SOUTH – The Emotions, Electromagnetic Force, Water Element, Acknowledge

South is the time of summer, the spirit of rapid growth, exploration, experience, and investigation; it is the power that guides and grows, representing childhood when we learn about trust in feelings and intuition, childhood innocence. Animal totems here can remind us who we are, connect us to the child within, answering the questions: “Who am I?  Where did I come from? Were my feelings acknowledged and allowed to flow in childhood or were they restricted? What was my environment like where I grew up? How did I respond? How can I learn to express myself now? Was I nourished emotionally, spiritually? This quadrant is where our current culture is most unbalanced.  On the wheel of human evolution, most of us are living through this phase.  The phase in childhood or adolescence when narcissism is part of our development, it is a cultural phenomenom. Many of us were raised by parents who were not nourished spiritually, so how could they know how to raise us in that way?  That is the case for many peoples and  races of the world. Red is the color of passion and corresponds to the root chakra, our roots…what emotional patterns and belief systems did I inherit from my ancestors? Which of those do not serve me now as an adult?