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Aquarius on other hand is symbolized by individual who draws water from well. Water, in Kabbalah represents both Chesed (Loving Kindness) and Mayim Chayim, "living waters", Torah term for Spirituality.
Always remember, our attitude will facilitate or sabotage our best intentions. So we must not fall into trap of blame, but rather focus our resources for taking responsibility for your own lives, and our most dominant vibration at any given moment. If we don't take responsibility for our own need to spiritually evolve, we are going to play out our unexamined fears and anger individually in dysfunctional relationships and traumatic life experiences. Collectively we will join others in expressing our unconsciousness darkness, contributing energetically to present day storms of social conflict, wars, abuse and exploitation.
Television networks learned long ago that you couldn't make money delivering good news. What sells is crisis. The worse supposed threat from terrorism, plane crashes, economic collapse and crime, more people will be glued to their sets. In reality, only smallest percentage of people are going to suffer from terrorism, midair plane collisions, homicide or even highway fatalities. If you look at statistics, life is safer than ever. But you would never know this from evening news.
One of ways, old Piscean Energy is most successful these days in keeping old order intact is by pumping us with false images which keep us on run, make us hyper-vigilant to threat and distract us from our real opportunities. A new era of planetary tolerance and well-being would arise if we became as “consumed” by healing as we are to stress and fear based, politically motivated media bombardment.
KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER
There is No Avoiding “Creating”
Not doing anything is still doing something - its just that now our energy is being used to reinforce itself and continue in its old ways. Many create for themselves darkness, negativity, and even depression in not allowing themselves to grow. A sure sign that we are living this way is when we find ourselves stuck in “reactivity”. Reactive behavior is also a choice in “creating”. It is still fueling a certain outcome, thereby “creating”.
The question to ask ourselves is whether we feel it is of our highest benefit to create from a position of reactivity. Reactivity is a state we automatically go into when we are not doing our work, when we go back into our “default” state. When we lose focus of Sacred in our lives and no longer see relevance in our current life predicament.
Our other choice is to periodically focus on Divine in our lives, in life beyond River. In doing this we will become inspired once again to participate in a Divine Plan and Purpose.
Learn to See Everyday Life Tensions as a Recycling Process
The Kabbalah teaches that we grow by “recycling”, by taking in lower forms of energy and converting it into a higher forms….
The same way a tree, bush or any blade of grass on earth takes in a poison such as carbon dioxide and converts it into oxygen, we too are expected to take in life’s “poisons” and recycle to a higher, more refined outcome as a result.
In life, newly harvested truths often grow out of a garden of emotional lows. The important to remember here is that when we are down, there is only one direction to move, and that is back up!
Lurianic Kabbalah sees “getting back up” process as crucial to evolution of human soul. It understands very energy involved in grappling with everyday tension as drive behind liberation of Divine Sparks, which are shards of light trapped within material existence. The only way to elevate Creation itself is by moving into darkness to liberate it. This is often why very spiritually evolved people are ones challenged by biggest difficulties. It is NOT that they are being punished, but rather chosen.
Celebrate Even Smallest Victory
It is understood that as a result of Veil/River that separates us from Divine Reality, we have no way of knowing how much our smallest victories could be affecting its spiritual counterpart in Higher Realms. We have no idea of what shifts we are creating in our overall soul evolution, when taking responsibility for our energy even in “smallest” everyday tasks and challenges.
Patience is More than a Virtue, it is a Necessity
Remember, sometimes reality has to catch up to your intentions. Whether we like it or not, we live in a time-bound existence. Relax, and don't throw away anything that you tried, where it didn't seem to coordinate as you felt it should in time you thought that it should. Being patient is all part of a new consciousness for many of us. Much of wisdom comes in intuitively knowing “what” as well as “when”.
Final Thought from Albert Einstein
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and whole of nature in its beauty."
In Spiritual Fellowship,
Reb Michael Ezra Ozair
Rabbi Michael Ozair is a spiritual Life Coach, teacher, counselor and consultant. He can be reached at coach@kabbalahcoach.com or by visiting his site at KabbalahCoach.com