Beholding Beauty

Well, we're now entering the second half of this extraordinary course in creative manifestation as we move into week seven.

Week Seven's theme constellates around the astrological seventh house, the zodiac sign Libra and the planet Venus. This brings us into contact with the themes of attraction, love and appreciation of our relationships, harmony and beauty.

I found a wonderful quote the other day:

"A person is only beautiful when their own beauty is reflecting onto others."

This really sums up the energy of week seven for me. Week Seven is the week where Aphrodite-Venus, the Goddess of Love, manifests her true beauty. And beauty is one of the watchwords of the week and what a misunderstood thing it is.

If you can behold beauty in your own heart, in your own soul, then you can appreciate beauty in others and in the world. Our impoverished modern western view of beauty is that it is something objective to be striven for, something that exists outside of ourselves - a trophy to be claimed or a rare resource to bought and sold. Beauty has become commodified.

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, they say. This oft misunderstood statement is absolutely correct. Yes, indeed beauty is in the eye of beholder. “The eyes are the window of the soul” they also so and the way that you look at the world, the way that you perceive reflects perfectly the current vibration of your soul. When we consider our own beauty, we often forget this. We imagine how others look at us and we judge our beauty against the beauty of others, and often against some impossible ideal. This week, we are practicing getting in touch with the idea that beauty resides in our own perception. If we look out on the world knowing our own beauty, then beauty will be reflected back to us everywhere we look. Beauty is far from the scarce resource that only a privileged few have access to, as we are continually led to believe. It is abundant in all of creation, an energy which we can draw upon any time we choose. And it always begins with an experience of our own beauty.

So as we as step out this week and feel the beauty within us and feel it pulsing through us, so we naturally raise our vibration of attraction. We become more attractive to those around us and we become more attractive to those experiences that we wish to attract. So by raising our capacity for beauty this week, we are raising our capacity for manifestation. We move into alignment with what we wish to attract and if we can practice consistently holding that vibration that we will naturally draw it into our lives, delivered to us courtesy of The Law of Attraction.

So be as beautiful as you can possibly imagine this week. Feel the power of your attractiveness, of your beauty and share it with the world. For every time you authentically appreciate the beauty in another, you raise the vibration of beauty in yourself. So, go tell your spouse how much you love and cherish them, go tell you mother, father or sibling how much they mean to you. Don't hold back. You are infinitely more beautiful than you give yourself credit for. Share your own beauty with the world.

Love John x