text: вЂў “You have the ability to control the power of your thoughts. You have the ability to control the power of your mind. You have the ability to make a vibration dominant that matches your desire. You do. And that’s all it takes. And that’s all any successful person ever has done. It’s all anyone who has ever achieved anything that they wanted has ever done. They just wanted it, and talked themselves into believing it.”
  вЂў вЂњWhen you have a fresh desire, when you want something and you donвЂ™t doubt it, that frisky feeling, that feeling of exhilaration, thatвЂ™s what you came for. ThatвЂ™s what your quest is. ThatвЂ™s the feeling you want.вЂќ
  вЂў вЂњThe entire Universe is set up to produce wanting within you! You cannot squelch wanting. You are born wanters. Wanting is a good thing. Write that down in big letters: WANTING IS A VERY GOOD THING!”
  I recognize that this goes against nearly all of the teaching of the world, and sounds like one of those late-night ads that promises you hundreds of free vacations if you only send in however many thousand dollars and sell vacations.
  However, I have enough training in metaphysics to get the point: what we want is usually what we get. We make it by wanting it because the universe only vibrates in harmony with what we want. So with Mars retrograde in your sign, asking you what you want, now is a great time to do some sorting out. As an astrologer I’m suggesting here that the retrograde piece is about discarding past desires and things you desire now that are not really authentic. That will tell you a lot; and then you can move along quickly to figuring out what you want and allowing this process to help you align your energy with it.
  There is, of course, the issue of the other. What if you want something one way and someone else wants it another way? Well, you may need to want such people out of your energy field. In one channeling, Abraham suggests getting what other people want, or want for you, out of your way.
  Aquarius is your opposite house and sign — known as your solar 7th house: the house of partnerships and relationships, whether friendly or not.
  Aquarius is an unusual sign (its natives would agree) because it involves both individuality and groups. These are actually functions of one another. There is not a contradiction; the concept of a group is meaningless without the concept of an individual and vice versa. Still, when you look out at the world in all its otherness, the picture is not simple.
  In our society we tend to get neither individuality nor groups: we get mass consciousness. We get a world of people who seem to not think for themselves; but what’s missing is not the thinking, it’s the concept of self. Note that with Mars retrograde in your sign, this is the thing you’re focusing: your distinction from others and your sense of your own existence. Ultimately I suggest defining yourself outside the context of ‘all of them’, but for now that will serve you fine.
  Having Aquarius as your opposite sign puts you in the position of constantly negotiating your own individuality, and it always has. This particularly shows up in group environments, with the first one being your family of origin. Groups, or our belief in groups, has its way of exerting pressure and enticing us to give up our power. Many people give up power to groups so fast they have no idea they did it. If we had a sense of who we are, that would be a lot more challenging; and the more you cultivate this in yourself as a conscious act, the more you will find it in the people around you.
  You will also notice the extent to which the opposite is true: try to focus on what you want rather than what you don’t want.