You live in complicated times but also in times of great possibility. Keep an open heart and look always for ways to ground yourself in your body, your vehicle of transportation during your lifetime. Find time to be in nature, which can be as simple as looking up at the clouds during the day or the dark sky at night. Spend time in greenery if you have it near you; notice what grows around you, what nurtures you in nature. Assign yourself each day to a grounding practice, perhaps walking and feeling the energy of the earth beneath you, which only wants your health and well being at all times. Pray for peace, health and prosperity for all beings as you ground yourself and walk your path of heart. Things are changing rapidly now. Keep up.
Resentment is a heavy weight to carry, a burden best left by the wayside. If everything is part of the bigger picture of life, then resentment has no place except as a part of that picture, neatly fitting in to teach something. Take the lesson and learn its significance and then move on to the next lesson. A refusal to learn and grow allows things such as resentment to grow and fester in place of the learning and thus it is merely a blockage, and not a helpful one at that. What lesson does resentment teach? How to let go, for one. How to detach from a situation without any strings attached, and perhaps it also teaches the beginnings of love and compassion. For the ultimate goal is to embrace love and compassion for all, and to truly do that all blockages must be freed, including resentment.
You can only resist the call of spirit for so long; eventually you will have to pay attention. Resistance is futile when the body can no longer uphold its defenses, when the mind can no longer deny, and when the emotions can no longer hold back their inevitable flood. There comes a point in every life when the calls for change, long coming, can no longer be denied. When that time comes the best resource is to turn to help from your spirit self, your High Self. Ask for guidance in how best to proceed. Keep your heart and mind open and acquiesce to the truth that something else is pushing you in a new and different direction and it’s time to embrace it.
Keep your energy contained for your inner use, to broaden and deepen your inner work. Get to know yourself more fully each day so that your defenses may be dismantled, your wounds healed and your spirit freed. Without defenses, blockages and obstacles getting in your way you will be freer to accept the bounty offered, able to manifest what you desire and live a more fulfilling, happy and healthy life. Do the good work of knowing and loving yourself so that you may do the good work of more fully knowing and loving others.
The Latin root for lust is lustrare, which means to illuminate, to brighten. Like a moth, irrevocably attracted to a bright flame, lust is an overwhelming desire or craving to merge with or consume an object that shines with the promise of deep satisfaction.
Lust is most frequently associated with sexual passion, which comes online at puberty, fueled by hormones whose biological urgency is ultimately the intent to bring forth new life. Typically, one becomes sexually attracted to the shine or glow one sees in another, and lusts for some kind of sexual release with them.
The overwhelming power of lust challenges deeply the ego’s reasoning ability and will. The emotion of lust is so binding and blinding one often feels powerless to not acquiesce to it. Despite very negative consequences for acting it out, lust, due to its compulsive power of attraction, can frequently defeat the ego’s best of intentions of restraint.
Interestingly, the guidance upon dying is for the soul to travel directly toward the light. That which most powerfully Illuminates is the ultimate Creator. Union with God is union with the light. Passion is the energy of creation.
Lust imbues the human experience with creative energy from the most primal levels of biological desire to the highest form of spiritual love. Lust is the energy that the subconscious employs to draw to it the materials for its creative activity as it embarks upon the task of fulfilling a suggestion.
Lust is also the energy that feeds addictions. Addiction is a spiritual disease that achieves the momentary satiation of calm through union with an object, substance, or behavior that shines with the luster of promise. Addiction binds one to the repetitive habit of seeking union with the mana of its substance, usually with diminishing returns of satisfaction, generating greater dependency and despondency.
Lust is an essential energy of life that is so powerful that it can destroy life. The desire of lust is an essential component of intimacy, yet, if it is too dominant, can forestall the development of true relatedness and connection, qualities essential to enduring relationship.
Perhaps the greatest challenge in human form is the mastery of lust. To avoid lust is to forsake the creative and emotional dimension of one’s divine birthright. To give over one’s life to the compulsions and mismatches of lust is to lose control of one’s life.
Oftentimes, a repetitive cycle of doing lust’s bidding can accrue to its loss of luster where the spark of illumination can then transfer to a true path of heart. The Buddhists call this avidya , the long path of ignorance that eventually accrues to enlightenment.
If we recognize that the true source of lust is within our own soul, which is then reflected outward to ‘catch our eye’, we might then take hold of our creative energy within ourselves. If we align our desire with the realization of our true self we present to the subconscious the intent for fulfillment.
