Ganesha, Lord of Obstacles
My neck is a tangled mass of taught strings right now. It always amazes me how quickly my body can set to work and invoke physical maladies in order to deflect thought from uncomfortable emotional states. I take a moment center my thoughts and treat my body like one of my children, “neck, really, I am so thrilled that you think enough of me to try and pitch in here and I love you, but, yeah, this isn’t helping, so please chill out”.
The experiences we have originate from our need to attain spiritual knowledge. Some of the experiences are exciting and enjoyable; others painfully tragic. The work is to attain the spiritual knowledge of the experience and process it. More often than not, when there is a painful experience we do what we can to exist happily while hoping the experience will just fade away. Without processing and absorbing the lesson, it remains on the roster; it is part of our dharma. By avoiding the things we know we need to address, we create karma.
Astrologically, this is a big karmic cleansing week. It’s best to be prepared and not treat this like any other ordinary week. Look directly at your fears as they come up. Take a deep breath, continue to breathe deeply and slowly. Think about every move you make as one step in the solution to the problem. If one step seems it was in the wrong direction, re-evaluate and try again, it is only one step. Treat problems like science or math, try not to allow emotion to cloud judgment – but do keep an ear open for the heart.
I wish for us all to have great strength in this process, by addressing and releasing our issues from the past, we open our selves up to new opportunities and realities. We’ve so got this.
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Yeah! Thank you for this. I some times get so frustrated because in the moment I’ll think ” I get it already! aren’t I done with this yet?” When I think that it generally means I’m missing something. I can be so stubborn.
But how do we stop feeling awful when we are dealing with problems, that we can’t pretend didn’t happen. I feel like the whole world could use a big collective deep breath, sigh and then shake your whole body from head to toe to release the tension and drop the old world notions (or should I say Bull#@$%).
peace and love to all that are dealing with heavy things right now. You are not alone.