The Impact of the Modern World in Love & Life
With the upcoming full moon in Cancer and the retrogrades of the planet Venus and Mercury interplays at this time, we find ourselves in deep reflection of our inner most world, our relationship with self, our relationship with others, our relationship with the world, what home means to us, and how home feels to us. And again, home does not necessarily represent a physical place to everyone. It does not need to be. Some find comfort in a manifestation of home in the 3D, but not all. Because some of us are wanderers of this world and we find home wherever we are, in the most unexpected places, in the most unexpected people. And we find those special places and people and come back to it throughout our lives. Some we may never want to leave.
Cancer, the mother archetype of the zodiac, in which represents the aspect of home and what we define nurturing and loving for us in an intimate level. A home is built upon in time and takes time, we do not relate home as something that manifest from thin air, although modern age may believe that is the true perception of it, but that’s just the surface level perception of it. We have adapted to the times we live in and sometimes as modern times speed up, our values and meanings of life disintegrate. And if you find yourself looking for a new home, perhaps with one click on the interweb it may be found. Because a home is mostly bought instead of built these days.
The retrogrades of the planet Venus and Mercury gives us the opportunity to reflect on what love is to us, how we love, how others love, how we receive love, how we give love, our patterns in love, what examples of relationships have been shown to us, how we perceive and define a healthy & loving relationship. How would we like love to show up for us and are we communicating and affirming our needs and wants to ourselves, to the universe, to others? What is the blueprint of love for us? It is an intense and pivotal moment in time because most of us can agree our first experiences of love and how we identify love started in the home. Love was first distinguished and defined in our upbringing, our families, how we were raised, what we observed, our first seven years in this world plays a role in the unfolding of our lives to come. These experiences translate into our subconscious mind and that’s how we primarily function in our lives.
As we ponder these thoughts, it is also an equivalent time to reflect in our communication. How we communicate to ourselves on a daily basis, how we communicate to others, are people understanding the way we communicate, are we saying what we mean and meaning what we say? How are we relating to others within our worlds and our environments? Do we find ourselves often reacting instead of responding? If we find ourselves more prone in reacting than responding in our day to day experience on earth, take a moment to reflect on that. And reflect on those times when you did react. And you will find that most often time in a moment of reacting, some may label them as triggers, we tend to react due to unclear communication. Most of the time we find ourselves reacting to ‘what we think was communicated to us’ versus what is actually communicated to us or what was intended or meant to be communicated to us. Remember, most of us see things based from our experiences, therefore we operate and walk through our lives with the lens through our experiences. In order to avoid immediately reacting to things, we must understand that clear communication must be given and present from both sides or all parties involved. Otherwise, things may be lost in translation.
The brain and the mind is a funny thing. It can be your greatest ally or your worst enemy. And there shouldn’t be any shame towards yourself. Because we are all in fact human after all. We are who we are today due to our experiences. Our experiences good or bad is what makes you, YOU in real time. And as we accumulate more experiences, the YOU you know modifies. And we don’t always remain the same person, especially when we learn from our patterns, our own behaviors. And many times over, we also must unlearn certain methods that we’ve gained from our past experiences that was beneficial of protecting us during those experiences. Sometimes we must unlearn it because we are no longer living that past experience, therefore we modify. But society likes to put things in a tidy neat box all the time, make believing a picture perfect existence is what’s normal. Nothing is linear.
So when you find yourself in the moment before you react to what is being said or what is being done. Ask questions that bring clarity, ask questions to understand what is being said and then choose to respond after receiving that clarity. Because let’s face it, not everyone is keen in linguistics and communication skills. So why am I saying and reiterating all this? Well, because during this time I realized something, an epiphany I presume that I feel is important to share. An epiphany in the matters of love and the reason why many people settle in love, but not just in love, in life as well. Either way they go hand in hand, because love is the vital force that creates meaning in life. And if we can generalize what people most desire in this world, is a meaningful life, a purposeful life. And that may look different and unique to every individual.
As I ponder these subjects myself something clicked in my head, I realized why many people today are prone to settle in life. And this is not in any form of judgement but of observation. And that is the key distinguishing fact why I needed to break down the difference between responding and reacting and why communication is such a huge part in living a fulfilled life. We all have done it before, settled. No matter what aspect in life. We’ve settled in love, we’ve settled in career, we’ve settled in growth. At least once in our lives. So why do we do it? Well, because let’s face it, we grow tired, we find things hard, we talk down to ourselves, telling ourselves, it’s too much work, I don’t have the power to overcome this, I don’t have the time to fix this. And sometimes we lie to ourselves. We tell ourselves this is all I will surmount to. I don’t deserve all this. It’s too grand for me to dream that big. Things should be easy, because everything else seems easy in this modern world. And if it’s not easy, then it’s not meant for me. Well wrong. We lie and say grass is greener on the other side. We say why should I put so much effort when I can just meet someone else and things would be easier. The problem with these thoughts, it’s not based on the present, it’s based on the possibility of something else of someone else. People struggle in staying grounded in the present and working through things right in front of them. And it’s unfortunate, that we lie to ourselves, and when we do so, we lie to others and hurt ourselves and sometimes others in the process.
The problems we face within ourselves, will always remain dormant in us until we decide to fix it, learn from it, work on it, identify it, acknowledge it. The next person will not be different, because when the honeymoon phase ends, it will resurface in different ways. This is why surface level relationships are the norm, because it’s not that deep. It does not require you to work on the self. It only brings comfort for your 3D basic needs and desires, leaving growth and expansion at bay. People like easy. People find comfort in easy. But people don’t find meaning in easy, it’s just a time-pass. A less challenging thing that we can manage.
But easy doesn’t equal a happy fulfilled life does it? It rarely does. Because if it was true then we would have and encounter more happy people in this world. We would have more peace in this world. More people would experience true love and a fulfilling relationship. You’ve heard the stories of celebrities and how they made it. It wasn’t easy, they pushed for it, they worked for it, it was hard but it was worthed, because they wanted it that much, they envisioned and they choose and decided everyday that it will be so. They never wavered. And that does not mean they don’t have bad days or days filled with doubt. Even in times where they wanted to give up, they didn’t, they persevered. That perseverance entailed great reward. We live in a time where things are easily accessible that we wrongly perceive that things should be easy and if it’s not it’s not worthy. I don’t find that to be true. And I am not saying that everything should be hard, that’s not true either. It’s about knowing and discerning what you want and going after it. Because sometimes what you want comes easy and sometimes it comes with difficulties and obstacles.
What I believe is anything and everything that you want is within grasp, but the difference is some of things that you want or dream of will take work to achieve, will take more effort, that does not make it less worthy. It has to start with discernment within you. You have to know what you want to go after it and take action towards it, put energy into it. God doesn’t serve you what you want on a silver platter without effort. Sure, we get lucky sometimes but not always. Sometimes God shows you what you want and shows you the path to get it. And that takes work and unfortunately, not everyone is willing to put forth the effort, put forth their ego aside, make the necessary changes to achieve what they want. And if God did not give it to you easy it doesn’t mean that God didn’t delivered your wish, he did, you just have to choose the path that has been shown.
And this is where the mind starts to play. This is where your mind, your ego gets in the way. It is not because the mind is bad, it is because your mind and your ego is trying to protect you, based on your past experiences. Are you understanding the ball game yet? It’s like how your mom used to tell you not to do things to protect you. It’s not to say that what the mind thinks is not valid or can be true, it’s more of thinking even if so, what are you gonna do about it? What are you going to choose? Do I stay in fear, make a decision based on fear, and stick to my comfort zone? Word of advice: never make a decision based on fear. It will lead you to a dead-end road. So, people settle; they settle for second best. They believe that’s what they deserve. They believe that’s all they’re capable of. They believe they’ve reached their cap.
A settling path may create an OK life, not deeming it bad. Some people want that life. But it may lead you to wonder what would have been, what could have been if you had decided differently, if you had thought differently, if you had gone after what you truly wanted, if you didn’t allow your fears to plague you, if you didn’t allow past experiences to get in the way of the NOW. It starts with being honest with yourself, because if you’re not honest with yourself, how can you show up and be honest with those around you? How can you continue to navigate life when you’re not being honest with yourself? Some may always search for more meaning to this provincial life. But for me, I will always search for a more meaningful and purposeful life. The ordinary was never meant for me.