The polarity of Love & Chaos — Allanna Girdwood

I’ve been noticing my thoughts this Libra season are centred around understanding the concept of polarity.

We’ve come out of Virgo season (August 23 - September 22), of decluttering, organising, list making energy. This creates space in our minds for Libra energy - air energy, which is thinking energy.

You may have heard that we live in a world of duality;

Light and Dark

Black and White

Yes or No

Positive and Negative

Yin and Yang.

I’ve always seen these concepts on a spectrum. We have shades of grey in the black and white scale.

Even Tarot works on polarity. If you read reverse cards, we have the upright meaning - one perspective, yet the reverse takes on another, usually opposite meaning. As an example - Page of Swords upright - inexperienced, apprentice, amateur thinking. Yet reversed - perhaps you are more prepared than you think, more established in your beliefs and opinions?

October has been an intense month politically. In Australia we voted in a nationwide referendum. Yes or No - for an Indigenous voice to parliament. Polarity - yes or no.

We’re seeing the conflict between Israel and Palestine broadcasted globally. This particular conflict feels like we are being encouraged to pick a side - division.

And yet, in my life I experience safety, equality, and privilege. The threat of incoming missiles is not a concept in the reality of Australians.

Perhaps we also live in a spectrum on this planet, and the further civilisations across the world move into abundance, happiness and peace, to balance this, somewhere someone else needs to move further into darkness, terror, and suffering.

Why can we not witness abundance on a global scale?

If God/the universe/existence is omnipotent and omnipresent, all powerful and all present - then it is peace, and at the same time it is war.

If God/the universe/existence is Love. It is also Chaos.

Why both?

Libra is the scales of justice, or the scales of balance. To bring into balance we need equal weight on both ends of the scales - as far into Love we go, we need to go into the opposite direction of Chaos.

Why?

Let's start with the purpose of Love and Chaos.

Love - to strengthen us, comfort us, to know we are safe and cared for.

And Chaos? Chaos is change. The only constant in this reality is change. Change is inevitable and this is why we need Chaos.

Chaos is growth.
The universe/God/existence is in constant expansion. The minute non-existence realises itself, it becomes existence, by the very definition of the word. The concepts of good and bad, right and wrong are a humankind creation. The universe only sees an experience. Period.

Chaos is fire energy. Burning something down to create space for something new to come in - The Tower in Tarot. I see this card as the universe intervening in our life. The universe stepping in to bring you back on track, back into balance. Being retrenched at your job may seem bad, wrong, even evil in the moment. But 5 years down the track when you’re working your dream job, would you look back and still see this event in the same negative way?

Let’s look at nature - What happens to the bush in Australia after a fire? New growth. The seed requires the stress and extreme heat of fire to break open, and be nourished by the ashes left behind.

The seed as a concept requires darkness to germinate. And the polarity of light for it to grow towards. It requires the darkness, as motivation to grow, larger and stronger as it expands towards the light. As the plant grows further into the light, its roots extend down further into the darkness to anchor the plant and provide the foundation for it to move further into the light.

I understand now the more I accept the darkness in this world, and the darkness in myself, the further into the Light I can move. Chaos is a motivational force.

The candle shines the brightest in a dark room.

To desire something deeply we must first experience the lack of it. The desire for money implies we do not already have the money. The desire for a loving partner implies we do not already have that depth of love. Absence of something creates the drive to move towards that which we desire. This is growth at its very core.

Did not the Buddha choose to leave the comforts of his kingdom, to venture into the real world and witness suffering? Could he have reached enlightenment if he stayed within his princely privilege?

The chaos in this world provides us with the polarity of how sweet love can feel. The chaos gives us the push towards love. This push is our drive, our direction, our movement in life. It is our growth. And above all, the universe seeks growth.

And what is the outcome from this Love / Chaos polarity ?

Where is the ideal destination?

Where are we trying to reach?

Neutrality - smack bang in the middle. Neutral territory.

Where we do not delegate human concepts to an event anymore because it just is. Think of the animal kingdom, where death is a natural part of life. We do not prescribe good/bad concepts to an animal killing its prey.

It is just the natural cycle of life.