Realm: Causal
Archetype: The Lover
Zodiac: Libra
Crystal: Jasper
A woman lies motionless, bathed in sunlight. Nearby rests a knife, glinting ominously. Our minds race to decipher this scene – has violence occurred or is she merely resting? We cannot resist speculating, constructing stories based on initial impressions and engrained biases.
Yet our judgements reveal more about ourselves than objective truth. What we perceive in this tableau reflects our inner state. One mind may see tragedy, another peace. When faced with ambiguity, we project our shadows.
But darkness and light exist in all things. Can we expand our sight to simultaneously hold multiple truths? To transcend either/or perspectives into paradoxical unity? Events have many sides, as a jewel has many facets.
Rather than concluding guilt and condemning, we could choose compassion. If there was betrayal, what wounds spurred it? Hurt people often hurt others. Cycles of violence churn when we cannot turn the other cheek.
Sometimes we must walk away when amends seem unlikely. Yet we can still wish well from afar. We can sever ties without severing the sense that, despite all, there remains a single light shining in us both, often obscured but never extinguished.
As creators of our own inner realm, we may imbue any scene before us with dread or grace. The power lies not in events themselves, but in how we perceive them, filter them through the stained glass of consciousness. The knife represents not murder but potential – for destruction or cutting through the veil.
We find equilibrium when we open the dark recesses of thought to compassion’s gentle illumination. However the scene unfolds, love is the ultimate answer. For love sees all things from the highest vantage point, recognising each soul’s intrinsic divinity behind any illusion of separation. If we can love, we find the balance that reunites.
There has been no murder, only a choice. We can judge based on outer forms, or forgive and thus transform. Let us see with eyes of understanding, not assign roles of victim and villain. For we are each multidimensional beings on a journey. When we seek the light in all, we call forth the light in all.