The Heart that Sees

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Trump with his sun in Gemini in the 10th house means there are two Trumps—which one will show up if elected—who knows! Clinton has her sun in Scorpio in the 12th house—the hidden house which means there is the potential that she will present a false face.

In contrast, there is the Mesoamerica concept called Ollin—The Heart that Sees. The following is excerpted from my book Return of the Feathered Serpent, Shining Light of First Knowledge:

The shaman-priests of Mesoamerica brought a concept to their people called Ollin. It symbolizes the ‘motion principle’ in Mesoamerican thought, but in addition, it has the meaning of a purified heart or a ‘heart that sees’ through the illusions of life. This is the Ollin heart. And this type of heart is a microcosm of the ‘heart’ of the universe that maintains balance and harmony through its constant motion or movement, whether it is expansive or contractive.

With an Ollin heart, we are able to discover our true path in life and follow it. We discover joy in our true identity as we fulfill our destiny in life. With a ‘heart that sees,’ everything in life is sacred and every action that we take is hallowed. There is no stagnation in our life, only movement. This movement is always towards destiny and away from the mediocrity of a life that has been lived in self-blindness.

With an Ollin heart, we bring our inner self out into the world for all to see who we are. This is a concept that is foreign to our culture and society. Many live a lie, but few live truth. We are taught to hide ‘who we truly are’ from others, including our co-workers and neighbors. We present falsehoods and false faces to the world. And depending on the circumstance or the environment, we even wear different false-faces—one face at work, another face at home, and still yet another face alone. With the ‘heart that sees,’ there is only one face—our true heart-face—this is the ‘heart’ of Quetzalcóatl and the heart of Oneness:

“The Nahua peoples believed that we are born with a physical heart and face, but that we have to create a deified heart and a true face. The ordinary word for heart was yollotl, a word derived from ollin, movement. Thus the ordinary human heart is the moving, pumping organ that keeps us alive; but the heart that can be made by special efforts in life is called Yoltéotl, or deified. The phrase used to describe the face that we must make if we are to be truly men is ixtli in yollotl, which signifies a process whereby heart and face must combine. The heart must shine through the face before our features become reliable reflections of ourselves.

“Thus heart-making and face-making, the growth of spiritual strength, were two aspects of a single process which was the aim of life and which consisted in creating some firm and enduring centre from which it would be possible to operate as human beings.”[i]

 

[i] Mexican and Central American Mythology, Nicholson,74 – 75.

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