Precept for October – THE GODS CANNOT HELP THOSE WHO WILL NOT HELP THEMSELVES

I wanted to share this excerpt from Mella’s Precept Essay for October: 

All of the qualities of the gods – bravery, healing, foresight, resurrection from death, transformation – are seen as magickal, but the reason the gods have these powers is because they are reflections of ourselves, and we are reflections of them. Our own actions are important, because everything we do echoes down through our lives.  We can change our future anytime simply by changing our action. We make our own futures, not by what we’ve done in the past, but by whatever action we take right now, in this moment. Action sends new ripples through the water. Anything that has happened in the past is done, and no longer creates ripples, but our present actions do create ripples and change the future.  If we continue to behave in a way that is influenced by our past, and the past is weighing on us, stifling us, and shutting us up in some way, then our future will continue to be formed by our past, with ourselves as the transmitter.   

What we need to do is to be gods to ourselves. If we want someone strong to save us, then we have to become that strong savior. The fact that we are even able to picture the force we need to rescue us, means that we already have it within us to be that force.  If we need a nurturer or a mother, then we must be that caring mother to ourselves. In this way, it is very true that the gods cannot help those who will not help themselves.  The gods are literally working through us, and we are working through them.

Thanks for that, Mella.

Kerr Cuhulain

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