It’s Time to Open Up to Clarity
By: Dr. Jennifer B. Rhodes
Tags: Astrology, Wisdom, Psychology, Personal Development, Spirituality

Intuitive Guidance + Psychology December 22, 2020

Judy Hall Crystal Healing Oracle Deck

Purpurite is said to be the healing stone for our time. It helps us with stress, it opens our ability to see clearly and it helps us to stay focused. Most importantly, it is said to help us let go of past experiences that no longer serve us and shifts our focus to serving humanity. If there was any stone that was needed during this shift to the Age of Aquarius, it is purpurite.

Yet, we are living in a time where most of us are unawakened or have lost our way due to the divisiveness of the world. We are in the midst of the biggest spiritual test of our lives — can we hold our course and stay focused or are we going to be dragged down by the drama circulating around us? Can we begin to use our spiritual tools to find balance or are we going to continue to yell at everyone and call them stupid? When we see clearly, we realize that no one is stupid. You don’t need a PhD or an MD to see that our institutions, governments, education systems etc… are not working for the majority of the people in the world. The deep unraveling of structures that do not serve humanity and the greater good will begin to fall apart. It is the necessary chaos before a transformation and people will fight for their lives to keep things the way they have always been if it benefitted them. Fear of the unknown rears its head when we have placed our sense of stability ourside of us rather than cultivate our own internal home and security in the body. Unfortunately, this is the majority of people in the world and the psychological world expects the reaction to such instability to increase panic and fear. The fear of death may be an existential crisis but the fear of the unknown may be the biggest fear we face in modern history and the source of our growing epidemic of anxiety.

“Fear of the Unknown may also be the fundamental fear — a fear that rules all other fears, brings them together producing anxiety, and binds them, facilitating anxiety and neuroticism.” — R. Nicholas Carleton

Change, especially change that we do not seem to have any control over, triggers fear and lots of emotions. In one of my favorite books on navigating life changes, William Bridges, Ph.D., discusses the need for grieving before welcoming the next chapter of our lives. Some of us are closing out karmic cycles that may have occurred in 2009–2010. Some of us are closing out old relationships that no longer serve. Some of us are closing out careers that ended during the pandemic. We need to grieve these changes or else our new beginnings, and the ability to see the new path, will be clouded.

“We resist transition not because we can’t accept the change, but because we can’t accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed.” — William Bridges

Perhaps the most important part of the transition, however, is the inner changes that need to be made. It is the releasing of the fear of who we really are. It is the psychological aspects of transformation that stop us. According to Bridges:

“In other words, change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation and self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won’t work, because it doesn’t “take.”

So in this moment where we have opened the door to what many of us hope will be a new and happier chapter of our lives, take the lessons of purpurite with you. You need to clearly see what parts of your inner world are not in alignment with the new you. You need to own your emotions. You need to own your desires. You need to acknowledge that finding your passion during COVID-19 has been difficult. Or perhaps you need to acknowledge that you repressed your passions to fit into a world that is no longer going to reward you for your intellectual achievement.

We are moving to a heart and emotionally centered way of living. If you haven’t been friends with a yogi or an artist up until now — you may want to expand your friend circle. The true masters of emotion regulation are not the academics in a classroom setting teaching from a curriculum but those people who have already choosen to live by their own rules and channel their emotions into creations of beauty. An artist who is truly balanced and has mastered their emotions and art through self-discipline has much wisdom to share.

Most importantly, however, we need to see clearly so that we can support and incubate the next generation. They are full of love, light and joy. They are born more aware and awake and have a deep desire to find fulfilling and heart centered relationships. If we do not help them by creating structures that allow them to learn to find emotional balance and use their creative/sexual energies in ways that feed humanity rather than their egos, we will see unprecedented violence and mental health difficulties. It doesn’t have to be this way. Let’s all work together to open up and find our clarity so we can each serve our small purposes to pave the way for a healthier and happier world.