31.01.26 - help
WE ARE LOSING RITUAL AND CULTURE AND CONNECTION TO OUR LINEAGE. WHICH IS TO SAY, WE ARE SUCCUMBING TO THE FLIGHT OF ACCELERATIONIST CAPITALIST URGENCY THAT IS FLINGING OUR INCREASINGLY FERVENT MIND FAR BEYOND THE PACE OF OUR BODY, I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I AM EXPERIENCING IT, I THINK A BIG PART OF THIS EXPERIENCE OWES TO MY 10th HOUSE FIRE STELLIUM AND AQUARIUS SUN AND MERCURY PLACEMENTS IN THE 12TH HOUSE. AHHHHHH.
DEAR SOMATICS COACH, HOW DO I GET BETTER AT MOVING AT THE PACE TRUST IN MY BODY, MOVING AT THE PACE OF EMBODIMENT, AS OPPOSED TO FLINGING MYSELF FAR FORWARD INTO THE FUTURE BECAUSE OF MY RESTLESS AND DRIVEN MIND, THAT CONTINUES TO BE TEMPTED BY THE FALSE NOTIONS OF BELONGING FED TO ME BY CONSUMER CAPITALIST CULTURE, PRESSURING ME TO FIND ACCEPTANCE IN MYSELF THROUGH SELF-FLAGELLATION ON THE GRAM???? I need help because I’m struggling to keep myself accountable, I find myself being swept up in the false narratives of belonging created by capitalist consumerist culture.
Recognise the generational curse that pervades us in the background, bring it to light, and remember to see ‘progress’ consciously as a tool that does not come without consequences, that must also be attended to in order to uphold balance. Too much of a good thing can be bad (when it leads to indulgence and entitlement); and too much of a bad thing can be good (when it leads to crisis and therefore pivots into transformation). nothing is inherently good or bad, right or wrong, it’s about discernment in the present moment. recognise that since the birth of western civilisation, aristotle separatism of animals and plants, cartesian dualism of self and other, colonies and colonisation, and the ‘evidence-based’ dominance asserted by the scientific nature; we have concurrently witnessed a growing pool of individualism and separation from our nature, from mother nature. i can’t speak to the collectivity of Indigenous modes of existence, and it’s probably dubious that I speak to it at all. but my gut sense is that their reverent and reciprocal relationships to other beings, human and non-human, is what has allowed first nations communities across so-called australia to continue their bloodlines for over 60000 years, making their culture the longest known in human history. in the peaking era of western dominance, we exist in increasingly destructive relationship to ourselves and those around us. that doesn’t mean harmony can’t be restored – but in order to retrieve it we must learn to listen to ourselves as a starting point. only through slowing down and deeply listening to what calls us from within will give us the experiential awareness to meaningfully listen to what is being called of us from those around us.