Freedom the Aquarius in Poverty

     I was reading an article about Aquarius people and their naturally rebellious spirits - - It said that they will cross the path to be the opposite of whatever they find to be a dominant thought patterns, way of living, spirit of believing - just to be a rebel.
So I put 2 + 2 together with a statistic put about by astrologers that Aquarius people probably make up half the mental wards and made a pretty humorous discovery...
     I realized that is how left-wing nuts and right-wing nuts are made. It's pretty universal though, not just for Aquarius people. 
     I think I prefer to be somewhere in the middle most of the time, but how do we know where the middle is unless we've explored one end or the other to find that balancing point on our own?
     “When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman’s gun.” --Alexander Berkman
     Sometimes I feel like I'm not free at all but caught into the machine of debt slavery and that my work was commissioned not by my choices but by the way I am expected to maintain a level of society which is enforced by possession. And as I feel poor today, putting aside my wishes and putting aside some of the things I had grown accustomed to in habit, putting aside my cravings... I am richer for I see that the free things are all around me.
     "The possessions of the rich are stolen property. "- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
     My sociology professor at Southern Arkansas University, Dr. Ambler, said we should always try to haggle with sales-people for a better deal on things. I try to do this sometimes and have found that if someone is willing to make a good deal, then there are others who give freely. 
     While it is instilled in me that I should earn my take, and as I proceed with this at the root of my motion... I have a giving spirit and don't feel too out of balance to accept when another has gifts to share.
     In that vein, I told someone the other day - in a rather philosophical moment - that if they really want to do business with someone, if they want their take in the spoils, well then all they really needed to do was ask for it.
     Have any of you reading this ever found this to be true?
     “All men have poetry in their hearts, and it is necessary for them, as much as possible, to express their feelings. For this they must have a medium, moving and pliant, which can refreshingly become their own, age after age. All great languages undergo change. Those languages which resist the spirit of change are doomed and will never produce great harvests of thought and literature. When forms become fixed, the spirit either weakly accepts its imprisonment or rebels. All revolutions consists of the "within" fighting against invasion from "without"... All great human movements are related to some great idea.” --Rabindranath Tagore
      I see all around me a movement of people who are working from within the system to make the world a better place and I question my place in this movement. I'd love to be among those to profit from it and to become engaged for permanence with a place that has such a love for its surroundings and its natural attributes.
     After all, these are the very things I am finding in payment for my poverty. Among these, I hope to share distinct stories of the passion I have and find.
I gain by witnessing, loving, seeing others share such caring for whole towns, states, nations, peoples of similar affliction or arresting spirit, people who are struggling all together to figure out their places.
     I will post quotes I find profound here. I will share my meditations on the world. I will also, hopefully include several original articles on the creative process, some poetry and photography.
     I'm just one woman, but also a news reporter walking with eyes wide open to the possibilities. And I'm among the people, their potentials and their drives. I hope to share my own experience with this, along with some spiritual impacts.


Sincerely, - Terri (A woman who hopes you'll subscribe and share her blog with others)