Urban Shamanism

Advantages of being hopeless

I couldn't post yesterday because there have been electrical problems in my city and, no doubt, in the entire country. Years ago, I would've been bothered by that, but after so many years of failing infrastructure and the longest, harshest nationwide blackouts of our recent history in 2019, this is only another circumstance that we have to deal with, it doesn't affect me as it used to. I find that this is an evolutionary advantage, it's easy to feel trampled by the demands of our surroundings and the capacity to overcome these demands instantly and effortlessly is a gift.

I was talking on Monday about the issues hopes and expectations create for us, how they cloud our observation and therefore our understanding of what's happening. Living in this country required from me serious hope at some point because dealing with reality was too hard, I had to throw my sights into the future, into that golden place I've seen so many times in visions and dreams. Once I realized that I couldn't handle the actual country if I lived partly in a fictional place, I focused on using what I knew as a fact. Venezuela's infrastructure is in shambles, that's a fact, but I can live better by acknowledging that fact instead of trying to sweep it under the rug, as if it wasn't happening. With this change in my philosophy and lifestyle, I managed to live more fully and much more happily here despite all the difficulties. In effect, I stopped relating to those hardships, they became mere environmental aspects and, eventually, some of them have turned into assets.

A life of hopelessness sounds horrible, but it really isn't. When we stop hoping, we can accept, and when we accept, we can study, integrate and grow. I've integrated the necessities of the place I live in and thus have secured more freedom, joy and vision for myself, far beyond anything that I'd experienced at any moment of this incarnation. I've found Love for this city and this country again, so that I can see it all with its flaws and failings, and still catch glimpses of the beauty and potential glory that surrounds me every day. Thanks to my spiritual process, I know the kind of energy that's rising here, I've seen what we can and must become, and I've been playing the role that I must place in order to ensure that future, but it's not something that's coming to me from a distant tomorrow, I'm living it now, in this very moment. I live it with every breath.

Hope is important when the world we know collapses. It allows us to see a Light in the middle of the cavern. However, if you manage to disengage from the need to look at that light, you can concentrate on the cavern and perhaps find that it's not as dark, terrible or ugly as you originally thought: the walls might be covered with interesting drawings and symbols, there may be many paths branching out of the section you're traversing, perhaps you realize it's not a cavern at all but a massive underground temple that you can explore. Then the light at the end, that fictional light that you felt you needed to survive, stops being relevant and you gain a new perspective of the place you're walking through, an expansive, pleasurable, awesome view that helps you enjoy your life way more without the need for panaceas, placebos or utopias.

Rune of the Day: Jera

Inconvenience, disruption, there is a narrow gap that you must overcome. Wounds to heal, careful with falls, study your posture. Straighten your steps, align them with your goal, there is an answer to your current dilemma, but it requires commitments that you have avoided. Aid may come from any direction, find a neutral view that allows you to harness any situation. Observe the cycles that have brought you here, the stars and planets have important information of your present. You have chosen and constantly built your path, abide by it without distractions, do not fear it, each obstacle and complexity show you who you are. Some connections shut down and it may be difficult to accept, but now you have all the energy that you had placed there, use it wisely. Blessings that you once planted return to you in a time of need.