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This is the twelfth part of my essay series “Inner Work with the Planets”. If you haven’t read the earlier parts yet, I suggest you start with part 1 to get the most out of this essay.

In the last essay, we (finally!) reached the level of the fixed stars. After all a long and arduous climb with lots of contemplating and thinking thrown in, we simply got to sit all the way up there for a while, and to enjoy the splendid view (unfortunately, nobody was around to serve drinks, but I think we had a reasonably good time anyway… 😉 ).

Today, we’re going to do the obvious thing: We’ll climb down again.

So let’s take one last look around and then turn our backs to all the shining stars and marvelous constellations, and enter the sphere of Saturn again. And while we shuffle back down through the outermost planet’s sphere, slowly and steadily, one well-measured step after the other, we have some time to talk – and to ask questions.

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This is the eleventh part of my essay series “Inner Work with the Planets”. If you haven’t read the earlier parts yet, I suggest you start with part 1 to get the most out of this essay.

Well. We’ve come a long way, up from earth, on our journey through the seven planetary spheres, haven’t we? Saturn surely was a very fitting end of this journey, with his focus on old age and death!

But… is this really it? Once we’re past Saturn’s sphere, will there only be a great void of nothingness? Well, I suggest we’ll go and have a look – and I invite you to join me in taking the last few steps out of the limits of his sphere and into the space beyond… [Read more…] about Signs From Above

This is the tenth part of my essay series “Inner Work with the Planets”. If you haven’t read the earlier parts yet, I suggest you start with part 1 to get the most out of this essay.

Still being somewhat drenched by all the showers of Jovial abundance, today we continue our ascent through the planetary spheres. With Jupiter shrinking to a distant ball of bright-white light behind us, we once more take a deep breath, and slowly continue working our way upwards towards the next (and last) planet which, alas, is still some distance away.

While we tackle this climb one patient step after the other, let’s use the time we have together to continue our discussion from last time, shall we? 🙂

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This is the ninth part of my essay series “Inner Work with the Planets”. If you haven’t read the earlier parts yet, I suggest you start with part 1 to get the most out of this essay.

Phew. Travelling through the sphere of Mars was a pretty intense experience, wasn’t it? I think we deserve a little break at this point – something relaxing, easy-going and not too demanding (well, hopefully – you never know with these planets!).

So let’s use some of this Martian energy to spare us the climb, and instead jump right up into the next sphere…

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This is the eigth part of my essay series “Inner Work with the Planets”. If you haven’t read the earlier parts yet, I suggest you start with part 1 to get the most out of this essay.

Boy, what a morning! Even back when the alarm rang the first time, you knew this day wouldn’t be one of your better ones. Sluggish, tired, and without any drive, you set the alarm forward for a few minutes. Then again. And again, until you finally managed to drag yourself out of bed.

Shuffling listlessly towards the bathroom, the only thing keeping you upright and awake at all was some sense of duty on a workday. Over breakfast, your partner suggested one of your favourites for dinner this evening, but you couldn’t even manage any enthusiasm for that. Still, you did your best to act excited and pleased, even though you’re pretty sure your lack of energy showed. You’ll have to make up for that tonight, although you’d much rather just drop down on the couch and don’t even lift an arm anymore.

Now, at work, things haven’t gotten any better, alas. The deadline looms, but you have no energy at all. Since you can’t get yourself to finish stuff, you instead stare at the outline of the new project you had been looking forward to. Getting going with this would just require you to send some emails… but you don’t feel like starting anything, much less like pulling through. Somehow you must have forgotten your usual initiative and drive in bed.

And to top it all off, in this morning’s meeting about the looming deadline, one of your colleagues offloaded the fault for his own lapses onto you. For a few seconds, you considered starting an argument… but today, even such a small fight seems to be too much effort. Instead, you just shrugged your shoulders, although your boss now believes the delay is your fault and not this colleague’s.

Staring listlessly at your screen, you wonder whether you should just spend lunchbreak slumping here at your desk – and what, for goodness’ sake, is going on with you today… [Read more…] about Wielding a Powerful, Double-Edged Sword