Fire Meditation to Transform Anger to Motivation

Fire Meditation to Transform Anger to Motivation

Anger is something we all deal with, on a personal level and on a societal level. Everyone struggles with the anger that comes from feelings of powerlessness, unhappiness and injustice.

Anger can be a necessary and helpful motivator. A slow-burning anger is what inspires and maintains the fight for social justice. Anger can help us remove ourselves from unhealthy situations. Anger can motivate us to do better and rise higher in life.

Yet, anger can also be debilitating. Anger turned inward becomes depression. Misplaced anger can hurt our ability to have healthy relationships. Even justifiable anger can cause us to be victims in life, rather than survivors.

Certain mental health diagnoses have anger as part of their symptoms. For many people, it is imperative that, in order to be healthy and happy, they learn to manage their anger.

Sometimes anger management isn’t effective or enough. Spiritually, there is a way to transmute our anger into a more helpful energy.

In elemental studies anger is related to the element of Fire. In tarot, that would be the suit of Wands, as well as a large group of Major Arcana cards (Emperor, Strength, Wheel of Fortune, Temperance, Tower, Sun, Judgment). Fire is also related to our creativity, our passions, our motivation, our sexuality, our spirituality and our humor. This gives us an important tool in learning to turn the energy of our anger into something more useful and helpful.

When we ignore our anger, it can fester. When we express our anger inappropriately, we can damage relationships. When we transmute our anger, we can use the power of that vibrant energy in a useful way.

Anger easily transmutes into motivation. We can also transform anger into creativity, or into pursuing any healthy interest about which we are passionate.

Like all four of the classic elements of life, Fire is an energy we can work with in a meditative state. We can identify the Fire within us. When we feel that Fire as anger, that energy can feel uncomfortable. We can acknowledge the Fire and work to transform it into something that feels more helpful. Then, we can often experience a sense of healing from the anger, as well as greater motivation toward something that helps us in life.

Certainly, traditional methods such as psychotherapy are also helpful, and sometimes necessary, in healing our anger. Yet, working with the Fire energy can speed our healing, and inspire us to do great things.

If you want to try a Fire meditation to transmute anger, first consider what you want to direct your Fire energy toward. Would you like to be more creative? If so, what sort of creative activities would you like to pursue? The more specific you can be, the better.

If you prefer, you can direct your energies toward athletic motivation, career advancement or spiritual development. All of these pursuits are related to and inspired by the element of Fire.

Once you have a clear idea of where you want to focus your energy and attention, spend a moment visualizing what your life will look like, and feel like, when you are creating that achievement in your life. The more you can hold that vision in your mind and see it and feel it in the present tense, the more successful you will be with this exercise.

Form a specific picture and feeling in your mind in vivid detail. Picture yourself writing a book, or running a marathon, starting a business or accepting a promotion. Once you have that image, and that feeling, you are ready to begin your meditation.

It will be helpful to have a lit candle, or the Ace of Wands from your tarot deck, or both. You will use the candle, and/or the card, to help you connect to the Fire within you, as you redirect it, moving it from anger to the more constructive motivation you have chosen.

Begin your meditation by focusing on your breath. Breath into the root chakra at the base of your spine and ground yourself to the earth.

With your breath, bring your energy up your spine, stopping at the third chakra, the solar plexus, just below the ribcage. The third chakra is the Fire chakra, and it is the center of your will and self-determination.

Breath into this area as you gaze upon your candle, and/or your Ace of Wands.  See your third chakra as your body’s furnace. As your breath, feel that your breath is like a set of bellows, stoking the flames in your inner furnace.

Feel the Fire within you building, rising up and becoming hotter. Reflect for a moment on the things that have made you angry. Understand your right to your anger, and then affirm your desire to turn that anger into something more productive.

Bring your attention to the image and feeling you have created as your goal. As you breathe, see your furnace as the energy that supports that goal. As your raise the flames of your furnace, you fuel that goal.

You may finish your meditation when you feel ready. Simply return your breathing to normal and once again feel yourself grounded to earth.

You can return to this image, and to the action of stoking your inner furnace to fuel your goals, whenever you feel anger, or lack of motivation. Over time, you will find that you experience less anger, and more motivation toward achieving your goals.

Imagery and Energy: The Importance of Imagination in Divination, Magick and Healing

Imagery and guided meditations are tools in every metaphysician’s toolbox. We use imagery to foster intuition, divination, psychic connection, mediumship, past life regression, inner child work, physical healing, animal communication, manifestation and many other things.

Our ability to hold a picture in our mind, and to breathe into a particular part of the body, determines our success in our ability to unlock and decode the influential energies around us.

The more we become aware of the energies that surround everything, and the more we work with visualizing them, the more we become able to actually seem them.

For example, after years of smudging my home, I finally became able the see the gray clouds of energetic shmutz that cling in the ceiling corners.

Likewise, after years of doing energetic exercises with my hands – pulling energy between them, rolling it into a ball – I finally began to see the strands of energy with which I was working.

I am amazed at the number of naïve spiritual seekers I meet who describe, in great detail, the things they see. To me, this is often proof of both the veracity of their claims and of the standard visualizations which we are all taught.

It’s easy to believe that the chakra images are based on truth when a person with no prior knowledge of chakras asks me why they see purple light shooting from the heads of some people, or a glowing blue light on particular foreheads.

Some people are naturally gifted with an ability to see energy. Other need to consciously work with energy for a while before they are able to see with their eyes what they have been trained to see with their mind’s eye.

Working with the mind’s eye, that is, visualization and imagination, sometimes feels counter-intuitive, because we want our spiritual work to be real, rather than imagined.

It’s important to remember that the third eye, or brow chakra, is the seat of eyesight, psychic ability, and imagination. It’s impossible to use your psychic awareness, or to work with energy, without using your imagination.

Recently, I’ve notice a connection between tarot and yoga. A lot of great tarotists are enthusiastic yogis. Now that I am becoming enthusiastic about yoga, I wonder how I read tarot for 20 years without it!

I think this connection exists because yoga works with energy, as well as with the physical body. When we engage in psychic work, healing or magick, we are also working with energy and the physical body.

Much of our exploration of energy can be intuitive and accidental. Recently, I realized I always do the same visualization when I want to connect with my Higher Self in divination. I imagine rolling my eyes up and back, so I can see my third eye from the inside. When I do this, I always perceive a bright blue light, and feel a connection to spirit that becomes obvious in the reading.

You might ask if I am imagining that light, or if I am really perceiving the brow chakra. My question is, as long as the psychic connection is made, why does it matter?

Hermetic wisdom teaches “as above, so below”. This is key to the concept of imagery and visualization. If we can spiritually, with our imagination, visualize something into being, it can truly come in to being within the material world.

Energy can be made manifest. Energy can create healing. The more we work with the energies around us, and the more clearly we can visualize them, the abler we become to direct those energies to the purposes of healing, divination and manifestation.

A Quick Guide to Psychic Protection

Who needs psychic protection? Quite possibly, you do!

Regardless of your daily activities, or whether or not you consider yourself to be “psychic”, it is very possible that you are affected by the energy of people around you.

If you are an empath, that is, one who feel the feelings of others without trying, you are especially in need of protection.

If you are a tarot reader, hairdresser, or massage therapist who feels drained after a few clients, you are definitely in need of psychic protection.

Many people refer to their method of psychic protection as a psychic “shield” or a “bubble”. I don’t like either of those images. I call my method of psychic protection a “psychic condom”.  To me, that is the perfect description of what I am creating; the ability to safely interact with people in a loving way.

Try this energy exercise before you leave the house in the morning. Quickly recharge it on your lunch break. If you are a professional diviner, try this short meditation before each client. You’ll find you end your day of readings with more energy that you had when you began.

Start simply by breathing. Focus on your breath, and nothing else. Breathe as deeply and slowly as you can. As you exhale, consciously release worries and tension that aren’t helpful or pertinent.

As you continue to breathe, send energy from your root chakra (base of the spine) down through your legs and into your feet. From your feet, send energy down, through the floor, and into the earth.

Feel your energy dig into the earth and connect to the earth. You are now rooted to the source of your sustenance and support.

Now, breathe energy up from those energetic roots, bringing that energy from the earth into your feet and legs, and then bringing it up your spine and up to the top of your head, your crown chakra.

If you have the time and inclination, you can spend a bit of time with each chakra on your way up, but that is not necessary for the process of protection.

Now, as you breathe, consciously open the crown chakra and send your energy up to heaven. Open yourself to the wisdom, protection and love from your ancestors, loved ones in spirit, guides, guardians and Higher Power.

You are now rooted to the earth and connected to heaven.

Now, bring that energy down and around you. Wrap yourself in that heavenly energy like a cloak.

Focus again on the energy coming up from the earth. Think of the energy leaving the crown chakra. Now, rather than sending it straight up to heaven, picture the top of your head as a fountain from which water flows in all directions. Picture your energy flowing, like water, from your crown chakra, around you in all directions, down to the ground, and then cycling through again, up through your feet, to your head, out, and down into the ground.

The constant flow of energycan continue, even after you begin your regular activities. It’s easy to recharge simply by remember to visualize it.

Once you can feel the energy flowing around you, give it a color that feel protective, and appropriate for the day.

If your daily activities cause you to interact closely with people, it’s also important to remember the following.

You have a limitless supply of energy and protection from the earth and from heaven. You do not need to give of your own energy, or take on anything from another person’s energy.

Think of yourself as a straw, or a conduit. You are able to channel whatever energy you need, and whatever energy you need to give, from an abundant source.

After you have practiced this meditative visualization for a while, you will be able to don your “psychic condom” in just a few moments. The differences you will notice in your daily life, in your energy, patience and sense of well-being, will be dramatic.