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What if I told you that there is a way to go to sleep at night not dreading that your professional career is not where it should be, that your songs don’t have enough streams, or that your new post does not have enough likes for it to seem “successful”? And the way is knowing who you are! We all come to this world and will eventually leave; in some weird way, our days are counted! We could spend our whole life not realizing that we have our own path and unique abilities that will allow us to walk and shape that path beautifully. Many lessons lie ahead, and it would not be “an easy ride,” but as soon as you realize that you can also access the tools that will guide you towards connecting with your higher self and transmuting the energy that is around you, it all starts feeling like it’s worth the ride.

One of the best tools that has helped me understand my path was getting a professional astrologer to read my birth chart. I have an astrological placement in which Chiron (an asteroid that represents “the wound we come with to this world”) and Mars (the planet of action and ambition) are both placed in the same house, related to my tribe or close community. This “Chiron Complex” has allowed me to understand that I have the ability to act as a wounded healer. This symbolizes that in my path, the way to expand and achieve my goals will require me to actively heal my community.

There was a point in my life where I felt the whole world turn on me. I had to heal that belief and understand that there is a bigger system actively working to shut down non-ordinary states of consciousness that led me to receive psychiatric treatment that felt like it was trying to erase me. To this day, I have to override and reprogram myself not to believe many of the things that tried to be pushed onto me. I felt alone and lost for a time. The life I was supposed to live, according to doctors, would have been pale and slow. Something that became a beautiful and strong force that brought me back to life was getting to see my friends again. Every time I saw one of them, they were keeping a piece of me, and through our stories and memories, they helped me put myself back together again. That time in my life really taught me who my true friends are. And it also helped me filter and trust new people that came into my life because they gave me the safe space to upgrade myself, and I will be forever grateful for that.

When I reflect on the context where many of these events took place, I cannot skip the fact that the place I grew up in is a case study of its own. When I explain this to my international friends, I say, “I grew up in a tiny oasis inside a slightly bigger oasis.” I was raised in a side of society that has been tightly sealed through generations, establishing countless tacit roles, behaviors, and patterns to show that “you belong.” On top of that, I was raised by two parents who strictly rejected partaking and the passing of these rules onto me. Every time I walked through the door, I would have to leave all of these mechanisms behind and understand that they would take you far in the social game but not at home. I think this critical view on the social world that was around me made me develop a bird’s-eye view on society, seeing it as a board game or play. I understand how that can be off-putting for some people. But I believe that because of this, I am able to detach from it easily.

Anyone who is part of society can fall into its traps, because we are not really taught to understand it, just to comply. We don’t realize how long-term blind compliance comes with the downside of allowing yourself to be programmed to serve the desired outcome of all of the forces that have their grip on shaping and maintaining society to their will, like religion, capitalism, and institutions. One of the texts that I have heavily studied in the past years is “The Kybalion,” attributed to the teachings of the great Hermes Trismegistus (I’m a big fan). When faced with the topic of humanity having free will, this is what it has to say:

“The majority of people are carried along like the falling stone, obedient to environment, outside influences and internal moods, desires, etc., not to speak of the desires and wills of others stronger than themselves, heredity, environment, and suggestion, carrying them along without resistance on their part, or the exercise of the Will. Moved like the pawns on the checkerboard of life, they play their parts and are laid aside after the game is over. But the Masters, knowing the rules of the game, rise above the plane of material life, and placing themselves in touch with the higher powers of their nature, dominate their own moods, characters, qualities, and polarity, as well as the environment surrounding them and thus become Movers in the game, instead of Pawns—Causes instead of Effects. (Causation, The Kybalion)”

By sharing this, I would really want to spare anyone I know from having to live through an experience like the one I lived. But for that to happen, we all need to start being more vigilant and aware of all of these mechanisms that are around us. We cannot keep on living oblivious to the fact that if we allow things to keep looping, we are losing a lot. If you are reading this by now, you have noticed that this goes way beyond the pretty pictures I’ve taken. And there is much more coming!

Till' next time - Geronimo

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