FORTITUDE

2014, DISCERNMENT, FORTITUDE

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Continuing onward when you have lost the joy, and even the vision, for your goal, tests your strength and your Self-merit.  What words do you speak to your Self when you are tired and dispirited, when no results are apparent for the hard work and tenacity you give to a thing?  How do you stay on task and for how long do you labor before you question your own authority?

Many platitudes have been spoken to this dilemma.  It is darkest before the dawn.  It is the final stages of birthing that are the most painful.  The last steps raise the largest blisters.  Ask your Self:  Is this suffering necessary?  Is there something about suffering, or perceived suffering that makes greater, the final goal or gifts thereof?  Why?

When we set forth toward a goal, we agree to accomplish the work needed to attain it.  All of the road between where we now stand and where the goal resides, whether rough or easy, will be part of our path.  We do best to consider it day by day, as that is how Life moves, and how we move through Life, day by day, moment by moment.

What does suffering serve?  Is it spice?  Temporing?  Does Fate fear we grow bored?  If you have set for your Self, a hardy goal, with adequate time and means to achieve it, why must there be suffering?  Why would one calculate suffering into the mix?  That point illuminated, if you sense suffering, or perceived suffering in your mix . . . why is it there?

First:  is it suffering, this impediment?  What is suffering?  What is impediment?  How many outside yourself do you believe suffer?  How many, outside yourself, do you believe know impediment?  How do these things compare with your own conditions?
Fortitude grows as perceived impediment shrinks.  Abilities grow as perceived suffering shrinks.  As you compare your own conditions to others, all others, you might find that you can call upon more Fortitude.

Fortitude is the ability to continue toward a goal, even in the environment of challenge, sometimes extreme challenge . . . sometimes, actual suffering.

Fortitude is the ability to identify and release a goal once it has proven itself unworthy.  Sometimes we are led towards a goal for the journey itself, and having applied ourselves to a certain point, should turn off or away, taking a new road with our new information tucked inside us.

Fortitude is both:  it is strength of character.  It is knowing when to continue straight ahead and knowing when to turn.  It is deep listening.  If Life is giving you every sign, through challenge and suffering, that you must overcome and continue, that is Fortitude’s gift.

If Life is giving you every sign that through challenge and suffering you are travelling the wrong way and should turn from the current path, that is also Fortitude’s gift.  Fortitude keeps you moving.  It does not make you deaf, dumb, and blind.

Fortitude is an engine.  Paired with Will and Desire, Fortitude will help you to reach your goals.  Listen.  Look.  Where are you on the path?  Where do you go?
 

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: November 18, 2014

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JUSTIFICATION

2014, JUSTNESS

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

 

What do you Justify and how?  Are your reasons Just, and in applying your actions, are your actions and your behavior Just?  Justification defines balance, income and outgo:  I hold this position of authority and therefore act within the fair and reasonable bounds of my authority; I accept this object made from the labors of another and give to its owner fair compensation.

Justification is not an excuse; it is not a cover-up for failings; it is not evidence of the withering away of will or the application of crude manners, crude behavior, or crude character.  Justification is the Just personification of balance and harmony; that is all.

Words have power.  When you say that you Justify a purchase you can’t afford because you’ve had a grueling day/ week/ month, you are not in a state of Justification, you are in a state of denial and weak self will.  When you say that you Justify consuming a substance that is harmful to you, you are not in a state of Justification, you are in a state of self-loathing and non-love.

When you say that you Justify stealing because someone has stolen from you or done you wrong, you are in a state of petty meanness and revenge.  When you say that you Justify past or present deeds because other persons did similar deeds to you, you are in a state of non-responsibility and non-caretaking, of both yourself and of others. 

When you say that you Justify evil, war, anger, poverty, greed, hunger, ennui, and selfishness by ideas that claim they are necessary, you are not in a state of Justification, you are in a state of apathy.  By what tenets do you Justify Life and Being?

What is the Justification for waking this day?  At sleeping this day, what will the Justification be for having lived this day?  How will the debits and credits be balanced?

You have the ability, each day, some days more and some days less, to personify Justness in both actions and behavior—Justness that reaches beyond sociocultural and mortal ideas.  This Justness was born into as you were Sung into being.

Be Just first with your self and you will soon realize how the habit grows.  Live up to your words.  Fill those sounds.  Let your words and your meanings be vibrations and Truths of Harmony.



Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Guides who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: November 10, 2014

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SATISFACTION & MEANING

2014, MEANING, SEEING

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Is Satisfaction enough . . . and is it the same as Contentment . . . and is this the same as Fulfillment? At what point in Life do you ascertain that you have met your Purpose and with passion, heart, and integrity, filled and shared that Purpose? Does that bring Meaning?

Most persons enjoying incarnation at this moment will say that Satisfaction and Meaning are lacking in their life.  If this is true, where is the fault? Is it the fault of the world and its circumstances? The Perceivers? Or is their Dis-Satisfaction actually an alchemy of Disruption instilled to keep change and challenge ongoing, so that the Spirit seeks for higher and higher levels of growth that will eventually reveal Satisfaction and Meaning?

Do you respond to Disruption by attempting to transcend it, or do you withdraw? Do you experience Disruption as depression, blame, distrust, and the inability to pinpoint the source of your Dis-Satisfaction, which might seem to scatter your focus, deflate your will, and cripple your drive? Does your Dis-Satisfaction actually manifest as a loss of Hope?

Satisfaction is a condition of finding factors in their place and operating as they should. One discerns that factors are occurring, both positive and negative, in such quantities that life is balanced. Little change will occur from these conditions. Contentment, particularly in the form of apathy, can elevate non-change to even greater levels, using denial and other tools to avoid achieving higher levels of consciousness: “I once believed I would be an artist who would make visible the wrongs of my society, but now I am this instead, and am quietly happy with what I have been given.” A martyr's disguise can be worn for a lifetime.

However, Contentment that results from Fulfillment of the Spirit and non-attachment is another matter. When one has attracted the appropriate factors (sometimes at great expense to the ego and superficial desires), the vibration of the mortal self has increased to attune as much as possible to the Greater Self. Goals are less ego-centric and worldly matters such as monetary success and ego hierarchies have little appeal. “I shall become a doctor for the ill, though I know I will give many years of my playful and carefree youth to this endeavor.”

As you read these words, ask yourself:  Have I Satisfaction, or am I Dis-Satisfied?  What is the Meaning of Me and this Life? Beneath the worldly reasoning, what is it my Greater Self wants?  

You Are

We Are

No Entity Gives You Satisfaction

No Entity Gives You Meaning

See

Understand

The Beyond Is Here With You

Everything Is Here With You

Everything Is Now

 

Blessed Be This Day 

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: November 2, 2014

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PRIVILEGE

2014, CLEAR SEEING, PRIVILEGE, RESPONSIBILITY

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Some assume Privilege, but what is this mystical idea that certain goods and behaviors are open to only a few who gained the right by birth or political and/or religious position?  What is it to assert the rights of Privilege?

Let us say that Privilege is exclusive, a set of conditions found in what is considered the top tier of any given hierarchy.  Who determines the hierarchy is directly related to the socio-cultural system in which it figures.  The Privilege of one system does not transfer to the Privilege of another.  That said, Privilege is a state of Belief, not Reality.

What Privileges, if any, do you currently enjoy inside your own socio-cultural hierarchy?  Are said Privileges also tied to similarly-weighted responsibilities?  That is, for the Privilege of a one-ton weight, are you required to give responsibility-service in the payment of one-ton?  Is your Privilege of riding in a limousine with body guards paid for by many hours of service in deciding how to protect the people who do not have the Privilege of riding in such protection?

In similar terms, how are the mathematical calculations of your current lifestyle adding up in the exchange of Privilege and Responsibility?  Are you balanced?

When you assume Privileges without Responsibility, your core grows weak.  When you take Responsibility with none of the Privileges, your core grows brittle.  Life is exchange.  It is making and re-making.  One cannot build a house on broken rock or swampland.  Firmaments must support a strong foundation and the upward weight and growth of its buildings.

Look at your internal language for clues.  Any time you exclude yourself from the whole, saying that your actions alone will not matter to an outcome, you are declaring Privilege.  Any time you exclude yourself from the whole, and believe that your contributions have not mattered, you are declaring Isolation.  Any time you allow yourself to believe that it is your actions alone, your responsibility, that makes or breaks a dire outcome, you are self-punishing.

Privilege in balance is this:  accepting Responsibility-authority with grace.  

Privilege out of balance is this:  taking unearned rewards based on false beliefs.  

    Enjoying Privilege with clear sight teaches others to do the same. 

Blessed Be This Day 

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: October 26, 2014

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THE SERPENTINE

2014, HARMONY, THE SERPENTINE

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Watch how Life moves around you and you will see many patterns of The Serpentine.  It is the undulating, sensuous movement of change and adaptation.  It is the seeking through of one employing all senses, enjoying the journey.  The Serpentine represents the ancient dance, the helio, the pattern of regeneration and replication.  It is sacred.

This is how energy moves through You.  It is how wind bends around the trees and water around the rocks.  It is how roots seek out their nutrients and children are fed in the womb.  The Serpentine is dance and wonder; it knows the Song.

Unlike straight forms, which have their own gifts, The Serpentine draws you in with its rhythm.  It says to you:  Listen, and now, Sing.  It tells you to move and be well and to rejoice.

Look for it today and for a while, follow its courses.  Feel how restored you are.  Feel how you shed the old skins, how worries and troubles are left behind you on the path.  The Serpentine knows only forward movement.  Go with Her and you go with Joy.

Blessed Be This Day 

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: October 23, 2014

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SEEING IN NEW LIGHT

2014, PERCEPTION, SIGHT

OCTOBER 22, 2014

We are unaware of what we currently do not know and cannot see.  Until we can know and see these unknown, unseen things, we will continue on in the spectrum within which we currently operate.  For how long and in what way is individual.  Some prefer to stay comfortable while others are always seeking new horizons and a rare few are constantly pushing the boundaries of their beliefs and abilities.

Where do you currently fit in these divisions?  If you choose a life of comfort, settling into one way to see and believe, there is still richness and diversity to be experienced in life, just by seeing the same set of beliefs from different angles.  This would be liken to the role of parent, doing your best to understand how your parenting behavior is perceived by the child you parent, or examining your role as compared to how you were parented.

If you are a person seeking new horizons, you have explored these concepts and moved beyond them.  You now look for different ideas, and hopefully, more uplifting ideas that serve the greater whole.  You step outside the grooves made by generations past and begin to re-make the role of parenting based on new ideas, perhaps using references from other cultures or periods in history.

Rebels, or those pushing the boundaries, are looking to begin fresh.  The word Rebel has been much used and often applied to a person who is merely disruptive.  However, chaos applied with passion that undermines that status quo in an intelligent way, is a service in itself.  While each of the categories expresses a way to See In New Light, this category of re-making expresses the highest level of creativity.

A person does not believe in zero gravity until it is experienced.  A person does not believe in ghosts until they are experienced.  And sometimes, a person does not believe in their own ability to change and grow, until their own empowerment is experienced.  And this requires Seeing In New Light.

How do you see yourself now, as you read this?  Do you believe yourself strong and capable?  Are you a loving and compassionate person?  Do you manage stress and setback with grace?  Have you an outlook on life that contains a blend of perceptions, combining the personal and the cosmic condition?  In what Light do you see yourself?

A farmer looks at a fallow field and sees a crop that will nourish his family and friends and the animals that live with them.  An artist composes the painting long before his brush touches the canvas.  The dreaming scientist sees his machine complete as he begins the rendering.

Do you see yourself as the large and beautiful, wholly amazing being that you are?  If not, how can we convince you to see yourself in a New Light?  How can we teach you to expand your range of vision and consciousness to include vibrations that currently exist above and below your current range?  They are there, waiting to be embraced.

Grow into an optimized version of Your Self. Dream your future larger than your present.  Each time one of us increases our vibration by Seeing In New Light, we Become New Light.  Great All is singing in joy.  Do you hear?

 

Blessed Be This Day 

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: October 22, 2014

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UNIONS

August 31, 2023|2014, CHEMISTRY, CONFLUENCE, UNIONS

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The Birth of anything new is due to the Union of two or more factors, entities, energies, or ideas.  Unions, however, need not produce amalgams, but may instead forge collaborations that reflect the best of what each participant has to offer to the whole, while allowing each participant to maintain their independence.  You may find water as an integral part of a tree’s inner structure, or working as an aid in its external environment:  one such example of amalgam and collaboration.

In this way, You are invested and represented in many different manners within many different Unions, both amalgam and collaboration.  Some are positive and some are negative.  Some are voluntary and some are involuntary.  Some are constructive and some are destructive.  Understanding where and how you are invested helps you to understand where and how your Personal Energy and Attentions are invested.

You are perpetually fed by many influences.  The ones to which you give the most attention are the ones which will demand the most of your time and energy.  Note well that time and attention are the value notes or notes of exchange, used in Life.  These are the dollars that you have to spend both while in incarnation and in between.  To use them wisely creates a slipstream effect and allows for harmony.  To overspend or to spend heavily in any one direction, causes deficits in other directions.

Therefore, when consciously choosing Unions, look for the confluences of one stream meeting another, and its probable new chemistry.  Ask yourself:  how will I, and the whole of Great All, benefit from this Union?  Do your best to avoid fear, hopelessness, and default, when making your choices.  Even false expectations, guilt, and other bad reasonings can cause a sound mind to choose a harmful Union.

Align yourself with those things that create growth, even when the growth comes initially from destruction.  Challenge yourself to confront your fears, guilt, hopelessness, and false expectations in choosing new Unions and in letting old Unions dissolve.  Survey your energy.  Where is it invested, and how?

Unions should benefit You, Your Partners in Union, and the Great All.  By each of us streamlining and strengthening our Unions so that only the greater good is served, we forge another Union—that for the upliftment of Great All and All who dwell within.  


 

Blessed Be This Day 

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

     Archives: October 21, 2014

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