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THE FIRST HARMONIC: METAL
Emotion
= GRIEF
Archetypal Personality = Architect,
Engineer, Mathematician
Purpose = builds structure, brings order
Season: FALL (August 5 to November 5)
Time of day: 3AM TO 7AM
ORDER
STRUCTURE
RULES
LETTING GO
TRUST
COMMUNICATION
INDIVIDUALIZED EXPRESSION
THOUGHT AND INTELLECT
Body
Language: Spine, low back, wrists, colon, skin,
lungs, sinuses
Addictions:
Cigarettes, Gambling, Cheating, Perfectionism
Metal
governs the beginning of our journey. In Metal, we start with a
framework, a structure, a map of what it means to be born a human
being in 3D on Planet Earth. That framework is made of rules - the
rules of our culture, our family, and our world. Metal governs the
years from birth until puberty, where we move around experimenting,
testing, pushing, questioning, and drawing conclusions about how
our world works. Metal is the foundation upon which we build our
life.
Metal oversees logic and deduction, theory, structure and reason.
The mind is ruled by Metal, and thought is its medium. Structures
are created using the filters we are given by our tribe. Filters
are lenses through which we view life. Each culture, each family,
each group will have different filters. These filters help us focus
on what our tribe believes is important as well as the goals our
tribe encourages us to achieve. Structures are important because
they create channels. It is far easier to move through an established
channel than it is to build a new one. This is one reason why, when
we reject our parent’s structures early in life, we often
find ourselves back in those same structures later in life.
We must understand structure before we can change it. If we reject
structure without understanding it, we will be drawn back to it
over and over again. Structures are necessary to contain the creative
energy and help direct the flow of action. This is why many people
spend years reading, learning and deciding on a set of beliefs before
they can commit to action.
Structures are built through consistent behaviors. School is a structure.
Work is a structure. Going to the gym is a structure. Our lives
are made up of structures that overlap and compliment each other.
When we have too many structures to support with integerity, our
lives begin to break down. We lose our energy, or our enthusiasm
for what we are doing. We like structures because we can build upon
them, but there is a tendency to push them into the unconscious
and continue with them regardless of how we feel about them. This
is where the element of Water can erode our structures away.
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“A structure
is any relation between entities that avoids dissolving. Structures
will dissolve both from success and failure, so the problem,
if you want a structure, is to maintain a tension somewhere
between the two”
- Thaddeus Golas
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