You Are Being Initiated Right Now

What You Need To Know To Move Through It Gracefully

Initiation: A Rite Of Passage Into Your Next Evolutionary State

I recently watched the YouTube series Hellier because I heard it was about people having an initiation; and as a transformational shaman, I’m all about initiations. And the cast of Hellier is being initiated. They are mid-initiation as Season 2 closes. And, right now, the WORLD is mid-initiation which is why this series is resonating so clearly with people even outside of its typical genre.

But what does that mean? What does it mean to be initiated?

We have some points of reference to this.

When we get married, we are being initiated from the state of being of single-dom into the state of marriage. And ask anyone who has gotten married — they had no idea what they were in for.

This is because getting married changes things. Just the act of planning the ceremony brings conflict between the partners to a head. Seeing what we can and can’t agree upon only heightens the stress of considering if we are making a good decision to get married in the first place. It brings into play unconscious beliefs on the parts of both partners that will impact the relationship. Marriage also has its own morphic field (energy) that impacts everyone who enters it — for good and bad.

This is how initiation works. We are taken from a known, comfortable state and moved into a new state of being — one in which we cannot possibly know what to expect, no matter how many people have told us about their experiences. Ours will, by the nature of the process, be unique. And it will change us. We will literally become someone new.

In shamanism, we call this a shamanic death — where a part of us dies and is replaced by another, updated version of us. And that part is our identity — who we believe ourselves to be. Some shamanic deaths are small — like getting a driver’s license. It’s a test followed by a shift in life circumstances (we can now borrow Mom’s car), but for most of us, we feel pretty much the same as a person.

Others are huge — like becoming a parent or the death of a parent. These can fundamentally shift the way we see ourselves and the world around us.

I skipped a part of the process in my description above. It’s the anticipation stage. The one where we know we are taking a journey and we are left alone to sit with that knowledge and to allow it to sink into our beingness. We are left alone with our thoughts and told to contemplate who we want to be in the future, who we have been in the past, what we need to change in order to become the new person we are envisioning, and what we anticipate will get in the way. We are left alone with our thoughts. And our fears. And our excitement. And the endless possibilities of what?could?be. This is where we were in the midst of the quarantine lockdowns collectively. The entire world was in the pregnant pause that precedes an initiation.

What are we being initiated into? I have no idea. I’m in it with you. And one thing that is consistent about initiation is that we never know where we are going. Initiation requires a leap of faith. It is literally represented in the Tarot as The Fool stepping off the cliff.

But we do have a choice. We can choose who we become. And we can take this time to reflect on who we’ve been and how we have been taken out of our power in the past. This is the key to true self-determination — the keeping of our power.

Keeping our power requires:

1. Having our power in the first place (not blaming others for our circumstances or allowing ourselves to play the victim — this hands our power to the person we are blaming or putting in the role of the perpetrator).
2. Holding onto our awareness of truth — not allowing ourselves to be gaslit about what is. But this also has to be balanced with a willingness to change our perspective on things — to see that truth in a new light — in order to complete our initiation.
3. Surrendering instead of giving up. We are out of control. There’s no arguing it. We are doing what we can, but much of what is happening is out of our hands. If we are honest about this, there are only two options: throwing our hands up and giving up our power along with our sense of control, or surrendering to the process?in the faith?that it is taking us somewhere we need to go. In this way, we hold onto our power as we accept our lack of control. Faith that everything will be as it is meant to be is the key to the difference between these two states.

OK, so we admit that we don’t know where we’re going. We choose who we want to be in the days to come. We tap into our power and do what we can to hold onto it. Now what? Now we work on what is in the way inside of us to become the person we want to be. We do our personal work.

Because initiations aren’t pretty. They are taxing and exhausting and overwhelming and they can often rip away things that we weren’t expecting to have to do without, sometimes leaving gaping wounds where our comfort zones used to be. So the last thing we need to be dealing with on the other side of an initiation is our own inner demons that we avoided dealing with when we had the time. Those inner demons will be dragging at our heels and holding us back from our new life if we don’t exorcise them now.

It’s time to get real with ourselves. It’s time to go within. It’s time to turn and look at the things we’ve been running from so we can bring them down to size and finally deal with them. It's time to be honest with ourselves about what we REALLY want and what we really don't want and then bite the bullet and make the change.

We've stepped out of contemplation and are now ready to take action.

If you've been waiting for a sign - this is it. It's time.

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Kelle Sparta is a Transformational Shaman specializing in helping empaths build lives and businesses they can love. She is also the host of the popular?Spirit Sherpa Podcast . If you are an empath and you’re having trouble separating yourself from other’s emotions, download her free?Boundaries for Empaths program . You can find out more about Kelle at?www.KelleSparta.com .