Hooves pounding grass underneath you, flying across rolling hills, your bow is drawn on a target. You loose the arrow and instantly are focused on the next target, certain that the first is hit. You aiming automatically, loose with certainty and move on to the next. You are the centaur archer Sagittarius and it doesn’t matter what you are shooting at: battle foes, food game, or the problems of day to day life. What matters is the certainty that comes from completely trusting your focus and aim, this gives you the ability to act quickly, surely, without hesitation or second thought.
This past weekend the moon was gloriously full in the constellation of Sagittarius, beaming the energy of action as the wisdom for working with the plentitude of choice offered by the Sun in Gemini. Before leading ceremony I received this image/sense of the archer in action. It feels very timely, that we are soon going to need to be able trust our own knowing on a deep level like this.
Approaching the question of how you can do this in your own life, start with how you already work with your intuition and inspiration. However rich your life is in signs, dreams, meditative messages of all kinds, can you ask a simple question and get an instant answer that you know you can completely trust? If so wonderful. If not then perhaps it’s time to cultivate this ability.
Sit with the question of whether something you already do can be adapted, or modified to work this way. This seems to be more of an internal level of knowing, than an external guidance process, but play with it. How do you just know things? of all the intuitive channels, including your heart, which feels most reliable at aiming you in the right direction, without hesitation or discussion?
Start small, with things you are not too invested in, perhaps with alternate routes to the grocery store, or other simple questions where you can live with the results either way, but you can notice the difference in outcome. The second step is to practice trusting what comes back completely, if parts of you don’t, put them aside. This is not about figuring out the right answer. You are learning to access the level of yourself that simply knows. It could be through muscle testing, or how your heart feels, a verbal thing in your mind’s eye, the relative brightness on two roses, or straight knowing. The point is to play with it, begin to calibrate it, learn to trust it more and more deeply.
Like a child learning to walk it may not be perfect at first, but that’s ok. As you are ready you can step up the importance of the questions, move into places where you have trouble sorting things out mentally, where its easy to doubt. Act on what you get, especially when it isn’t what you expect. You can reframe the question to double check, and even think of alternate ways to clarify the answer. But in the end if it stays firm, act on it. This builds confidence and certainty.
The results may not always be what you expect, or think you want. Sometimes the real point is something that’s not completely smooth. This is a form of dialogue that you are practicing, with your Self and Spirit, so that down the road, when you really need it, you can trust it implicitly , and take action on the fly with certainty and no hesitation, no worry.
(© 7/2014)
