Learning

January 18, 2024

Ego Type Eights' way to learn spiritually is to be weak. A person covered in armor and poised for fighting doesn't typically rely on spiritual development as a first-line approach. For them, weakness is a liability. However, when an Eight faces their weakness, they become conscious of their inborn compassion and humility. Fortunately, defeat and weakness are the only things that help the Eight to see themselves in a true light: they are just like everyone else — they have strengths and weaknesses. When reality pierces that external armor, they cannot operate as usual by possessing everything and everyone they want and forcing their agenda on others. Instead, they are forced to see their weaknesses and their needs for others. Our weaknesses give us the incentive to embrace our essence. In the case of Eights, that essence is one of compassion and benevolence.

Ego Type Twos' way to learn spiritually is by swallowing their pride and asking for help. Most Twos compulsively help others in an effort to stop their feeling of being unlovable. However, continually serving and helping others eventually backfires. Twos typically hide their pride in the fact they're held in such high esteem by those they help. But they depend on being needed as a way to fend off their fear of being unlovable. Therefore, to have the love they want, they disregard their needs to keep serving others. The problem is that the sheer weight of attending to so many becomes no longer worth it, especially when people expect their help but do not even express enough appreciation. Swallowing our pride stops the fixation of flattering others so that we feel loved by them. When we accept our needs and ask for help, we can become conscious of our true spiritual nature.

Ironically, Ego Type Four's best way to learn spiritually is first to become a nobody. Fours feel disconnected from their true identity more than any other type. To compensate for their fear of being identity-less and unlovable, they focus on standing out from the sea of millions of faces and being unique among the many. Their dress, behavior, beliefs, work, love, and much more, creatively distinguish them from all others in hopes of providing authenticity. Fours who realize their endless search for authenticity isn't bringing them the love or true identity they passionately yearn for are finally willing to go "unrecognized." Then, the soul that had been blocked for so long, arises as its authentic soul child of the Divine. Then the Four's brilliant identity is found to have been anchored in its Holy Origin all along. The way for spiritual learning is now open.

Inquiry: What in the above do you identify with?

Dear God,

Learning more of who my soul is, I am closer to you, my Creator. Amen

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