Alarming Lack Of Compassion Or Endless Generosity, Depending…
Astrology in real life
What I notice right now is a lack of compassion that is alarming. It’s like a puddle that has just plain dried up but alongside it, or somewhere else nearby there is still compassion.
People on the boards here show great compassion for each other. I demonstrated my compassion in ways that were significant over the last 24 hours – however as far as I can see, it is not either / or.
By that I mean I don’t think we have two groups, one compassionate, the other not. The same people who show compassion show an alarming lack of compassion depending on the people(s) or subjects involved. The people who mostly show a lack of compassion are extremely compassionate when it comes to the people or things they value.
This is reflected in the sky by the stellium in Pisces up against the Saturn Pluto square. Many think they represent one energy or the other but they really harbor both.
In whatever case, that dried up pool of compassion is really something to marvel at, as is the way people continue to give and give and give.
What are your observations around the current level of compassion out there?
23 Responses to “Alarming Lack Of Compassion Or Endless Generosity, Depending…”
I’ve noticed this. Sort of an “if you aren’t on my approved list, you can get run over for all I care.”
Beth – exactly.
But also there are things people really used to care about but they no longer do. They are so tapped, see?
That’s true. When people are stressed they pull back. And there’s a lot less uneccessary stuff. Still it’s hard to see some kinds of callousness.
Agreed. And everyone goes in *someones” kill pile. Even the people who say they don’t have a kill pile. Ask a few pointed questions and they start spewing too.
I have another angle on this. Damn but it’s fascinating and as I have already copped, I am myself, floating in the cesspool.
Part of my sees this as a bad thing (ie. having a kill pile) and the other side of me wonders if this is another way that people “pick their battles.”
Example, I donate to the food bank. I get asked for donations for other charities and I don’t donate to them–for several reasons, but the chief one being–I donate food; someone eats it.
Maybe I’m talking about something completely unrelated, but regardless I’d like to hear your other angles on this!
I guess its just human nature, so many kinds, carrying luggage from the patina of our past.
I see it and feel it myself. Priorities.. if you fit a priority than you get it in spades.
Beth mentioned getting run over, which reminds me of a recent comment I left on another Astrology blog about this contradiction. It amazes me how people can support all the right humanitarian political causes, yet almost kill you as they speed through the stop sign ignoring you in the crosswalk. You can tell how evolved they are by their bumper stickers. Apparently, in their big rush to get somewhere, they’ve missed the fact that there are other human beings along the way. I think it’s kind of a metaphor.
This is about as self focused as I have been in years. It’s a survival thing, not a meat and potatoes kind of survival but a need to take care of myself and protect myself psychically or spiritually or whatever you want to call it, so I can keep functioning. Pluto transit the Moon. So it’s not that I do not have time for compassion, I just can’t spread myself too thin, I have been doing that for years and it’s time to restock the cupboards or conserve resources so I can keep on keeping on. Nor do I expect someone to fly beside me and re-fuel my jet plane in mid air, when landing and looking at the new flight plan would make more sense. Does any of this make any sense to anyone else reading here?
Honestly, this is my normal modus operandi. These people over here get my compassion, and these over here do not.
It’s always been that way, because I cannot carry everyone. No one can. And the people that try make themselves crazy and burn themselves out — something I never wanted to happen to me.
A lot of people interpret that as coldness, and, hell, it may be. But I’m able to back those that deserve it 100% instead of 5%, with the other 95% going to some who need it and some who don’t.
Conservation of resources. It’s a beautiful thing.
I relate. This past year has been about working much more on a psychic level protecting myself – which I never did before. I thought the energy was immortal, whereas now I know that I cultivate my life force.
I am much more contained. My mind body spirit has integrity. I have become whole.
This does not change my ‘meat and potato’ struggle, but it does make me feel at peace and balanced no matter the material situation.
I have been really shocked though, at what people say and what they do e.g. saying they want more community, but then when you ask for help e.g. travel money to get to a job, they dredge up 4 years worth of baggage and i realise, no baby, you are totally on your own here.
Saying that, the stellium in Pisces is sharing kindness with me and me with others, but others that have never received from me before…unexpected blessings.
Life is fascinating.
i have more compassion for people who don’t appear to be responsible for the messed up stuff they’re dealing with.
but how that is judged can vary widely from person to person, i am sure.
and, i found, as a teacher… too much compassion can burn me out. badly. there’s only so much to give and then…… nihilism and futility and the sheer weight of human misery and my incapacity to fix much more than a molecule of the drop in the bucket of tears… just wore me out… to the bone. more than anything else.
I definitely agree with what you guys are saying about protecting (Saturn) your energy on a psychic level (Pluto). I am trying out flower essences for the first time to aid this process.
As an example of the level of compassion out there, I can look at the situation in Haiti. The magnitude of this disaster evoked a tremendous amount of emotion and compassion. Personally I wanted to do more, I wanted to adopt a child or go down there and work on clearing rubble or help with the relief effort there. In the end, all I could do was send my thoughts and prayers and some money.
But there are people suffering all over the world in our own countries and cities, and there is so much compassion, thoughts prayers and money needed.
On the other end of the spectrum there are people running red lights and giving you the finger because you are in their way.
So I think there is both a tremendous amount of compassion out there and often a very real and surprising lack of compassion.
orlando what you’re saying makes total sense to me. I have Venus/Mars-Saturn-Neptune in a grand Fire trine (4,8,12th Houses) and I have a lot-a lot a lot a lot- of compassion. Bleeding heart was what my parents always call me;)
I also have Neptune in my 12th opposing Jupiter in 6th (Jup being my chart ruler) and it’s SO easy for me to “spend” my resources (emotional and otherwise) willy nilly. I see your “restocking the cupboards” in a similar way–
It actually serves NO ONE if I don’t discriminate.
Also re: your comment about helping people in your own community. I think it’s a very Ghandian approach and worth it’s weight in salt (pardon the pun). I think about this a lot because one of my siblings does a lot of international aid work, and I always been curious why not at home.
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Ana Aurora Lee- Eric Clapton. We played that at our wedding, which our oldest daughter refers to as ‘the hippie wedding’. LOL It was 1981. Now this thread is really tugging my heart.
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I believe that people are stretched to the limit with finances, unemployment and stress. When you’re in ‘survival mode’ most of the time…its harder to be compassionate. But, we all just witnessed unparalleled compassion for the people of Haiti. I believe there was over $10 million dollars in $5 and $10 donations texted in a matter of days to aid the earthquake victims. (jupiter/pisces vibe)
In times like that, it brings back my faith in humanity.
u2 has a song called Stay…Faraway so Close.
in it Bono sings…A vampire or a victim it depends on who’s around. I think our lives are highly dependent on who’s around at times. We might have compassion for some people and not for others depending on the energy they project and give. Some are energy suckers and really you need to stay away from them. If you give compassion they will bleed you dry.
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I think Saturn is helping people direct their compassion where it should be going and this detachment (which is somewhat brutal) is making this a lot easier. I know it is for me anyway. I’ve severed giving my compassion to people who are undeserving of it or who I feel are just a useless drain. And I don’t care or have any sympathy for them when they resist my change in behavior. That aside, I can channel my compassion toward those who really need it and can use the support and show gratitude and reciprocation.