When the energy spikes higher, we must go back to basics. This week is one of heightened intensity. The topic of sacred rage continues, as we learn to experience it and come back to trust and love.
The rage we collectively have been expressing in healthy ways is prompting us to push back against oppressive influences, which creates a ripple effect on the manifestation of global healing. We have often associated rage with negative consequences like increased punishment, and this punishment is a current threat which triggers fear over how we express our resistance. This is a perfect environment for the work we need to do.
As you do the outer work, expect great changes, while keeping the focus on your inner work. This is the time to let go of the outcome and step back from fear. As the world grows increasingly more scary, focus on living in what is going well. Do not participate in the fear. As with the rising tide, it will become increasingly harder to resist fear, until you choose to do so consciously.
Great people are powerful because they subsume their personal gain in favor of the gain of the All, and are unafraid to put their position on the line. They are unattached to all outcomes but their own self-satisfaction, preferring to focus on their inner knowing that they did their best in the service of something bigger than themselves. While they work for a positive outcome that involves their own highest good, they are assured that even if they do not succeed, their efforts will succeed in creating the highest good of that which they love. They find rest in self-acceptance, knowing they did their part with full focus.
Service in this way with others who also put everything on the line with full surrender to the highest good creates a safety net. When one falls, another catches them. Participation in this safety net requires ultimate clear sight, and ultimate trust in what you see. If someone shows you their limitations, it is your job to honor them by choosing where you will and will not risk falling, so that you may continue to work in optimal safety.
The experience of falling and not having someone catch you prompts feelings such as betrayal, disappointment, fear, and rage. Each feeling can teach you something and must be fully felt, but must not be allowed to run unchecked. Allowing these emotional responses to escalate without a productive direction may manifest in distrust of others, distrust of self, and choices based on these themes. You may feel that the other person’s part in this failure shifts your responsibility greater or smaller than it originally was. You may begin to wonder how much you have been forced to participate in this cycle. You may find that the effects of others’ choices bind you to experience things you never intended to experience. This belief in loss of personal power creates suffering.The core reality is that you are responsible for the conscious choice to participate or not participate in all aspects of your life. Especially when you find yourself in a temporary lack of personal power due to someone else, you are meant to take the helm again and steer your ship. The waters may be rough or calm, but the sunrise on the horizon is a constant that you can rely on to orient yourself to. Keep pursuing that sunrise.
Pursuit of the sunrise relies on the negative feelings we experience to guide us away from what we do not wish to continue experiencing. When tempered with love, fear can teach us to pause and evaluate what is wrong, and rage can galvanize our resolve to take back our control. Once the need for this energy is gone, we have to let go of it and come back to trust and joy. These feelings will not leave entirely until we are safe without them, but that does not mean we cannot take brief rest breaks along the way.The massive shifts we are both causing and flowing with require stepping out of our feelings and desires regularly to re-center our focus. As such, take the time this week, and going forward, to connect back into your body, and back to Mother Earth.
Change has the tendency to become disorienting, but the constant support we have is the planet we walk upon. Our very bodies are built from the elements under our feet. On the opposite end, our souls come from our intuition/Higher Self, and are fed by that connection regardless of whether we have bodies. But because we are embodied, the nourishment of the body feeds the soul.
Ways to ground to the Earth and honor your body vary. Touch earth/dirt, drink water with a pinch of good salt in it, eat something you feel good about eating, take an Epsom salt bath. Breathe the same air that trees and plants breathe, while seeing and/or touching them. In all this, consciously extend gratitude for the tangible receipt of Earth’s resources. This will teach your body, and consequently your soul, that you are held and supported.
This support may not feel like enough, but continuous actions of receiving support will add up. The fish does not swim the entire ocean in a day. The tree does not need to extend roots through the entire forest. So, too, you do not need to collect more than is necessary for the needs of the moment. Perhaps, as you grow, you will extend to the furthest reaches of your world, but for this moment, one breath is all you need. Your lungs cannot hold more than that.
As you embody your energy more and more deeply, you will find that your capacity to discover and accept nourishment in all its forms will grow. Your body is a vessel through which you receive nourishment. Honor it as the life partner that it is, and you will find your way through this great journey with greater abundance and more soul growth.
Everything is going well. Trust that your way is provided for, and that as you exercise your will in alignment with your purpose, you will see your dreams manifest.
Light and Love to You All,
-Elihu John
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