The 4 Awakenings

Did you know their were four kinds of lives that we were born to live, in this life?

This morning as the Moon moved passed Almighty Jupiter, these thoughts came to me.

The First Awakening

Most of those who have been exposed to the vision of life, through Astrology, known as the Astrological life, thatıs unique to our Jyotish.

Even not knowing about our Astrology we are born to live all the pluses and minuses of our Astrology.

We have sweet periods, times when everything wonderful happens for us.  Then there are the dark times, when everything unimaginable goes wrong!   Later we hear there are these two sides of our Astrological life; called benefics and maleifcs.  

Pre-Jyotish is one life, and post-Jyotish begins another.

I find myself sometimes reminiscing sometimes about my former, pre-Jyotish, life.  There were some absolutely positive times, but, there were also some deeply troubling ones, as well.

For most itıs the dark times of our malefics that makes us search for the unique answers that are so well available in the understandings of our Astrology.

The Second Awakening

So, we begin the process of seeing ourselves through our Astrology charts.  Why are we the way we are?  Why are we so uniquely different then other people?  And, how are we the same?  These and many more questions get a chance to be fulfilled the more we understand the unique flavors of our Jyotish charts.

After awhile, learning about our Astrology, feels, literally, like weıve been reborn!

Thereıs a unique kind of Œawakeningı that comes to us, even if we only begin hearing about our Astrology.  ³Ahhhhh, sooo thatıs why Iım the way I am?²

Then, a unique kind of peacefulness begins washing over us, even after just beginning to hear about our charts.

For some, we go to our Astrology when weıre having problems.  For others, we delight in this unique process of Œawakeningı with each aspect of our charts, that we hear.

What is this process of Awakening that weıre going through?

What are itıs full possibilities?  And where will it end up?

The Third Awakening

One time I heard it said:  ³The purpose of life is the development of perfection.  We will be born again and again until full perfection is reached.²

I think of this when I think of this quality of ŒAwakeningı.

Pre-Jyotish, I was like a football, being kicked this way and that.

One moment I was rushing ahead, happy, excited.   The next, stumbled, tackled, with my face in the mud.  After awhile, even the happy times, couldnıt out-way the disappointing ones.

Thus begins the process of self-inquiry which has the delicious quality of Self-Awakening.

Because itıs in Awakening that we truely find ourselves.

Itıs in Awakening that we begin to Œawakenı from our deep slumber.

Itıs in Awakening that we see our true purposes and potentials in this life.

Itıs in Awakening that we see the light!

Jyotish is the supreme light of the Ved!

Vedic Knowledge contains the complete knowledge of life; both in itıs Absolute and Relative characteristics.

Expansion of Consciousness

In Œthisı 3rd Awakening, whether weıve learned our Astrology, or not, is contained the possibility of awakening to our higher Selves.

For thousands of years, people have heard:  ³Know Thyself².

In Western culture from the times of the Greeks, the idea of coming to know ThySelf, has
been there.   Though of course, itıs been not well understood or practiced for almost as long.

In the East, this idea of Higher Self, or Enlightenment, is more clearly understood.  Though, there, too, itıs not widely practiced anymore.

But, the entire World today, is in a process of an explosion of self-renewal!  Today, millions of individuals, of all nations and all cultures have been exposed to the unique life-awakening properties of the Higher Self.

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The Fourth Awakening

Though for most, Astrology or especially Jyotish is not know, but for those unique few, who have started seeing themselves through the Self, notice, capital ŒSı, and also have found themselves, enlivening themselves through their Jyotish, a unique 4th dimension of life begins to be.



In the beginning, weıre living our lives.  We donıt know why, and sometimes weıre happy and other times weıre not.

But, such a life, seems grossly superficial, so after a time, we begin to itch, to search for something else.

For some, this Œemptinessı, draws us to Astrology.  For others, weıre drawn to things like meditation, and other time honored technologies of Self-Awareness.

Whatever the Œpathı, we begin to find ourselves in a new light.

If weıve coming from that Astrological Œbranchı, then, weıre beginning to see, the relative Wisdom of our path.

Once we begin to understand our Jyotish, we begin to feel more at peace, because we begin to understand that there are some very good reasons why our life has been the way it has.

A kind of initial peacefulness begins to spread over us, and this is the effect of Knowledge, the Pure Knowledge or Vedic Knowledge of the Self.

The uniquely detailed variety of Jyotish, Vedic Knowledge gives us a delicious specificity of insight that makes us feel extremely self-confident, because so few understand, really, the reasons why our lives are the way they are.

For those whose Œsecondı path, became Œmeditationı of consciousness expansion, a huge thrust or swelling of self, explodes, for us.

From this perspective, many possibilities are possible.  Regardless of the Astrological Œpathı that we had been walking, now we begin to see ourselves from a completely unique and unparalled consciousness perspective.

When the mind begins to go within, and especially learns to ŒTRANSCENDı, then, the beginning possibilities of ŒAll Possibilitiesı begins.

When the mind settles down, and goes for brief or longer periods of silence, the Self of the Universe, begins to pull us back to itSelf.

We sometimes come out of meditation feeling great, mmmmmm, something.  We canıt quite put our finger on it, but we do feel different.  As time goes by and weıre regularly taking time to fathom this new Reality, we begin to have especially clearer experiences.

Many experiences of clearer transcending come to us, and then, we begin to find that especially Œsmoothı and delicious quality of bliss permeating out into every day life.

Iıll never forget when that experience began.  For me, it took about 5 years of meditating.  Probably because I was so highly stressed, even in my youth! hehe

But, after about that time, I began to feel an inner glow that was unmistakable.

I hadnıt learned my Jyotish yet, but something fundamentally wonderful had begun.

Unfortunately, even meditation without Jyotish might be incomplete.

Because of these two Jyotish sides of us; Benefic and Malefic, even with meditation, a kind of frustration can continue.

I remember thinking even after 10 years of meditating, why arenıt I progressing, more quickly!  This quagmire continued for a few more years, until I found myself in India, and literally stumbled onto Jyotish.

Then over the next few years, I began my study of Jyotish, which because I was already meditating, I found myself zooming to an even more exciting level of Awakening.

Changeing our Stars

For most, fatalism dominates most of the thinking of even,  modern day Jyotish.  There are your strengths, those Benefics, but then, there are those pesky Malefics!

For most, sure, there are some kinds of Œremedial measuresı that might be tried, but basically weıre stuck to live out the poorer karmas of those so-called malefics.

But, sometimes, you can have the experience of some kind of self-transformation, even, wrapped around one of those same malefics.

Maybe itıs Mars, maybe Mars has been acting weirdly and some kinds of disappointing characteristics of malefic Mars has been dominating.

Maybe weıve been accident prone, or subject to easy bouts of anger, or confrontation with others.  Or maybe, even, weıve been treated badly by others.

But, sometimes, we somehow begin to Œget itı, and we seem to turn a corner, so to speak,  and that same intensity of Mars Œmaleficnessı, seems to be less.

Maybe we just got tired of being so Marish!

Or, maybe we just started to understand.

Whatever the reason, but, we seem to be fundamentally different now, and thatıs because we stumbled upon some deep shift in ŒBALANCEı, regarding even one of our Malefics!

So, we get excited and we begin to look at our Jyotish, or our charts, differently.

Maybe, even, someone says ³You Can Change Your Stars²!

Regardless of the reason, but once we start to look at our Malefics, in this way, not only as our fixed, Œfateı, but as literally the very areas of our lives; that weıre meant to change!, then,
we begin to move into a bigger Œlightı of our lives.

It happens in meditation, too.  We are going along, living the relative strengths of our planets, and then, whoosh, we sit down to meditate, and our minds ..... literally, go off!

We donıt even know where we went.

But, after some time, we come back, and we think, ... ³Wow, what happened?    Where, did I go?  It was so..... great,.... there.²

In those experiences, wherever our charts have lead us, we begin to experience an unmistakable, deeper level of Reality.

In such a state, our Sunıs are found expanding.  In those simple, wonderful inner experiences, even our Moonıs are found bigger, and brighter.  Afterwards, we come out, we come back, and as we get back into our day, the flows of our events, begins to be, more effortless and natural.

In truth, even the Saturn within us got enlivened in an amazing way, from meditation.

So, we continue with our inner development of Consciousness, but if weıre one of those lucky oneıs who also know their Jyotish, an amazing 4th level of Awakening becomes possible for us.

Jai Guru!

All thanks to the Almighty Guru or Jupiter, witin us.


Sincerely,


Mark Kincaid







Astrologer,
Teacher of Meditation & Ayurved
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