Four On-Line Seminars. Originally recorded April 26 -May 17, 2017.

Initiations by Air

Air is the third of our four elements of creation. As you know in this series we first explored Fire, then Earth. Now we are going to discuss Air. In our final class in this series, we will examine Water. Each creative element is so richly unique and its influence in the vast spectrum of life – including our individual lives – is literally endless. Of all previous generations, we are perhaps more “air” than any other. The Air element dominates the intuitive as well as psychic and energetic aspects of our nature. We gravitate to the Air element of ourselves now because our Air senses are actively “waking up”. We are becoming ever more aware of our intuitive nature and that we are multi-sensory beings as opposed to five sensory.

Adapting to our intuitive nature is not a choice for us; it is a necessity. We need to understand who we have become; that is, our intuitive nature has more authority over our health than our beliefs or attitudes. Our intuitive self, in other words, has become our center of gravity. And yet, as we know, intuition often collides with our other Air resources, which are reason and logic. There is nothing “reasonable” about your intuitive nature, right? And certainly a gut hunch cannot be called a “logical” feeling. All too often we find ourselves in a collision between what we think we should do and the guidance we are intuitively receiving. The rich subject matter of each session in the Air series illustrates the countless ways in which our inner truth often conflicts with the chaotic dynamics of our personal lives.

It’s very easy to lose sight of the truth that we are always changing, as is everything and everyone in our external world. Nothing remains the same for a second much less a day. Every one of us goes to bed in a vastly different world than the one we woke up in. Because we really do not pay conscious attention to the speed of change in ourselves much less around us or in others, we end up changing unconsciously rather than consciously. Think of all the thoughts and reactions you experience to everything that unfolds in your life each day and then imagine that you warehouse most of it because you do not have time to “reflect” upon how you think or feel about this new piece of data or news or event or emotion. So, we store all this data. Eventually, however, all those numerous shifts and rumbles that happen deep in our unconscious start to emerge through our intuitive fibers. And that’s when we take notice that our inner self has grown out of synch with the world around us, setting us up for choices that will initiate a state of balance. When we are unable to make choices that serve a return to balance, the climate of our life becomes ripe for an initiation experience or a collision, as I call it, between our intuition and the power of the illusions in our life.

Confrontations between your intuitive nature and the illusions of the mind, as Buddha would describe “mind chatter”, are a part of the substance and grit of the spiritual path. Every time we follow our intuition, no matter how frightened we may be, we deepen our sense of self-esteem and personal courage. We learn through those choices what it means to trust oneself, to know that you can rely on the strength of your own soul. And that deep inner knowing about your own nature is the true power of the spiritual path.

I hope you will join me for Initiations by Air as we continue to explore the many paths of Spiritual Direction together.

Love,

Caroline

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