As the New Moon in Gemini´s energy lingers this week, we are encouraged to think about what freedom means to us. Freedom is one of those words we throw around a lot, however, I think it’s crucial that we take some time to think about and redefine if necessary what freedom means to us. This blog post wants to challenge your thoughts about what personal freedom means for you and how to achieve it.

I was curious about what Mr Google AI had to say about freedom and found the answer to be true in an intellectual sense, however, it kind of reduces the true meaning and profoundness of the word to the social aspect that seems to be more of a symptom than the true meaning:

´Freedom is generally understood as the state of being free. It can encompass freedom from external constraints or the power to choose one’s own actions. In a broader sense, freedom can refer to political and civil rights, such as the freedom of speech or the freedom of religion. It can also be about a country’s right to self-governance, free from external interference.´

However, AI goes on to break things down a bit more into different aspects of the word freedom, which I found useful in a general sense. At the end of the day, we are looking at what artificial intelligence has to say, and it’s surprisingly (or should I say scarily) good for a starting point.

The more I reflect on what freedom really is and what makes it so important, I get pulled down a rabbit hole and all of a sudden feel a bit lost like Alice in Freedomland. 

Isn’t everything we do wired to achieve freedom in some way?

• We work to gain financial freedom
• We study and learn to develop and understand different perspectives and therefore our intellectual freedom
• We love those that give us emotional freedom – the space to freely express who we truly are without judgement
• We reflect on our inner world to gain freedom from our own inner demons that control our state of mind and the way we are able to progress

The process of gaining freedom is a basic human need we all embrace in one form or another, reflecting the profound importance it has to us as individuals as well as a race.

Freedom ends up consuming everything we do and who we are. We need it like the air we breathe, it’s the engine that keeps us going through the darkest nights and most violent storms of life.

On the other end of the freedom stick sits imprisonment.

Isn’t it funny how you can be in literal prison, deprived of all external freedom, but still feel completely free. 

Martin Luther King Jr was imprisoned 29 times, however, this did not stop him from becoming an icon of the civil rights movement. 

Many of us cannot even imagine what Mr. King went through as we enjoy external freedom in any form or shape possible, however, we are still prisoners of our own mind and perceptions.

Governed by fear, racing thoughts, movies about the worst-case scenarios playing in our heads over and over again, we are stuck in our own perception and self-imposed limitations.

Isn’t this the worst form of imprisonment? The prison you build for yourself and can step out of at any time you wish – but you don´t. You think that you can´t, but isn’t reality that you choose not to every single day?

The most terrifying form of imprisonment

Our modern-time lack of freedom is the most terrifying form of imprisonment as it becomes clear that we actually seem to enjoy being victims of circumstances in some morbus way. Not to blame anyone for their own misery, I´ve been told many times that my way of expressing what I feel and think, is often too direct.

So I apologize, my intention is not to step on anybody’s toes. But I believe that if we are not willing to accept all parts of ourselves, even the ones we put in safety boxes and hid under a bunch of other stuff deep in the darkest corner of our soul, hoping nobody (not even ourselves) will ever find them, we can never achieve true freedom.

The freedom to express ourselves and our dreams and desires in an authentic way. This means not to be ashamed or feel guilt about who we truly are or what we might have done in the past.

It requires knowing yourself on such a profound level, that nothing anyone can say to you will trigger you or make you feel bad. Not because you know you are perfect, but because you understand that once you have accepted even the darkest part of yourself, you don’t owe explanations for who you are to anyone. You realize that not everything is an attack on your person or character. Instead, you know that other people’s behaviors and reactions are coming from their own unresolved shadows and are mere reflections and projections of what they are going through themselves.

This is emotional freedom gained by turning inwards and reflecting on our own inner world partly buried in our subconscious.

Emotional freedom makes way to intellectual freedom. It opens our mind to new perspectives. It teaches us that the things that keep us stuck are coming from our own beliefs and thought patterns that govern everything we do on a subconscious level. That the limits we experience are perceived limitations and not necessarily the truth. 

Once we understand this and make our subconscious conscious, we can choose not to be stuck anymore. We can study, research, learn new things that lead to new experiences and new perspectives.

Do you dare to have a peek at your soul?

Trust me, if you open yourself up to this process, you will find that we are not victims of our circumstances but prisoners of our own mind. A prison we built and therefore can destroy anytime we choose to. 

Let me conclude with the most true statement ever made about the complex and sometimes perplexing psyche of the human mind. Carl Jung, the founder of analytic psychology expresses the essence of freedom in such a complete yet simple way it is mind-blowing:

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

― C.G. Jung

Are you brave enough to embark on the journey of getting to know yourself, start directing your life and cheat your fate?

I know I am, give me a Hell yeah in the comments. I dare you to share the Magickal Connections you discovered that allowed you to catapult yourself into discovering your own true freedom.

With all my love,

Wanda