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Refuse to Be Cocooned! The End of Piscean “Giving ‘Til it Hurts”

Remember the movie Cocoon where the old people find alien pods in a swimming pool? The pods emit an energy that makes the old people feel like a million bucks. At first, only a couple of oldsters know about the pods and use the pool. They visit once in a while, swim around, feel good, go back to their regular lives, end of story. But soon all the other oldsters in the community want to know why those two are feeling so good.

Soon, everyone finds out about the swimming pool full of alien pods, and all hell breaks loose. Hordes of seniors jump in the pool, practically dry humping the pods. They're all having a heck of a time, swimming around, laughing, doing cannon balls, trying to break the pods open to see what's inside. But unknowingly, their antics drain the pods of all their energy, spoiling the fun for both the aliens and themselves.

This is where the phrase "being cocooned" comes from. Being cocooned happens when someone in your vicinity is attracted to your spiritual energy and then tries to get closer and closer to the source of it through you. They sense in you a calmness, a groundedness, a knowing, and they desire to be in that place, too. To try to get to the source of this and understand it for themselves, people will create situations in which you are in a tight dynamic of energetic interaction with them. For example, they might ask you one question after another and keep you talking, putting you under the microscope and examining you intensely and somewhat unnaturally, or they might keep the social energy moving from you to them instead of interacting in a give-and-take way. They might delve into their problems, getting a little too personal and pushing the emotional energy of their situation onto you in an attempt for you to fix it…or maybe just to relieve themselves of the burden for a few minutes.

They're curious about the energy they feel coming from you. They want that peace and calm sense of knowing, too, and these dynamics allow them to take it in and experience it. They want to know what you know and how you've gotten to the place where you are. To a certain extent, this is fine. The problem comes when they start dry humping your pod! This is the point in interactions like these where the dynamic starts to drain, and it starts to become energy vampirism - one person bolstering themselves with the energy of the other and feeding off it to a certain extent in an attempt to feel better.

This is a dynamic very relevant to these times - end of the Piscean Age and beginning of the Aquarian Age. In the Piscean dynamic, spiritual relationships were often set up in master-student format. The master was "above" the student, so the master was, in effect, feeding the student spiritual energy and herding the student along the path. It was not a relationship of peers.

Because we're leaving the Piscean Age, this dynamic no longer works. Now, we're meant to interact as equals. We're all responsible for ourselves and for interacting from a place of integrity to our own energetic needs. We can no longer agree to sacrifice our own personal reserves past the point of it being comfortable.

What we’ll come to realize as the Age of Aquarius draws closer is that we all have access to the same spiritual love and source energy; some are just more aware of it than others and are willing to take it on and develop it more fully. But every human being on the planet has access and can make whatever commitment he or she feels comfortable making to it. Everyone has a responsibility to develop and maintain his or her own personal connection to and relationship with the Universe/God/Spirit (or whatever you want to call it). And for those who have already developed that relationship, our responsibility lies in lovingly breaking these draining dynamics that truly aren't serving anyone.

To break these dynamics and transform them into something better for everyone, we can:

· Become aware and stay aware of the draining dynamics/situations and drop any guilt or ego that might be keeping us in these roles.

· Stay true to ourselves in all interactions. This is trickier than it sounds. To do this, we have to stay connected to how we’re feeling while interacting with another person and make adjustments accordingly so that we don‘t fall into the old habitual patterns. This is tricky for people with a high level of empathy or compassion because we can be drawn into what the other person is feeling so strongly that we lose contact with ourselves. Holding conscious awareness of what is going on while trusting and taking action on our perceptions are important aspects.

· Recognize the point in the interaction where it becomes unhealthy, and consciously choose to change it.

· Direct people to the love and light they have inside themselves, instead of taking on a lazy master-student role in which we just spoonfeed people what they want to hear/experience (which won‘t work anyway), leaving ourselves drained and grumpy.

People can often be angry when you start to shift these dynamics. This is all new and unexpected, and most people don't even want to acknowledge or become aware of these hidden dynamics. Long-term friends and family members might be used to you interacting with them in a certain way and could have some trouble adjusting. But it's the best thing in the long run. Like pulling the Band-Aid off in one quick pull. Refusing to be cocooned is the most loving thing you can do for yourself and for other people - they just might not recognize it at first!