Thoughts are like a passing breeze. Or a bird’s flight as it passes overhead. A glint of sunlight or shadow.
If you do not attach your attention to a thought, it will pass away just as quickly. A thought has no power on it’s own. You give it energy through your attention.
In various spiritual texts we are advised to ‘observe’ our thoughts. Why?
The principal reason is because your thoughts are not you. Awareness of that is a spiritual discovery. You are more, and differently, than your thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
A thought may appear in your mind in response to a newspaper headline, a song, or a conversation.
Thoughts may also appear as the different parts of our psyche feud and squabble. The gods of myth show us personifications of the complex multiplicity of voices that reside in our psychological makeup. Your smooth current of love and beauty (Venus) may be under fire from a lusty, impatient, and astrologically strong Mars. Feelings of compassion (Neptune) may be tested by a desire for retribution or personal victory regardless of cost (Mars, Pluto).
An astrological transit to a sensitive area of your natal chart can produce intense feelings and emotions.
The spiritual practice is to simply allow your thoughts to be. Let them appear.. and then disappear. Observe.
You may want to compare and contrast the difference between what you feel when you attach your attention to thought – and the feeling when you allow it to pass thru your awareness without much notice.
You might even wish to evaluate your thoughts and feelings within a context of myth and archetypal astrology. These planets, gods, and energies represent the wonderful complexity of the spiritual experience as a human being.
