Shadow work - clearing the heart chakra

Frater Lucis · 3 October 2024

Ah the heart... They say to follow the heart rather than the head. Traditional media and marketing spend a tremendous amount of effort convincing you that love is the answer to everything - which is true. However, many people never get to that point, and there is a big reason why.

After years of reading the cards for folks and communicating between the physical and spiritual planes, I can tell you that anything to do with the heart, comes with many of these preconceived notions. They also create a lot of obstacles.

People want love in their life, to be loved, to have self love, to love others. Jesus talked about loving thy neighbor. Although, what stands between between you and sustainable love (every type), is acceptance. I say sustainable, or enduring, because there are a great many folks who can fake it for a while - but it is always acceptance that gets in the way. This manifests in the following ways:

self-sabotage & preventing love in your own life - unacceptance of the self

unable to love others (constantly changing relationships) - unacceptance of others

unable to be loved - unacceptance of self or unacceptance of a circumstance

From the standpoint of tarot, there are qabalistic lessons to guide us in how to achieve acceptance, which creates the outcome we all want, which is love.

Those lessons can be seen in the Devil and the Death cards. Remember, when it comes to tarot, it's important to not be too on the nose with the symbology. The devil card is about attachment, specifically being overly attached to a specific emotion, ideology or belief. The death card isn't about death, but its about change, and in this case - resistance to change. Which is why, the pathways from the Hod & Netzach, or the Solar Plexus (both inner and outer), to the Heart Chakra, or Tipareth, are both the Devil and Death.

To allow acceptance and thus love into your life, you need to learn to let go of some of the things you are overly attached to, and prepare for some change. This doesn't mean everything, but you will know the aspects that you need to let go of, because they are they things you are chasing the most, or the things you feel the most beholden to that usually cause love to fail for you.

If you are struggling with any of these, or have a question, drop me a line any time.