“There’s no nobility in poverty” doesn’t mean that there is nobility in wealth.
Neither are inherently noble. Money is amoral. Poverty and wealth both just describe a situation. And almost all situations are impermanent.
Your current money situation is impermanent. Depending on where you are, that statement can be a blessing or a curse. It feels like financial stability is a commodity and comes in limited amounts, so we’re all just scrambling for what stability we can find and those of us who have stability are scrambling to keep it.
I want to say two conflicting things here: one, that we can hop out of that scramble any time we want because stability is merely a feeling and therefore cannot exist in finite amounts, and even though money exists in finite amounts, that doesn’t mean there will never be enough to make you feel safe. Two, can we consider that ‘stability’ is kind of a farce, in the natural laws of the universe and in our lives, and that since our money situation is impermanent and always changing, that means there are always opportunities to create more feelings of safety instead?
Stability is a goalpost that constantly gets moved, for a lot of us. Perhaps the reason we never feel we achieve true stability is because what we should actually be seeking is safety. Nothing is truly stable, everything is always in transition. There’s always some growth or decay (or both) happening, at all times. So then, why do we expect money to act that way?
Maybe your finances will always be in flux, but that doesn’t have to mean your safety is in flux, too. There’s an obvious minimum of flow that needs to be achieved for base-level safety and just having your needs consistently met, but then there’s a level of flow that feels safe for you. And even that can fluctuate.
Combining the practical and the magical in this sense means formulating a tactical approach to your real life finances, getting vulnerable and getting your hands dirty, using magic to transform your fear, and consulting with the universe for grounded clarity. It means you, in whichever medium or language feels most authentic, boldly declaring the universe and every being inside of it as your co-conspirators in safety and play and creation and flow. It means looking at the parts of your financial life that you don’t want to acknowledge, the things you’ve pushed into corners, and bringing them into the light with compassion, bursting down any walls of shame that attempt to rise up.
I want so badly for you to have a relationship with money that is based on safety. Is that a noble cause? I don’t think so. Safety is our birthright, receiving is our birthright, creating in tandem with all forces that surround us is our birthright. You aren’t a lone force in the universe, putting thoughts and actions in and getting money and accomplishments out of it like an ATM.
Do you realize how freeing this is, when you release any shame you’ve been holding about not being ‘good at money’ or ‘good at manifesting’ or ‘good at thinking’? Co-creation doesn’t just mean everyone gets what they want. Forces like racism and capitalism and exploitation and violence are also co-creating reality with the rest of us. Capitalism traumatizes us in ways that nobody would ever ask for or ‘manifest’ into their life. When we stop viewing manifestation as something that is done alone and start noticing all the ways in which it is something done collectively, then maybe we can stop feeling so bad about not being able to ‘capture our thoughts’ and remain ‘high vibe’ all the time.
When we can stop placing the onus on ourselves to ‘heal’ our thoughts in solitude so that we then may ‘heal’ our bank accounts so that we may eventually achieve the almighty ‘stability,’ then we can start navigating, with compassion, the roots of our shame around money. When we step down from the cerebral, unseen realm of manifestation and get into the tangible, material realm of your actual money, then we can enact some real changes that can be seen and felt in the body, not just the mind, as you journey through your new relationship with safety.
You will never be fully ‘healed’ or arrive at ‘safety’ as an endpoint. But you can renew your relationship with safety and allow it to become one of the major co-creating forces in your life, replacing shame and guilt and constant scarcity. We do not have control over all of the forces in the universe or on our little planet, but we do get to decide which forces are invited to sit in our passenger seat while we navigate our reality.
