Quotes for the Planets #2: Rumi Has It

© 2012 by Joyce Mason

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While looking for the next Quotes for the Planets, I stumbled on a Rumi quotation site, and I didn’t have to go further to find a quote for every planet.

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī lived 30-September 1207 to 17 December 1273. [1] He was a Persian poet, theologian, and Sufi mystic. [2] Here’s a place to sample some of his Love and Ecstasy Poems with beautiful visuals to match. There are Rumi sites all over the Internet (just jump on any search engine), and even though he is long gone, he has his own Facebook page. Last I heard, he’s the best selling poet in the United States. Here are some of the things he said in his lifetime that strike me as profoundly planetary. [3]

Sun - “Shine like the whole universe is yours.” ~ Rumi

Moon - “Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.” ~ Rumi, Essential Rumi
 

Mercury - “There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.” ~ Rumi

Venus – “You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.” ~ Rumi

Mars – “Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.” ~ Rumi
 

Jupiter – “You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?”  ~ Rumi

Saturn – “Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.” ~ Rumi

Chiron – “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Rumi

Uranus – “Speak a new language
so that the world
will be a new world.” ~ Rumi

Neptune – “I, you, he, she, we
In the garden of mystic lovers,
these are not true distinctions.” ~ Rumi

Pluto - “...the way you make love is the way God will be with you.” ~ Rumi

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Notes:

1. Rumi’s Chart. According to AstroDataBank, Rumi’s birth date is in question, but the emphasis of a Neptunized Sun/Moon in Libra and the placement of Venus/Mars in Scorpio makes sense to me. So does Chiron in Gemini trine Venus (out of sign); Rumi’s words so heal the heart.

2. Wikipedia, Rumi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi

3. Even though these are all Rumi quotes, I've kept the attribution at the end of each one to make it easy to identify the source when copying specific quotes.

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Quotes for the Planets #1

 © 2012 by Joyce Mason

All Rights Reserved

We’ve had a lot of fun over the past few years with eight posts on Quotes for the Signs. I thought I’d mix it up a little and try some Quotes for the Planets. Don’t let the cartoon and short-but-sweet nature of these gems fool you. They’re profound. Enjoy!

Sun – Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”

~ Hafez

Moon - Language exerts hidden power, like the Moon on the tides.
 

~ Rita Mae Brown
 

Mercury - There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
 

~ Jean Baudrilllard

Venus – Venus favors the bold. 

~ Obid

Mars – Anger is a short madness.  

 ~ Horace
 

Jupiter – For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

~ Anne Bancroft
 

Saturn – And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so. 

 ~ A. B. Yehoshua
 

Chiron – You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness. 

~ Joy Page

 

Uranus – Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. 

~ Oscar Wilde
 

Neptune – We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas. 

~ Henry Reed
 

Pluto - Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer
 

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