I once saw a two frame cartoon with the exact same picture in each frame: it was a long room with a banquet table laden with food and people sitting along each side of the table. In the one picture the people were all drawn looking, miserable and skeletal and in the other one they were robust and smiling. The reason for the difference in the two groups was that in the robust happy group, they had chosen to use the long spoons strapped to their hands to feed each other while the morose group had chosen to try to feed only themselves with the spoons that were too long to reach their mouths. Appropriately, the captions read heaven and hell.
We create our own story lines and depending upon where we choose to focus - on ourselves and our needs only or on the needs of the collective - we determine the quality of our lives. To serve only ourselves will never be satisfying on a soul level. Whether we choose to acknowledge it or not we are all connected and even the minutest thought has an effect on the whole. So we are free to think that we are entitled to do and think as we please but there are ramifications. Subtle at times but it is not as free a lunch as we would like to think. Individually and collectively, we live under the systems that we have created for better or worse. The density of our negativity has devolved a culture that only serves itself and not any of our human needs. We are starving to death while we sit at the banquet table of abundance because we refuse to move beyond our self-serving desires. Welcome to hell.
In his blog of Sunday, May 5, 2013 entitled, "Quit Your Slave Job! (And Live Your Dream Life), Eric Dubay writes, "If everyday you go to someone else's establishment, work on their schedule, do everything they say, and make money for them, then I am sorry to bear bad news, but you might be a slave." He goes on to elaborate that it really does not matter how prestigious your position, the fact remains that someone else is controlling your time, your fortune and your destiny. And to think that they have your best interests at heart is sheer folly.
Carolyn Myss in her book, Defy Gravity, describes the price we pay energetically for clinging to our fears and negativity. "...your negative history creates psychic weight, and the more psychic 'weight' that you carry around with you, the longer you have to 'wait' for anything to heal, or to change..." She continues, "You will compromise the capacity of your soul to heal as a timeless vessel, because the psychic or time 'density' of your ego literally converts into lengthening physical time for any experience in life." Her punch line, "Holding on to past wounds and negative history is more than just an emotional or psychological problem; it drains us of the energy we need to rebuild the present in a healthy and functioning manner."
The lemons of change demanding that we move forward in our evolution are everywhere. Even the heavens are bursting with this energy to assist in our passage from our status quo of self-imposed hell into the harmony of heaven. Since the end of April, three eclipses are happening, one in April and two in May. Susan Miller in her Astrology Zone for May, 2013 explains: "Eclipses are dramatic 'wild cards' in our horoscopes. They shake us up so that we can move from one level of evolution and maturity to another, higher phase, fairly rapidly." Whether you believe in the veracity of astrology or not, three eclipses this close together is extremely rare. The associations between the full moon and strange behavior are too numerous to totally discount. Wikipedia defines, "Lunatic" is an informal term referring to people who are considered mentally ill, ... The word derives from lunaticus meaning "of the moon" or "moonstruck". Just maybe we should pay attention to what the cosmos is trying to get through our thick skulls.
So instead of using the following tin foil method of gaining enlightenment, wouldn't it just be easier to start changing our focus from the prevalent "I, Me, My, all about numero uno," to a more collective approach? Really, just what have we got to lose? Granted it wouldn't be as attention grabbing as these tin foil lids but at least we wouldn't be miserable as we sit before the banquet table of life starving because we refuse to feed each other. AND - there is more than enough if we all share and not hoard.
Myss writes, "Compassion is a baffling response to those who live by the law of reason..." Want to truly shake things up instead of defending your turf, what about applying a little compassion - giving others the same breaks you give yourself; to suffer together - and see what happens. Bet you will feel better about yourself in the process and the lemon acid won't sting quite as badly. "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself, " Leo Tolstoy. Whether we live lives of quiet desperation or ones filled with abundance and joy is really up to us and the choices we make. Do not blame others if you are not willing to move your thinking beyond the "I, Me, My" of the moment. We all reap what we sow. So if you are sitting at the banquet of life starving because someone else owns your time, your livelihood, your soul, what do you plan to do about it?
There are alternatives out there. The questions we all need to ask, are we brave enough to confront our need for conformity, status, security, whatever it is that holds us back, to reach for our dreams? As I have alluded to before in other blogs, there are companies out there structured to compensate individual effort and reward collective collaborative team building all the while allowing each person total autonomy. If Eric Dubay's blog has awakened within you the desire to move beyond slavery and grubbing for your daily bread, then look beyond the status quo for extraordinary because it really does exist. If we are content to continue to lead a quiet life of desperation, then no words or alternatives are going to change that. But for those who do seek, there is always an answer. If you are serious about creating a different more financially solvent future for yourself without owing your soul to the company store, let me know as there is always room for more at the banquet table of plenty. There really is no better time than during these powerful eclipses to clean our houses with the cleansing properties of lemons so that we are purged and ready for the new. Spring - it is such a harbinger of all that is possible. The fall harvest depends upon what we sow today. I am actively choosing to get over myself and to take a seat at the banquet table where we can all share and work together for the common good. May I save you a seat?
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