The 12
segments of the Zodiac keep turning and we find ourselves deep within the
Cancerian section of the zodiac. I take a peek at star signs occasionally to
see what I can learn. Cancerians are known for being a bundle of
contradictions, living life on the turn of their emotions. The yogi learns to
balance these contradictions in the eternal paradox that it means to be human,
which is: how can we be in the body and yet be free? That’s what spiritual
practice is for.
Because, if
we can find a place where two seemingly contradictory things meet, we have
found the place of balance. And that’s the place where freedom resides. This is
quite literally why we do yoga poses. The further away we take ourselves from
where we feel centred, standing upright, to turning ourselves upside down, eg
handstand we completely change our perspective and have to move into where it
feel uncomfortable. That way, we can find our way back, whenever we get taken
off centre, by whatever life throws at us. I love the quote by T.S. Eliot, one
of my favourite explanations of this eternal paradox:
We shall
not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive
where we started and know the place for the first time.
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