Circumstances are different now, as each new day is always different from the last. Yesterday is no more. Today is all that matters. Keep that in mind as you make your plans and try to figure out what to do next. If things are not clear, remember all that you have been learning and all the little practices you have accumulated to help you through whatever needs to be got through. Now is the time to actualize them so that you remain calm, centered, and grounded in the reality of the present moment. Without judgment, without guessing or gossip, without criticism, anger, sorrow or pity, please step up with all that you know of your heart’s contents, and your heart’s contentment, and your heart’s power. These are the things that are of the greatest importance in all situations in life.
The day may begin on a high note and end on a solemn note, but that’s okay. As we all know, things can change in an instant. It’s not unusual for the flow of life to take a sudden turn; whether for the better or the worse does not matter. What matters is to be aware that any sudden change also means that a door has just opened. The opportunity for everyone in such situations is to see that opening and to walk through it.
What rules the outer world, at this moment in time, is the most fantastic display of self-importance the world has ever known. Of course, it’s the most fantastic display, ever! It wields the Midas Touch, as everything it touches turns to gold, real or imagined!
Let us face this outer reflection of insatiable self-importance as we discover its hidden presence within the workings of our own inner Soul. We are all subject to the Hermetic Law, as without so within. May we all truly find the gold within in this golden moment of our planetary progression.
Self-importance has its roots in the developmental needs of the human ego. The mention of ego often provokes a pejorative reaction, as it is frequently associated with negative self-importance, one of its trappings so offensive to the virtue of humility. However, in its functional form, ego is the part of the personality that forms an identity that navigates the life we were born into, and the entire journey of our lifetime in human form.
In fact, ego is a part of our Soul that generally suffers amnesia at birth—what is called a blank slate—where it is separated from its royal ancestry of infinite Soul, to be born into a human family, as a mere mortal who will live and die in human form. This royal scheme is the greater Soul’s intent to explore vistas of being that only life and death in finite form can provide.
Ego, born into this state of alienation, is obsessively driven to bond to parents who will ensure its survival. It grows through helplessness and dependence to secure independence, when it can more fully undertake its hero’s journey to complete the mission it unknowingly signed up for prior to birth.
Ego has an insatiable desire for attention, particularly from its parents, which is largely met by parents through mirroring glances of acknowledgement, joy, and welcomeness to young ego, who experiences validation and the definitive right to take up space and thrive in this world. Failures in early mirroring can lead to depression and obsessive attention seeking behaviors, as such an ego lacks secure attachment and inner worth.
Ego may revert to strategies such as ego inflation, where it puffs up its self-importance to more securely navigate life. Equally, ego may choose to hide, seeking no attention. Attention entails performance, which can lead to failure, shame, and rejection. In this adaptive hideout, one may live a fantasy life of importance and fulfillment, though secretly feel entitled, superior, and resentful.
Another ego strategy for navigation is the pursuit of perfection to avoid the judgments inherent in being seen. The problem with perfection is that it leaves no space for the acceptance of being a mortal human with flaws and inadequacies. Avoidance of rejection and shame can monopolize all of one’s energy for life.
Blatantly mirrored, in current world rule, is an ego strategy that exercises its full might to consume all world attention and stamp out all possible criticism and limitation. This strategy is a concretized attempt to achieve wholeness and oneness by literally having, and becoming, all that is.
Ultimately, we are all being challenged to address our fixations with self-importance as the collective planetary ego prepares to evolve in this Age of Aquarius, which we have recently entered. The ego of the Aquarian Age is opening up to telepathy, where thoughts and feelings are transmitted without verbal communication. This mind-reading function does not require another to be locally present for thought-sharing to occur.
Ego cannot hide out during telepathic communication. The ego becomes the emperor with no clothes in this scenario, for all is known. Ego can no longer hide behind words and persona; it is simply seen as it truly is. This progression in evolution requires that ego be in acceptance of the truth of what it is, with all its flaws and limitations. This alignment with truth opens the door to love of self, as well as love of equally flawed neighbor.
P. P. Quimby discovered that most of what becomes disease in our lives is erroneous ego beliefs, which condense and are reflected in the external conditions of our body. His method of cure was to have his patients see the blatant truths of these errors and open to the love and truth of their divine beingness. This orientation also opens us to the truths and intentions for the greater good for all rather than the cloistered, self-serving ego of deception.
This attitude of love and reverence for everyone prepares us to take full conscious possession of our divine ability to manifest, via suggestion to our divine subconscious mind, sincere fulfillment for self and all others.
Until recently, we have all projected these divine abilities to create and manifest onto godly beings beyond ourselves, or concretely upon money and physical objects. The Age of Aquarius is reflecting to us our royal potential, as we retrieve our projections and advance our innate energetic abilities.
In effect, the more truthfully we face and accept the full truths of our lives, the more ego discovers its true royal heritage, which it can then align with for the greater good of self, and all others. Ego then serves the needs of its greater Soul, in truth and wisdom, rather than its own self-aggrandizement.
The shamans of ancient Mexico, who recognized the utter necessity to become free of self-importance, stressed that laughter was the best medicine in accepting our flawed selves and the wily ways we adopt to cover ourselves up.
Every one of us has the capacity now to advance the world from within, by facing the giant of self-importance, so boldly mirrored to us from without. May we follow the true guidance reflected by this utterly glaring projection!
As things continually ramp up in the world outside of you, reject the notion that you have to get upset too. Let your newfound heart-centered practice show you a different way, a way that is accepting and receptive to the ways of the world, just as you are learning to be accepting of and receptive to the unfolding of your own life. For it is in the receptiveness and the acceptance of life’s ups and downs that you are learning how to navigate, both within and without, to the best of your heart’s intent, and to the best of your honest self as well. The honest, heart-centered self is the self that knows that all things that come to pass must come to pass and that you will survive them all, for you are a magnificent being on a magnificent journey, today and every day.
In concert with the practices and events of yesterday, begin this day with a few deep breaths as well. Let your breathing open your heart a little deeper and a little wider. Reflect back upon yesterday. How did the day go as you turned toward your heart for help and for answers? Do you feel your heart present now, ready for today as well? Are you ready to engage this beautiful aspect of your humanness, your heart-centered and loving self, in all you do? Remember, the heart knows only truth.
