Sagittarius’ Magic Beans

Fairy tales follow the seasons just like we do.  After Scorpio darkens our prospects, and a weary mother instructs us to go to market and sell the family cow for a bag of gold, we meet a Sagittarian emissary, offering instead a handful of magic beans.  A foolish bargain, but something about the way the Sun winks and glitters around the beans, we say yes, knowing when we get home, mom will call us a simpleton, throw them out the window, and sob.  We don’t yet know and can’t tell mom about the tall vine we will climb tomorrow, that will bring us adventure and the solution to all our problems:  a singing harp, more gold than we can count, and a goose that will lay gold eggs for months to come.  We don’t know about the giant either.  But climbing that beanstalk will build our muscles and prepare our eyes for a brilliant new perspective--that will make us think we can conquer anything that stands in our way. 

Magic beans don’t come with labels, but serendipitous Sagittarian encounters usually contain the following transcendent ingredients:  Space to roam.  A willingness to explore foreign ideas.  A thirst for truth.  Certainty that life means something.  With these ingredients, your personal beanstalk grows, adventure beckons.  What is it that caught you by surprise recently?  What temporarily buoyed your spirit?  You must follow whatever it is that promises to take you skyward.  Don’t believe the inner mother who calls it foolishness.  Don’t let a giant of doubts gobble you up.  Naivete is an asset now.  And your mind is more nimble than usual.  Sell the cow, plant the beans, climb the stalk, and believe that your efforts will make the gods and goddesses smile.  As e.e. cummings wrote, “—listen:  there’s a hell/ of a good universe next door; let’s go.”

Offering to the Personal Collective
Most spiritual traditions suggest that we are “all one” – when we forget this, we feel “alone.”  The more we affirm the well-being of others, the more our own well-being is affirmed.  Psychologists suggest that each of us has a “sympathy group” of around 12 people, those individuals whose death would leave us truly devastated.  Psychologists also suggest we each have a larger group (around 150 people); these are ones we have social ties with, people we wouldn’t feel shy about joining if we bumped into them at Starbucks.  These groups represent your family and your tribe.  Think of them when you make your Sagittarius group offering.

Be a positive vision holder for your circle.  In a meditative state, see the whole web of individuals you know in connection.  You may especially want to bring in those with whom you’re currently in conflict, even political figures, if that’s the case.  Allow your visualized web to move in chaotic, aggressive, beautiful, or ignorant ways, depending on your perception of the individuals.  Then ascend, staying with your visualization of the web until you can see that the light of truth shines in each and every member.  Feel how this awareness transforms you, how the light within you gets bigger and brighter.  The web transforms as well, becoming exponentially brighter, now shimmering with so many facets of the truth, it’s like a web full of diamonds.  Carry this awareness into your daily life.  It’s a powerful balm for easing righteousness.