You are Confused between a Higher Will and Your Will
Rejoice that your will and the Higher Will are one. Learn to interpret and direct the impulses of the Higher Will and you will enjoy the beauty of creation.
You have chosen this card because you either struggle to understand the obstacles on your path or you are experiencing difficulty making a decision. You are confused about making the right choice, Divine Will, Divine plan and life purpose. Are you on the right track or are you stuck because you are learning spiritual lessons? People often look to spiritual guidance to clarify their situation or help them to make a decision. Is a Higher Will or your will in charge?
The joy of creation is that you and a Higher Will are both in the driving seat. Both are important and each serves a different function. Your will is your imagination, which initiates a path of growth to create what you have visualised. The Higher Will acts as an organising power orchestrating all of the components required through the imaginations, impulses and actions of all people, and coordinating all of their efforts. Your will forms part of the Higher Will. There is interplay of energy between your will and a Higher Will. Your will and its individual path of creation are woven into the larger fabric of the Higher Will’s process of creation.
As such, everything you do is part of a bigger picture that fits perfectly together with others. People are like blood cells. Each cell functions individ-ually to carry oxygen, nutrients and hormones throughout the body – and together they create a fully functioning whole. The brain acts as the Higher organising power of the body, directing each of the blood cells to where it is needed. When the body is damaged, the brain will direct the blood to a wound to clot and protect the body. Humans, similar to blood cells, function independently with the ultimate and true task of being part of the whole. The Higher Will is an impulse that works through individuals in growth and expansion. The individual will is present from the moment of birth and aligns with this Higher Will. In all cases the will is forward pointing; it is the impulse towards creation and integration to the whole.
In choosing this card there is confusion about your will and the Higher Will. The confusion is around who is in charge. This plays out through the simplest to the most complex decisions determining which person gets their way, makes the decisions and determines the outcome of events. Sometimes the battle of wills is posed through an undercurrent between you and a friend/boss asking the question, ‘Is it my way or your way?’ As a child your parents were in charge and so you followed the will of your parents; their rules, their wills. The key is: there is a chain of command. For those who have a religious connection, they find that the love in their religion makes this chain of command comforting. The rules are easy as there is no resistance. The will of a Higher Being based in love becomes the highest standard to aspire to and to act upon. Others do not have this relationship and their will has not moved from the will of authority in their childhood life. Whoever exerted their will is still now in place. This could be a parent, a bully, an organisation that says that their rule of will is more important than your own will.
Individual will is distorted in childhood
We learn to channel our will early in childhood through the process of setting boundaries. A child has impulses beginning at birth and the impulses are towards growth. So if a child is wilful they simply want their own way. However, a child will only be wilful from a certain viewpoint, from their perspective. They want to stay up late, to be exploratory and fulfil their curiosity. They might wish to eat sweets. They live for the moment, entirely immersed in their life. Their will reflects both living in the moment and in their eyes a forward direction, a signal. In the parents’ eyes, they want the child to go to bed and to establish some boundaries. The parent and child may engage in a battle of wills. It is either the child’s living for the moment or the responsible parent setting boundaries. In the end, with healthy parenting, the child learns what their boundaries are. Once the boundaries are set they are able to form a relationship with their core self and in this process they learn to channel their will in a healthy form.
For some, however, the submission of will becomes apparent in that the establishment of boundaries is from one direction only; one person – the child or the parent – is winning the battle. If the child wins they will have no boundaries. If the parent wins the child will never learn its own boundaries and therefore never develops a sense of self. The child’s sense of self can only be formed in relationship to that other boundary formed by the person in authority. In either case, the person who wins is placed in that outside position of authority and they meet the boundary of the other person not their own. So in choosing this card you tussle between your Higher Will and your own will because you have placed the will of others in the place of the Higher Will. You have no boundaries and are no longer connected to Source, and therefore there is no flow.
The journey is to connect to your own will and therefore the Higher Will. But with no boundaries in place you can only go back to the will that is intact, which is the will of the child. The child’s will is only focused on their whims and impulses and these – in the adult – have become destructive. It is the child who looks for pleasure, but an adult operating from this child place looks for this through repetitive behaviours that give them immediate sensory satisfaction, such as eating, drinking, excessive anger (emotion) or gambling, and so on. They are ultimately looking for the sensation that will connect them to their true Source (identity) through experiences that will help them feel alive.
The child is running the show in these cases. As a child they are not able to take responsibility for their decisions. They make choices and say, ‘Well Spirit told me to do this. I am following my guidance’. They struggle to move beyond what the guidance is because they cannot assess what is right for them. With no foundation of self they live by following the information from others, other people’s needs, other people’s ideas, the voice of the parent or authority figure that has been internalised to guide them. This is chaotic. They say, Spirit told me to do something that their common sense might have told them otherwise, and so they feel let down and get really angry at Spirit.
The process of healing this distortion of the submissive will is by the establishment of the individual’s boundaries. It is through the simplest measure of all to ask a question, ‘Who am I?’. In that question is both an answer and a journey. The second step is to remove the artificial boundaries placed by the authority figure so that the person can understand who they truly are. In this way they will connect to the Higher Will and be in alignment with their individual will.
How your will is connected to others through the Higher Will
To feel confident about your own choices is to understand that you are many things at one time. For instance, a fossil is both a rock and the imprint – evidence – of life millions of years ago. It exists as a rock in current day but it is also a link to the past. As an adult, you desire to give expression to your artistic self after experiencing as a child a family that rejects this aspect of you. Instead of creating a self that rejects what your family represents, accept that the family fossil in your mind is a part of what gives you your creative life. You’re deepest wish is to go back to Source and experience flow down the river of life. Creating this foundation of self will allow you the freedom to act within purpose.
You can now go back to your dreams and accept that they are part of the Higher Will. Each dream you have links you to other people’s dreams. Think of pebbles dropped into a pond. All ripples in the water interact with each other. In healing the inner child you become aware that you are (and have always been) part of a chain reaction full of everyone’s dreams, hopes and emotional growth. Every person has to untangle a knot of mental, emotional and spiritual challenges along the chain, so no wonder it has taken longer than you expected to get to your destination. Trust that any delay in your dreams is perfectly timed. Your goal fits together independently and as part of the whole. The consciousness of the group expands when each person on the chain has worked through each of their challenges. Don’t worry about delays. Think about the common purpose – the links of the chain of people. Even though you don’t always know your co-workers the fun bit is that the desire or growth is the same point of contact for everyone.
If you are struggling to make a decision and feel there is a conflict between what you want and what Spirit wants, tune into the deepest part of yourself to make your decision. The rule of thumb is to do what you want to do because it is your journey. Decide what best represents you.
The key to this card is to trust that what you have decided or want will be organised at the highest level because you are part of the Higher Will. If something doesn’t happen it may be that you were not as fully committed to the outcome as you thought or that your Higher Self is truly protecting you. If things do not work out, does this really reflect the Divine Will or what you have felt all along? If you made choices that were not in your best interest observe what you have learned. Divine Will is based on unity. Love between self and others is constantly expanding and adjusting to both.
Your bigger picture is encoded inside you. Do your bit and the universe will deal with the rest.
