Quiroga - 405

 IMPARTIALITY

If you really want to understand the world in which you live, you need to let go of your preferences, because if you continue to judge the world and people according to your likes and dislikes, regardless of how much they are based on irrefutable arguments, you will also continue to not understand anything, and by not understanding anything you will join the ranks of ignorance, regardless of whether you convince yourself that you have the enlightening and supreme reason on your side, and this will not only be a personal tragedy, it will also be your contribution to maintaining the ignorance of our humanity.

And please, avoid the cliché that one should not judge, because the very sentence that one should not judge is a judgment. Human beings need to judge, because without judgment there are no choices, and without choices there is no freedom.

Now, if you really want to understand the world in which you live, you need to develop impartiality, based on the principle that everything that exists responds to some need and, therefore, deserves respect, care and dignity, no matter how much this existence makes your insides revolt with disgust, because, after all, in the varied menu of preferences of our humanity, it is certain that you also provoke disgust in someone. If your mind does not judge impartially, no matter how pacifist you try to be, you will add fuel to the fire of ongoing conflicts, which are on the verge of turning into open war.

 Impartiality prevents all wars. 

What is really important is that you broaden your understanding of reality, because if you continue to cling to the same old points of view, you will probably miss the train of history and be left high and dry.

Quiroga - 404

 PASSION

No matter how rational you think you are, because rationality is the specific characteristic that makes us human, in some existential sphere you are absolutely passionate, for the mere fact that you cling to certain characteristics of reality, vigorously affirming that there is nothing superior to them, and furthermore, this passion convinces you that if the world does not embrace your same devotion it is because it is mistaken, and from then on you arm yourself with rational arguments to try to explain what, in practice, is an absolutely passionate act.

Human passion is not a defect of nature, considering that reason should be our bastion, nothing like that!

Human passion is integrated into a cosmic current of devotion to the sacred, to the sublime, to the pristine perfection of how everything works in this colossal organism we call the Universe. However, like everything else that results from our limited understanding, we appropriate passion, just as we try to appropriate everything, and we profane it with our trivialization, leading it to spurious objectives, embracing the wrong causes, which are wrong because they do not contemplate the good of the world, but only a private, selfish and self-centered satisfaction, which even demonstrates a certain vigor and glory, but of a petty and ignorant kind.

In order not to be profane, devotion must lead us to something greater than ourselves.

The circumstances that prevent you from doing what you would consider essential must be respected, because even if they are uncomfortable, they represent destiny trying to guide your steps. Try to walk with good will.

Quiroga - 403

 PRESERVE YOUR DEVOTION

Devotion is more important than religion, because religion, as an institution, no matter how good it may be, becomes dogmatic over time and loses the spirit that promotes devotion in our humanity, that sublime ardor that awakens in us the good will to embark on the adventure of expanding our consciousness through experiences and getting closer to the Divine.

What is fundamental is that you preserve your devotion, despite all the setbacks that desecrate your heart, because it, devotion, is a cosmic current of colossal power, capable of connecting you with whatever you place it in, be it a humanitarian cause, an ideology, a person you are passionate about, your work, your children; it does not matter the nature of the cause you embrace, what matters is that you preserve a connection through which your devotion can be energized.

Religions, if they were not dogmatic, would be excellent stimulators of devotion, because they connect us to the saints, who are human beings like us, but who have made their way through ignorance.

Now that the ignorance and brutality of the world seem to advance and take over the earthly domain, it is more important than ever that you preserve your devotion, because if your heart burns for something greater than the banality of everyday life, there is still hope for everyone.

Perfection is desirable, avoid disregarding it just because it seems impossible to achieve it. Keep the vision of perfection very clear and lucid in your mind while, here and now, you do what is possible. That is it.

Quiroga - 402

 GOOD AND EVIL

Despite all the discussions and controversies that relativize the concepts of good and evil, as if they were instances of life devoid of their own existence and resulted only from an individualized perception, there is, however, a single universal parameter to be the reference that determines what good and evil are, and this truth makes them absolute, at least at first, because we will soon see that the only absolute is good, since evil relativizes everything.

Good is that which produces auspicious effects for the greatest possible number of people and ingredients of nature, while evil is that which produces distortions and adversities for many, for the mere fact of having been undertaken with a view to a particular benefit, to the detriment of what could have been done in the name of the majority.

In other words, evil seeks a benefit. Good never seeks harm.

The very individualistic relativization of the concepts of good and evil is, therefore, an evil in itself, because instead of helping to reach agreements and produce unity, and from unity we all benefit from the inclusive expansion of consciousness, the stance points to the sense that we have nothing in common, and that we have to exist isolated in our individual capsules, producing suffering, discouragement and adversity for everyone, because, after all, we may not like each other, but even so, the problems that we have to solve, we will only solve them together, and not each one for himself.

Good exists without evil, but evil does not exist without good, because it lives in opposition, and through opposition it cannot free itself from good in order to exist, dedicating itself to distorting it through the undue appropriation of what could be distributed for the greater glory of all.

Good, in turn, is independent, dedicating itself to doing what is necessary for the greater glory of all, without excluding anyone.

Those who want to fight against good are evil, for good, evil is indifferent to it.

By doing what is possible, you will make great progress. By doing what is ideal, you will make less progress, because the conditions are not perfect. Despite imperfections, there will be progress if you arm yourself with good will and do what is necessary.

Quiroga - 401

 THE GAME OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Consciousness is a replica of the entire functioning of the Cosmos, and for this very reason it is still a mystery to us, because we want to understand what it is as if we could observe it as if we were observing an object separate from us, when we can only understand it from within, and in a way that allows us to step outside ourselves, beyond our limited understanding, and suddenly understand everything at the same time, to see everything that happens in the infinite and the infinitesimal at the same time without any perception overriding the other.

Consciousness is this, the supreme power to understand all the connections that link the infinite and the infinitesimal, and because we understand them we also acquire the ability to navigate wherever we want, whenever we want, under the influence of our will.

Our misfortune is the fear of losing sight of the isolated island of individuality to which we cling as if it were a life preserver while it ties us to ignorance.

Thanks to consciousness, all human beings are potentially a complete cosmic experience, but the game consists of approaching consciousness from within, and of one's own free will, either because we are tired of ignorance and suffering limitations, or because we respond to this aspiration to know the “something greater” that we sense, without knowing how to define this premonition.

Accessing consciousness is not an experience that develops by itself, by the mere effect of being born human, nothing like that. Consciousness needs to be approached because we want it to be and for that we make an effort.

From within, embodying consciousness itself.

Whatever needs to be done, face it with the greatest possible good will, because necessity is the true mother of destiny, while desires always seek to usurp this place as mother of destiny.

Quiroga - 400

 MOTHER NATURE

No matter how many flat-earthers and malicious disseminators of fake news there are, as a normal currency of our not so enlightened nor much less advanced civilization, the voice of Mother Nature still makes itself heard loud and clear, but like everything that concerns our humanity, only those who want to pay attention, and especially those who have the good will to align themselves with something bigger than their own navel, will pay attention. Gardeners and farmers have proven that nature is behaving strangely. It is no longer predictable as before, nor are the cycles the same. If nature behaves strangely, it is clear that we will also behave outside the normal curve. There is no point in living in cities to protect ourselves from this strangeness, because no human being, no matter how obtuse and dense, can escape being an integral part of this intelligent and unified body that is nature, because we all move and experience being in it, and we exist thanks to it, and without it, only misfortune remains.

No matter how much we have placed great faith in our technological devices and machinery that would make us superior to nature, Mother continues to be herself, the intelligent and sophisticated body in which we all move and are, so rise above ignorance and abandon all your fears to have an intimate conversation with your being, without adding or taking anything away, just being what, for now, your understanding allows you to be, but responding affirmatively to the desire to grow and connect with something greater than yourself, because in this way you will rediscover the greater connections that need to be updated, and from now on also preserved.

The important thing is to do it, even if it is not done well, because if the ideal is still far from happening, each step you take, each practical action you take, even if imperfect, will serve the objective.

Quiroga - 399

 WE ARE PASSIONATE

Although our humanity boasts of being rational, most of the time we are passionate beings, intensely and emotionally attached to our likes and dislikes, even if these only have a particular and non-transferable meaning, an attitude that has nothing rational about it, because reason is the function through which our humanity finds common ground to dialogue, even if these go against our passions.

Of all the billions of comments made every day on social media posts, how many have the purpose of clarifying and exchanging ideas? Something that would be rational to do and that would transform the social media platform into a place of information and not misinformation.

Only the smallest portion of our humanity is rational, because reason does not arise spontaneously, like passion; reason needs to be developed by free and spontaneous will, and sustained through constant study and investigation.

Without this, we will all continue to be passionate.

Project your mind into the future, but do not be content to create magnificent visions that would not come true by themselves, by the mere human capacity to create visions. Project your mind into the future, and do here and now what is necessary.

Quiroga - 398

 UNPRETENSIVE PRETENSION

Do not intend anything during the Void Moon periods and you will make good use of the time to relax and let go of worries, thus experiencing the joy that you would never find in satisfying your pretensions.

When we intend, we create tensions in advance to prepare ourselves for the pertinent action, and this is acceptable as part of the process of objectifying our desires and dreams. However, when we fail to balance our existence with unpretentious moments, in which we are open to whatever may come, and we spend all our time with objective pretensions, our conscience becomes worn out and over time becomes traumatized.

So take advantage of today's Void Moon and all the others that occur, on average, every two and a half days, to update the unpretentious carelessness that every human being needs to be whole.

Financial concerns must not become out of control, to the point of causing unnecessary and counterproductive anguish. Try to keep your own mind under control, so that it does not produce useless anguish.

Quiroga - 397

FRIDAY WITH A VOID MOON

It's Friday! With a Void Moon at the exact time when our humanity dedicates itself to counteracting all the repressions and oppressions to which it submits itself during the working week, in the name of “being someone”, trying to give an air of seriousness to existence, but which, apparently, doesn't go down well with anyone, given the frenzy with which we approach the weekend to “relax”.

Without wanting to lower your spirits or disrespect the sacred right to make this counterpoint, I must, however, fulfill my duty to guide you astrologically, and warn you that the Void Moon does not offer support to objectively achieve any plans you have made for this beginning of the weekend, but that if your soul remains open to whatever comes and goes, accepting surprises and adapting to them, then the Void Moon, instead of punishing you, will provide you with beautiful experiences. 

For those who love life, it is a kind of game in which sometimes we are just pieces, and at other times we have enough presence to be players and gamblers. It all depends on the attitude you voluntarily adopt. 

Quiroga - 396

 LOT OF THEORY, LITTLE PRACTICE

Our humanity, as is well known, theorizes a lot and practices little, that is, it preaches in every possible way, but does not practice with the same or greater intensity what it preaches. Without going any further to give an example, let us take the case of knowing that unity makes us stronger and more efficient, but in practice we sow division, distancing, disintegration, prejudices and a lot of contempt for those with whom we would never accept any type of union, who, in turn, cultivate the same feelings towards us.

As a result, in our theoretical but heated discussions, we make wise statements, citing indisputable thinkers, but we do not dare to experiment with what we theorize, and in this way we all end up in the awkward position of having to conceptualize the world in which we live as an entity separate and distant from our practices, something that exists by its own nature, and not as a result of what we do or do not do.

Therefore, there is little point in theorizing something like “be the change you want to see in the world,” because if we truly believed in this, we would no longer waste time and would dedicate ourselves to immediately and persistently practicing what we want to see in the world, because it would no longer be a distant entity separate from us.

People’s company is good, but not always, especially at those times when they are taken over by that frenzy of commenting on other people’s lives without even having the authority to do so.

Quiroga - 395

 GOOD AND BAD PEOPLE

Given the innocence of childhood, how could the adult world wisely act to prepare children to enter civilization without them having to pay the price of losing trust in humanity?

How can we lose innocence without losing trust? That is the question!

We usually lose our innocence when we experience firsthand the ambiguity of feelings and the betrayal of those who are supposed to care for us, because we are naive, that is, through situations in which, in addition to our innocence, we also lose trust.

And without trusting that, despite the ambiguities of civilization, there would continue to be good will and care among the thousands of good people that exist, what kind of world would we be building?

We will inevitably encounter good and bad people throughout our lives, because we are all also good and bad people.

There is no good person incapable of committing evil acts, nor is there a bad person who cannot act with kindness.

Ambiguity makes us complete. This first step helps us to better adapt ourselves emotionally to treat everyone with delicate realism, avoiding forcing reality to fit into one denomination or another. By accepting the complexity of our structure of being, we may find better ways to move from childhood to adulthood without losing confidence.

 Life is magical, but that does not mean that we should not do anything to make our dreams become accomplished works. This magic would be illusory, because true magic is based on concrete and decisive movements.

Quiroga - 394

 WE ARE OUR DISASTER

Thanks to medical, technological and general knowledge advances about life, our humanity today has much less reason to fear catastrophes, tragedies and disasters, and its life expectancy has increased impressively, proving all this progress.

However, we have not yet managed to free ourselves from the disaster that we ourselves are, because we are the greatest instigators of disturbances with our petty way of seeing, from the height of our artificial morality, what should and should not be, imposing narrow views on the construction of social relationships, and multiplying and disseminating them through education and the way our humanity treats childhood; that's right, we are our own disaster.

All social, scientific, philosophical and economic advances have occurred and will continue to occur thanks to broad vision, while all social, economic and political disasters have occurred and will continue to occur due to the misfortune of narrow and petty vision.

The scenario is the same for all of humanity, however, mentally a difference of purposes is established, there is a current that promotes a petty vision and mediocre ignorance, while there is another current that promotes a broad and inclusive vision.

May Divine Grace grant you wisdom so that with your presence you promote joy and prosperity to all.

Be of service, be useful, make the lives of the people you interact with on a daily basis as much as possible easier; these attitudes will indirectly benefit you as well. Just try it.

Quiroga - 393

MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR TIME

Mercury begins its approach to Earth, which will culminate on the 18th with its kiss on Earth.

This approach produces a visible effect in the sky as an apparent retrograde, which the ancients, not knowing the cause of this movement, attributed to the phenomenon malignant effects.

In fact, the Astrology of the ancients is more filled with malignant ingredients, which announce adversity, than with benign ones, which promote auspices, because our ancestors had a menu of fears and tragic and disastrous perspectives much more full than ours, given that their lives were much more difficult than ours.

Today, although our humanity continues to feel fear and is its own greatest enemy, life is today safer and more comfortable than that of our ancestors, thanks to medicine, vaccines and certain technologies and engineering. However, by inertia, our humanity continues to cling to tragedy, and on days when Mercury is “retrograde,” it sees problems and disturbances in this, because it continues to prefer to complain and continue to wait for a disaster, liking bad news more than thinking that everything is auspicious.

I therefore suggest that you treat Mercury’s retrograde and the Void Moon with a certain distance and fearlessness, so that instead of the disturbed spirit of tragedy, your soul can focus on the joy of living, making good use of the time between heaven and earth.

Avoid adding tension to the world with the content of your thoughts; fear needs to be overcome, not amplified. 

Quiroga - 392

 WE ARE BEAUTIFUL AND WONDERFUL

If we really were these unique, brilliant and wonderful things that we see when we think about ourselves, looking at ourselves in physical and imaginary mirrors, it is certain that the world would also be a marvel of endless genius, but let's face it, reality is far from that, very little in the world proves that we are as beautiful and wonderful as we imagine.

So, either we are all mistaken and deluded when we see our own image, or we do not have the skill to put into practice the tremendous appreciation we have for ourselves, adding something positive to the world with our presence, because, on the contrary, we spend a lot of time and emotional and intellectual resources displeasing ourselves because there are people better than us, envying the progress of others, coveting what is not ours, in short, the list of our abominations is long.

There is little point in being beautiful and wonderful individually if our beauty and wonder does not add something positive to the world.

And don't think that because you may suffer from low self-esteem, your soul is excluded from these previous statements, because low self-esteem wouldn't hurt if behind it there wasn't this wonderful self-image that we want for ourselves.

The people who can talk to you and clarify things may not be those who are close to you, but nowadays, fortunately, distance is not a problem for communication. Keep this in mind and communicate.

Quiroga - 391

 EXPANDING CONSCIOUSNESS

Self-awareness is this miracle that allows us to be individuals, and although it may seem like it has always been this way, it is a recent achievement, to which we cling passionately, because it is exciting to consider ourselves the nerve center of the Universe, the all-powerful creators of our own personal worlds. However, this magical knowledge, even if prodigious, is only a step in an infinite ascension of consciousness to broader and more inclusive levels of the reality of the Cosmos.

With unexpected speed, but which proves how much our humanity is improving despite the fact that we criticize it for all the abominations it commits daily, this self-awareness already glimpses another stage, which is group consciousness, the perception of how much all human individualities are interdependent, and how much, for this very reason, we need to organize ourselves and systematize mutual care, respect and also behave in order to make all our relationships more dignified.

For the simple reason that the individuality of wealth and misery is an artificial state that has an expiration date, because in reality, there is only human wealth and misery.

There will always be a reason to worry, but your soul will not always be forced to waste time in this exercise. This indicates that there is a certain margin of maneuver available, which you can call free will.

Quiroga - 390

 Empty moon in the morning

Although the consciousness of our humanity is focused simultaneously, and all the time, on the subjective and objective dimensions of the Universe, current conviction makes us treat subjectivity as an experience that should not be taken seriously, because the most real reality only would happen in objectivity, in the world of forms, perceptible by the five sensory organs.

This abuse of subjectivity costs us horribly, because it is the noblest half of the perception of reality, and if we do not adopt the habit of valuing it, abstracting ourselves from the external life of objective forms, over time serious emotional and mental illnesses will occur.

All periods of the Empty Moon serve to return us to our inner life, and in it we give ourselves license to live carefree

The worst thing you can do in the face of setbacks is to cling to them to complain and lament. This would be a waste of time and precious vital energy that could be invested in overcoming setbacks.

Quiroga - 389

 WHY ARE WE HERE?

I'm not surprised that our humanity normally chooses destructive paths for itself, in the economy, in politics, in its personal loves, because it is currency that, deep down, disappointed because life is not as wonderful as in its selfish and self-centered imagination, our humanity always expects the worst, as much as in some crooked and unconscious way he longs for the apocalypse, convinced that the human kingdom is a failure of nature (his own kingdom?!?!?!) that needs to be eradicated, and he also gets used to systematically distrusting of similar and different to reap the result of the dubious reputation of feeling alone, and I will no longer offer examples from the endless list of vices of our humanity.

Simultaneously with these selfish vices of our humanity, the virtues of humanization also flourish and take root; we are here to take care of each other, rather than treating each other as useless nuisances that need to be put aside as quickly as possible.

We are also here to accept and work on the principle that our differences are not irreconcilable, because no one has complete reason on their side, we all understand life within the limited scope of our intellect.

And we are also here to elevate our humanity to a level of dignity that, today, may seem unattainable to those who always expect the worst and hope for the apocalypse, but it is undeniable that the human kingdom has humanized itself quickly and in a very short time, pointing to a future very different from the disaster that would seem logical to happen.

Unity creates an unbeatable force, however, even if people know this, they still continue to behave as if they could do without each other. It's a madness that goes unnoticed.

Quiroga - 388

 IF OUR HUMANITY...

If our humanity were a little more altruistic, replacing some of its traditional selfishness with respect, cordiality and dignity, then Full Moons would be full of rejoicing, because they are the moments when the most abundant life circulates throughout all the kingdoms of nature.

Selfishness, however, due to its petty nature, systematically and constantly tries to appropriate the most abundant life that passes through our humanity, and as a result of this misappropriation it causes distortions, violence and all types of sexual, moral, psychological and institutional abuses.

It turns out that the most abundant life cannot be accumulated, as selfishness intends, because it only offers its elevation and glory to those people who are minimally willing to transform themselves into channels of fraternal distribution, instead of selfish points of accumulation.

This point of mutation in the orientation of consciousness is within the reach of all people, but it does not reveal itself spontaneously, it needs to be sought, longed for and practiced until it stabilizes as a new and broader form of relationship with life.

No matter how complex the panorama that unfolds in front of you may seem, it is what your soul will need to deal with in the coming times. Therefore, arm yourself with presence of mind and place your bets in the game of life.

Quiroga - 387

 HUMANIZATION

Selfishness is the obverse of our humanity, it is a brutal dehumanization that, on the reverse side, promotes civilization, but in the case of our kingdom this change of currency does not occur automatically, that is, it is not because we were born human that we humanize ourselves in a natural and spontaneous way, on the contrary, if left to inertia we give ourselves over to all types of brutal abominations, in thought, word and deed.

The humanization of our humanity, which establishes fraternal bonds of respect, cordiality, honesty, dignity and mutual solidarity, depends largely on becoming fed up with the charm that selfishness has, which attracts us to a joy that inexorably becomes suffering, and that, in the best case scenario, but with no guarantee of this happening, from suffering so much we realize the vulnerability of dehumanizing oneself.

Family, social and institutional humanization just doesn't happen because, despite suffering horrors, our humanity still clings to selfishness as if it were a lifeline, without realizing that it is an anchor.

Selfishness is a socially transmissible disease through severe moralism, intolerance, lack of respect, lack of care for each other and the lack of dignity in our family relationships.

Humanization is the promotion of the care we develop in relation to our similar and different people, protecting them within our reach.

Humanization is the principle of respect for being different, without our differences being irreconcilable.

Humanization is the construction and preservation of the dignity of all people.

Your soul will not be remembered for what you dreamed, but for what you dared to do, regardless of whether you failed, but at least you tried. Doing is the inescapable destiny of every human being born. Just that.

Quiroga - 386

 SELFISHNESS IS A DISEASE

Human selfishness treats those similar and different as objects that can be manipulated and used according to desires and whims, without caring about the consequences that fall on those who are victims of this treatment, who, of course, also practice their share of selfishness, because the selfish person thinks that through this behavior he is saved from the predation of others, placing himself above everyone, taking advantage, without realizing that he also becomes the object of other people's selfishness, in an abominable consensual relationship of abuse that goes unnoticed, because it is so normalized.

Selfishness dehumanizes our humanity, because it ignores the quality of subjects that we are or that we can be, considering that people are an object to be explored, just as is done with the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdom, and selfishness covers itself with moral arguments for these practices, creating, as a result, a civilization that is impossible to put on the path of humanization because the root selfishness is not treated as what it is, a disease.

Selfishness is a disease, but since it represents the majority tendency, it is still treated as something inevitable, which must be accepted within normality.

Selfishness is the disease that transgresses the three pillars of humanization, caring for each other, respecting our differences, and dignifying our kingdom between heaven and earth.

In the end, what matters is what has been done, so at some point you will have to suspend the joy of thoughts and dreams and dare to do something practical about them. That's what it will be worth.