Epiphany: Faith Meets Practicality And Their Eyes Lock
Astrology in real life
epiphany: 3 a (1) : a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something (2) : an intuitive grasp of reality through something (as an event) usually simple and striking (3) : an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure b : a revealing scene or moment
This is related to Old and Diseased and also to Are You Psychic About Your Life?
My husband is ultra practical and super controlled about mundane things. He takes a logical approach to everything and I do not. We are now getting ready to make a will which is a step on his master plan of life which he has and revises and updates all the time.
Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate this about him. He contains things and puts ropes around them but he does not expect me to do the same and in fact it’s always been this way.
When we were teenagers, we lived together. We would come home on payday and throw our money onto the table. Mine would be crumpled up dollar bills (tips), his would be crisp $20 bills as the military paid in cash back then. He’d have also written down the serial numbers of the bills as he was taught to do in boot camp and there we were in out mismatched strangeness.
“What did you think when you saw all that crumpled money?” I asked.
“P has no discipline. P should go through boot camp.” And here we are now trying to figure it out.
“If I had a million dollars, it’s not like I’d know it,” I said. “I’d have no idea of that.” (Venus Neptune)
“Either would anyone else,” he said, shocking me because it is true.
“Well… I don’t hide anything. I answer direct questions about money when it is someone’s business. We wrote everything down (before we married) and I put everything on there, I just don’t know how much money there is. Whatever there is, it’s enough, that’s all I know.”
“How do you know that? How would you know that?”
“Oh, well I had an epiphany,” I said. “I once lost $100,000 in 2 or 3 days. More than that. It was $123,000 or $125,000 or so and when that happened… well it was a wipe-out actually. It was pretty much everything I had but I had an epiphany at that time. I was told somehow I should not worry about it as all the money would all come back. Yeah. The epiphany was that the money would come back on it’s own and it would be there by the time I needed so I shouldn’t worry about it. This happened… the epiphany came fast. Like maybe 30 seconds after I knew I’d lost the money, I knew it would make no difference so it was weird. There was no suffering when that happened. The money was gone and I quickly knew not to worry about and I’ve not worried about money since.” (15 years)
No comment.
“We have enough money, don’t we? We have everything we need and let’s face it, we don’t need much. We need hardly anything but that’s irrelevant. The important thing is if we actually need something, we will be able to get it, I’m pretty sure. That was the epiphany and while I realize this could be wrong… I could be insane for all I know but so far it’s held true and my guess is that it will stay this way and if not, then I will get another epiphany?”
No comment.
“Okay, well I will write everything down carefully,” I said. “I will make a sheet with everything on it and you can do whatever you want with the information.”
He has Venus in Gemini in aspect to Uranus so $ is intellectual to him. It is intellectual to me as well, it’s just the thoughts come into my head quickly.
I think the faith around money is due Venus Neptune in my chart. I credit Jupiter Uranus with the tendency to have epiphanies.
Have you ever had an epiphany?
16 Responses to “Epiphany: Faith Meets Practicality And Their Eyes Lock”
Yeah, daisy, and once you know it, you can’t un-know it.
What amazes me about this is my husband never tries to make me see it or do it his way and vice versa. We’ve also never had a conflict over money in our lives. This seems sort of strange given our differences. You’d think he’d be on me to track things or I would bother him over spending an hour looking for 3 cents in his checking about which is exactly what he does.
LOL, funny how he thought you needed boot camp!!
YES. About possessions a while back and how they really don’t mean squat in the end. Sure there may be sentimental attachment to some items, but what does it do for me in the end, when I’m gone? Not a damn thing.
Hmmm, perhaps Uranus in the 2nd house? A crazy family member destroyed 95% of my personal possessions when I was 24. In hindsight, the lesson was invaluable.
my husband transferred some money from his account to mine and wanted me to check and make sure it was there. I did not want to check and make sure it was there because I was sure it was there but he asked me for the 3rd time, today.
“Okay, hold on,” I said, having to get out of bed and get on the computer. I pulled up my account. “Yep, it’s there. It. Is. There.”
“Good.”
“Hey, wait a minute. There is a $500 check here. Did I write a $500 check? I don’t write checks? What is that, do you think?”
“Don’t know,” he said on the phone from another state.
“Well, I’ll be damned. I never write checks. It’s a paper check,” I said. “It has a number. I don’t write but maybe one check a year. $500! Who did I pay?”
“Find out, P.”
“I guess,” I said, mindlessly clicking the check. A scan check popped up, bigger than life with my signature. I was shocked, I did not expect the click to do anything. “Ohhhhhhhh, I said. “I gave that money to ______________,” I said with a chuckle (Nagging Conscience) “Jeez, man, you think I’d remember something like that,” I said. “It’s only been a couple weeks and it’s probably the only check I wrote all year.
“Sounds like regular, P, to me.”
I’m like the soldier with money…but my venus is in virgo. But I just had an epiphany as I read your latest piece above: Trusting the universe seems to work miracles for you, Elsa. I’m thinking of the miracle healing of your burned hand, and now your explanation of never worrying about having enough, even after losing a huge wad of money. It all blows my mind… do you think that would work for all of us? …just quit worrying and live…no matter if my sun is exactly square my saturn?
Once you know it, you can’t unknow it
Especially when the things you know where obtained in the shadow of that dark alley. And when you do choose to illuminate it, it becomes someone else’s epiphany. And again the eyes lock.
norah, I don’t know if it works for everyone. I had a stock account, it was worth about $129,000. I turned my back… signed on 3 days later and it was $6,000. ::shakes head::
Anyway, that was a one shot deal. I had been very scared about money all my life so what actually happened was my greatest fear. You know how they say once that happens… well it is very liberating.
So anyway, my husband come from a family that has amassed and lost 3 separate fortunes. He himself has worked diligently since he was 13 years old but was wiped out twice. He KNOWS that if he does not watch himself…. well he still gets his ass kicked but hopes to not wind up homeless after working his whole life.
Point is, in his case, I would say NO it would not work but it you are someone who lands on your feet consistently then there is a point at which the worry is probably needless and maybe even worse.
By that I mean, at least I acknowledge the gifts I do get and this is one of them. The epiphanies, I mean. And if I ignored them, then I guess they would be wasted on me.
I should also say, I did not get good at this until post my Saturn return.
My husband and I were just talking the other night about how many marriages end because of disagreements about or stress over money. Neither of us are, nor ever have been very concerned with money- but, we always seem to make just enough, no matter what… so, we don’t worry or stress. We tried to think of any time we had ever argued about finances and neither of us could think of one occassion in 11 years. We have a running joke… “Every payday- we live like millionaires- and in between like paupers.”
Epiphanies…I feel like epiphanies are a regular part of my life. Haven’t always, been, but certainly are now.
A part of me feels like I should feel special about it, but most of me says “no, that means you have a lot to learn!” 
Most of my epiphanies have been about turning points in my life, when I have had to make big, life-altering decisions. No epiphanies about money, though. Maybe that’s on its way with Saturn transiting my 2nd house.
LOL… that same thing happened to me kind of. I had a stock that reached a worth of 100,000 … but I had bought it for $4 a share and sold it at $8 dollars a share, smugly thinking what a smart investor I was… not too greedy.. paying attention to my investment, etc. Shortly thereafter, it went to $22/share. It hurt, but I kept investing for years after that…. but not with the rent money. I sold all my stocks about 6 months ago, because my gut said the market would tank within a year. Looks like it’s doing that now…. You’ve given me revelation today, Elsa… thank you!
Ha ha haa
Nop, In mexico no such things happen
Mexico is virgo remember?
My mother is cancer-virgo she did magic with my money, all disappeared.
I lost somehwere between 100K and 150K last year; gave it all away to just like this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwHMCTlAMxE&feature=related
I have epiphanies too, but I think that’s just the Universe getting my attention – finally…like I shoulda seen it comin’…
Somewhere along the last 20-odd years I began fencing in my faith with rules, reason and logic. Never quite noticing how narrower and narrower, harder and higher this made everything.
Its not that the ephiphanies went away-worse, really…Where before that flash of knowing was most often a beacon, a “eureka”-it became more and more a harbringer of ill-fate. Every insight a sudden stab of despair.
I very recently made a firm decision and committment to get back to trusting my insight and intuition. “alright-how about ‘trust but verify?’ that seem about right? yes?”
Less than 24 hours later? Hahahaha…It’s like I glanced down on a thousand mile road trip and finally released the damn emergency brake. 
Well, shit–THAT sure makes a difference, eh?
I think (feel ;D ) some of the volume is just the sheer pressure release + (hopefully?) a little ‘atta-girl’ pat from the universe for *finally* pulling my stubborn head around and releasing the damn brake already. IOW-these past weeks have been super thick and fast and frankly–a bit heady and intoxicating. And my sense of it is it will taper back, refine over time. Which should suit me just fine…
It feels like CP’s got her groove back-feels good. Not a magic bullet-nope. But I believe I know better now how and where to balance reason/intuition. Hope so–cause this road trip is not nearly done and really? I’m kind of digging on this ‘top-down, cool tunes’ stretch of road. 
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Yeah I get ‘em too. My jupiter/neptune/uranus are all tangled up with each other.
I have had to simplify them with a simple statement. It goes kinda something like this, once you realize that you are going to drown and you can’t touch bottom who cares how deep it is. And vice a versa, if you can touch bottom who cares how deep it is. Sometimes I think the devil is in the details. Sometimes you just know you have enough.