To have Spirituality in your live means choosing to live aware and with an acknowledged sense of purpose. The more the sense of purpose transcends the mundane, the stronger the feeling of spiritual connection, both to other people and the planet everyone lives on.
Consider an everyday and very useful job, like driving a cab or for Uber or Lift. These drivers get people from one place to another and get paid for the service.
Functionally people need to get from one place to another and cannot always use their own vehicle, especially if they are traveling by plane from destination to destination and then need to go somewhere in the location where they have landed.
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This work has a spiritual value, not just a functional one. The spiritual value is not always addressed; in fact, in modern history, it is rarely, if ever, addressed. In spiritual terms, these people are Guardians.
They pick people up from a place of safety and deliver them to a place of safety; doing so is actually sacred work. Too often people focus on big events or big personalities to find examples of or talk about transcending energy (Tiger Woods as the youngest winner of the Masters in a blowout or Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation).
But spirituality is the understanding that transcendent energy is all around and happening in people’s daily lives if people pay attention and choose to think “spiritually”.
Spiritual Words of the Spirit in the Words
Many words in the lexicon capture the spirituality values that help people sustain and improve mind and body health. Here are a few examples:
Mindfulness
Mindfulness describes intentional awareness of experiences while experiencing them. Human beings can do something no other creature can: reflect on their circumstances, even during an experience.
For example, have you ever been in an argument and suddenly thought, “What am I doing arguing this way?” or “People would think I am crazy if they saw me right now!” If so, you entered a state of mindfulness. You were not just “in” the argument but became “aware” of the argument.
Through practices such as meditation, yoga, or martial arts, a person can intentionally increase mindfulness. This helps with both mental and physical health
Gratefulness
As mentioned above, gratefulness is a transcendent idea, which is the intent of spiritual concepts. The concept is neutral. Someone can be grateful they won a competition and also grateful someone else lost.
This is the real-life manifestation of spiritual energy. It moves through individuals who process it in very different and personal ways.
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Often, one spiritual concept connects with another. For example, when people feel grateful, they often also feel “relief.” That word can also be understood in spiritual terms.
Relief
Building on the previous example, spiritual relief is more than being relieved that your car starts when it’s cold after it wouldn’t crank immediately.
Spiritual relief occurs when you realize a long-held relationship is finally ending. You might feel frustrated, angry, scared, or confused. However, when you pause and dig deeper, you realize you are actually relieved!
Spiritual Tools
Spiritual work can be done personally and professionally in a wide variety of ways, using a vast array of tools. Many of the tools and practices you will find written about throughout this website, especially the tools of astrology and tarot/oracle cards.
Other tools include but are limited to numerology, crystals/gemstones/stones, runes, essential oils, one’s palm, I-Ching coins/yarrow sticks, singing bowls/tuning forks, and on and on.
Even mundane objects, devices, and machinery can be understood spiritually. The electric mixer in a kitchen is a tool “in the spirit” of making food preparation easier, more enjoyable, or even faster.
The car was created “in the spirit” of exploration, travel over great distances, and as a solution to the hardships of travel by horse and buggy or horse and wagon. In some way, if people shift their lens, they can see the spiritual in every day, and hopefully, be more appreciative of life for “seeing” this way.
Serious study of any of the traditional spiritual tools, like astrology or Tarot cards, can help people navigate life when they are faced with difficult decisions or challenging circumstances.
Unlike a thermometer, which simply measures temperature, or a car jack for lifting a car off the ground, spiritual tools engage the imagination, as well as offer practical results.
Consider the 78 cards of a Tarot deck and a person’s desire to have a focus for each day of life. By pulling a card every morning, that person gets the practical result of seeing the image on the card and the creative result of figuring out how to meditate and integrate its meaning into their lives that day.
Spiritually Life and living it
To live spiritually, people must work to attune themselves to how the world works and how people interact. They must look beyond what is readily apparent and easily identifiable.
People take so much in the modern world for granted until something breaks or gets disrupted. They find themselves thrown into turmoil when they should realize that life’s ebb and flow means flat tires and stopped-up toilets, just as much as promotions or time with good friends. Spiritually speaking, everything is equal and a lesson.
Spiritual Perspective
From the spiritual perspective, erosion is as valuable as growth. Decay matters as much as regeneration. Being spiritual or living a spiritual life does not mean “life is easy” or “only good things will happen.”
Loss, sadness, regret, embarrassment, and all the negative experiences of life will cross a person’s path. There is nothing new under the sun. Living spiritually helps most when times are deeply trying. In other words, “no one gets their character tested when things are going their way.” Expect plenty of character tests throughout life’s journey.
Visit the blog section of Ask Astrology to read thoughtful articles by Ask Astrology contributors. They address topics in Mind & Body and other categories found on the site.
The blog articles explore the nature of spirituality as a paradigm of paradigms, the meta of the metamessage, and Neptune of the astrology chart instead of Venus. They discuss what is beyond but also ever-present. Here is a parable that nicely sums up the meaning of spirituality:
Two young fish swim along and pass an older fish swimming the other way. The older fish nods at them and says, “Morning, you two. How’s the water?” The two young fish swim on for a bit. Eventually, one looks over at the other and asks, “What the hell is water?”
