No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
~ Nelson Mandela
No One is Born Hating Another Person
Sometimes I Wake up and Have to Remind Myself
Sometimes I wake up and have to remind myself: THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ME. I have patterns to unlearn, new behaviors to embody and wounds to heal. But there is nothing wrong with the core of me and who I am. I am unlearning generations of harm and remembering love. It takes time.
~ Yolo Akili
How to Shock Your Chakras into Sacred Alignment
“A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.” ~ Martin Heidegger
When it comes to sacred alignment, there is perhaps no more powerful a method than going Meta (practicing healthy detachment) and then using the power of archetypes to “hang” our energy on.
When it comes down to it, chakras are archetypes. They are psychological symbols that we use to focus our energy (chi, prana, mana, Zen). They symbolize the pivotal points of energy transference through the primal/psychological body. They are “skyhooks” of meaning that we use to scale the human condition upward into cosmic interconnectedness and downward into primal rootedness.
When we practice healthy detachment, we learn to see with Over Eyes. We begin to see the big picture despite the small ego. With enough practice, we can even see our body-as-conduit from the bird’s-eye-view of our Meta perspective. From such a vantage point, we can see/feel/breathe through the energy moving through the body-as-conduit in relation to its cosmic interconnectedness and primal rootedness. This has the potential to bring us great power, vitality, and health.
Chakras are archetypes, containing both healthy and unhealthy sub-archetypes. Shocking (awakening/balancing/unblocking) our chakras is a matter of mindfully engaging with these sub-archetypes to create powerful transformations. Let’s break each chakra down in relation to their sub-archetypes…
Shocking the Root: Victim versus Mother Nature
“Begin to weave and the divine will provide the thread.” ~ Ancient Proverb
Located at the base of the spine, this energy archetype is about being grounded. Basic survival, stability, and security are at stake here.
When you’re grounded, you’re in touch with the primal self and you feel secure. When you’re not grounded, you’re out of touch with the primal self and you feel fear. The former is the archetype of Mother Nature. The latter is the archetype of the Victim.
Shock your root chakra by nurturing the victim archetype with the Mother Nature archetype. You can achieve this through mindful detachment. Through mindful meditation, imagine yourself above yourself. Visualize your inner victim becoming rooted in nature. Visualize the powers of the nurturing mother surrounding your inner victim with healing light.
Sacred alignment is achieved when the victim’s wound becomes a sacred wound.
Shocking the Sacral: Martyr versus Emperor
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” ~ St. Jerome
Located in the abdomen and governing the genitals and the womb, this energy archetype is about wealth and abundance. Basic well-being, sensuality, and pleasure are at stake here.
When you’re wealthy, you’re in touch with the life-death-rebirth cycle of the human condition, and you feel a sense of well-being and abundant health. When you’re not wealthy, you’re out of touch with the life-death-rebirth cycle of the human condition, and you feel guilt. The former is the archetype of the Emperor. The latter is the archetype of the Martyr.
Shock your sacral chakra by having the emperor archetype forgive the martyr archetype. In a state of mindful detachment, imagine yourself above your ego. Visualize your inner martyr being anointed by your inner emperor. Use the symbolic power of a sword or a scepter. Allow the martyr to let go of a painful past. Allow the emperor to forgive that painful past.
Sacred alignment is achieved when Pain is transformed into Professor.
Shocking the Solar: Slave versus Warrior
“Do not speak bad about yourself. For the warrior within hears your words and is lessened by them.” ~ Samurai Proverb
Located above the navel, this energy archetype is about confidence and self-esteem. Personal power and self-worth are at stake here.
When you have a healthy self-esteem, you’re in touch with the Golden Ratio (Or Golden Rule, Golden Mean) and you feel confident and honorable. When you’re out of touch with the Golden Ratio you feel shameful and dishonorable. The former is the archetype of the Warrior. The latter is the archetype of the Slave.
Shock your solar chakra by tasking the warrior archetype to teach the slave archetype the value of honor and courage. In a state of mindful detachment, imagine the practice sessions that occur between your inner slave and your inner warrior.
Visualize them wrestling through the shame and dishonor. Visualize the warrior teaching the slave how dishonor itself can be a sharpening stone for higher honor.
Sacred alignment is achieved when Demons are pressurized into Diamonds.
Shocking the Heart: Deceiver versus Lover
“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.” ~ Heraclitus
Located in the center of the chest, this energy archetype is about love and joy. Acceptance, compassion, and sincerity are at stake here.
When you are Being Love (unconditional), you’re in love with the interconnected cosmos (soul-centric) and you feel passionate. When you’re not Being Love (conditional), you’re only in love with your ego’s attachment to love (ego-centric) and you feel grief. The former is the archetype of the Lover. The latter is the archetype of the Deceiver.
Shock your heart chakra by having the lover teach the deceiver how to BE Love. In a state of mindful detachment, imagine your inner lover teaching your inner deceiver how to sacrifice the ego to the soul.
Visualize the lover teaching the deceiver how to let go of codependently clinging to expectation and cultural predispositions about the way love should be. Visualize the lover taking the deceiver under its wing and teaching it how to love Agape-style: an all-encompassing love that’s in love with the world-as-self and the self-as-world.
Sacred alignment is achieved when Grief is transformed into Grace.
Shocking the Throat: Fraud versus Grand Communicator
“Remembering that the etymology of ‘psychopathology’ means ‘the expression of the suffering soul,’ we then realize that what is transpiring is a crisis of stories, a conflict of myth, and polarized parties in contention for sovereignty over the soul.” ~ James Hollis
Located in the center of the throat, this energy archetype is about truth and clarity. Clear communication, expression, and creativity are at stake here.
When you are being truthful, you are “in Flow,” you’re expressive, and you feel inspiration. When you are being untruthful, you are out of Flow, blocked by lies, you experience repression, and you feel uninspired. The former is the archetype of the Grand Communicator. The latter is the archetype of the Fraud.
Shock your throat chakra by having the grand communicator teach the fraud how to make the darkness conscious. In a state of mindful detachment, look down upon your meditating body and imagine the Ohm radiating around your inner grand communicator and inner fraud. Visualize the sound of truth breaking through the walls of lies.
Visualize the discovery of what those walls were hiding from the fraud, and then have the grand communicator clearly express this discovery to the higher self.
Sacred alignment is achieved when Deception is transformed into Détournement.
Shocking the Third Eye: Close-minded Intellectual versus Open-minded Intuitive
“A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant.” ~ Unknown
Located in the center of the forehead, this energy archetype is about wisdom. Deep knowledge, a robust imagination, and connection with the spiritual realm is at stake here.
When you are perceiving with the third eye, you’re employing imagination like a mirror onto the world, and you feel intuitive. When your third eye is closed, you’re overly opinionated, willfully ignorant, irrational, and you feel confused and disoriented. The former is the archetype of the Open-minded Intuitive. The latter is the archetype of the Close-minded Intellectual.
Shock your third eye by having the open-minded intuitive teach the close-minded intellectual how to achieve perception beyond ordinary sight by taking extraordinary leaps of courage out of the ordinary. In a state of mindful detachment, imagine the close-minded intellectual remythologize the ordinary by lifting the veil and courageously turning the paradox of “having an answer” into the universal riddle of “discovering new ways to question.”
Visualize the unity of opposites, where summit and abyss unite, where the yin-yang smears out into the Middle Gray, where closed mind sparks against open mind and creates mindfulness.
Sacred alignment is achieved when the disease of Certainty is cured by the medicine of Curiosity.
Shocking the Crown: Egotist versus Spiritual Master
“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred.” ~ Tom Robbins
Located at the top of the head, this energy archetype is about connection with Infinity. Beauty, higher spirituality, acceptance of self, and sacred alignment is at stake here.
When you are connected to the infinite, you’re in sacred alignment with the Golden Ratio and the cosmic Flow State, you’re a fountainhead channeling higher wisdom, and you feel a powerful sense of self-mastery. When you are not connected to the infinite, you feel spiritually off-balance, out of sync with cosmic forces, disconnected from the whole, and you feel a sense of having lost touch with the underlying essence. The former is the archetype of the Spiritual Master. The latter is the archetype of the Egotist.
Shock the crown by doubling down on mystery. Have the spiritual master honor the egotist with humility through humor. In a state of mindful detachment, imagine the master poking holes into the egotist’s inflated sense of self-preservation.
Visualize the master flipping all the scripts, turning all the tables, pushing all the envelopes, and then laughing at all the self-seriousness, until the egotist is disoriented and off-kilter. Then visualize the master “shock-punching” the egotist in the chest the way Doctor Strange shocks people out of their bodies.
Sacred alignment is achieved when Humility gives birth to High humor and the egotist is “planted” in the ground to repeat the entire process again, from root to crown and back again.
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Repatterning by Christina Gage
Archetypal Phases of Women and How it Aligns with the Moon Cycles
Everything in nature flows in a rhythmic manner – the rising and the setting sun, day and night, different seasons, our own heartbeat and breath follow a certain rhythm. These rhythms are a part of us, guiding us in our daily activity.
The modern day lifestyle has pushed us out of our natural rhythm, as we are embroiled in the struggles of life, always scampering to catch deadlines. Why should our rhythm be dictated by a continuous 40-hour work time, 5 days a week? Does this correspond to our biological anatomy and natural human rhythm?
The divine connection
In the Neolithic time in Europe and the great first civilisations in Sumer, Egypt, and also other tribal traditions around the globe, the ancestors believed that women’s anatomy represented Mother Earth, who is incarnated in a physical human body.
Women were called life givers‘ in some dialects from Native American traditions. They reflected the whole cycle of life and death on Earth, and they were therefore totally cyclical in their nature; living and experiencing different energies during their menstruation cycle. Their rites of blood passage were venerated and considered sacred, as they followed the rhythm of the Moon.
Plants and the Moon
Just how plants are in sync with the cycle of the Moon, so are women connected to this mystical force. Plants follow this magical process: during new Moon the sap is located in the roots and then the plant gathers all the Energy to reinforce its structure and inner chemistry.
When the moon is in waxing phase, the sap goes up through the trunk and moves upwards towards the leaves. It is being regenerated and charging itself with new nutrients. During full moon, the sap is in the leaves, so that the plant glows with nutrients and vitality. Afterwards, in the waning phase, the sap is slowly moves downwards again until the new moon and the process starts again.
Women have the same magic inside their bodies, following the same process as the plants. Women feel different in every phase: a different mood, different energy, different emotions. This is where a business-oriented lifestyle can be hard to maintain, as it generates a lot of pressure on an emotional level.
Many times, period pain is actually related to emotional issues. The problem in our society is that we don’t respect our own rhythm given to us by Mother Nature. Maybe painkillers could not be the best option, but knowing and understanding more of our own cyclical nature and living more according to it will benefit.
A woman can bleed during New Moon, Full Moon or any other time in between. None is better than the other.
Bleeding during New Moon has more of motherly‘ energies and bleeding during Full Moon has more of priestess‘ energies, on very general terms.
Every month during a whole cycle, we experience 4 different types of energies, related to our hormones and biology of course. Explained from an emotional and psychological point of view, we call these phases the four archetypes of the menstruating Goddess.
The four archetypes of the menstruating Goddess.
“In order to reclaim our full selves, to integrate each of these aspects through which we pass over the course of our lives, we must first learn to embrace them though our cycles.” ~ Lucy H. Pearce
Moon Time: Harness the Ever-Changing Energy of Your Menstrual Cycle
Energies of the Maiden:
This is the period corresponding to the week after the menstruation time. These energies are dynamic, radiant, where the woman is now recharged with energy, ambition; she has great capacity of focus and concentration.
This is a great phase to start new projects and focus on being productive. It feels like a time of celebration and joy, and also a time of focusing on herself as priority and fulfilling her wishes. Her sexuality is rejuvenated, wanting to enjoy and also be part of social events, looking for new people to share her adventure with.
Energies of the Mother:
This corresponds to the ovulation phase. During this time the energies are still dynamic but more focused on the external world and the willingness to help others – a characteristic of motherhood. She radiates an energy in a way that people would come to her for help and support. In this phase, she is not focused on herself as priority, but she radiates love and harmony to the people she loves. She takes responsibility for projects, and people, and nurtures them. Her sexuality is about caring and giving during this phase.
“Mother energy is universal. It is the large expression of the sacred feminine that comes from spirit. It is embodied in all our biological mothers, but it is not limited or confined to them.” ~ Elaine Seiler
Multi-Dimensional You: Exploring Energetic Evolution
Energies of the Enchantress:
After ovulation phase and when she did not get pregnant is a time to go inwards. On a personal level, she will focus more on being alone and taking time for herself.
On an emotional and spiritual level she feels more connected to the mysteries of the world, she feels artistic and creative, and her intuition starts to grow and guide her.
During this time, the capacity to focus diminish, and she will act more according to feelings and impulses. She also feels more sexual just for the purpose of her own pleasure.
Energies of the Witch/Shaman:
This is the phase during menstruation. This is the peak time for intuition, for spiritual practices and inner visions, dreams and going deep in her inner world as a portal between dimensions.
It was during this time that women used to gather together in what was called the ‘red tent’ in many ancient tribes where they would bleed together to ask the spirit world for visions and relevant information for their tribe, like plant medicines, cures for illnesses and warning of future invaders.
During this time she feels the deepest connection to nature. It is a time to reflect, to meditate and rest from the agitated rhythm of life. It is a time to let go of wounds from the past and start preparing for the future and the new phase.
With so many things happening during a single month inside our bodies, maybe it is time for society to adjust to a rhythm where women can still do their work, and yet listen to their bodies and start remembering and appreciating their innate nature and their qualities.
By doing so, we can be better maidens, mothers, enchantress and witches instead of trying always to be one certain type of woman accepted by society standards.
“She dances with the Moon and swims with the tides, for when the Darkness arrives she is still the ruler of Waters” ~ Elisa Glezvalle
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Art by Erika Petunoviene AYTE
Like Many People who were Raised
Like many people who were raised in a volatile household, I associate a shift in energy with the potential for abuse. I am learning not to overreact. I am teaching myself not to let my triggers dictate my behavior or ruin my piece of mind. But believe me when I tell you that none of it is lost on me. I am acutely aware of every single change of tone, posture, and intensity. If you start behaving differently, I start paying attention, and looking for the reason why.
~ Kalen Dion
