The Art of Active Waiting Inquiry
Some writing to process my latest experiences and learnings as I share my discoveries with you.
In a previous article, I mentioned the show "The Magicians" in bringing up Depression.
I like to reframe Depression like this:
Imagine a fast-moving mountain stream.
Occasionally, there are spaces off to the side where water gets side-tracked (Uranus).
You know how water comes to rest in a depression in the earth?
Sometimes, we have mental or physical Depression as a signpost to take a breather, a time out, and enjoy some deep rest.
Wait too long, though, and your water stagnates and gets stuck (like how water does in a depression in the earth).
Going deep to rest implies Pluto to me, which can either bring death or lead to transformation.
Death is the ultimate transformation.
In Human Design, many newcomers mistakenly equate our waiting strategy with doing nothing. That is not accurate.
Waiting for Favorable Circumstances
Strategy, a concept defined initially by Aristotle as having the purpose of achieving victory, is not a passive endeavor.
In this context, waiting is an active and intentional action that empowers individuals, setting the stage for favorable circumstances.
In the Magicians, graduate students are taught about waiting for favorable circumstances for casting spells - circumstances controlled by the planetary bodies, particularly the moon.
Now link that to Waiting for the Pulse.
The timing of mood is not up to our mind. Every individual gate has a formatting of now or not; it's linked to our chemistry. Involving all centers, the Individual Empowerment Circuitry also carries the keynotes of Melancholy. This natural energy can be channeled into the fertile inspiration to be creative or create for creation's sake.
By experimenting with our Strategy of waiting for life to initiate us, we find that serendipity starts to abound in life.
It's one of the most consistent, common noticings of myself and others over years of experimenting with living our human designs.
Nowadays, it's natural for me to do things in alignment without knowing why I'm doing what I'm doing or how what I'm doing is actually in alignment; the action either prevents something drastic from happening or encourages something awesome to happen. My mind stopped questioning and acting from this place of knowing clarity. It's so common now following my body that ease is the norm, and the discomfort is unnatural nowadays and very noticeable.
Twelve years ago, before the Human Design experiment mutation took hold in me, discomfort was the norm for this body - back when the madness of the "normal mind" ruled.
For those of us categorized as one of the three waiting Types, the act of "waiting" involves attuning to the energy of the Aura specific to our Type. It means centering oneself within the Aura's energy, embracing its frequency and gifts.
Adopting an active waiting approach can be considered a strategic move, offering individuals the freedom to wait for "favorable circumstances," thereby profoundly altering the course of our lives.
This active waiting state represents one's authentic energy calm, despite the adaptive strategies imposed by the mind, so that our natural flow is undisrupted.
Like the mountain stream on its adventure from high vistas to shining seas, our bodygraph has enormous pressure, a gravity-like force drawing us from the head and root pressures to express at the throat.
This waiting state can be seen as a gateway to deep self-reflection and inner transformation. It is a pause where we can reconnect with our true essence, allowing authentic energy to guide our actions and decisions.
This state invites a sense of stillness, creating space for clarity and knowing to arise.
By consciously embracing this waiting state, we can become more aware of who we are and what truly matters to us.
It is an opportunity to shed the layers of conditioning and reconnect with the core of our being.
Waiting for life's initiation of us through the self-discovery of what we can respond to, gain clarity on, or be invited to can lead to a more fulfilling and purposeful life.
It takes balancing great concentration with letting go for effortless effort to flow.
As we still and align our actions with our authentic energy, free from external pressures and expectations - it becomes more readily apparent which are spoken for through conditioning that arises from within.
Have you ever tapped into a wellspring of creativity and intuition in this active waiting state? It is a fertile ground where new insights and awareness can blossom.
By allowing yourself to be present in the moment and tune in to your inner wisdom, you can uncover unique knowing and innovative approaches to your challenges.
This fertile, active waiting state enables us to transcend conventional thinking, and Inquiry helps us, "Waiting Types," tap into our inherent, innate potential.
In essence, the Strategy of active waiting inquiry serves as a step towards harmonizing with our internal energy and orientation. It narrates the inner journey of the "passenger within" as it reconciles with its vehicle in this life - our form.
"Form follows Function" is a term I've been using lately to explain that Aura is what builds the body.
Function is a critical evolutionary determinant, and form arises from the Aura.
In other words, your Aura is what builds the body.
Ra gave a lot of Human Design readings before creating a simple way to explain to his clients and students how to help realign the being to their form. Type, Strategy, and Authority arise from the Auric natal imprint (not just the conscious personality or unconscious design blueprint).
Like how magicians wait for the moon to reach the proper phase and position for casting a spell, Strategy serves as a way of waiting for life to move us into the correct circumstances for fulfillment.
The neutrino ocean is a program that, like an array of delicacies from all the galaxy's far reaches and beyond, cannot be digested in one meal; indeed, some are poison and will kill you.
Strategy reshapes life circumstances—engaging in active waiting leaves less time for unnecessary external initiatives that take you further off your path, down the road of regret.
Lashing out in Frustration, Anger, Bitterness, Disappointment, or doing things to avoid these states of being from those states of being are just going to create more of the same.
"We can't solve today's problems with the mentality that created them." Albert Einstein
Active Waiting helps to alter the energy of surrounding situations and circumstances. Reflective Inquiry partnered with this allows the mind to process the pressure while we wait.
Active Waiting Inquiry becomes a practice of reorientation toward one's natural auric energy internally while simultaneously becoming an energetic force that transforms interpersonal dynamics.
Exploring "the energy of waiting" represents a significant behavioral shift for us in this frenetic age, as many people move faster and faster to adapt to or try to keep up with the changing background frequency, while others fall into apathetic states.
Countering conditioned tendencies to initiate actions out of alignment is no easy feat.
Consciously embracing active waiting opens individuals to profound experiences, unlocking new dimensions of freedom and decision-making.
Consider the example of a design focused on reproduction through Channel 59-6, "Mating, a design focused on Reproduction." The active waiting strategy can drastically change circumstances and effectiveness.
For example, offering sex in response to a come-on differs radically from initiating sex without mutual attraction, avoiding misunderstandings and chaos, or, at worst, imprisonment.
The waiting strategy makes our Aura available for the right circumstances, to be open and enveloping (Generator), focused and penetrating (Projector), or resistant and sampling (Reflector).
This creates space for the asking, the recognition, formal invitations, or surprises in life that lead us to spiritual fulfillment - satisfaction, success, and surprise.
The waiting strategy Ra gave us allows for calming the not-self's desire to take, take, take, or, on the flip side, give from "Not-Self generosity" in an attempt to get.
Are you volunteering from the mind without a genuine recognition or need?
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