One of the gifts of the south direction is TRUST. Trust is what we must walk through every time we take a deliberate conscious action in this world. When we take an action, there is a level of commitment that comes along with it.
Here is one of the reasons that we can get stuck in the east, in the idea stage, setting intentions, working on "higher planes", and never completely realizing our dreams. Sooner or later we must move from the more comfortable place of visualization into ACTION. This is where we put our money where our mouth is. We stop talking about it and start doing it.
There are several patterns I am aware of that can inhibit us from taking the necessary actions to create our desires. One of them is judgment. If we have judgment about ourselves, our ability, or whether or not we are deserving, or even judgment about any part of the creative process, we will have difficulty in taking an action.
If we have a fear of commitment, we will get really close to our dream, like a ball player picking up the bat and stepping up to the plate, and then we might quickly turn another direction-dropping the bat and backing away. We think we have simply chosen something else, we might not even see that fear has caused us to redirect our energy in a "safer" direction.
Another challenge in the south, possibly the biggest challenge of all, is fear of failure. Of course, this is a polarity that will bounce around from fear of failure into fear of success. The best gift you can give yourself in the south is permission to fail. Once you have released the charge of failure, you may have to address the fear of success. Both of them are two sides of the same coin.
It is also important to remember that you don't have to be perfect!!! Most of us have an illusion about perfection and what it is. We don't see a large enough picture of reality to understand that EVERYTHING is already perfect exactly the way it is. We let attachment to a certain outcome become our measuring stick, keeping ourselves from doing anything because we can not live up to that specific outcome.
I have found a beautiful way to move forward through paralyzing fear. It is a way to program through the stagnation. Perhaps there is an action you would like to take in the world but are terrified to do it. If this is the case, you can build momentum for taking this action step by step, and it will become easy.
Suppose you want to quit a dissatisfying job. You have already prepared yourself by setting an intention and imagining the details of the new job you are creating. But you feel stuck and unable to finally do it.
Your first step is to affirm (with affirmations) that you are moving forward in life, leaving behind all that does not serve, with gratitude and completion for the job.
Next, you affirm "I am taking action to be happy and fulfilled in my new vocation" or whatever your higher self gives you as an affirmation. AS YOU ARE AFFIRMING this new situation, you take any action available to you in the moment. It could be washing the dishes, it could be vaccuuming the floor, it could be tossing a ball while playing catch. The key is to connect the mental blueprint (the affirmation) with an action in the physical world. This creates movement and releases stagnation between the body and mind.
It sounds like a simple exercise, and I assure you it is one of the most powerful shamanic techniques available to us. It creates radical change, and empowers us to create our own experiences of the reality.
Kachina
