The Tea Bag Said It: Capricorn, Libra and Relationships Misunderstood
I’m writing about Pluto in Libra tonight, settled in for a cozy astro-inspired night at home. I remembered that a friend gave me a few tea bags of what is certainly the finest, most wonderful, greatest and otherwise superlativest tea ever created. It’s made by this company that has inspirational messages printed on the bag tags.
You know the one. They’re always pithy notes aimed at gently opening your eyes to a higher level of love and light. Or bringing you back to your already very elevated consciousness after a stressful commute full of screaming at all the ignorant people who shouldn’t be allowed to drive but inexplicably apparently are. Or reinforcing your entrenched self-definition as someone who trafficks in a Cali-style, new agey pithiness that your Midwestern relatives are continually stunned by, telling each other when you’re not around that you probably joined a cult.
I’m usually down with what the tea bags have to say to me. The messages tend support my chosen self-definition, and I even sometimes share with others what the tea bag told me if it was particularly poignant or Cali-licous.
The message tonight: Live for each other.
Can you blame me for running over to trusty Computor to get my reaction down on virtual paper?
I’ve been sitting here teasing out the blind spots and unchecked assumptions of Libra, and the criticism that Capricorn can offer if Libra will listen. Libra makes the other its business, and Capricorn makes building the structures needed to care for people en masse its business.
Each sign’s energy defines itself in terms of what it can do or how much can get done for the other, yet the criticism of Libra from Capricorn has to do with the reality of working hard toward something concrete, and not just remaining focused on a person and the (to-Capricorn) petty concerns of defining the self in terms of interpersonal human relationships.
But living for each other?
No, tea bag, no! Living for each other is how we malfunction. That’s how we get away from being able to offer each other our best, from being able truly to share life in the superlativest ways.
People, don’t listen to the tea bag. Don’t live for each other. Live for yourself. Get yourself to the point where being with others becomes a celebration, and honors your life and their lives and your choice to experience them with each other.
I can’t yet advocate never listening to any tea bag, but you need to root it out and slam the door in its face if it sneaks into your life. And let’s all just be a little critical when tea bags offer easy means to deludedly derail ourselves from our path of compassionate awareness, or whatever other Cali-licious path you might be on.
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February 29, 2008 By Tom Jacobs
March 1st, 2008 at 11:37 am
I really like the malfunction bit, quite contrary to how many folks act in a relationship. Know thyself first and the enjoyment of others is greater
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