Empyrean Oracle by Threads of Fate
✨October 12th, 2023 - Finding Flow in the Chaos✨
Good Afternoon Mystics!
Are you ready for the final post in the first every Thursday Thought series? I can't wait to bring everything together in today's post. I hope you're as excited as I am, and just in case you haven't read the first two posts you can view Flow pt. 1 here and Chaos pt. 2 here. Now let's get into it!
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This is the third and final post in a series of three posts where I delve into two topics before bringing them together. The idea came to me when I pulled out two cards from the Empyrean Oracle by Threads of Fate. I could see connections between the cards, and I just had to explore them together! Now, the Empyrean Oracle is composed of 44 cards and was made with lenticular print which is why I have two images pictured. Each card has a companion card. The two topics / cards I'll be talking about aren't card companions—but I'll do this at some point too!
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I'm going to begin with my personal experience: I found myself seeking flow in the chaos of my fears, thoughts, and emotions. Of the mental and physical suffering I put myself through because I only knew that way being yet I also knew it no longer served me. I yearned for a deeply spiritual lifestyle where I could become like my teachers and role models, where I’d become my spiritual self in only the way I could. I yearned for a deeply spiritual lifestyle where I could flow and be myself. Where I didn’t rely on tools to ease any fears I had. Where I could be / feel free and at peace in a state of love and flow.
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Since I had a lot of fear in my heart, a lot of pressure (from myself) about various things, and I was causing myself a lot of suffering mentally and physically, I reached a point where I would pray (read beg) on my knees, crying, for help from the Universe. To change and not be this fearful, under-pressure, feeling a little crazy, person. And after those days and nights of prayer for change, some books serendipitously came into my life. You could say I reached my rock bottom and from there, my journey back home to myself truly began.
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So many amazing things have happened since then, and I feel so blessed with miracles as I find my way in this new state of being. In becoming a new version of myself and living a life of love, trust, and peace—in walking through the fear instead of trying to find a way to get around it. It's true: I'm not who I was, yet I'm not yet who I'm becoming. I'm in a transitory period where I can still see glimmers of my old self, and glimmers of my new self. Yet the person inside is still the same, in a way. What I mean is, in opening up fully to a spiritual life—the one that's been calling me for so long—I've found who I always was. I just had to get through some blocks / barriers to reach her.
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I look back on my past self with so much love. I wish I could have told her, "It's okay. You'll be fine in a couple of years and you wouldn't believe what your life looks like now! Just trust the process." But she had to figure it out herself so I—we—could get here and pave the way for my future self (one of many to come) so she could filter in. This is all to say, sometimes what we perceive to be a life-crumbling / altering experience (chaos) is really realignment, a major deconstruction for a new foundation being built for the new to enter our lives. For different ways of being, and living, and responding.
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Part of my journey has been understanding my chaos and how I can make things chaotic. Changes began occurring when I decided to change because I needed to. I had all I needed within me—I just had to find it. Like the title of Wayne Dyer's book says, Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life. I was willing to make changes and I did—I still am. And now, more than ever, I am beginning to find flow in chaos. I don’t get swept away as easily by events or thoughts or off-handed comments. I find I smile and shine regardless and wish those people and experiences love and light. It's as if they came across my path so I could prove how much I have grown and evolved.
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So, how does one go about finding flow in the chaos? When things get tough and we only see the challenges and the issues...what does it take to restore a sense of peace and balance into our lives? You could pray as I did, or you can begin by shifting your perspective to what's around you that you're grateful for, to the good that is in your life. Now, there are some life-altering experiences that can occur leaving us feeling lost and grieving what was all the while panicking about what's next. And those will be the hardest to see the light in the dark, so for now start small.
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Start with bad traffic, or a comment someone made about you, or baking gone wrong (totally not from personal experience 👀). The first step is to acknowledge what's going on because you give it your awareness. The next step is to go, "Okay, this sucks...but at least I have a good story about (insert whatever is going on)." It could look like: "*Heavy sigh* I just flipped the cupcakes face down on the oven door. Great. That's going to be a helluva mess to clean up. Well, I might not see it now, but this baking fail could be a good story one day."
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We're here to have fun and to experience life in all its complexly polarizing glory. By shifting our perspective, we find flow in the chaos. We surrender and trust that something else is there despite the experience we just had. Of course we can get a little lost in it before we shift, and that's okay. That's why practice can help us in those moment. And if you return to the old way of doing things, that progress isn't gone. It's still there as are all of your achievements and accomplishments. It's about being gentle with yourself and recognizing any progress you do make when you do return to the old ways. As I've said before, the return occurs to show us where we have some more inner work to do. And that's okay, too, because life is a journey. We're not going to reach an end destination in our personal development because we'll always be learning and growing—and, if you believe in reincarnation of the soul, you'll still be learning and growing!
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I'm sure there are many other ways to find flow in the chaos—this is just the experience / lesson I've been living a lot lately. And who knows, maybe that life-altering experience is setting you up for something else—like living your purpose and following your calling! (Note: The previous sentence is not discounting or belittling the challenges and issues the life-altering experience brings up.)
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All right, this has been a long post. Thank you, Mystics, for joining me in this series, and I look forward to our continued exploration through the Thursday Thought posts!
Note: This post will not resonate with everyone and that's okay. Take what does and leave the rest. Trust your intuition!
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