We stand on the edge of a profound shift, yet the weight of what we’ve known still tethers us to the past. As we inch toward transformation, we find ourselves caught between the longing for change and the fear of letting go. The world around us reflects this inner tension, a mirror of the battles we fight within. The journey is slow, the resistance palpable, but it is only by moving through this discomfort that we can begin to awaken to what lies beyond.
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We are in the midst of an etheric housecleaning, but the weight of the past still keeps much of humanity submerged in uncertainty and doubt. It’s a slow, cumbersome process, and the burden is heavy. The unfortunate side effect is that many of us paint the present with the same dull, heavy brush we used for the past, perpetuating a defensive mindset.
The world outside mirrors what is happening within. Riots, protests, violent outbursts, and endless mudslinging are the predictable byproducts of long-held division and polarization. People calling for peace — or offering a different perspective — are met with resistance because we have yet to reconcile the shadow aspects of our psyches. By all appearances, it will get worse before it gets better.
Right now, conflict and imbalance are playing out on every level: in commerce, governance, education, spirituality, ecology, economy, geography, and even energetic geometry. We are resisting our own ascension, bound by fear of transcendence and the unknown — or rather, the long-forgotten.
We want control.
It’s fascinating, if not frustrating, how vehemently we cling to the old ways. Are we so afraid of shedding the identity of victimhood? Perhaps our reliance on conditions has been too deeply ingrained…
I will feel good, justified, validated, or empowered —
- When the money’s in the bank
- When my candidate is president
- When my mother/father is proud of me
- When my children are happy
- When I get back into my artwork
- When we break it off
- When I leave this hell-hole
- When they’re gone
- When I can find the time…
We live in an endless conditional if/then or when/then cycle, but life moves forward regardless of our delays. There’s a lesson in that — staring us right in the face, if/when we’re willing to see it.
Yes, we’ve been hurt. Yes, we are vulnerable. Yes, we are guilty, and yes, we are ashamed. But none of this is permanent. Nothing in this realm matters anywhere else; it only serves us here and now. It’s only here and now that we can overcome our imposed boundaries and self-perpetuated limitations. Life can be more than a self-fulfilling cycle of cause and effect, action and reaction, but we must accept our role in it. We must step into our creatorship, authorship, and sovereignty.
See the facade for what it is and let it be. We are here, now, to continue onward and upward, writing the new story.
Solvitur ambulando
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Listen to “Bring It All Back”