Redefining Sacrifice

In the new paradigm of awakening, we are called to a fuller reclaiming of our innocence- a return to our wholeness through the integration of All We Are as we organically stretch and grow into a greater experience of ourselves- connected, inspired, attuned and alive. 

In this light, I find myself examining old notions of experience and reassigning new meaning to things that have long held an energy of disempowerment or distortion of the light of truth, the light of love. One such notion, the notion of sacrifice is illuminated for me as one of those where the light and power of its truth somehow became gnarled and over the many years of our collective history became a shadow on the hearts of human experience. 

While our collective history offers us example after example of sacrifice as a stripping or taking away of something we value or hold dear, the origin or roots of sacrifice can be traced back to a spiritual practice in which something of value was offered in order to restore ‘right relationship’ of a human being to the sacred order, or more accurately stated, experience of Self as sacred. 

The word sacrifice is derived from the Latin word sacrificium which is comprised of the words sacer, meaning ‘to set apart from the secular in order to be made available for the use of supernatural powers’ and facere which means ‘to make’. Despite its roots in divinity, through the course of human history, sacrifice became a notion of either giving out of a sense of obligation or an act of being stripped of something or someone in order to satisfy the needs, wants or beliefs of another. 

In this time on the planet of accelerated growth, expanding consciousness and a return to a greater remembrance of our divine nature, we are called to reclaim these notions, to shine light where shadow has been dominant so that we might remember ourselves anew. 

What if we assigned new meaning or rather returned to the origin of the word sacrifice as a means to deepen our experience with the divine, our experience of Self as the divine? This moment in time implores us to reach for change- this moment right NOW offers us the opportunity to choose from our most empowered experience what it is we desire to lay down or sacrifice in order to more fully step into our next experience of Self. When we choose to lay down or to sacrifice outdated thought forms, judgements, old beliefs, unresolved emotional experiences, in so doing we are led home to our greatest liberation, more fully aligned with exactly who we’ve come here to be.

From here until the New Moon on February 4th, I am called to fast with the waning moon as a reclaiming of the notion of sacrifice- purifying and offering healing to any and all times sacrifice has been used as a means of stripping something away from Self or other. This fast for me is a reflection of a sacred reclaiming as I lay down the shadow of outdated notions of sacrifice in honor and devotion to knowing myself in the light of my innocence and divinity and as a fuller claiming of who I am here to be. I invite you to join me. Not in fasting, but rather in defining what it is in your life that you are ready to lay down. What is it that no longer serves you that you would choose to sacrifice in order to reclaim your expanding sense of Self as connected, inspired, aligned and alive?

I delight in witnessing your empowered sacrifice, should you chose to embrace this opportunity.