to this point in my life. I didn't make a mistake in creating the life that I have, the tendencies I have, the beginning circumstances of my life. Yeah, life is cool. :)
I must sound like a cheerleader for happiness sometimes on my blog I think, I've been writing about it so much. But why not, I haven't always felt this way so it feels good to now. And besides, there's so much negativity in various forms "out there" why not help balance it if I can.
NOTEIn reference to something I said above about being drawn back to studying people rather than living life. A counter-argument I've always thought of to that, and which I think other readers might make, is that instead of being drawn back to studying people I was/am just afraid to live life and thus came up with a justification to continue in my current path. There is some truth to that thinking so I won't attempt to deny it.
What I can say is that at this stage of my life I see value now in any path a person may choose to make in their life. Even if a person's choices are perceived by themselves as less than ideal there is still value in this. Specifically that they realize
for themselves their choices are less than ideal. This may seem like a worthless statement but no one can be forced to do anything they are not willing to do themselves. Change, or growth, can only occur on an individual's schedule.