Best
Places To Live, Enjoy Life, Start a Business, or Retire
by James Clayton Napier
"Hence
the first principle in changing one's character is to seek another
environment, to let new forces play upon our unused chords, and
draw from us a better music." -- Will Durant I was 17 and growing
up in the Midwestern farming community of just under 1,000. My youthful
intent, looking out over the cornfields of Ohio, was to find my
best place on the planet, move there, and stay the rest of my life.
67
moves later (many of them short-term broadcasting assignments),
that best place has been a bit elusive.
Ask
me about geography. I'm able to reproduce maps in my mind after
hundreds of hours spent looking for THE ONE PLACE that spoke its
"Yes" to me. What did I, back at age 17, expect to do
there once I located it? I would do the best work of my life: writing,
painting, taking long walks and receiving a thousand breezy notions
to guide my destiny.
Over
the years I got out on the open road whenever I could and explored
the Oregon coast, Jekyll Island in Georgia, the Apostle Islands
off the Northern tip of Wisconsin, Lake Michigan's shoreline, Sequim
and Port Townsend in Washington, all over New Mexico, all over Texas,
Florida, Missouri, South Dakota, Colorado.
"Well,
what now?" I asked myself. "I've traveled nearly everywhere
and still no location or city speaks to me in the way I'd love to
be spoken to. Surely, there's an answer waiting for me somewhere.
There must be." Being impressed with astrology in general,
I ordered one of those astro-cartography reports with the planetary
lines drawn across the map. I looked at my "good lines,"
such as the Jupiter line (for prosperity), the Venus line (for pleasure),
the Mercury line (for communication), the Sun line (for vitality)
and surmised, "This line-map is too vague. I've been on all
those lines and need a lot more guidance than this is giving. I've
been on that Venus line and felt anything but pleasure while visiting
Biloxi!" The astro-cartography map left me mostly unsupported
in my mission of finding my place in the world.
Yes,
of course, personal peace and psychological well-being are an inside
job. Inside jobs can be done anywhere and shouldn't depend on being
in a certain place. Right? I also wanted to wake up each morning,
however, totally taken by the beauty of nature around me. And my
dream has always been to be a philanthropist to others' dreams.
This requires earning more than a barely-squeaking-by broadcasting
salary.
While
working in Texas I met Cait Benten, an astrologer who also specialized
in relocation. After studying at my birth chart and relocating it
to other latitudes and longitudes, she said, "Now, look at
this, James. Let me explain what happens to your chart in either
Bar Harbor, Maine, or Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas?"
She explained the ways in which each place softened some of the
most difficult aspects of my chart and gave more potential for financial
flow. Each place was different, of course, but both were better
in several ways than Cetral Texas."
So,
based on her advice, here I am -- writing this article from Hot
Springs National Park in Arkansas. The company I work with is located
in Phoenix, Arizona.
Perfect?
No place is perfect, but I do sense many of the difficult aspects
of my birth chart, as pointed out to me, are eased and opportunities
are opening. Relocation astrologers -- not the kind who sell the
"cheapy" reports -- the real ones who work with you personally
and care about your life, are on the cutting edge exciting developments
in astrology.
The
psychologist Abraham Maslow spoke about our human need for money,
security, home -- a sense of place, community and belongingness
-- our desire for love and appreciation, for expression of our creativity
and our desire for self-actualization (becoming what we may be in
this lifetime).
For
most of us the prospect of a start in a new location reinvigorates
us.
I'd
like to share with you my personal favorite definition of security.
"Security is not a place of ideological stability but a direction
inspired by curiosity."
The
teenage boy living in a rural Ohio community, of course, had no
idea his dreams & travels and moves (which were business and
family related), would turn out to be invisible threads leading
to relocation/locational astrology and a new way to make life choices.
I wish
you all the best in your life choices. Consider relocation astrology
if you feel stuck where you are currently living.
Joseph
Campbell, the great writer and lecturer told his audiences, "Your
sacred place is where you find yourself again and again."
Helping
us find our best or sacred place to live, work, retire, and enjoy
our lives as we desire to enjoy them is what relocation astrology
is about. I suggest you look into it when facing or contemplating
a major life change.
"Afoot
and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, and the
world before me. The long brown path before me treading wherever
I choose. Henceforth I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune,
strong and content I travel the open road." --American poet
Walt Whitman, The Open Road
Life,
indeed, is quite a journey isn't it? Robert Lewis Stevenson wrote:
"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
I've
done the traveling hopefully part. There is much to be said, I can
tell you, for ARRIVING and getting SETTLED IN!
About the Author
As a television broadcaster, James Clayton Napier has shared meaning-filled
conversations with film stars, recording artists, US Presidents
and first ladies, state governors, world-famous authors, scientists,
and people from most every walk of life. He is presently Media Director
for an educational corporation.
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