Let‘s have fun riffing on the meaning of the planet Uranus in our personal charts. I believe it signifies the talents and superpowers we harbor that would be most beneficial to others. If we fully develop these potentials, they will express our unique genius and be useful to our fellow humans.

I invite you to brainstorm about the nature of your Uranian talents.

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Spiritual teacher A. H. Almaas believes that a genuinely creative act is always motivated by generosity.

If that’s true (and I agree it is), here’s the question: How do we explain the ego-obsessed “geniuses” who treat people carelessly even as they churn out their supposedly brilliant art?

Here’s my answer: Those are not authentic geniuses. Genius is by nature benevolent.

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You’ve heard the term “Higher Self”? We might define it as a genius aspect of your intelligence that is usually beyond the reach of your conscious awareness but is always looking out for you and offering you guidance—if you take the trouble to tune in to it.

Fun fact: Your Higher Self is itself evolving. One of its goals is to activate the genius that comes fully awake through a synergetic melding of Higher Selfishness and Higher Selflessness: “where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet,” in the words of Frederick Buechner.

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Resolved: There’s no contradiction between:

being a highly individuated, creative person devoted to developing our own maximum potential and enjoying life to the fullest

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being a spiritual freedom fighter dedicated to the liberation of other humans and to the transformation of civilization into a paradise that serves and exalts all creatures.

The two tasks can blend quite well.