The Living Tree

This set of exercises is intended to make you more aware of the impact of holding onto those areas and things within our lives that are no longer productive.

Opening to Judgment

Active Engagement

Follow the news for the next three weeks.  Identify the Geburic events .  How could they be “Tipharized” ?

• In the last study we used the energy of Geburah filtered through the energy of Tiphareth to give thought to the events in the news.

• For the next two weeks, look again at several events in the news. See where those events may have been averted or had different outcome had they been filtered through the lens of Chesed. How much attention was given to seeing the “complete and broader” picture? How many different perspectives do you think were offered in reaching the final determination?

 Journaling

Finding Your Place of Mercy

• Review the story or essay you wrote last month for the lesson of Geburah  relating the conflict between the need to release and cut away and the desire to remove obstacles and challenges that you would still fiercely wish to cling to. 

• Now, seeing through the perspective of Chesed,  reassess any areas where more mercy could have been shown. Perhaps something was identified as being unproductive and it just simply needed the broader perspective of Chesed’s mercy to transform it.

 Meditative Focus 

… “ the essential rightness of anything is defined by its relationships with what is not…?

- Ladders of Light – William Gray 

a.    Reflect on the quote above.

b.    Think back to a time when you were absolutely convinced that your course of action was the “right” thing to do.

c.    What was the outcome of that action or decision?

d.    Most importantly, what did you use as your measure of to what degree the “rightness” of that decision was? What would have been its antithesis?

Meditation on the Magickal Image of Chesed

"A Mighty Crowned and Throned King"

Quiet your mind and then allow your consciousness to be drawn into this picture.  What are the points of tension or dis-ease you may feel? What are the emotions of security and fairness of intent are provoked. If you were that King, what would weigh heavily upon your mind as action needed to ensure that the best interest of the larger community would be served?