My Ogham give you Beith or Intention well-dignified for Habit A, which I take to mean that you have fallen into Habit A innocently. I am planning a future essay on my perceptions of addiction, but the gist of it will be that I believe addictions are an attempt to take a shortcut to a transcendent, holy state that backfires. For instance, alcoholics are not addicted to alcohol itself but the wonderful, warm, relaxed feeling alcohol provides. This sort of heavenly comfort is what the spiritually-aware person experiences in sleep, death, and sometimes in meditation, but it is rare and fleeting even for them. Gamers are not addicted to sitting in front of a screen twiddling a controller as much as they are addicted to the feeling of belonging to a special world that they can share with (online) friends. This is the same sense of belonging the mystic or yogi feels among his or her divine helpers; a similar sense of belonging happens to the master musician who performs their masterpiece for an appreciative audience. But in the case of the yogi or the music master, that feeling only happens after years of relentless practice. No short cuts available.
The goal must become to zero in on what you truly love and then go about earning the skills (and eliminating the distractions) that help you to achieve mastery.
The Ogham think you have a good chance of finding your way out of addiction and replacing it with what you love and do the hard work that will help you truly transcend. They give you Gort or Perseverance well-dignified, which means you are very stubborn. You are going to use that stubborness to help yourself rather than hurt yourself soon, and it (and you) will become a force to be reckoned with.
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My Ogham give you Beith or Intention well-dignified for Habit A, which I take to mean that you have fallen into Habit A innocently. I am planning a future essay on my perceptions of addiction, but the gist of it will be that I believe addictions are an attempt to take a shortcut to a transcendent, holy state that backfires. For instance, alcoholics are not addicted to alcohol itself but the wonderful, warm, relaxed feeling alcohol provides. This sort of heavenly comfort is what the spiritually-aware person experiences in sleep, death, and sometimes in meditation, but it is rare and fleeting even for them. Gamers are not addicted to sitting in front of a screen twiddling a controller as much as they are addicted to the feeling of belonging to a special world that they can share with (online) friends. This is the same sense of belonging the mystic or yogi feels among his or her divine helpers; a similar sense of belonging happens to the master musician who performs their masterpiece for an appreciative audience. But in the case of the yogi or the music master, that feeling only happens after years of relentless practice. No short cuts available.
The goal must become to zero in on what you truly love and then go about earning the skills (and eliminating the distractions) that help you to achieve mastery.
The Ogham think you have a good chance of finding your way out of addiction and replacing it with what you love and do the hard work that will help you truly transcend. They give you Gort or Perseverance well-dignified, which means you are very stubborn. You are going to use that stubborness to help yourself rather than hurt yourself soon, and it (and you) will become a force to be reckoned with.