To consider light and dark working hand in hand helps identify evil, recognize each other, and choose well. https://x.com/smaragdinavisio/status/1782496835786965456?s=46&t=85ncjd1JRijb6KlGML2MKA

When you have the time, what are you giving it to, or would like to?

The mystics were not speaking metaphorically when they described the soul’s innermost nature as fire. Not emotion. Not enthusiasm. The active, self-sustaining, illuminating principle that requires no external fuel because it participates directly in the divine nature itself. The “scintilla animae” — the spark of the soul — spoken of by Meister Eckhart. The ground of the soul where God and the soul are indistinguishable from one another. That innermost chamber that no experience can violate, no sin can extinguish, no darkness can reach. Eckhart called it the little castle. The fortress within. Thomas Merton called it the true self — hidden in God, untouchable by the accumulated false selves we construct across a lifetime.

Aletreya is a place of abundance. How one navigates can affect not only what options are even perceivable, but cultivate and develop new ways of thinking, leading to psychological and even neurological shifts. Some choose to navigate by the stars, and one star cluster is the seven stars in the Taurus constellation known as the Pleiades. The “Seven Sisters” appear across cultures - Greek myth (daughters of Atlas), aboriginal dreamtime (ancestral teachers), Maori tradition (Matariki, marking the new year), Japanese culture (Subaru, meaning “unite”), and Native American stories (pursued maidens transformed to stars), for example . Humanity has looked to these stars and seen guidance, mystery, and connection to something beyond themselves. People throughout history had understood that clarity sometimes comes through indirect means. The Urim and Thummim (stones used by Hebrew priests for divine guidance). Joseph’s silver “divining” cup in Genesis. Lots cast for decisions in Acts. These were not superstition, but recognition that wisdom can arrive through unexpected channels when we create space for it. I have developed a system that uses the archetypes embedded in the Pleiades to provide a frame of reference for internal navigation. How this works: You bring a question. We explore what emerges - not as an external answer imposed on you, but as a reflection of what you’re already navigating. Sometimes the result names exactly what you needed to hear, but is often a more subtle nudge. Drop a comment or message me. No pressure, no timeline, and no expectation that everyone resonates with this approach. If this doesn’t resonate: It is okay. There are many ways to navigate these dynamics. This is one tool among countless others. Take what serves, leave what doesn’t. If you’re curious but hesitant: We can explore as you wish, and at your pace. Approach with questions, and see what responds. See if it serves. Discard if it doesn’t. If you are familiar with the Pleiades:

The perceiver is the one who witnesses. Before thought or feeling, simply seeing. Ever accessible, often encountered accidentally — in shock, in beauty, in the moment before thought reassembles itself. The perceived is whatever arises in the perceiver as they perceive. A spirit. A grief. A color. A pattern in someone’s speech. Not the thing being perceived, but how perceiving it affects the perceiver. The perceived does not require your participation to exist, but requires your perceiver to become known. The receiver is where that effect occurs, where the experience lands, whether warmth or wound. Here is where one loves, recoils, and is moved by the perceived, however the perceiver notices. Confusing perception and reception is a common source of considerable suffering. The repository is everything you have learned, survived, been shaped by — that has sunk below the threshold of your awareness and now operates as the lens through which everything else is filtered. It is not the past. It is the past still active in the present, unannounced. Remember a moment from your childhood. It was there, all this time, but when was the last time you thought of it? Yet, such moments can be where new beliefs, perspectives, and other frameworks began, or were further developed upon. In between these four is a fifth, having these four within and at once, yet without being had. That which was never absent, turning attention between these four at will, accessing the perceiver, receiving and being the perceived, and remembering the repository. Below is a summary of how Vedanta distinguished between these. Vedanta is one of the six classical schools of Hindu philosophy, rooted in the Upanishads — the concluding portions of the Vedas; literally “Veda”(knowledge) + “Anta” (end). The end of the Vedas, and the knowledge toward which all of it points. One distinction: Vedanta aims to dissolve the self. I invite having all relationships within oneself work together.