Confronted With You

In the 1980’s film “The Neverending Story” the young warrior, Atreyu has to pass through the gates of “the Southern Oracle” to find the answer to why The Nothing is destroying the land of “Fantasia”.  The task of passing through is made more difficult by the fact that only a person who feels their true worth may pass without being killed.  Atreyu is very young and trying to find a solution to a problem that he does not fully understand.  The guardians of the gate realize he is lacking in self worth and open their eyes, shooting laser-like beams of light at him.  He has to run to escape the beams.  He does survive, but further down the road is another test of him.  This time he is confronted with the image of his true self.  The little scientist of “the Southern Oracle” warns that some men run away screaming at the sight of their true selves.  Many people have found that they are nothing like what they thought they were.  In the year 2014 it is very likely that we have been so brainwashed by media and current culture that we haven’t a clue what our true selves look like, either. I doubt that we would run away screaming at the sight of our true selves but it is very likely that our true selves might run screaming from the shock of what has been heaped upon us that has created a false sense of what we were meant to be. Fortunately for Atreyu, seeing his true self was only the vision of a human child. It was a vision that he truly did not understand but he did not stop to question it very long.  He knew what his mission was and stayed with it.  Seeing what you were meant to be it is very much like coming home to a visual reality that you will most likely feel as a truth that you knew all along.

If you are already familiar with what is in your birth chart you know what strengths and weaknesses you came in to the world with.  Many children acquire their sense of self from their parents, especially if their parents are successful people.  It is many times taken as a given that children will follow in their parents footsteps.  Sometimes this works but often times when the child has made it to maturity they find that they have never really had a chance to express what they truly are and are unable to break free from a life that was molded for them.  So many people, especially the financially secure ones, feel that they have no right to question the circumstances that they have found themselves in and will continue to maintain a life that is making them miserable in order to be accepted and acceptable and keep their financial status.  This is a hollow existence and it usually requires that they maintain a steady diet of stimulants and distractions whenever possible to keep themselves from delving too deeply into their real feelings for fear that their true self will show them a picture of what they really are.

Once you have made it to adulthood it is easy to think that your path has been set and there is nothing that you can do about it.  I would never tell you that discovering your true self won’t be a challenge.  It absolutely will be, and it can take much time and soul searching to integrate what you really are in to what you have already made of yourself, but it is the only way to become what you were meant to be and be able to release yourself from the prison that you have found yourself in once you do make that realization that you are not living as your soul requires now that you are an adult.  These issues can be played with while you are relatively young but by the time you make it to your late twenties you will most likely look around and notice that you haven’t managed to create the happy and fulfilled life that you expected to.  As I wrote in my post, ”He Was Born In The Summer Of His 27^th Year.” life will probably have sent you a wake up call already, but if you are slow to recognize the calling of the universe, you can be the cause of a great many problems for yourself and the people around you.  Every life that is not in harmony and balance with it’s true purpose for being here will influence everyone that they come in contact with.  Our political system is over-run with lives that have no real success in governing themselves and they in turn are trying to control others to suit their personal desires.  These desires can never be met by pushing their agenda on others.  No one will ever be able to do it right for them because they are not capable of knowing what is right.  I am seeing this more and more among the representatives here in America. It is not enough for them to make right their own lives. They want to change the culture to suit their current whim.  And their current whim seems to be pushing others into a convenient box and holding them there so they cannot proffer a dissenting opinion as to what is right. If you have been paying any attention to the news in the past few years you have seen that the status quo has no idea what is right for the majority of us and while we were sleeping they managed to gain a tremendous amount of control over what we can and cannot do.  Think of Occupy Wall Street and the recent problems in Ferguson, Missouri.  These people made a gallant effort to right a perceived wrong in this country but ultimately they had to pack up and go home in defeat because the mentality of forced control over others was quietly put into place as we were occupied with ourselves.  Everything from the freedom to walk down the street without harassment to the freedom to buy and use birth control is trying to be legislated and enforced by people who have no real right or authority to do so.  None of us will be able to effectively fight against this kind of dictatorship unless we have the facts on ourselves and how we can use who we truly are to make a difference. 

Near the end of film, “The Neverending Story”, Atreyu goes to the Empress of Fantasia and tells her that he has failed in his quest to save their land, but the Empress just smiles and tells him that he didn’t fail.  What he was meant to do all along was make contact with a human child who would be the one who actually saves their world. To save our world will require more than having contact with one human child.  It will take many of them and a lot of work to rebuild what has been destroyed, but the hope for us is that you will realize that you are important and you have a part in the neverending story of human life on planet earth. It starts with you recognizing your own worth and who you truly are.  From there, you can discover what makes you unique to the world and what part you may play in making the absolute best of yourself and the world that you live in.  Do not believe that you are just one little life and not significant in the larger scheme of things.  There are some very grand thinking people in the world right now who consider themselves to be quite fancy and important, but their contributions to the world that they are trying to control are proving to be what is ultimately going to be our destruction.  You are Atreyu, and you are holding the essence of what is in you to make your life what it was meant to be.  When you have accomplished that quest you will find that you have a place of great importance where ever you are.  It may look simple, it may even look impossible sometimes, but it is more likely that you can build a better world than some of those who appear quite elegant have been able to do.  The Southern Oracle may not be able to strike them down in their arrogance but a true person who knows their true worth has a much better chance at destroying the Nothing that others have created in their selfishness.  It may appear that you were sent out with no weapons but the real weapons that you have against our Nothing is your refusal to cooperate with the destroyers, and your conviction in yourself as a warrior.  Knowing that you were put here for a reason will keep you searching for the one thing that you can do better than anyone else on the planet.  No one in Fantasia understood why Atreyu was the only one who could find the answer to why their world was dying. He was laughed at for being a child but he was truly the only one capable of saving their world because it was his quest that was going to save them.  Who are you, who am I, who is anyone to say that they are not the one who can make all the difference?  It is hard to believe that one person can be so important but truly it only takes one person who knows their worth and knows their true mission for being here that can be the “bringer of miracles”.  If Steve Jobs hadn’t believed in himself, you and I would not be in communication right now.  Think on what you know to be truly you this week.  It has a place in the larger scheme of things even if you do not recognize that place at the moment.  Accept the quest that has been given to you.  It has a value that you may never realize unless you believe that such a thing is possible.  Others may tell you that you are insignificant, but that is only because they are afraid of your worth being so much more than theirs.  The fear is in not knowing their own true self but wishing to gain a false sense of worth through intimidation.