September 2023 Week 4

“I rejoice in what the mirror of my relationships show me” has been our guide this month and we have used it to first focus on our relationship to ourselves and then to all others in our lives. This week lets use this intention to shift our awareness to our relationship with our individual God of our choosing.

Judith Lasater wrote in her Wheels of Life book about one of the challenges of the second chakra: to learn what motivates us to make the choices we do. In learning about our motivations, we learn about the content of our spirits. Are we filled with fear, or are we filled with faith? Every choice we make contains the energy of either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear. This dynamic of choice guarantees that we cannot run away from ourselves or our decisions.

She goes on to write that while the energy of the second chakra inclines us to try to control our lives, the lesson of the second chakra is that we cannot be in control. We are physical beings and energy beings, but since the physical world cannot be controlled, the task before us is to master our inner responses to the external world, our thoughts and emotions. Nevertheless, we all struggle in a seemingly never ending cycle of disappointments in which we attempt to control our lives. We search endlessly for the one grand choice that will put everything in our lives into permanent order, halting the motion of change long enough to establish final control over everyone and everything. Is that choice the right career? The right marriage partner? The right geographic location? In seeking this right choice constantly, we give form to our fear of the changing rhythm that is life itself. In looking for this single person or thing that will forever bring us peace, stability, love and health, we dismiss the more authentic power that lies ~behind our eyes and not in front of them~. The truth contained within the paradoxical nature of dualism is this; It is not ~what~ we choose that matters; our power to influence an outcome lies in our ~reasons~ for making a certain choice. I have certainly had moments in my life that I am not proud of when I was nano focused on 1 particular outcome in my life and I could not find any peace unless life worked out exactly the way I wanted it. The stuck energy in my body and mind was exhausting and cut me off from the fullness of my life as well as the fullness of multiple possibilities. Living in this way makes our life smaller and fear rules the essence of our being - ugh, awful and not how I want to live. (FEAR = Forgetting Everything is All Right)

Answer the following questions:
Are your reasons for making a choice based on fearful thoughts and projections or faith?

How strong is your connection to your higher source?

What is the mirror of your relationship with your higher source trying to tell you?

How reliant on this source are you?

Are you living your life ruled by fear or faith?

How would your life look if you moved into the ebb, flow and letting go of the 2nd chakra? Can your relationship with your higher source help you?

How would you feel if you moved into the ebb, flow and letting go of the 2nd chakra? Can your relationship with your higher source help you?

I hope this month has helped you as much as me. I needed a month to sort through the 3 fold nature of my relationships - with myself, others and my God. Awareness, reflection, introspection - all very powerful and helpful to me.

Looking forward to next month and a content Fall.