Waiting for the Open Palm

By Hunter Reynolds, on June 30th, 2023

THE WORLD is brimming with birth charts whose style of awakening is to mature into some kind of self-inquiry coach. It has always been so. Some beings wake up in the throes of catalyzing self-discovery in others.

What happens when said soul incarnates into a witness-parched society entranced by ego-hardening belief and role play? Who will help these fledgling counselor-priests round the corner from self-conscious “knower” to shiny soul-mirror?

From whom will they learn to palpate and soften egoic positionality, waiting for the teachable moment, the pregnant pause, when rival knowers dissolve and a life-changing pointer is placed, without fanfare, into an open palm?

Perhaps this is what makes satsang teachers on Youtube so attractive. Yes, there is the dharma and meditative transmission. That’s important. But even more compelling, I suspect, is the chance to behold a being “beginner’s mind” enough to lure other souls out of their me-story caves into luminous communion.

Intentionally or not, these mass marketed satsang teachers are offering millions of under-eldered communion coaches a template for how they, too, might step out of the me-story matrix and develop their own soul-mirroring expertise.

Thank god for online satsang. It’s one of the blessings of the internet, providing a much-needed running start.

But for a budding, full-time soul-mirror, it’s insufficient.

Soul-mirroring happens spontaneously, by grace. But there are intuitive skills that make us vulnerable to this grace. Many of these skills require an on-the-spot repatterning of egoic speech patterns, guided by a mentor. I call this, “Communion Coaching.”

For most people, personhood is no different than a belch. It erupts instinctively, haunted by some degree of empathic failure.

Enter astrology: the ancient karmic template designed to help us witness and manage ego before it flops out in front of us. No system, better than astrology, describes our unique style of inducting others into timeless Presence, provided we do the work of breaking free of inherited archetypal bias and automation.

Only then, can we affirm the beauty of every stage of the journey from person, to presence to awareness of even that.

Not everyone is meant to become a teacher or life coach, but we all need to learn the art of meditative relating!

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