THE 6 HUMAN NEEDS & JOURNEY OF THE SOUL

The 6 Human needs expressed outwardly are the personality doing its best to self-actualize and the belief that if it does self-actualize peace and a sense of completion will come.

This is partially true because if we self-actualize from our essential essence and not mental ideas of who we are, then we start to complete, what in my tradition they call MING or worldly destiny.

To feel these needs are met inwardly and continually by you connecting with your soul is what Self-Realization and the Inner Alchemical Formulas that are taught every year at The Wu Ji Alchemy School

Self-Actualization is the life force expressing out into the world, Self-Realization is the life force moving back towards what originally birthed it.

A simple way to say this is, the more significance we feel on the inside from our connection to our soul and the greater collective, the less need for it on the outside.

Then our choices and actions are more in alignment with the whole and not filtered through the need for significance.

When the personality seeks significance, outwardly it can feel like, that this need can never be met outwardly, no matter how much affirmation is received by others and external achievements. We remain an empty cup!

It’s often experienced as if the outer affirmation does not enter and is not received by the personality and the search outwardly continues. This is especially so if this is a deep soul memory and the feeling of the need for significance has a compulsiveness around it.

Many souls born with Pluto in Leo or Pluto in the 5th house, or Pluto in aspect to the Sun can carry this deep need for significance and the compulsiveness around personal significance.

In Internal Alchemy terms, this human need is related to the phase of Qi that we call the Metal element/phase. In other words, the underlying operating system quality of Qi that creates this need for significance at the personality level is streaming in as a Soul pattern, for the Soul to evolve through the Metal archetype.

ts extremely important to name these elements as phases otherwise we will objectify it as a fixed thing when in fact it’s a flowing aspect of the life force. In nature, we can experience this energy as related to the autumn season when life is letting go and preparing to enter the depth of winter.

The leaves are falling in autumn, so the Soul is learning through this archetype that endings and perceived loss are not trauma, but part of the natural flow of life, integrity and strength result from this acceptance.

The Soul virtue of Metal is integrity and a sense of internal strength, strength, and integrity that is felt internally as being connected to the source of all. What can be more significant than that?