Malkuth she'b Hod
הָיום חְַמִשָּׁהה וְשׁלושׁים יָוֹם שֶׁהֵם חְַמִשָּׁהה שָׁבוּעוֹת לָעוֹמֵרֹToday is thirty-five days, which is five weeks of the Omer
Receptiveness in Humility
Dignity is the essence of humility and modesty. The splendour of humility is majestic and noble. Walking humbly is walking tall. Humility that suppresses the human spirit and denies individual sovereignty is not humility at all.
The week of Hod completes itself today, welcoming the tenth sefirah of Malchut. With the sefirah called Kingdom, the cycle is grounded this week. We experience the connection of Light as a channel between the left hip and the base of the spine.
The energy of the Tree that manifests at each sefirah allows that sefirah to reflect the energies of the Whole. Each sefirah is fed by what it receives. However, in addition, each sefirah also has its own Tree—even as this Universe and everything in it is supported by its own Tree of Life—and contributes its own aspect, allowing Creation to unfold “as it should”. In Malchut, the energy of all the sefirot actualise in the world in which we live, and as Malchut is brought into Hod, the lower seven sefirot of the Tree are completed in Hod.
In this journey process, our aim is to balance these seven lower sefirot. In so doing, we create an environment of balanced receptivity.1 The culmination of this part of our journey is to prepare for Revelation at the moment called Sinai, which is the setting for this revelation. We prepare what we can, and trust that the energy of the upper three sefirot will reflect that which we have done. At Sinai, our awareness of the Tree becomes Whole.2 That is the nature, always, of authentic Revelation.
As we complete our work of this week, we can appreciate more than ever the functioning of Hod, the sefirah of perception and sensation, which provides us the forms with which we can have our physical experience. Our greater awareness of this process can provide stability to it. We seek this balance through the steps we take on our journey in the wilderness this year.
Of course, that which holds the key to our growth can also serve to enslave us. Such is the Way of our Universe. Look at and around ourselves now with fuller awareness, our goal is to discern the rightness of what we see, of what we hear and of what we experience. We rejoice that we are able to perceive the realities of the sensations with which we can celebrate our path to wholeness. Let us joyfully bless the One that vibrates with every sensation we experience.
I am Consciousness walking this planet. Through welcoming all my sensations, my being expands with the sense of the Oneness hidden with them. Through my form, I am grateful for all the precious opportunities to experience and express the blessings of Love, Compassion and Vitality.
Reflections
“I am the being through whom the Consciousness of Spirit experiences this reality. With this physical form I carry Spirit into the world. My being expands to receive the Light flowing into me. I endeavour to express this Light in ways that support Life in this world.”
Footnotes
Footnotes
Meaning balance between reception and transmission, producing harmony of force and form. ↩︎
At Sinai is where the Tree becomes truly manifest in the world. In our Jewish story, it manifests as our Torah and all that extends from that. In the Kabbalah, it has emerged as the Tree of Life. Thus today, and on the journey we are taking through the sefirot, we are preparing for the Revelation at Sinai, which is to realise that all that is manifest carries within it a Tree of Life, or in some cases, is part of a larger Tree. ↩︎