I’ve done years of personal work. I’ve been in a healing profession for over a decade and been committed to personal work for much longer than that.
So what do I do when things don’t seem to be going right, when the fulfilment of *the* dream seems stalled?
What is to be done when you’ve done all the work, you’ve faced all the blocks and *defeated* them but you just can’t seem to find what’s in the way of your next level?
In most of the personal development industry the answer is to find the next block. Search for a thing, a wound, a broken part to poke at and “fix,” a block or trauma to face and “defeat” or “overcome.”
The problem is that the more you walk a spiritual path of radical acceptance or the more you “ascend the levels” of the personal growth pyramid, the more elusive these blocks become or the more reluctant you are to call any part of yourself the culprit for your stunting.
When we look at this from an animist/shamanic perspective we see that there are really no enemies. Opponents are there purely for our own good.
One of my favorite tropes from the Scandinavian tradition that I’m a part of is the need to face the giantess, who appears to be the obstacle, and fall in love with her. In fact, our hero comes out victorious not when he slays the giantess, but when he sees her for the shining goddess she truly is and proposes marriage to her.
So what does that look like for you and I?
Run towards the fear.
For real.
I don’t mean that you should put yourself in circumstances that are unsafe or where you feel truly unsafe.
No, instead I mean for the calling to be to move towards it while remaining in your ability to be true to yourself.
This is easiest way I know to find your fastest path to your next level.
This is the path that my tradition teaches is the most powerful and direct path to the fulfillment of your orlog.
Orlog is fate, destiny, the thing that you have inherited at birth (or before) as your highest fulfillment in this life.
It is the thing that calls you forward, but more on that another time.
If you seek your greatest most blissful fulfillment, the path to your next level is exactly this.
This path through the walls of fire is not for the faint of heart.
This is a path that I know well and it is my calling to be a guide to those who are ready to walk towards the fear and see it as the ally it is.
If you’re ready to call the volva/witch to be your guide on your journey, reach out to me. I would love to chat about where you’re at in this journey and how I can help guide you to your next place of transformation.