The Call

THE BIG IDEA

It’s everyone’s favorite time of year….   the time when the natural world blooms, and our we are invited into a personal process of awakening on all levels; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.

Happy Festival of Spring!  

Wednesday night’s new moon brings with it the potential for complete renewal. Souls imprinted with an ancient process of awakening should begin to feel the inner stirrings, Passover is coming, and with it, the call to liberation. Time to start cleaning physically and metaphysically (or at least start thinking about it). Begin searching for places in yourself that are blocked from the experience of joy (knowledge of divinity) as if they were crumbs inside your cupboards or dustballs under your bed. 

Be sure to forgive your mistakes. This week’s Torah Omens, remind us of Divinity’s call to Moses, and the ritual offerings that releases us from both intentional and innocent mistakes. Accidents are to be expected from everyone, the high priest, political leaders, and the average person. Take advantage of the invitation for active repair, and apply it to your own life. This week is a favorable time to make offerings of awareness to the people and places in your life that feel distant or damaged. 

Wishing everyone a joyful cycle of spiritual renewal.  

SPIRITUAL AWAKENING; whistle while you work…

I can’t stress enough how powerful the practice of Passover is for unlocking a relationship with divinity, and a deeper awareness and appreciation of your self.

Passover’s strict requirements (around a normally permitted thing like bread) act like an internal pressure cooker bringing up resistance, resentment and reactions to external spiritual demands - and give us an opportunity to see where (and what) we are holding from year to year. 

I recommend trying one or two complete cycles of passover - accepting the 7 days of restrictions from bread, and paying close attention to the ways in which spiritual pressures (along with physical demands) trigger you. Embrace those triggers as signs of psychic enslavement, and use all means needed to free yourself. As far as strict spiritual practices of denial go… clearing out bread and still being able to eat, sleep, and speak normally, isn’t THAT bad.

Keep a journal on hand as you clean, and notice all the places that need work.

PART 1: CLEANING

There is no way around it. You must physically prepare for the Passover ceremony in a more comprehensive way than any other holiday. And while you are hopefully not an actual slave living in Egypt anymore, this is a good time to allow all the pressures in your life (and of this holiday) to make you feel like one. 

Embrace the stress to your system, you have less than 15 days until the full moon.

Go into your kitchen, pull out all your dishes and pots and pans, and clean your cupboards as if you were able to clean out the parts of psyche that are attached to unhealthy patterns and people. With each crumb you find, take a moment to identify what or who it might represent in your life, and then clear it away. 

Next, open your closest and look at the belongings you have, identify which of your clothing is fitting for a free, divinely significant person, and what your wear that keeps you enslaved to the expectations of the social mass. 

Continue to go through your home, physically, and bring your attention to all your things… checking for attachments that you are ready to release, and acknowledging the things you treasure. 

If you were invited to leave all the parts of your life that hold you back and oppress you, and head out into the unknown, what would you be willing to shed?

Happy Cleaning… and Shabbat Shalom!