Sacred Contracts by Caroline Myss

Author:Caroline Myss
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781400046867
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2013-08-06T21:00:00+00:00

FIFTH HOUSE:

CREATIVITY AND GOOD FORTUNE

(Sixth chakra)

The sequence of fire, earth, water, and air is repeated twice in the zodiac/Archetypal Wheel. Leo, the second fire sign, is aligned with the fifth house, which rules creative expression, sexuality, children, and good fortune. This is also the house of love and spontaneity, of abundance and opportunity. The archetype that resides in this house is the one that represents the strengths that you should most rely on to make things happen. After grounding yourself with a home base, you instinctively move on to exploring the power of creativity and the creation of life. Because the fifth house rules creativity, it corresponds to the sixth chakra, which regulates intelligence and imagination.

The shadow aspect of the fifth house manifests as the expression of creative or sexual fire out of control, as in the misuse of sexual power or creativity for selfish or manipulative ends. One can use creative talent for unethical or illegal activities, or for sexual seduction and manipulation. I remember a man named Will who had the most outrageously wonderful personality. He was the incarnation of charisma, and everyone adored his company. Will made people feel that anything was possible, and he could see the light in even the darkest situation. The archetype in residence in Will’s fifth house was the Child. And he was exactly that, almost a fairy-tale figure who inspired people to see the good in life.

Whenever events caused Will to slip outside the sweet atmosphere of his childlike innocence, he would imagine himself as a child again. He also would become an imaginary father to his child memory and could comfort this child by walking him through the years of his life. Will the parent would point out to Will the child how frightened he had been at age six about something, and how by age eight it had worked out all right. He summed up his imaginative ability by saying, “When I slip, I return to my inner place by reminding myself of all the many ways everything worked out without my having to do a thing. Someone is watching over me, because I sure can’t organize all the things in my life. That’s a message I love to share with others no matter where I am. And as someone who runs a fairly large corporation, I can tell you that this attitude is in short supply.”

The need to create is an essential aspect of consciousness and spirit. But to define and determine our creative ability by our professional accomplishments, even artistic ones, is an illusion. Will embodied the energy of creativity in its highest expression because he channeled that electricity to jump-start the spirit of everyone he met. He also represents another profile of creativity: the creative nature of the self that does not have to “do” something outside of itself in order to be recognized and validated.

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