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Wisdom Of The Zodiac (Taurus)- Torkom Saraydarian
Introduction: Zodiacal Keynotes
Life must not be wasted because life does not belong to us. Once we understand this, we can start taking steps to develop our divine nature. We must develop ourselves in such a way that eventually we tune ourselves to the speed of evolution.
This idea is illustrated in the Aesop parable of “The Tortoise and the Hare.” Because the tortoise had concentration and the sense of timing, he refused to stop walking in the race. But because the hare thought he could beat the tortoise without much effort, he started to fool around on the way. The majority of human beings are like the hare in this parable. They are fooling around in life, wasting their time, energy, and matter.
We must start watching our physical, emotional, and mental life and find out what are the things that are retarding us and what are die things that are really speeding our evolution. We must live a life that is planned, a life that is organized, a life that is mathematically designed and has a chart as its outline.
You can create an actual chart and post it on your wall. On this chart, you will record the health and creativity of your body, emotions, and mind from day to day and month to month. You can chart your own ups and downs and correlate them to the particular zodiacal sign through which the sun is passing. The first day the sun enters a particular sign every month is day number one on your chart. From that day on, you will chart your physical, emotional, and mental activities, appetites, creativity, business, health, and relationships.
Each zodiacal sign is a tremendous source of energy, magnetism, and radioactivity that may affect your physical body, emotional body, mental body, and spiritual body. When they are affected, your life totally changes. The effect of these zodiacal signs is reflected in your life relationships.
Every zodiacal sign has a keynote. If you meditate on these keynotes, after one, two, or three years you will become very sensitive to the zodiacal influences and you will start watching and controlling your life scientifically so that yon do not waste time and energy and reach your destination as soon as possible.
Let us consider the keynotes of the zodiacal signs.
1. The keynote of Taurus is: “I see and when the eye is opened, all is illumined.’’ In the month of Taurus you must occupy yourself with the idea of illumination. How illumined are you? Do you really have light, or do you merely think you have light? Don’t forget that most people think they are great masters, and usually those people who are nothing think more of themselves than anybody else.
During the month of Taurus we must scientifically consider the idea of illumination, asking ourselves: Can people make me illuminated, or can I make myself enlightened? Part of the process of illumination is finding out what we are not because until we are destroyed, we cannot build ourselves.
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A virtue is an actual chemical substance. Virtues are emphasized in all great religions and philosophies as the only means for transformation. Knowledge cannot change you; the only things that can change, transform, and transmute all your being are virtues.
The energy radiating from each zodiacal sign is translated by the human being as a particular virtue. Let us consider the twelve virtues associated with the twelve signs of our Zodiac:
1. The energy from Taurus creates the virtue called gratitude. If you are really grateful, you will start giving back whatever you receive. Gratitude means to give back. Gratitude is actualization and fulfillment of the vision of those who love you.
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If you try to express each of these virtues in its particular month, you will attract the energy of the constellation into your system. Actually, the easiest thing to develop is the virtues because they are within us. We must try to make ourselves bloom.
—Lecture (parts of) originally given on July 9, 1988.
From “Wisdom Of The Zodiac” by Torkom Saraydarian, Copyright The Creative Trust, reprinted by permission by Copyright Holder. All Rights reserved.