The Living Tree

This set of exercises is intended to make you more aware of the impact of our thoughts, where and how they arise and how they can be used as effective tools towards self-knowledge, growth and dialogue with all parts of our spiritual and human natures.

Embracing the Strength Within

  Meditative Focus

• Reflect on where you perceive the  Source of your strength emanates from. Spend some time thinking about this and how this strength plays out at all levels of your being.

• Seeing yourself within the energy of Tiphareth - visualize how this inner strength is balanced at both the physical and spiritual levels. Is it balanced? or Are there parts of yourself that has fear or shame about showing this strength?

 Journaling

Facing Your Place of Sacrifice

• Think back to  a time in your life when you felt you had sacrificed something you had strongly held on to. Bring this image clearly into the mind's eye and allow the scenario to play out in front of you on your inner screen.  

• When the image is clear and strong, begin to write about this experience. Write down all that you remember in as much detail as possible. As you write about this experience, allow to flow any additional insights that you may have.

• Then, after finishing, go back and take a look at what you have written. Add to this the thoughts and perceptions you have now regarding the situation. What would you have done differently? Would you have made the same choices or would you have held more tightly to what was given up?

• As you think on these questions, allow the writing to simply flow. Do not concern yourself with grammar or spelling or even putting into coherent sentences.  Just allow the words to flow and build in whatever manner they choose.

• When you have finished. Close your journal and allow the thoughts to sit over night. Do not give anymore conscious thought to what you wrote. At your next available time, reread what you wrote. Find the places of beauty within what transpired within the scenario of sacrifice you described. Make note of whatever, if any, changes you would have made. Trust in the inner strength and courage that you showed at that time and gather the wisdom you recently crafted into the scenario towards this inner strength you have cultivated now. These are the keys to transformation and new approach towards those things we wish to "willingly" give way to so that something of beauty may be born from it.

 Meditative Focus 

Meditation on the Magickal Image of Tiphareth

"A Child, A Majestic King and A Sacrificed God"

Select from one of the pictures above.  Choose the one to which you feel most drawn. Now, soften your gaze and simply sit and look at the picture.  Engage  all of your senses and imagination as to how it would feel to be in this picture. What would the energy be like?  What is the story behind the one you are seeing on the surface? Spend some time with this image, probing into the depths of what information is displayed and what has been left to you to complete. As you take this information into your being, allow it to be colored with your own experiences. Allow an influx of the perspectives you carry from varied situations to run through what you see on the image.  How does this interplay change the final conclusion or story that you settle on?

This is the energy of Tiphareth- drawing inward- synthesis and then transformation and release as newly enlivened energy.