Greetings to you dear ones. Today I present the following for your investigation (on this 1st Line day).
As it is known in the system of Human Design, we are currently experiencing the end of an era.
Since 1961, we’ve been in a 1st Line Background Frequency, which is all about: information, fear, safety, insecurity, the foundation, investigation, etc.
We have about 16 Months left of this 1st Line energy before the Background Frequency shifts in 2027.
We are standing at the edge of this powerful shift. We can all feel it. When confronting the uncertainty of these times, many are reaching to the past, to what has been familiar/safe, for support (which makes sense when you understand the background frequency we are in). I feel this pull myself, but if I’m going to reach into the past for support, I’m going to reach deep into humanity’s ancient past, back to first principles, to the ancient systems & symbols that are encoded everywhere our modern reality – hidden in plain sight.
I made the following post in my Instagram stories on July 1, 2025:
Also – with full honor & reverence for all First Nations & Indigenous Peoples on this day & every day – always. I will forever be so deeply grateful for all you have taught me.
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After returning to (one of) my ancestral homelands in France this year, something shifted deep within me and I was called back to my studies in Western Esotericism – mainly through the Qabalah (which also contains Astrology and the Tarot – and is also one of the systems synthesized in Human Design).
I’ve had a deep & personal relationship with the Qabalah since 2007, and as with many things, I have cycled in & out of my work with it.
In this recent in-cycle, I’ve been called back to some of my favorite texts, one of which I’d like to share with you today.
The following is an excerpt from the book: Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune, written in 1934.
Here she speaks about the choice of spiritual path, with the consideration of the Western Mystery tradition compared to Eastern Spirituality.
Please bear in mind that these are excerpts taken out of context, and thus only a portion of the larger explanation. If you are interested in learning more, I recommend getting the book. I’ve had it for over 15 years, and I always learn something new every time I reread it.
“For a system of spiritual development to be applicable in the West it must fulfill certain well-defined requirements. To begin with, its elementary technique must be such that it is readily grasped by minds that have in them nothing of the mystic. Secondly, the forces it brings to bear to stimulate the development of the higher aspects of consciousness must be sufficiently powerful and concentrated to penetrate the relatively dense vehicles of the average Westerner, who makes nothing whatever of subtle vibrations.
Thirdly, as few Europeans, following a racial dharma of material development, have either the opportunity or the inclination to lead the life of a recluse, the forces employed must be handled in such a way that they can be made available during the brief periods that the modern man or woman can, at the commencement of the Path, snatch from their daily avocations to give to the pursuit.
They must, that is to say, be handled by a technique which enables them to be readily concentrated and equally readily dispersed, because it is not possible to maintain these high psychic tensions while living the hard-driving life of the citizen of a European city. Experience proves with unfailing regularity that the methods of psychic development which are effectual and satisfactory for the recluse produce neurotic conditions and breakdowns in the person who pursues them while compelled to endure the strain of modern life.
…It appears to me that if our karma (or destiny) has caused us to be incarnated in a body of a certain racial type and temperament, it may be concluded that that is the discipline and experience which the Lords of Karma consider we need in this incarnation, and that we shall not advance the cause of our evolution by avoiding or evading it. I have seen so many attempts at spiritual development that were simply evasions of life’s problems that I am suspicious of any system which involves a breach with the group-soul of the race.
In consequence of this deplorable limitation on the part of our theology many Western aspirants take up Eastern methods. For those who are able to live in Eastern conditions and work under the immediate supervision of a guru, this may prove satisfactory, but it seldom gives good results when the various systems are pursued with no other guide than a book and under unmodified Western conditions.
It is for this reason that I would recommend to the white races the traditional Western system, which is admirably adapted to their psychic constitution. It gives immediate results, and if done under proper supervision, not only does it not disturb the mental or physical equipoise, as happens with regrettable frequency when unsuitable systems are used, but it produces a unique vitality. It is this peculiar vitality of the adepts which led to the tradition of the elixir of life. I have known a number of people in my time who might justly be considered adepts, and I have always been struck by that peculiar ageless vitality they all possessed.”
– Dion Fortune, Mystical Qabalah (1934)
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Rakai’el
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