Television news is broadcasting alarming scenes of devastation in the Gulf of Mexico as the BP oil fills and destroys the waters, and all that lives in it. A well-known current affair program reported on the fact that the spill started with one person's botched job on a safety mechanism on a pipe deep under the water. Warnings were given to the company running the oil rig and a temporary shut-down was discussed and overridden by a profit-hungry BP. The disaster that has followed has eaten up more profits than ever would have been lost through a temporary shutdown and nothing justifies the devastation that has followed.
Why such doom and gloom? It reminded me of the subconscious warnings that we all ignore, the little jobs that we put off until tomorrow, seemingly insignficant, but with possible important consequences. In BP's case there was a conscious choice to ignore warnings. In our own busy lives, it is often a subconscious reaction. There are the bills that don't get paid on time, the chores that are left incomplete and the phone calls that are postponed. Sometimes there are also larger issues at stake - the niggling pain that is our body's warning that something is wrong is ignored until we have more time or a strange noise from a car engine is disregarded as not necessarily dangerous. The Angels try to watch over us but the noise of our lives, and our thoughts, drowns out their messages.
If we are in tune with the deeper level of our lives - the subconscious, our souls, Angels, Guides or other such esoteric forms of communication - then the opposite can be true. We take a right turn just at the right time avoiding a delay or accident, we make the phone call and discover a friend in need, or we see the doctor and nip a potentially serious illness in the bud.
The difference between listening and not listening is sometimes as simple as the fact that we feel overwhelmed. Astrology can help us formulate a plan, work out the timing of decisions and hence feel less overwhelmed. It can also help us to see the signposts along the way, the symbolic ones that strive to be heard or seen when we are not distracted by the paraphernalia of modern society - the television, computer, radio etc. Sometimes a question asked, or an important chore that is needed to be carried out, can literally be on a billboard in big letters. However, often it is also a still, small voice. Either way listening is the key. If only BP had listened to the warnings.
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Its also about trust too, isn't it Steph - that we can learn to trust our instincts even though we don't know why we should turn that corner or take that different path. And in that there's some work to do to discern what our instincts are telling us from what our more temporal wants or needs are telling us. When you're in that flow, though, whoosh! What a feeling of connection.
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