XIV-Temperance

Have you ever had an out of body, astral experience? One of those experiences that you can’t quite peg as “real”, but is oh so incredibly REAL.

For me this happens in the state just between dreaming and waking. After many years of metaphysical practices, I can very easily realize when I am moving into an alternate state of being, and I can, with very little effort, take control of this state and do high level astral ‘work’. Meaning, if I need to get into the stitching of the fabric of the reality in which I make my home, I need to not be rooted down into the gross physical.

Its a strange place to be. But being this light creates an agility that frees up a lot of space. You can move here in ways that you just cannot if you are locked into the mental/ physical complex. This is what happens in a way when you embrace the concept of death as a transitional portal. You just don’t become as attached to the material, which leads to leaps of ability.

This moment, this card, this space is one of immense healing. You are unencumbered. All of the smallness of the heavier earth realm is irrelevant and you can truly start to explore the concept of non-Duality in an experiential way. The bondage of Time is gone. The limitations of Space are gone. The binding of Matter is gone. This place that Temperance takes you is one of potential. And from the realm of potentiality, all manifestation springs.

So you have to use that energy in a constructive way. You cannot just dance in the ethers and swim in the ocean of joy. You will want to, because that last transition was probably a bit rough, right? Traveling through the portals of Death –be they actual or metaphoric—is usually challenging. It compresses you before it strips you bare. The feeling of Temperance is like finally being able to take off shoes that have pinched your feet for miles.

You’re going to want to sit for a while. And, of course, yes, do that. Heal. Breathe. Be. But know that you don’t get to be here forever, because the nature of this liminal space is to do things for yourself that you don’t normally get a chance to do. You aren’t done: this place is just a grace that helps you power up for the next steps.

So while you are here, heal wounds from the density experience. Clear emotions that no longer serve. Write futures for yourself that act as guiding lights and road signs as you move yourself through the varying stages of evolution. Just floating around the astral plane isn’t what it is all about.

You aren’t a fucking tourist.

Everything you are meant to experience in this life experience is grounded in this physical reality. Yes, there are multiple planes of reality, and this soft space of healing you go when Temperance show up is a nice one. But the work, the evolution, happens here in the dirt. You cannot forsake one for the other. They are intertwined. The fact that you made it here means that you have added another skill set to your evolutionary toolbox.

You are building a bridge that enables you to go into the astral realm of healing to do what needs to be done there so that you can come back down here to do what needs to be done here. They are a symbiotic system that enables you to be more effective, more agile, more adaptable, and more peaceful as you transit the human experience. So when this card comes up for you, there is message.

Attend to your astral garden and let the ripples flow down.