The sixth day of Omer focuses on the sefirah Yesod, Foundation, in Chesed. Yesod is centred in the loins and represents the ego identity in all its glory and all its limitations.¹. This area of body and this aspect of self are today challenged to open to the energy of Love symbolised by Chesed. The right shoulder and the genitals are connected by a channel of radiant light.

We need the ego to support our survival as a separate entity in the world through which we can express the energies which are available to us. But that ego easily forgets that which gives its existence depth and meaning and imagines it is able to achieve that all by itself, or worse, has achieved it all by itself.²
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Chesed, the sefirah of Lovingkindness, needs Yesod to express its energies in the world, and Yesod needs Chesed to remember the true Nature of its being.
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#tree All the sefirot are interdependent. The world needs all ten to exist. Each sefirah represents an essential aspect of the Creation process, just as each represents an essential aspect of the process of spiritual awakening.

Chesed, reminds the ego, Yesod, of its need for loving connection, so that it might find the balance required for the next stage of our journey. So this day is one of great significance.

All that I am is Blessed by the Divine energies of Life. Even my separateness opens to this blessing, remembering that I am more than I can ever know. This Loving energy awakens every cell of my being, enabling me to perceive with greater clarity the One Whose Presence is everywhere and everything. Knowing that Life flows through all being and acknowledging its presence in all beings, enables me to achieve fuller awareness of myself

Reflections

Footnotes

1. Could the idea of separateness affect the Infinite Oneness? Of course not. However, are we essentially the expression of the One’s “idea” of separateness, and thus we are born with this idea embedded in our (sub)consciousness. Our sages say that that our work in the healing of the World (and perhaps G-d Himself) is to overcome this separateness and experience the place of Union with the Divine Itself. Which in a strange way, reflects the idea of separation, by being the process of return. ↩︎

2. Indeed the ego cannot experience anything that is beyond the ego. One has to reach for some other aspect, some other part of one’s being to become aware of this otherness that is the reason and cause of its very existence. Something that is humbling for this arrogant ego. ↩︎