Like the Morning Star, Outshine Them All

The Seer’s Letter to Her Daughter

You asked me this morning: what the symbolism was of the big spider you had found. I explained that a spider represents self-sabotaging behavior that you need to guard against.

You wanted to know what that referred to, and I said that it referred to allowing the flawed perspective of others to influence your own perspective. Here is the rest of my answer:

It appears to be a sign of the times that women are rebelling against what they see to be male dominance and bigotry against the feminine. This social conditioning aimed at stirring resentment in the hearts of young women, can detrimentally influence the way men and women relate. Please heed the message of the spider and honor and respect both genders, secure in the knowledge of your own sublime destiny and grandeur as a goddess among mankind.

Nothing prevents one from having a successful life as quickly as self pity. Groups everywhere feel victimized and seek the pity of others. Virtually every (racial, demographic, gender, financial etc) group ridiculously claims to be discriminated against. But the only perpetrator keeping them from excelling, is themselves — to believe that the demeaning attitude of another can reduce or diminish one, presupposes a very low self-esteem.

Forget the opinions others may have of your worth and like the morning star, outshine them all. Unapologetically, let not false modesty hold you back, but joyously leave your trail of excellence wherever you go.

An Excerpt From a Poem by the British Poet William Wordsworth

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing Boy,
But He beholds the light, and whence it flows,
He sees it in his joy;