Tiferet of Tiferet, or, the day you are called to show up in the world, fully as the rockstar you are! Today is the 17 day of the Omer, which is 2 weeks and 3 days of the Omer. So, the question for you during this season of the Counting of the Omer is, what’s wholeness to you, and what’s keeping you from getting there? Can you use the ancient biblical practice of numbering off these first days of spring to plant seeds of wholeness? Can you water them every day, by counting that day and making it count, so that when the first fruits festival arrives, it can be you who is harvested? This is the week we look for Her face in all things, and in ourselves. We’ve climbed the inner ladder to find the Goddess Herself awaiting us there. Our journey is going to come together next week, with the Divine union of spiritual and physical, but to get there, we get to spend the week honoring the yearning all creatures feel for connection. This is the week of fire and of feeling our sexual power. This is the week for deep inner beauty, as Hod is all about humility and finding the courage to ask for help when we need it. This is the week of wrestling with our egos, of feeling the ways that we are finite and the ways that we are limitless, an important step in claiming our power. This is the week to say “Hineni - Here I am, world.” I walk with love, I know my limits, and I’m here on a mission. This is the week that you work the power of setting limits and knowing just how and when it’s time to say “no.” What it would it feel like to look at your life through the lens of love, to just love it all, no matter what? To support us on our way, the 16th century Kabbalists offered a special intention for each week, each inspired by one of the sefirot or attributes of the Divine. When we count the omer, we count seven sets of seven, each week building on the one before, like a spiral staircase, helping us to make the climb up to wherever it is that revelation happens for us. Harvest festivals last seven days, and a baby boy gets seven days in the world before undergoing circumcision. When the priests get the tabernacle ready to be God’s house, they do a seven day ritual to prepare. The number seven is code for two things in the Torah - wholeness and holiness - and its the base unit for the way sacred time is arranged in the biblical view. The answer is found in the secret of the number seven. Like all Biblical holidays, all three - Passover, the Omer, and Shavuot (and Sukkot as well) - have agriculturally connections, so an “Omer” is a sheaf of grain, and the “counting of the Omer” happens during the seven weeks that separate the wheat and barley harvest from the First Fruits offerings on Shavuot. In a ritual known as “The Counting of the Omer” sefirat ha’omer in Hebrew, the Torah instructs us to number off every day of the 49 days that separate Passover, our festival of freedom, from Shavuot, the day we celebrate the receiving of the Torah. We count lovers, calories, sheep at night when we can’t sleep. Counting is a powerful practice, and a deeply human thing.
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