Nothing will make you realize how much society masks than going through hard times and being open about it. Expressing the angst and sadness during troubled times is not welcome in this world. Others may not say it aloud in words, but in a world of self-soothing and a quest to only “feel good,” most will want you to put a mask on to make them feel more comfortable above all else.
The planned marketing campaign of 2020 that encouraged people to walk in fear and cover their faces in “another layer” of masks was a test. Who will hide their glorious face of Divine origin and who will see through the deception maintaining the breath of life no matter the collective peer pressure to comply. Humans area easily swayed, so much so they masked up as an expression of servitude to a master who gave out an order, thus outwardly expressing hate for self and others…to be a mockery of what is natural.
I don’t know how people did it, it’s suffocating to the spirit, at least that’s how I feel…suffocated. I couldn’t do it, my soul cried out, NO, this is not ok, to which I went down rabbit holes in order to understand the vast lies ever playing out that keep people in bondage…lies about health, sickness…lies about how the system works…. lies about the effects of electricity and frequencies…lies.
In this “great awakening” vanity is exposed, but you have to look deeper to see the symbolism between seeing beyond the “veil” …the importance of seeing faces, really seeing them…no covering.
The awakening shows the shadow, and it is revealed through the veil as a mirror. New Age chatter loves to promote mirror work or spout phrases like, “everyone is a mirror.” They all seem to forget that mirrors distort. Mirrors never show a true reflection, its opposite, its perception, but truth does not live inside there.
The great awakening requires you to look inside, to turn away from the deception staring back in the black mirror…an abyss of distractions, fairytales and mindgames. Do you think it’s a coincidence that TVs, computers, phones are all mirrors? I do not. The artificial plays on the cold hard screen using waves of light to attract like a moth to a flame. We’re all guilty of its call to stop and gaze.
Do you realize that your subconscious is seeing your own face in that mirror even if your attention is on something else on the display? You have moments where you stop and catch your reflection, I know you do…but it’s always there searing thoughts into your mind….are you pretty enough? Who’s watching?
There is a reason a vanity is called a vanity, that fairytales and myth include lore around spirits that live in mirrors, around the vainness that can swallow up the spirit into them like the black hole they are.
The whole world is walking around with a black screen that is a mirror of manipulation, distraction, vanity and idoltry….one needs not go to the Fun House to step into the House of Mirrors.
Mirrors remove the present moment and place it into a hollow screen giving opportunity for the entity or false representation staring back to plant seeds in the mind that tell all sorts of tales.
It’s no wonder in Feng Shui there is emphasis on mirror placement, mirrors can be a portal. Like in Harry Potter where the photos talked, now too, is Instagram and other platforms re-presenting images as if they are living, but they are not. It’s a façade, a re-presentation of the version of you that is a living being.
The awakening process will change the image you see in the mirror.
For me, I could see a future version of me, the crone began to emerge. The need to continue to color my hair and never leave the house without mascara (masquerade) melted away as I slowly removed the masks I was wearing to try to fit into the world’s idea of what I should be, of what beauty is from the superficial collective warped minds molded by advertising that constantly tries to sell immortality in a cold cream.
I’m certainly still working on this.
And now we have children’s development skewed by wearing masks and being marketed to as if humans are shameful that you must add another layer of covering beyond the hair dye, make up and people pleasing. There’s no cartoon fox, nor any pretty pattern in the entire universe that could make this photo of a child in a mask pleasing, nor good.
The mirror hides. It transfigures. It reflects a false image because that is all it can do.
As stories play out on screens, we must remember that an awakened heart recognizes these distortions within the mass delusion that keeps us trapped inside the illusory game that wants us always walking the broad-way and never the narrow-path. What is real, what is true, can never be found on the news, on the zoom, on X…only inside of you, only when you turn the gaze inward.
I no longer recognize the old “version” of me in the mirror. That woman has removed many masks, stared into the ugly shadows-shame-trauma that made me think I needed to wear one to be good enough, to show up, to be seen, to exist.
The masking of 2020 was no different. Another layer of the mind enslaved by suffocating myths that it is your job to not breathe on another to somehow “save” them from an invisible enemy, that the essence of your spirit breathed out by living is tainted. The beauty of the human face demonized by those that hate nature, creation, and have become so fully masked that they can no longer see their humanness...just the distortion in the mirror.
The expressions on your face are a painting, a glorious picture reflecting the truth of your life, not that in a mirror, not that shaped by the lies of this world, not something that needs to be hidden behind mascara and masks.
The great awakening can only happen when, one by one, we shatter the belief that what is being reflected back to us is truth and recognize it for the illusion it portrays. Truth cannot be inverted, like a mirror…it cannot be sold through black screens …it can only be unmasked in the heart, for there lives a treasure beyond any material riches…beyond any imagery deemed good enough to sell with seduction instead of soul.
If someone needs a friend, instead of pretending, why not be real? Give them permission to let the ugly out, let the tears flow, let the pain travel on….this is as important as joy because the mask hides both sorrow and bliss, keeps it just under wraps enough to make others think you are “like” them…ok with a mediocre mundane existence inside the status quo instead of a meaningful magnificent full experience.
The mirror can only show you the ego, the false self and the whole world wants you to spend countless dollars and hours trying to make that appear a certain way, a way that is rewarded, validated and applauded…if, and only if, you never show your true self. Just look around at the layers of masks that don an “Image” …. a persona…. a mask. From Newsweek to the person behind the counter selling you the Newsweek, society doesn’t like an unmasked being because truth lives there…. the illusion of the façade in the mirror is much more comfortable.
I’m not saying the ego is all bad either, I don’t subscribe to that mantra, but a healthy ego is not being cultivated by the masses…instead it wants to control…especially what the mirror shows.
I’m certaintly guilty…trying to make peace and heal the mistakes I made when I didn’t know what I didn’t know…the harm done by pharma, the lost time and missed opportunities…the countless dollars spent on anti-aging instead of leaning in to the wisdom earned, the appreciation for being alive and honoring the temple for which I walk knowing each day is a gift.
Remember, the earth is a hearth and a heart, but she’s also a face…. think about the language we use “face of the earth” being a common phrase…. how are we masking her? How are we masquerading in disgrace instead of honoring her face?
Awakening is a slow and painful process, it is a wake…. where are you lying to yourself? What are you justifying? What masks are you hiding behind? What reflection do you believe in, but is not real?
Nature holds truth that a mirror can never reflect, be it a digital mirror or what stares across at you over the vanity. What emerges from a place of vainness is bred from the ego, but that which lives in truth is reflected out from the heart in genuine beauty inside and out.
I’ve witnessed myself get more and more comfortable in my own skin, letting the mask I created in childhood as a means of survival slip more and more…it shows in pictures…it shows in how I choose to live.
Not everyone is a mirror because a mirror only reveals the masked parts…you must look deeper.
Mirror work as a way to learn to love yourself, while sometimes a useful exercise, can never reveal the truth that hides inside waiting to be projected out, the real you…you must open the window from the inside out, not stare at its inversion portrayed in the mirror…from the outside in.
Awaken beyond the mirror. You cannot glue together a million fragmented pieces to make the reflection whole…. only the inner sanctuary that holds the authentic you can do that….and that real you is always awake speaking to you beyond the veil, beyond the mirror of a fragmented world and holding truth inside the treasure that sits at the hearth waiting on you to unlock it…unmask it.
The mirror cannot tell you who’s the fairest of them all, so why keep listening to it? The mirror can never scry whole truth, for it is always reversed.
The mirror wants you focused on the outer image, idolizing youth and scrutinizing a reflection that isn’t even representative of the true you.
The mirror will show you everything you don’t want to look at, that which is too painful to see. It asks you to reveal your true self, to acknowledge that which you wish weren’t there….and when you find the courage to do this, you’ll begin to find its allure less appealing….you’ll walk by without glancing….you’ll realize it is not you in there, in a glass reflection that can so easily break….but all that ever shattered you and tried to break you is already whole right now, already inside of you, no matter what you see…or anyone else.
With love,
Angela
Absolutely fascinating reflections on the role of the mirror in individual and collective processing ...
The masks were the thing that bothered me the most about all of the lies and manipulations, there was something deeply sinister about the overt symbolism involved in that whole psyop.
Your comparison of our devices to mirrors is bang on, I once heard someone describe them as scrying mirrors and that really stuck with me - the occult nature of that, the idea that we are somehow voluntarily subjecting ourselves to spells and the trancelike nature of a scrying mirror when mindlessly scrolling and having 'visions'. But who's visions are they and what are they doing to us?