Falling Through the Tree of Life by Jane Meredith

Author:Jane Meredith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: CVR09282021;jane meredith;falling through the tree of life;tree of life;kabbalah;qabalah;qabala;cabala;embodied kabbalah;kabbalistic magic;magic;mysticism
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2022-06-17T16:56:21+00:00

ritual | Divided Self

Gevurah and Chesed are considered the sephirot with the strongest polarity within the Tree. Each of them is a clear distillation of the pillar they belong to: Chesed the right-hand Pillar of Mercy and Gevurah the left-hand Pillar of Rigor. Between them they hold force and form, expansion and contraction, water and fire, life and death.

Divisions and polarities are rarely so clear in real life. Everything gets muddied up, even in large impersonal organizations such as the justice system, let alone individual lives. This exercise offers a way of working with polarity to learn about balance and imbalance. This can inform our understanding of a situation and offer a way to create change.

time: 30 minutes

you will need: Journal and pen

Choose a situation in your life that feels unresolved or one where you have questions about your role in it. This could be a relationship with family, a lover or partner, a friend or work colleague; it could be a project or ambition you have, a spiritual matter, or a community issue you are involved with.

Sit comfortably and begin by bringing awareness to your breath. Invite yourself to relax.

Focus briefly on each area of your body, imagining your breath moving through that part, clearing it of stuck energies and patterns. You might visualize the muscles, veins, bones, and tissue as you go, or perhaps it is more of a felt experience. If you work with sound, you can think of a bell or gong sounding through that body part.

Imagine yourself lying facedown on the Tree: your head resting within the top triad, your shoulders over Chesed and Gevurah, Tiferet in the middle of your chest, Netzach and Hod under your hips, Yesod around your genitals, and your legs descending through Malkuth. Perhaps you can feel the sephirot correlating with your body parts. If you like, you can physically lie down, face downward.

Imagine or feel your right hand dipping into Chesed. Allow your left hand to bathe in Gevurah.

Imagine a line down the center of your body, top to bottom. You might feel this as a narrow band of the middle pillar, or perhaps you recall the notion of a thread that connects each one of us to heaven and earth, running through our crown, down the spine, and all the way into the center of the earth. Allow this division to become quite solid, a barrier. Imagine, for the moment, that it holds the right and left sides of your body separate from each other, self-contained.

Still holding that central division, concentrate on your right hand. Let it begin to actively receive Chesed’s blue energy, and allow that blue to flow up your hand, into your arm, and all the way up to your shoulder. Perhaps you can see this in your mind’s eye, feel it in your arm, or you may have another way of experiencing it.

Let this blue energy continue flowing into the right-hand side of your body until that side is completely filled, completely blue, still respecting the central division.

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