Attraction Spiritual Principle
| Number | 17 |
| Outer Focus | Cross Cultural Consciousness |
| Inner Focus | Intestines |
| Rainbow Color | Indigo |
| Evolving Color | Tanzanite |
Description
Each principle has an inner focus and an outer focus, which are anchor points in the “in here” and the “out there” world. They bridge your personality into the larger reality of human consciousness. The intestines are the inner focus points for the principle of Attraction. That doesn’t mean that if you have intestinal issues you are “bad” at the Attraction. Instead it means that Attraction functions in the cosmic body like intestines function in the human body. Therefore, in this system, the words attraction and assimilation are synonyms.
The outer focus point of Attraction is something we call cross-cultural consciousness – the ability that we humans have to understand all of humanity as one diverse family. Our ability to see, appreciate and rejoice in our differences while maintaining our individuality constitutes an important part of our humanity. Sometimes we’re better at it than others.
Perhaps, then, an easy way to contemplate Attraction is to think about how we assimilate with each other – how our various cultures live together, share with each other, blend into a melting pot. . .or not.
Interestingly, we’re best at assimilation under extremely difficult circumstances. When there is tragedy, when there is trauma, when there is disaster, we show up for each other. At other times we too often draw lines, put up fences, mark boundaries, put on blinders.
If you have Attraction in your garment pattern, your most natural tendency is to BE in that constant state of reaching out to others, recognizing similarities as more important than differences, knowing that Unity (genetic consciousness) naturally stretches to Attraction (cross-cultural consciousness.)
Additional Resources
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The word “Attraction” has such strong popular associations and meanings in our culture that it’s easy to misunderstand the vital dynamic that it really is as a spiritual principle in our lives. Contrary to commercially popular books and money-making schemes, it is not a magical system for willful wish-fulfillment, though that does illustrate how most of us deeply believe we are lacking something.
The spiritual principle of Attraction is much bigger. It is the process by which we pull towards us that which we believe we need in order to remember our essential wholeness. Once we’ve attracted that which we think we lack, we can interact with it, interweave and “dance” with it—-all to pull us closer to that realization that we never lacked it at all.
But how can we learn to more clearly see this dynamic process at work in our lives?
On Saturday mornings I take a painting class. It can take weeks or even months to finish a painting, from drawing to finished oil or layered pastels. And at some point, after it is about three-quarters done, there comes a time when I’m not sure what it needs next. I’ve been staring at it for so long, I can’t really see it anymore. At that point, my teacher hands me a mirror, and instructs me to turn around and face away from the painting and view it only in the mirror. Amazingly, a fresh view of it instantly emerges: aspects of perspective, composition, even color balance (both desired and not!) pop out at me. It is always an “aha!” moment.
Perhaps then, we can learn to observe the way Attraction is operating in our lives by looking backwards at our own life-canvas, seeing what it has already brought to us. By seeing that picture more clearly, seeing it as the mirror that it is, we can come to better understand ourselves, as well as our essential pull towards wholeness and our deep connectedness to all that is.
Attraction shows up in our family: a son & a daughter-in-law with Sun in Attraction, and a daughter with Moon in Attraction. All of them have an easy energy that draws people to them without their making an effort, and a flow that seems to create wholeness. The daughter with Moon in Attraction once appeared in a dream, showing me around an unknown city where tourists lined up to see a “feature attraction”: the garbage system that wound around the city and worked amazingly. It was like a tube-train, partially transparent, but not in any way offensive. I realized on waking that the body part associated with Attraction is the intestines, which simply means ‘inward’ or ‘innards’. Attraction is a hidden dimension that weaves all the different parts together.