Question:
Respected Madam, Namaskar.
I wish to understand this confusion. What is the difference btw negative thoughts and intuition,because intuition can be both negative and positive. Since I have strong Siddhamsha [D-24] lagna with four strong planets and in Vimshamsha [D-20] exalted lagna lord Moon. I have strong instincts and possibly intutive mind.
My Question
Due to extreme negative thoughts of Shani in Lagna, I fail to understand when the intuition is acting or the negative believes of Shani happening. I can encourage others with strong positive inspiration boosting, but ironically I fail with myself. Why such a mental programming is there?
Best Regards, Jai Ganesha.
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That is a very good question!
"Intuition" in English = "inner teacher". The inner teachings are authentic to the native. The inner teacher is the local voice of the Universal teacher. (As above, so below.) The voice of the inner teacher is always positive, always loving, always encouraging, always supportive and spiritually validating, always confident in the power of faith, always true and sweet. The character of intuition is entirely reliable and provides true guidance at all times.
The voice of intuition is always positive.
However your point about intuition being both negative and positive might refer to the content of intuition, where the actual instructions which emit from the inner teach might sound negative sometimes.
There can be for example a powerful positive signal from the intuition telling the native to leave a situation because it is harmful, to resist entering a building because of some danger there, or some other non-positive action. One who is accustomed to hearing the voice of intuition would probably not interpret this type of instruction as negative, because the voice itself is loving, caring, and accurate.
When the conscious mind does not detect psychic information that is implicit in a scenario, often the intuition will add more non-rational detail.
The classic example is "mothers intuition" for a child. Most mothers can "feel" their child's well-being even if the child is hundreds of miles away. A mother will know if the child needs help. Knowing that "my child needs help, my child is in trouble" might be perceived as a negative intuition. But really it is intuition *of* negativity in the intimate psychic environment. Intuition cannot be inherently negative, but intuition give directions, by telling the native that someone needs help.
Negative intuition?
In reality what seems like "negative intuition" is simply picking up the signal of someone else's fear (the child's in this case) and the native (mother) is moved by compassion to enter that child's fear space and skillfully help the child. Similar when the intuition picks up negative signals from others in the family, workmates, or even from a big group setting. That's intuition giving a knowledge of what others are feeling. It is not intuition causing one to feel reactive or negative oneself.
There may be fear and danger lurking in the environment. When the intuition picks up those psychic signals (perhaps even coming from the mind of a criminal) that does not mean that the native is living in fear or is the victim of negative programming. It means that their psychic radar is sensitive to imagery present in the environment.
Need for interpretive skill!
The good news about intuition is that it is always true. A compassionate person can use intuition to say or do just the right thing at the right time, and thereby have a much more fulfilling life.
The bad news about intuition, if you could really even call this bad news, is that after one receives intuitive information, one may feel compelled to act upon it. And if one does not have a high skill level for choosing right actions, strong intuition can create a "busybody" or someone who is always trying to help but in reality is a rather disruptive or socially clumsy person.
However IMO the downside of empowered intuition is very small, and any possible troubles that it causes can be hugely improved by just a little bit of training in discrimination and choice-making. The consequences of not having access to intuition are much more troublesome.
Negative programming
Negative programming is exactly as you note. Negative, destructive, rooted in fear. The voice of negative programming is by character criticizing, blaming, fearful, hateful, materialistic, doubtful (doubt is the greatest enemy of truth!) and bitter.
The core reality of negative programming is that it is not authentic. Negative programming is "outside stuff" which is not a genuine living component of one's true nature.
Karmic luggage
The good news is that negative programming is only karmic "luggage". Negative programming is not nourishing. We don't need it to live. It is not life-giving and not intrinsic to life. That is a good thing for us humans! Negative programming is not necessary for us to live. It is a karmic accrual, like a tumor. It can be cut off, dropped, released, left behind.
The native may at any time become "enlightened" by simply dropping the load of baggage.
Liberation: Dump and Run
One may decide to stop carrying the burden of other people's anger, fear, grief, guilt, resentment, bitterness, materialism, doubt, frustration, and blaming. This possibility exists in every and any moment of time.
Any human can realize that one is dragging around a huge bag of outdated junk, or pulling a cart full of manure, or pushing a massive stone up a hill (Sisyphus). There is always the "secret" option to just "dump and run".
Fear of weightlessness
Usually people get deeply identified, socially and psychologically, with their "suitcase" full of problems. The average person is actually scared to let go of the weight. Imagining the prospect of absolute freedom, and physically to live with that weightless feeling which might ensue after losing that big boat-anchor of the grounding baggage -- that weightlessness scares people to death!
The Slow and Careful Path to Unburdenment
As a result, few humans will do a radical release of the whole heavy pile of luggage all on one day. Those with a bit of consciousness might feel more safe to release one's bondage more slowly. These folks are on a path of 'slow and careful'.
They prefer to take a complete inventory of all the negative thoughts that are in the suitcase before even starting to release the weight. They write psychological books about the delicate distinctions between different varieties of fear and resistance. They develop detailed instructions for how to disengage from one stored-and-carried item at a time.
They like to catalog all their memories and the complexities of the fearful human relationships which bind one to earth (Jyotishi have the karma of doing this job...) before undertaking the single moment of total release. (Naturally Budha the list-maker and Shani the weight-carrier are good friends!)
The slow path is ... Slow.
The problem with the slow method is of course that it may require numerous lifetimes to catalog the entire inventory of accumulated memories and all the reactions to those memories. Naturally it is easier to just dump the whole suitcase and run!
The trick: living free of negativity compulsion, living with respect for negativity!
The trick for living successfully without personal bondage to negativity (or with reduced negativity, if one wants to keep some of it for "ballast") is to learn RESPECT for the negative programming of others.
Shani requires respect.
The physical body is part of the material world, the physical body's material survival need is programmed by the reptile brain on a bio-chemical level, and the physical world in general is the outcome of the combined thoughts of gazillions of beings. Much of the thought which brings the material world into being is "negative" that is, it is reactive and fearful. This must be respected.
This level of "natural" negativity that survival requires (food, clothing, shelter, social validation) is neither good nor bad. It simply "is". Survival fear is a natural part of human life. The trick is to manage it skillfully.
Living free but in the world: listen for the true voice of intuition
One will live a vastly better life through heeding the intuitive voice of God which lives in each human heart, while consciously releasing the historic negative voices which clamor loudly for attention.
One's own legacy karma in the form of reactive memories of old fears is constantly reinforced and complexified by the projected fears of those around us. Even if one is lucky enough to achieve the consciousness to learn to discriminate between the true, authentic intuitive voice versus the untrue, inauthentic voice of ignorance and fear -- even if one has earned this conscious intelligence -- it is essential to treat Other People's Projected Fears AND one's own survival programming, with the deepest respect.
Yes, intuition and negative programming are different
I hope this perspective is useful. If an inner voice seems spiritually validating, calm, and vivid - that is intuition. If an inner voice seems scared, anxious, and confused - that's negative programming. The bulk of negative programming is actually the projected fears of other people.
The good news is, it's easy to release attachment to this exhausting, heavy burden. But first, learn to distinguish the different 'voices' of the Nine Graha. Then, as St. Paul recommends, choose to follow the Voice of Life.
Sincerely,
Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotisha
http://www.barbarapijan.com/
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