Category Archives: Human-ness

#15: Wrapping Up the Houses View Spiritually

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

The aspiration behind this series on the astrological houses has been that of self-knowing and understanding. A plethora of mechanisms for doing so exist in the world. They have been handed down or brought freshly forward through all spiritual traditions. … Continue reading →

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84000

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

There are many important efforts necessary in the world today and many life-supporting, world-changing efforts to support. 8400 is one. The reason is not about Buddha or “Buddhism” but because understanding the Truth – the non-deceptive, underlying, incontrovertible Truth of … Continue reading →

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#14: the Ascendant spiritually understood

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Why is the Ascendant of a birth chart given importance? And, from an esoteric point of view, how are we to embody the energies of the ASC? The Ascendant of the horoscope is also called the Rising Sign because this … Continue reading →

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Meditation: innate, immeasurable, inexhaustible presence

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Tranquility, patience, joy or gladness, sense of harmony and wholeness, kindness, goodness, and understanding are all innate. Meditators around the world additionally  experience luminosity being already present, spaciousness of mind-Awareness as so, and with a little practice one experiences that … Continue reading →

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Meditation: the source of virtue

Posted on December 26, 2019 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Virtue is not in the thing being done but in the intention and attitude of the thing being done. A moment’s contemplation on why something is being enacted or being restrained can turn that moment, for example, from getting rid … Continue reading →

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