I have a question about spiritual development - is it better, in a given lifetime, to stick with what you are interested in and good at, or try to branch out and broaden your expertise for your next life? The reason that I ask this is that I am pretty good at making things, and enjoy it. I've been like this since I was a child, with a fairly intuitive grasp of how things work and fit together, and from delving into my family history, actually come from a relatively long line of craftsmen (and women), engineers and 'makers' of one form or another. My birth charts are also extremely gemini/mercury/air focused, and everything about my personality is very gemini-like, and I remember you saying that Mercury rules machines, which made a lot of things make sense. (And on a related note - one of the posters mentioned this last week, but I don't know if Mercury has been in a bad mood recently, as I had a 2 month period of really bad luck with machines, vehicles, journeys and communication. It seems to have abated now though)
However, I am terrible at things like playing music and painting. I've tried to learn 5 instruments, and have been pretty awful at all of them, partially because I lack the motivation to practice for 15 minutes a day, but I could happily spend 5 hours of an evening making a small cart out of wood.
So what I'm getting to is whether it's worth bothering trying to learn new skills that I feel like I *ought* to learn, as opposed to furthering the ones I'm already good at and enjoy more? If I 'need' to learn to play music or paint, etc, will it be something I will have the correct upbringing and environment for in a next life, or is it that I'm on a 'machines' path, and this will be what I continue to develop on? (as Dion Fortune alluded to with her description of the 'rays' that different souls are on - I'm glad you've got her picture up this week by the way, as she is my favourite occult author!)
Spiritual development
I have a question about spiritual development - is it better, in a given lifetime, to stick with what you are interested in and good at, or try to branch out and broaden your expertise for your next life? The reason that I ask this is that I am pretty good at making things, and enjoy it. I've been like this since I was a child, with a fairly intuitive grasp of how things work and fit together, and from delving into my family history, actually come from a relatively long line of craftsmen (and women), engineers and 'makers' of one form or another. My birth charts are also extremely gemini/mercury/air focused, and everything about my personality is very gemini-like, and I remember you saying that Mercury rules machines, which made a lot of things make sense. (And on a related note - one of the posters mentioned this last week, but I don't know if Mercury has been in a bad mood recently, as I had a 2 month period of really bad luck with machines, vehicles, journeys and communication. It seems to have abated now though)
However, I am terrible at things like playing music and painting. I've tried to learn 5 instruments, and have been pretty awful at all of them, partially because I lack the motivation to practice for 15 minutes a day, but I could happily spend 5 hours of an evening making a small cart out of wood.
So what I'm getting to is whether it's worth bothering trying to learn new skills that I feel like I *ought* to learn, as opposed to furthering the ones I'm already good at and enjoy more? If I 'need' to learn to play music or paint, etc, will it be something I will have the correct upbringing and environment for in a next life, or is it that I'm on a 'machines' path, and this will be what I continue to develop on? (as Dion Fortune alluded to with her description of the 'rays' that different souls are on - I'm glad you've got her picture up this week by the way, as she is my favourite occult author!)
Thanks,
Mr. Crow