The fifth week of our counting finds us at Hod, the space called Glory, the place of form which receives the vibrational force from Netzach. Hod is experienced at the left leg, on the left side of the Tree of Life. Hod represents physical form, understood through our sensations and perception, and so is the seat of special delights and special dilemmas in our experience of ourselves and the world.

We become enmeshed in our perceptions and our sensations. Nothing supports our proclivities for judgement quite so naturally. We are part of a society which continually evaluates us according to certain standards, on the level of shape and size. Who among us is free from such self-evaluation? In this world of form, how often do we experience ourselves as either “too much” or “too little”, rather than “just right?”

Yet without such comparisons, we cannot exist. At each level of form on the Tree, the issues are the same. So we seek to discover the ways to utilise our limits in the service of growth and evolution.

Today we bring Chesed into Hod. The channel of light flows from the right shoulder to the left hip. We brings the sefirah of Lovingkindness into the sefirah of Perceptual Form. In this connection we seek to bless Hod with the energies that support its finest and fullest forms.

With Chesed in Hod, we open ourselves to reflect the deep Lovingkindness that provides profoundly healing energies. We seek to perceive reflections of that Lovingkindness today. We seek to sense the presence of that freely-flowing source of Life.