8 Obsidian (Mirror, Flint)

[Thursday 17 November 2022]

Energy moving towards manifestation.

Composite created by Carey,
using images found on google

Committing to the Game of Life requires accepting the totality that results from your desires – which includes living with the shadow of what you want. However, the price is never as high as it might seem. The shadow is a scary spectre that dissolves with the light of your courage as you open up to new dimensions.

‘Mirror, mirror on the wall: Who am I?’

Detail from The Arnolfini Portrait,
by Jan van Eyck, 1434
Image originally from here

Today is a day where you can recognise how you are attracting what you ask for. You have the life that reflects the totality of your emanations – what you put out – and you are challenged to commit to accepting that, to seeing the shadow and the price of your desires. However, looking deeper into the smoky mirror of eternity, you will find that other worlds open up as you make the commitment.

A Sulawesi black monkey checking himself out
in the mirror (Image: Caters)
by photographer Ronny Buol
Image from here

Day 8 of each 13-day timewave is a day of balanced, controlled commitment; it is the energy of feeling prepared. Obsidian is a day of truth and surrender, of accepting the shadow and the universal reflection of one’s reality at the moment.

However, as we are in the Monkey Timewave, there is a subtext of ‘Do not get too serious or rigid with your commitment.’

Mariana in the South,
by John William Waterhouse, circa 1897
Image via Wikimedia Commons

Surrender your emotional tightness so as to open the heart and be a divine mirror.

The Monkey knows that on each level of the game, he faces his shadow.

In so doing, he is able to create and to weave new fabric into reality.

Image from here, with a wonderful backstory!