Taken together Fehu in reverse and Dharma’s Reflection ask us to use what is happening in our world, from our material possessions to our relationships, to help us go inward and learn about ourselves.
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Remember that in the same way that our material possessions can represent things that are real-but-not-tangible (abundance, security, connection, role/identity, wealth, etc), our relationships also activate within us what is ours to recognize. When someone awakens in you love, they may have been the catalyst, but the love that springs up within you is yours. The same goes for hate. So what are you blaming or worshipping in another that you may actually want for (or be judging within) yourself?
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What is your world reflecting back to you right now? What are you feeling in your body? What memories are perhaps resurfacing? What are your dreams and desires showing you? Your true wealth and vitality have never been outside of you. And while grief is always valid, ‘loss’ of a material thing never changes the amount of love and abundance that is still your birthright. As the world seems to burn around us and many systems that you perhaps took for granted start to crumble, ask yourself what actually nourishes you? Ask yourself what is success and gain and profit, actually? And in the grief and loss, ask to be shown what the breaking open could be leaving room for. In the shame, ask where within you has not yet seen the light of your awareness, received the healing of your love? Inner and outer are not separate. We are all woven together in a web and that web has been torn by so many years of misunderstanding ourselves, each other, and our relationship to this world. It’s time to mend the web and return to right relationship.
June 22, 2020