Number: 10

Symbol: Decad or Tetraktys,
Kabbalistic Tree of Life
Sound/Music
reference: Chromatic change
Quote: "A real
leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune." - Anon
Song: Ch-ch-ch-changes- David Bowie
A Change Will Do You Good- Cheryl Crow
Revolution – The
Beatles
REVOLUTION
EVOLUTION
EVOL mirror image
of LOVE

Round and Round We Go
Do you recall the episode of the Brady Bunch when Peter and his family sang the song It’s Time to Change because his voice
kept cracking as he reached puberty? Well, the Brady’s were offering us Fools
an important metaphysical message: The world need not change…only you do.
Change your mind, and your view of the world changes and evolves.
The number 10 represents the duality of completion and
change. The 10th card of the Tarot is called the Wheel of Fortune.
No, this isn’t the kind of wheel where you buy a vowel from Vanna White. This
Wheel is the wheel of fate or karma, and it had a significant message for me:
Change is inevitable. To push against the wheel of change is to push against
the flow of life, for all things are constantly in a state of flux.
If all things in the universe are in a state of vibration
and change, then the spinning Wheel represents motion, and the ups and downs of
our lives. When the wheel makes one full turn, it is called a revolution. If a
society engages in a Revolution, the desired outcome is always change: A change
in political leader, government, or social reform. I am posting these blogs
because I want to do my part to help change the consciousness or evolve Foolkind.
But change is the ego’s nemesis, and I discovered that the hard way on my rock 'n 'roll bus
tour.
I Won’t, I Won’t, I
Won’t Change! You Can’t Make Me!
My ego wanted nothing to do with the writing of the book. “Who
are you to write a book, you Fool. No way are you putting these loco concepts
out there about spirituality and rock music. You’ll get persecuted, humiliated,
and everyone will hate you.” A bit dramatic, isn’t it? Our ego’s job is to
protect us from being hurt and feeling pain, so it detests transformation and
creates major illusions and excuses so that you don’t change because it equates
change with pain. It’s kind of a self-perpetuating loop of hell. But listening
to rock music helped fortify my spine, so that little by little, I could begin
to bitch slap my ego’s fears. The intense desire to put the messages I was uncovering
into the world forced me to change my old beliefs about myself, but man, my ego
fought me every step of the way. I have the claw marks to prove it.
Okay, Well, Maybe
I’ll Change Just a Little Bit…
You see, while I was doing my research on group reincarnation,
for some reason I was drawn to writing about my childhood. After several
months, I noticed themes from my childhood that were occurring in my life NOW.
It was like a parallel existence, except I was twenty or thirty years older. I
wrote about feeling ostracized and tormented by other kids as a 12-year-old because of my appearance at that age, and those emotions began to creep back
after twenty five years. I had a looming fear of rejection pop up whenever I
thought of meeting the band, and the same knot I felt in my stomach as a kid
would surface. It made absolutely no sense intellectually. But our heart is not
concerned with intellect and thinking. It’s interested in emotions and feelings
and purging old ones that no longer serve us.
I
pushed aside this strange reaction for years, until one night I saw Cheap Trick in
concert from the second row and my ego was totally triggered. The music which
generally connected me with joy, acted as a catalyst for suppressed emotions
from my teenage years that night. It triggered the feelings of rejection and rage
in a powerful way. Once I understood I was transferring my fear and anger onto
the band because they energetically represented the kids who taunted me in 7th
grade, I could begin to heal and change my old beliefs. Rock ‘n’ Roll as psychotherapy. Who would have
ever imagined?
Evolution
What
do you think will happen to our civilization if we don’t heal and change our
current perceptions? Your ego might tell you to let everyone else change…you’re
perfect just as you are. If you’ve reached enlightenment, perhaps no change or
growth is necessary. But for the rest of us Fools, our motto might be: Evolve
or face extinction. LOVE backwards is EVOL:
The beginning of evolve and evolution. Love is Evolution, and Evolution
is Love. It is the divine force that says, “As eternal beings we can never be
finished or complete; that’s why we are eternal! Love what is, because it’s
time to change!”
Sound of the
Day-Musical reference- Chromatic Change
Fools might be sloths when it comes to change, but
fortunately in music, chromatic changes are fairly common and far less painful.
A chromatic change or modulation is when you create a harmonious passage from
one key to another in a song. Like going from the key of C to the key of A#. To
shift keys in your life, you’ve got to trust and surrender to the process. When
we change our old destructive patterns and beliefs, and replace them with new,
more life affirming ones, in essence it’s like we’ve shifted to a higher
octave.