The Thinking self or Hod is the 8 pointed star...lol!
Spent last week playing keep away with my eldest so she wouldn't mark up my ancient copy of Alice in Wonderland, it includes the Through the looking Glass too! Apropriate last week as we were studing the 9th archetype of the Subconcious self, which Alice's trip down the rabbit hole is all about!
The Alchemy of the Everyday or WHAT!
Staying true to observing the Alchemy of the Everyday, we have moved into the realm of the Thinking Self (Hod). As a creator of an Oracling deck, I can tell you, names are the darndest thing. Every time I rework a paragraph suddenly a new anachronism for that archetype pops into mind. The tree truly grows, and shifts within, with each new experience with each archetype. Words, language, symbols, books all relate to this spheres energy. And this week has seen this archetype energies presented within the reality that is my life. Inundated with its energies!
At what feels like Warp speed, suddenly, I am writing a business proposal, aware of thoughts that do not benefit the now and letting them go, created a Twitter account (what could be more Hod than Twitter, its all words and thoughts that are being shared, communication networks, social networks…) loaded some workshop videos to YouTube and am now engaged in applying for a grant and looking at getting a web site going to help provide the means for me to;
- stay at home with my kids
- earn an income doing something I love. Art and creating.
- Daily Oracling and Reiki sessions, for myself and the art. And this last one is really the most important of all.
The future is now, and right now what I need most to continue to walk confidently in the direction of my dreams is a routine that enables me to include what nourishes my soul, Oracling and healing arts. I have been meditating more regularly, arguably almost exclusively in active form. As even at night I am still on demand for my youngest. I manage to apply Reiki during those late nights or just inner silence, which 20 years ago would have seemed so wrong and boring is now so essential…oh the irony. Sacred geometry and language, how the music on a page can be translated, has drawn my attention. Translation, of information, Packages of information within the dimensions of geometric language. How Reiki can work along with star or sacred geometry within the art that I am able to produce with the resources in front of me, for free.
I learnt during the week with my Subconscious Self (Yesod) how Art can act as a channel for balancing my inner world and aligning myself with my Higher Self (Soul/ Tiphareth). This step took me to the next meaningful step for me, and brought me to the thinking self, the next piece of the puzzle. My next experience is now with the thinking self, already the touches of Fridays Feelings self are coloring the world. So I am writing to catch the last full bits of my experience with the thinking self before I loose it. This is why I am psyched about offering workshops the opportunity to repeat this experiment as often as necessary. To continue to grow as the tree a living oracle in its own right grows.
As excited and enthusiastic as I am concerning my future, riding along side neck and neck is my feelings about putting myself out there. And letting go of thinking I can control how any one sees me. Really and truly, ask yourself, when you get yourself together to go out, who are you thinking of? And honestly do you really believe that your thoughts matter, that you can even try and Know what and how someone sees, and then how someone sees you. Dr. Wayne Dyer says that “Your opinion of me is really none of my business.” When my personal self or egoic self sees that it freaks right out and that inner channel gets sharp and fuzzy. All those self doubts and non constructive thoughts slashing around. Stirring up strong feelings about purpose, truth and what I really am after, and not what I THINK I am after, which in turn kicks up the stored repressed issues in my subconscious concerning self worth, and a nice case of the “who do you think you are anyways”. I have been Reiki’ing my head off, and it has helped immensely for me to see that I still put my inner baggage before truth.
A Course in Miracles seems to resonate with this spheres energy, it resonates with the whole tree really, but in the light of the Thinking Self, it helps illuminate that mistake we all make. We meet or come across a Holy Instant or AHA Moment, or opportunity for growth, and we are happy and ready to meet it, but out of seemingly no where ( subconscious self) our ego’s sack of many setbacks is in our hands and on the ground before the opportunity messing things up. So to take a cue from the ACIM,
“Lesson 23 “I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.”
The idea for today contains the only way out of fear that will ever succeed. Nothing else will work; everything else is meaningless. But this way cannot fail. Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed.” Pg 34 Workbook for Students ACIM.
You all should know, I went upstairs to grab my copy of ACIM so I could include a totally different passage. But opened the course to this lesson. At first passing, there was a struggle as I wanted to not follow the Silent Voice along this new path, I thought “ nah this doesn’t quite say what I want about the thinking self.” HOWEVER now that both kids are down napping and I am typing the words from the text a Miracle, lol, it most certainly says EVERYTHING about the Thinking self that I am able to grasp. And offers more, peace and truth. I am always grateful when I realize that my Higher Self or my soul was able to come through my personal self and leave that touch of transformation for me in my everyday.
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