Hey everyone - in the Openhand Approach, we explore much deeper than just the yin and the yang. We're looking at essential characterisitcs of soul, 7 Rays in all, just like the rainbow, which of course is a refraction of white light, of consciousness - and of soul consciousness.

Understanding the Rays can greatly help your journey. Because karmic blockages you encounter on the path, will be distortions of each of them. When you can unleash and express your distortion, then you get to the nugget of soul gold at the heart of them. This is deep alchemy of transformation.

Here's a snapshot of the 7 rays...

• Ray 1: purposeful creative will Ray 1 is the driving sense of purpose to create. It is the manifestation of the divine masculine principle throughout the universe. From the place of separation, it is that undeniable inner will to find and create a higher level of harmony both within ourselves and between all sentient beings. It causes us to challenge and break apart the status quo which may be holding us in a lower level of realisation. The Ray 1 inspires life’s motivational leaders.
• Ray 2: surrendering unconditional love Ray 2 initiates the impulse of unconditional love for life. It is the manifestation of the divinely feminine principle of surrendered acceptance throughout the universe. It is the empathising compassion that willingly embraces, does not judge nor need to change the inherent imperfection in all sentient life and situations. Ray 2 strongly inspires the selfless servants of life.
• Ray 3: interpreting authentic reality Ray 3 harnesses and processes higher abstract wisdom delivering it in a form to provide a clear interpretation of our current, authentic reality. In other words, it’s how we know what’s really real. People with strong Ray 3 influence notice the natural patterning in life bringing the formless into form in such a way that can be understood and appreciated by many. Ray 3 inspires life’s translators, creative artists and mathematicians.
• Ray 4: harmonising through right resolution Ray 4 is the divine rationalising energy which helps us find right resolution with our environment and other sentient life. It is the ray impulse which blends passion with compassion. It provides the discernment to confront unjust situations in a non judgmental way. Its purpose is to break apart the lower harmony to find a more equitable higher one. People with highly active Ray 4 tend to be life’s diplomats, politicians and teachers.
• Ray 5: realising abstract higher wisdom The Ray 5 enables us to hold the infinite complexities of the universe as pure knowing within our beingness. This ‘science’ is abstract, all encompassing and rather than realised, is more sensed, as an art form, like poetry in perpetual motion. Ray 5 enables us to attune to the universal flow and harness it for co-creative exploration, deeper understanding and further evolution. The Ray 5 animates life’s scientists and creative business leaders.
• Ray 6: yearning self expression Ray 6 inspires us stay continually focussed on our life’s purpose: to realise, unfold and express who we really are. It generates commitment and devotion to our cause, radiating our soul in all its brilliant colour. The Ray 6 provides the unquenchable driving force to express our innate qualities and inspire others to shine their inner light too. Humanity’s philosophers, spiritual leaders and performing artists are all driven by the Ray 6 influence.
• Ray 7: shaping synchronistic magic Ray 7 provides the ingredient of pure magic on our life’s journey. If we are able to master our inner distortions and pause just long enough in the drama of life, then we can open up to spontaneous, synchronistic and co-creative magic. Thereby we catalyse and initiate the surrounding field for the maximum benefit and upliftment of all. In this way, Ray 7 inspires life’s ‘magicians’ and entrepreneurs.

Explained deeper in the book 5GATEWAYS: a profound spiritual routemap

Take Ray 1 for example. This Ray has often been suppressed within those with strong Ray 2 - the divine feminine. So when you truly step onto the spiritual path, you might feel frustration, anger and even rage welling up at the injustice 'done' to the divine feminine (in fact it's only the soul that has disempowered itself).

By allowing this anger energy to express, using the Breakthrough Approach, then you actually start to untether the Ray 1 which is buried within the anger - often a gentle person won't want to express this because of the perceived harm it will do and the energy put out into the field. But this is to create internal polarity and so a denial of a crucial aspect of self. The key is to let it come up and express, in which case, you start to touch the authentic energy at the core of the expression. As you soften through and concentrate on this aligned feeling, then the distortion starts to peel away and you're left with the authentic sense of drive and will. This will then come through naturally in the times you need it, but in a balanced and contained way.

I'd encourage all to get deep into your authentic feelings, to express, and to unwind true sense of self expression. It's this that peels back karmic distortions leading to true enlightenment.

In loving support

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