Weekly Insights: Alignment or Obligation?...

The Earth is the home of dualistic forces that are always at play. This Yin/Yang dynamic is what helps to create the balance of the traditions, structures, and duties at play with a higher purpose, the greater Truths, and the Divine alignments. We have many layers that make up the complexities of who we truly are. Our karmic influences remind us of the culture, systems, responsibilities, and family traditions that we incarnated with. However, the soul's essence puts forth a desire for change, growth, deeper purpose, inner freedom, and a higher calling that aligns with our destiny. Our daily choices around these themes can lead us to lean a little more toward one direction or the other.

We have a soul compass that guides us toward the transformational journey that contributes to our abundant and prosperous sense of overflow, and away from that which feels depleting. There is an angelic influence that exists to help inspire us in creating new patterns that honor the ancient ways as well as this modern world and the technological advances we now have access to, instead of turning away from them. If something is meant to be, it will be. That is a cosmic Truth and guide that we can trust and rely upon. The soul is the ultimate guide. It questions what is most important to us on this journey, and how we can we fulfill our destiny through a higher purpose, cosmic calling, as well as our Earthly feelings of responsibility. The question is, are we willing to stick to our principals, or do we feel an obligation to sacrifice those higher principals because of the pressures at play in our lives? Like two sides of a coin, these two sides work together to make us whole. Our obligations ground us, while our higher purpose and alignment serves as a source of freedom and liberation. It's not a choice of one over the other, but rather the balance between the two. As long as we choose to use our discernment and only give in to the things that support, nurture, and uplift us, then we can welcome in these energies without feeling guilty, drained, or stuck in something that doesn't align.

The challenges we were born into and have to face in this lifetime are merely a starting point in becoming a master of our own personal destinies. Our ancestors pass down lessons, society puts pressures and expectations onto us, the soul desires to build a new reality, and the heart desires a world filled with Love and acceptance. Between all of these energies, we make choices based on a higher soul level that guides us to transcend our challenges and transmute them into blessings. By resisting the urge to fight these aspects of reality, we can merge our need to satisfy our personal responsibilities with our calling in order to express the higher Truths that are channeling through us. It's a dance and an art to stay fluid between these realities, but that is what makes us who we are. As a higher spirit in a physical reality, the soul and body are two wings of the same bird. In order to soar to new heights, we have to learn how to use them both. Instead of the question being alignment or obligation, it is more about connecting, grounding, and rooting into a more harmonious state that honors all aspects of who we are and utilizes each of these forces to grow and expand into our true nature and our highest destiny.