Seize the Fire | Catherine Viel

By Catherine Viel, July 8, 2023

(Golden Age of Gaia)

July 7, 2023

Tyger Tyger, burning bright…
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
~William Blake, The Tyger



It feels like I’ve inadvertently hooked into an underlying wrath permeating the world. The depth and intensity of fury that sometimes rolls over me like a rogue ocean wave is all out of proportion to annoying life circumstances.

I accept that negativity gets stirred up when working through individual or ancestral emotional dross. We’ve all got stuff. And some of us may be processing negativity on behalf of the human collective, too.

But Tuesday, which was Independence Day in the United States, brought to mind the men who founded this nation. The men who gave their lives to secure freedom in perpetuity for American citizens.

My wrath was so vast and deep, it didn’t feel like just my emotions, or even the collective’s. Which led me to wonder how wrathful our founding fathers might be feeling, contemplating the crumbling foundations of the freedom they established.

If their spirits still watch over America, it’s no wonder it feels like there is a river of fury, running wide and deep under this vast country of mine.

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Perhaps I’m merely trying to excuse an extremely bad mood, or turn it into a poetic story. Or perhaps this river of fury is as real as the sky above my head and the Earth beneath my feet.

Emotions have weight, depth, and volume, which, like the wind, can be measured by effects upon surroundings. The tactile evidence shows up in how humans, or animals, or plants, reflect the emotions running through us. Fistfights break out, normally peaceable animals squabble viciously, marriages dissolve, all on the crested wave of supremely negative, uncontrollable emotion.

I don’t think anyone would deny that humans excel at over-the-top emotions. Third-density Earth is said to create a fertile environment for jockeying our way through our emotional experiences, lifetime after lifetime, millennium after millennium.

Navigating powerful negative emotions feels like facing off with tigers. The emotion, the tiger, is not domestic. It takes courage to step into the arena with a beast that can kill you if you take one unwary step.

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Wild animals and wild emotions are not tame or biddable. Perhaps the best I can do is to partner with the wildness if it shows up again, negotiate that explosive emotion into a manageable space.

I’m looking forward to the day when there are no more tigers to tame. The ancient negative emotions are all processed, and no new negativity floods in to replace them. The karmic wheel has been dismantled for humans, at least here on Earth, and nobody plans to crank it up again anytime soon.

I’m looking forward to the Fifth Dimension, too, where instead of battling a tiger, I invite it to tea, rather like Tigger, and we sip lapsang souchong from delicate bone china and nibble on teatime delicacies. Perhaps the dragon will stop by, too, and we can contemplate the peaceful garden in companionable silence, glad we are friends, and that the battles are behind us.