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4 Tijaax
Today, celebrating the return of my nagual, I'm faced with challenges, since yesterday in fact, big ones. This sign is definitely here to bring us growth. Coming a little late to write this because of them, I have thought of not one but two things to write about, and I'm just going to lay them out here. What I want to make clear before, is that these readings are an inspiration brought by the nagual of the day to say something useful, they are not the definite and complete guide and description to each one of the combinations. Each combination can mean a whole lot more than what is described here, so bear that in mind.
Bending metal
I want to say we've all done it, but I don't know. There is a lot to learn from observing the physical properties of the world we live in and bringing them into consciousness where we find relations to our skyward alaxpacha world. If we learn to properly bend metal, we will know the delicate art of it and can use that knowledge and apply it to our human relations. The main property to point out is that when you want to bend a wire so that it stays in the position you want it, you have to push it or pull it beyond the point where you want it so then it will return to the exact position you want to change it to. Pretty simple. But there's an art to it. There is an exact place where to go beyond, it's not that far beyond, it has a sweet spot. Then, another property is that if you bend it back and forth too much, it will break. You don't want to over do it in any sense.
When we look at our relations and the way we deal with emotions, we could learn a lot from this. We tend to combine our feelings with a loyal mind that sometimes disconnects with consciousness, so it's seeing for the self-benefit and forgets to actually discern and build. We go from one extreme to the other, we want to counteract one attitude with the total opposite, as if bending metal, but without knowing the art, pushing it too far, being too extreme. My advice is, if you don't want to break what you love (yourself), leave it as is, and if you do attempt at correcting it, learn to master the art of bending metal first.
Pain
I will write about pain as a river I have learned to cross, and in doing so I have learned that it's about crossing it, not letting be taken by it to somewhere else, nor drowning. I have to cross back to help others cross too, this is my attempt at it. There is no point on going alone, crossing to the other side alone the idea is to take others with you, to be together, to get somewhere, far from pain. Rivers are beautiful, if you ever get to visit the Lacanha region of the Lacandon rainforest, you will be overwhelmed by them and their beauty. They are everywhere. You can't walk through the forest in a straight line without crossing a stream every 100 meters and a river every kilometer. Like the rivers in the lacandon, life will bring pains to cross every once in a while. Physical ones can be mostly avoided but not completely, and the emotional ones are the real bitch.
Today's nawal, since yesterday, was giving me cues about sharing a few words about crossing this river. The water is the emotion, it can be cold and overwhelming, and the natural reaction is to close the eyes and fail at crossing. First it would be wiser to open the eyes and know a river is coming in our path and that we are wanting to cross, not walking blindly into it. Then, we can strategically choose a place of crossing and devise a way to do so, as we would with a real river. But this is obvious, the real cue is that we like going to rivers and bathing in them. The biggest problem with pain, is that it becomes our ally, we identify with it, we become addicted to it. So we don't continue walking to a destination, because we are afraid of leaving our beautiful river behind. We get attached to our pains because they become part of our identity, and we have a hard time molding our identity to what we consciously want to make it, because it would mean leaving this part of us behind. We instead play shadow games and adorn the darkness that is brought by the parts of us that are rotting because we keep it underwater all the time.
We can walk away from pain, and though we will miss it, the warmth brought by the sun and the health that comes from us finally healing, will soon overcome the temporary sadness that comes from leaving our beloved river behind.