{"id":433,"date":"2011-02-11T09:44:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T17:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2011-02-11T09:44:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T17:44:49","slug":"today-rabbit-just-might-win-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/11\/today-rabbit-just-might-win-the-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Today Rabbit just might win the race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/21b-rabbit.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-434\" title=\"21b.rabbit\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/21b-rabbit.jpg?resize=396%2C396\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a>Those born in the year of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac are said to be: articulate, talented, and ambitious.\u00a0 They exhibit the best of taste and are good mannered, they give sound council and are extremely lucky with money and business (thus the lucky rabbit foot I guess, <em>not so lucky for the rabbit<\/em>).\u00a0 Despite their speed and agility, Rabbits don\u2019t rush into things; they seek peace and tranquility and have distaste for conflict. If you were born in the year of the rabbit (1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975 1987, 1999 and of course 2011) you\u2019ve got some great attributes.\u00a0 I myself was born in the year of the Tiger and both Tiger and I have a bit of a bite\u2026but that is for another post.\u00a0\u00a0 What I really got thinking about this week is our desire for signs and symbols. The Greek zodiac pops up in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> millennium BC, I couldn\u2019t find out when the Chinese zodiac was derived but suffice to say it was a long, long time ago.\u00a0 Today we can still read our horoscope in morning paper, people still read\u00a0 Tarot cards and toss runes to get some clue to their life&#8217;s meaning or direction. More modern means to the same end are psychoanalysis or tools such as Myers Briggs personality tests and the in depth Enneagram system to name a few.\u00a0 My point is that there is a human thread from ancient times till now, an inner drive, longing, hope, to \u201cknow thyself\u201d.\u00a0 The phrase itself is as old as time and comes from the ancient Greek, perhaps from Socrates himself.\u00a0\u00a0 We want some way to explain ourselves, maybe we even want excuses for how we behave, choices we make.\u00a0 I know for myself that my Lion month and Tiger year give me undeserved cover for my roar and bite, as Nietzsche said \u201cThe most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one\u2019s self\u201d.\u00a0 But self-reflection is vital to gaining understanding about our true self.\u00a0 Without reflection we cannot grow and learn and change.\u00a0 And without growth what is the point of this walk on earth we call a life?\u00a0 As Carl Jung said \u201cYour vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.\u00a0 Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.\u201d\u00a0 So once again I rub the sleep from my eyes and stretch to the day and hope to awaken a bit more of myself, my why, before I fall into and inevitable sleep to dream and wander from my truth. What a blessing to have another day, another morning.\u00a0\u00a0 AWAKE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those born in the year of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac are said to be: articulate, talented, and ambitious.\u00a0 They exhibit the best of taste and are good mannered, they give sound council and are extremely lucky with money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,88,90,96],"tags":[217,231,672,824,829],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-inspiration","category-mandala","category-spiritual","tag-carl-jung","tag-chinese-new-year","tag-self-reflection","tag-year-of-the-rabbit","tag-zodiac"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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