You are the magician and the trick.
We’re in Week 3 of my Midlife + Death: A Reconciliation course. Naturally, death has been on my mind—even more so than it usually is.
As I sat down for morning meditation today, I lit my altar candle, and this message came to me:
This life is one of many energetic iterations. It’s true that we don’t always remember every iteration. In the same way, we can’t remember what we had for breakfast one year ago on this exact date. Or maybe even yesterday! We don’t get shocked by that lack of memory. We trust that it’s likely we had some kind of breakfast on that day or we had a good reason not to have breakfast at all. We trust that.
It is the same way with our previous life iterations. We don’t remember them, but there is no reason to be shocked. We trust that we likely had some kind of life or had a good reason not to have one at all.
Or perhaps, like a really good breakfast, we will remember a really good life we’ve had. In this life, it’s a relief to see it as one of many, many, many. Many breakfasts, many lives.
Paradoxically, this singular iteration we are living now becomes precious because we realize that we are in one way or another eternal—a multitude—as energy never dies, it merely changes form.
Our only limitations are the duration of this particular iteration and the resources given to us in the time we have within it.
To the limitation of time—
We have some say in that. How we eat, how we live, how we manage stress... But our time in this iteration will end at some point.
To the resources given to us—
We have more control over these. The culture we choose to live in, how we see the world, and how we see our Selves and others. What surviving means. What thriving means.
With all these elements, we can craft the stage and setting our souls are called to act upon in this lifetime.
You are the only you there is. What a blessing! What a boon! Energy formed itself into this YOU shape and gave you a place to do your dance on Earth. You are the choreographer and the dancer. You are the magician and the trick. You are unique in all the world.
Go out and shine, my cosmic family.
xo RA