DESPAIR

2020, DESPAIR, FAITH, SELF WORTH, THE LIGHT

DESPAIR, 2020 MAY 21

What is it to Despair? 

It is more than being un-paired from High Self. 

It is a condition of silence. 

Possibly, you don't recognize silence. Possibly, this is because you do your very best to fill your time, your days, your spaces, with sounds and textures that distract you from what you might otherwise give your focus.

To Despair is to lose Faith, even temporarily. It is to lose self-worth. It is to lose sight of what is possible, favoring instead an outlook of what might be probable in a mortal, limited, and final sense, abjuring to everything that is negative.

To Despair is to suffer; it is to render oneself blind, deaf, and dumb. To Despair is to sing away the sweetness of All, even when bounty is present. Yet, to say that Despair is always a condition of choice would be cruel.

Sometimes, life circumstances grow temporarily larger than the Spirit's ability to frame the reference in the largest scope and field where it may be viewed. Sometimes, a condition is met before the conscious mind is quite ready to deal with all it brings. What then do you do?

Know this: Despair is paired with its own undoing. As darkness falls, so lifts the light. 

When you wake in the dark and cannot see, remember that you have other senses on which you may rely. Use them.

Does this Despair feel real? How deep is it? Are you in this room alone? What brought you here? What conditions might summon you, or Despair, away?

Let the undoing that is paired with Despair do its work. Do as the three blind men did when surveying the elephant: its trunk, its body, and its tail. Despair has a personality. It has packed a bag by which it comes calling. What is in that bag?

Are you currently in visitation with Despair? Do as the blind, and study its condition by your other senses. Unpack its bag and inventory what Despair has brought calling. You may not see the approach of dawn, but listening closely, you will hear the birds in the glen herald its approach.

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: May 21, 2020

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STRANGE BREW

2020, BELIEF, NUANCE, TENETS

STRANGE BREW, 2020 MAY 20

STRANGE BREW

   ~experiencing Self/self in strange worlds

When studying the monkey's world, are you able to think and reason as a monkey, or do you value and judge everything according to your human sensibilities? You can approximate the mind of the monkey, as determined by your human self, but you will never be able to entirely grasp monkey-mind. 

This is true as you examine a world of your opposites, and those juxtaposed to your own life conditions. While you may employ your self with intelligence and compassion, the nuance of such a different life will keep you outside its central tenets and core beliefs.

The Strange Brew of unfamiliar concoctions and decoctions go deeper than the physical cells of the monkey, which are designed for certain tasks, stories of creation, and projections of ability unique to the species . . . just as yours are unique. You are lacking the predominant chemical and structural features that reflect a strange community's vibration.

Whether comparing day-people to night-people, religious to non-religious, or one gender to another, recognize that much must be taken on faith, often neglecting the nuance entirely. You can try walking in another person's shoes, but really, you can only try on their ideas. The Strange Brew of their beliefs and cosmology will at a cellular level, lock you out.

This is the gift of Life: many notes making many Songs; many threads making many tapestries. When you encounter a Strange Brew, sup with it a moment, indulge the reckless, mysterious shadow worlds that are tangent to your own, adding their flavors. Life does not progress in a straight line. It requires many beautiful detours. 

Leave the path from time to time, pressing your feet into the grass. Somewhere out there, you and your world are the Strange Brew. Can you imagine?

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: May 20, 2020

Photo by Jeison Higuita on Unsplash

BACKDRAFT

2020, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, AWAKENING, BACKDRAFT, TRANSITIONS

BACKDRAFT, 2020 MAY 19

BACKDRAFT

    ~ combustive re-setting

When you encounter something explosive in a specific way, you can be thrown back, disoriented, and even injured. Whether this combustive event is simmering or sudden, the injection of oxygen (or information), can cause flares, forcing you to draw a line between what came before and what came after.

Death is like this. Simmering or sudden, the conflagration where one state becomes another forms a flashpoint, burning away the past and establishing a new future template. Though these transitions are very difficult, once existing, they become part of the fabric.

Many lines have been drawn in your life. Separation, new tenets, spontaneous awakening, and divine inspiration can all serve as a combustive re-setting of the conscious, subconscious, and superconscious self. If one approaches these milestones with awareness, the transition might be smoother, allowing time to reconfigure the way you engage your life.

If one is presented with a sudden Backdraft, such as the loss of a loved one, one's home, career, health, family or homeland, the combustion is mighty, able to temporarily burn away everything that occurred previously. You might feel deeply injured, displaced, half awake and wholly out of control. You might feel you are still burning.

Acknowledge your injuries. Go gently with your recovery. Study the new reality and your place in it . . . and be kind to others experiencing the same.

What Backdraft did you last experience?

Are you awake . . . or are you still sleeping?

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:  May 19, 2020

visuals by Walks With Fire

PRIVILEGE

2020, ASSESSING, BALANCE, GRATITUDE, PRIVILEGE

PRIVILEGE, 2020 MAY 18

 

PRIVILEGE

~birth-rites versus life-rites

How was it in the family you were born into?  Do you arise from hearty, healthy people, those who are wealthy, or poor, those who are traditionalists, or adventurers?

Your Birth-Rites were given to you. Your Life-Rites will be considered and personalized. And because the world is a multi-cultural melting pot of highs and lows, if you were born into Privilege and health, some might believe you have a head start on life. This is so only to the degree that you can clearly see the world and your role in it.

While many idealize a world where individuals are equalized in terms of health, material goods, and opportunities, this has not occurred to date, nor will it likely occur in the near future. Each category of human existence provides its own opportunities for growth and advancement.

If you were born poor, do you strive to rise above the condition, or do you make peace with it and seek to lift up the community together, for the good of All? If you were born rich, do you work to identify your own purpose and maximize what good might be done with your wealth? 

In either case, you must separate Birth-Rites from Life-Rites, journeying in pace with Life's constant movement, contemplating the distances between where you began and where you want to go.

Do you say: "I was born poor and have no resources to help others," or "The wealthy must do all of things I cannot."? Do you say: "The sick must take better care of themselves," or "Why should I share the resources my family has accumulated?" 

In either case, you may be confusing Birth-Rites with Life-Rites. You must understand Privilege in all its guises.

Each entity has a right to Life, and each has a responsibility to communicate and co-create. This is a very difficult task for many, one that requires the ability to see the whole spectrum of Life in a non-judgmental way, beyond where Privilege ends.

As you study these ideas, think of the Birth-Rites you take for granted. 

That you have air to breathe and water to drink, food, shelter, work, and play is already a miracle. 

See the world, with its plants and 

animals and energies as your community, 

acknowledging Its Birth-Rites and Its 

Life-Rites as free from Privilege as possible.

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:  May 18, 2020

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SEQUENCE OF SAVIORS

2020, BELIEF, GRATITUDE, SUPPORT

SEQUENCE OF SAVIORS, 2020, MAY 17

SEQUENCE OF SAVIORS 

   ~ idealization versus ideals  

Who are your Saviors?

In what Sequence have they appeared? Do you Idolize an Entity?  ~or~  Do you strive towards High Ideals, seeking to be your own Savior?

Sainthood, and other external titles, have been given on Earth to those few considered above and beyond the human normatives. Are they Saviors? What is a Savior, and have your beliefs about the ideal Savior changed over time?

As a lucky child you may have believed that your parents or caretakers were your Saviors. They kept you safe and fed and in good company. Did this idea shift as you began school, fell in love, took a mate, met a Higher purpose? Has the Sequence of your Saviors shifted in coordination with your mental and emotional development? Who is your Savior now?

Study your Sequence of Saviors: parent; teacher; mentor; partner; religious or theological hero; family; community; spirit guides. What is their responsibility and interaction in your life? Do you respect one another? How often do you happily act as your own Savior? How often do you defer?

Be grateful for the guidance and support you are given, and remember that as you give the same, someone else is seeing you as their Savior. So be realistic and steadfast with your Ideals, avoiding false narratives of perfection.

Seek to be the Savior you most admire. This Savior can lead, teach, and love unconditionally. This Savior can humbly embody what is most High.

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:  May 17, 2020 

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BINDING YOUR OWN CURSE

2020, ASSUMPTION, BELIEF, CURSES, LANGUAGE

BINDING YOUR OWN CURSE, 2020 MAY 16

BINDING YOUR OWN CURSE

~identifying self-sabotage and clearing it

You are building your Secondary Agendas. You have studied your successes and short-falls. You have made adjustments where necessary. Still, you fall. What might be at fault?

Once you have made the proper and necessary course corrections for reaching your Primary Agenda, strengthening what is helpful and eliminating what works against you, what more might you perceive? Do you ever feel that there are forces working against you that are so powerful you can do little to curtail their influence? How can you change what is invisible to you?

We make many assumptions about our selves based on our socio-cultural normatives, and quite often, we bind our own Curses by wrapping them in our expectations. This is not to say that you might be discouraged by family, friends, and community, but to make you aware that you are a filter and quite often a magnifier, for those collective ideas--to the degree that you are blind to them.

Who might you consult that is living outside your beliefs, who could look inside and offer wise guidance for the liberation of unrealized potential and unidentified dampeners? Would you discover that beyond the self-sabotage of low esteem and corroded expectations, you have subconsciously bound your own curses? How do you release this? 

First, your language must be appropriate and used to incite action. If you have Cursed your self by binding your false normatives to your personal goals, release them by using curative word-thoughts. Repeat the new thoughts in your mind, in your language, and in your behavior. "I am a woman and I am skilled for building this house." "I am a man who can cook delicious meals for my children."

Do not Curse your self. Cure your self through awareness, compassion, and the ability to pursue change, no matter where that change may lead you . . . even when you must travel far and with great trepidation.

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: May 16, 2020

visuals by Walks With Fire

SPOTTING

2020, ACCOMPLISHMENT, INFRASTRUCTURE, SPOTTING

SPOTTING, 2020 MAY 15

SPOTTING

   ~recognizing high and low places

At times you will achieve more than you believe you are capable. At times your confidence will be greater than your results. Do you mark these peaks and valleys, returning to them for future planning?

We all work with highs and lows. We all react and respond. At times we are whole-heartedly engaged, and sometimes we are just going through the motions. This is life. This is balance.

But . . . when you plan for the Highest results, do you know what pieces of self and resources should be recruited? Do you know how to set your self up for success, and how to avoid actions that have previously led to short-falls?

Think of the last event in which you engaged below your target desire. Were you fully invested? Did you pre-educate your self? Were you thorough, or did you skip over some important aspects in your planning?

Most of us can conceive of a better plan once we have fallen short: the perfect action or the perfect words. Do you allow this to become a pattern, or do you take action to maximize future results? How do you weed out the obstacles, including the hidden motivations and fears that hold you back?

Let us return to the analogy of the writer. If you promised that your story or book would be done by a certain date, how close did you come? If you did not reach your goal, what was to blame: daily goals, weekly goals, research, feeling unqualified compared to your heroes, inability to focus, procrastination (and many more)?

To reach a Primary Agenda, you must build the Secondary Agendas. You must clearly be aware of the highs and lows in your behavior and beliefs and effectively Spot which components of a process support you, and which do not. Spotting these fluctuations is the first step in addressing them.

So, if I am a writer who does not meet my daily expected output, how do I change this? Am I lacking focus (or allowing for distractions)? Am I physically or emotionally unwell (and how might these goals, if perceived to be difficult, heighten those effects)? Be clear and motivated.

Even if you are not a writer in the earthly sense, you ARE writing your story. You ARE your own book, and many other characters live in that book with you. When you lift the story you are writing, you lift all of your characters. When your story proceeds at a lively pace, with truth and exposition, you flesh-out the life.

You are an author. What is it you are writing? Are you producing your pages on pace with your goals? Have you discovered your deepest purpose, or working on its collaboration in your life? Understand your character's voice and motivation; understand how the other characters see you.

Spotting the infrastructure of highs and lows will help you to reach more easily and fall less frequently. Be your own editor. Allow your character to grow. And most of all, allow your character to speak in a confident, honest voice.

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: May 15, 2020

visuals by Walks With Fire