Pushing Upward. Step by step and little by little, we gather what’s required to rise upward through the experiences of this life.

This solar transit shines a light on learning to love the perfection of every experience. Not because every experience feels good or turns out the way we imagined, but because every experience has something to reveal.

Can you trust the experience itself to guide you?

I’ve experienced how difficult it can be to make sense of life as it’s happening. It can be overwhelming. And yet, life is designed to be a continuously growing wealth of experience and wisdom to share with others.

When we release our expectations about how our experiences should turn out, we make space for each experience to become a discovery.

And a discovery is never truly a failure.

It can be an opportunity to gain experience … to learn and to grow.

“Every experience is a form of exploration.” ~ Ansel Adams

Whether you label an experience a success or a failure largely depends on what you bring to it. The determination to keep moving, keep exploring, keep pushing upward allows the experience itself to reveal what is there.

This is where the Earth in Gate 25 brings us back to innocence.

There is nothing to prove.

Nothing to force.

Perhaps the deepest form of trust is allowing life to be exactly what it is, without deciding in advance what it should become.

Small steps slowly and surely accumulate into big growth. What starts out as an acorn eventually becomes a forest giant, but it doesn’t happen overnight. And a tree gains much strength by bending with the wind.

By remaining tolerant and flexible, you can maintain a conscious innocence that fuels your never-ending growth. Determination is necessary to manage growth, but inner enthusiasm for life drives it.

So, from a place of trust and innocence, can you bend around the obstacles that arise?

Can you allow each experience to take you somewhere you could not have imagined?

When you build your foundation from the inside out, your experiences can become the path to true fulfillment.

“The plant is blind, but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.” ~ George Orwell

Love Yourself,
Ruth Brennan