Job 9:9 · World English Bible
Job 9:9 Meaning He Makes the Bear
He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.
What does Job 9:9 mean?
The old star names carry states of consciousness, not points of fire. Orion is a light held captive within the bull-mind, the ego of the flesh whose bands cannot be loosened by force, a brightness bound inside the animal personality until it is freed from within.
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The old star names carry states of consciousness, not points of fire. Orion is a light held captive within the bull-mind, the ego of the flesh whose bands cannot be loosened by force, a brightness bound inside the animal personality until it is freed from within. The Pleiades are the 7 centers set along the spine, the ladder a person climbs from the lowest to the highest. Arcturus is the coming one, the star that names the return to God, the higher self drawing near. So the maker of these is the power that set the whole inner heaven in a person, the bound light and the ladder of centers and the one who comes.
Orion: a light imprisoned within the bull-mind, the ego and flesh whose bands hold it fast Pleiades: the 7 centers along the spine, the ascent of consciousness through the body Arcturus: the coming one, the higher self that draws near and calls a person home Chambers of the south: the hidden inner rooms of the lower body where these forces are stored
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Live Job 9:9 today
- Sit still for two minutes and run your attention slowly from the base of your spine up to the top of your head. You are not trying to feel fireworks, just learning the ladder you live on.
- The next time someone is lit up about something and the room is flattening it, be the one who says more. Your attention is what frees a light that is stuck in somebody.
- When anger grips you in traffic or at a desk, name where you feel it in the body, low in the gut, tight in the chest. The force is not the enemy, it is only sitting on a lower rung, and naming it starts it moving.
Which part of you is bright and still boxed in?
The same truth in other traditions
Hinduism · Yoga tradition
The centers along the spine are described as a ladder, and the whole of practice is a slow climb from the lowest rung of appetite to the highest clear light at the crown.
Taoism · inner alchemy
The body is mapped as its own sky, with gates and chambers from the base to the top of the head, and the work is moving energy up through them rather than reaching for anything outside.
Sufism · Rumi
Every person carries a light that is held captive in the clay, and the beloved who comes to free it is not far off but nearer than one's own breath.
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