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Saturday, May 17, 2025
How to Practice Self-Forgiveness, Based on Your Enneagram Type
How to Practice Self-Forgiveness, Based on Your Enneagram Type
By Rev. Nhien Vuong
Posted on May 17, 2025

“Love cannot abide where it is not welcomed.” Enneagram mentor Rev. Nhien Vuong teaches each Enneagram type how to practice self-forgiveness.
Forgiving ourselves for things we’ve done wrong is not about refusing to take responsibility for our actions. In fact, it is vital to take whatever steps we can to make amends and rectify past harms towards others.
Self-forgiveness as an inner act, too, is an essential part of the spiritual journey. No matter how hard we might wish or pray for it, we cannot access Divine Love if we are the very ones punishing ourselves. Love cannot abide where it is not welcomed.
Indeed, taking personal responsibility does not mean we need to lock up our souls in a self-made purgatory or exile our hearts from Divine Grace and human belonging. The following practices are about embracing the irrevocable truth that your essence is whole and good; that every fiber of your being is worthy of love and forgiveness. Resolve in this moment to set yourself free to live and love openheartedly so you can more fully experience and express Divine Love throughout the remainder of your precious and sacred lifetime.
Self-Forgiveness Practices by Enneagram Type
Don’t know your Enneagram type? Try this quiz here.
Type One
No one gets everything right. No one does everything perfectly. Do not punish yourself for being human. Send more love and compassion to yourself when you discover that you’ve erred, not less! Be a place of peace for yourself, not an enabler of inner violence.
Type Two
It is not your job to make everyone happy. It is not reasonable to expect everyone to like you. Yet when important relationships aren’t as strong or as positive as you would like them to be, you take on more than your share of blame and responsibility. Do your best to let this go.
Type Three
Until you forgive yourself, you’ll spend the rest of your days—and nights—overcompensating where you feel you have failed. As you push yourself harder and harder, you may end up further and further away from your true path. Forgive yourself so you can welcome the full worthiness of who you are today and don’t have to keep looking for it in the future.
Type Four
What you most need to forgive in yourself isn’t one thing or another that you did; rather, it’s who you are (or think you are). Let go of condemnation and shame and give yourself a new start. Forgive yourself for who you thought you should be or might have been. Find your voice and power in fully embracing all your traits, as well as the essence of who you are in this moment today.
Type Five
You tend to harbor resentment toward anyone you believe has rejected you. By rejecting them in response, you spare yourself from having to accept how you were critiqued. If you make them smaller or more inferior by condemning them, then they have no authority to judge you. Notice, though, what you have not yet forgiven in yourself. Likely it has to do with an area in which you feel fearful or incompetent. If someone else has triggered you, chances are that before you can forgive them, you need to release this high expectation of your own capabilities.
Type Six
No amount of vigilance can possibly keep everyone you love, including you, safe. Yet when harm occurs, you often judge yourself harshly. Letting the Ghost of Mistakes Past haunt and torment you is inhumane. Moreover, it only fuels more anxiety and second-guessing, which prevents you from making wise and compassionate decisions both in the present and the future. Set yourself free from the shackles of the past.
Type Seven
If you are on a path of self-awareness, you may be starting to realize all the dreams you’ve sabotaged, the bridges you’ve burned, and the love you’ve been too afraid to lean into. The belief that it is darkest before dawn feels especially relevant. Your willingness to stay with the darkness—to feel your own fears, anger, resentment, or grief deep in your heart and bones—and not hastily move on allows you to experience the dawning of a truly new and transformed life.
Type Eight
Do not confuse moving on with letting go. Forgive yourself the big dreams that never fully materialized, the people you couldn’t help, and the important situations you couldn’t control. Your vision and appetite for bigness is a gift, but it is also a heavy burden. There is power you can claim in the present when you get real about what happened in the past. Bring compassionate strength to all that you have not yet grieved so you can finally let go.
Type Nine
When you finally wake up to parts of yourself that went to sleep—whether for weeks, months, or years—it’s easy to be hard on yourself. Do not judge yourself for what you weren’t ready to see or know or act on until now. Weep if you need to for your old self and life, but don’t condemn yourself. This will only make you want to go back into hiding. Resist your tendency toward inertia. Coax yourself out further with self-forgiveness and loving-kindness.
Reflection
After trying the practice aligned with your Enneagram type, did you find that you could forgive yourself? If not, then consider what is truly in the way of your self-forgiveness. Ask yourself: How does my unforgiveness serve me? What does it help me to do? What does it protect me from? What do I fear will happen if I forgive myself? Self-forgiveness becomes easier once we realize that compassion can help us respond more effectively to life than unforgiveness can.
Friday, February 21, 2025
Spiritual Evolution
Spiritual Evolution
By Steve Beckow

Evolution can come from taking a stand, overcoming our fears
We talked last time of devolution. (1) Let’s talk this time about spiritual evolution. (2)
I mentioned that I was shown the purpose of life in a vision I had in 1987. In fact at the end of it, I heard the very words, “The purpose of life is enlightenment.” (3)
The purpose of life is that the One, who is everything, can have an experience of itself: O Thou I! (4)
Evolution is everything that carries us nearer to our goal of, it turns out, Self-Realization. As the Arcturian Group tells us: “Spiritual evolution is simply the process of remembering who you are.” (5)
I’m not talking about Brahmajnana (God-Realization) or any other 3rd-Dimensional unveiling. I’m not talking about a meeting that takes place in the dimensional world at all. Michael once told me that angels come from Source. (6) If the angelics do, and they still have individuation, then how sublime must be the yielding of individuality itself in the Supreme Realization?
Evolution means we got closer. We removed a veil. Or we realized a truth. Or we saw something we’re not or something we consider ourselves to be. Or we took a stand (See graphic above.) . Or we birthed a new life. Or we gave up something we’d long considered was valuable, realizing it was not.
Whatever the event that propels us into bliss and realization, it’s an event in evolution. It brought us “closer” to realizing God.
Allow me to insert here a number of points made in an earlier, 2011 paper on spiritual evolution. I’d make changes in some names and relationships, but the changes are not major.
Spiritual Evolution: The Divine Plan for Life
1. Every man, woman, and child on this planet is God. Every man, woman, and child lives forever, through countless physical lives.
2. The purpose of life is enlightenment. The purpose of life is that God should meet God in a moment of our enlightenment and, in that meeting, taste Her own bliss. For that purpose was all of life made.
3. All of us have journeyed out from God, by Her command, and will be liberated from the cycle of physical birth and death the moment we know that everything in this world, including us, is God. Hindu sages call this level of enlightenment vijnana (perfect wisdom) and sahaja (or natural, permanent) nirvikalpa samadhi.
4. The Father created the domain of the Mother (mater, matter) as the setting for our spiritual journey and education. We wander in this material realm lifetime after lifetime, constantly learning.
5. The Father made the material domain lawful. The most important law for us to know is the Law of Karma, which requires that what we do unto others shall be done unto us as well.
6. The form of our total journey is a sacred arc, like Jacob’s Ladder, away from and back to God. But, day by day, we also follow a spiritual spiral, returning to the same karmic lessons repeatedly until we learn them.
7. From one day to the next, we may expand or contract, but all the while we’re cosmically drawn back to Her by a sub-sensible, eternal longing, planted there by Her, for Her: a longing for liberation. (1)
8. In the cosmic Drama, there are three Actors we must realize: God the Father, God the Mother, and God the Child. These are the Transcendental, the Phenomenal, and the Transcendental in the Phenomenal. Christians call them (note the change in order) the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Hindus call them Brahman, Atman, and Shakti. The Formless became two Forms. The One made trillions of forms through the agency of the Two and then mysteriously entered into them. We are required to know that Trinity.
9. Everyone will reach Her – some in the morning; some in the afternoon; and some in the evening. Experiences will vary, but all will eventually know God.
10. Every genuine path will work. God plays all roles and observes all actions. She has become many; next to Her, there is none.
11. In Her love, She is universal, impartial, and supreme. What She wills must happen. She decreed this Drama for Her own Pleasure. Each time someone knows its Self — “Oh Thou I!” — God meets God.
Footnotes
(1) For more on this, see “The Longing for Liberation” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Longing-for-Liberation-3.pdf).
This discussion was written in 2011, from the vantage point of the vision rather than Ascension. Moreover discussions with the Divine Mother have changed my view of some things (her relationship to Shakti and the Holy Spirit, for example).
If I had time, I’d update it. But that doesn’t look likely to happen!
Footnotes
(1) “What is Devolution?”
(2) For a more detailed treatment of the subject, see “Spiritual Evolution: The Divine Plan for Life (Repost),” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2021/12/28/spiritual-evolution-the-divine-plan-for-life-repost-2/
(3) The vision itself is described here: “Chapter 13. Epilogue” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment-5.pdf
The vision resulted in the creation of the database From Darkness Unto Light (https://goldengaiadb.com/index.php?title=From_Darkness_to_Light) and the book The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment-5.pdf.
(4) Bayazid of Bistun: “I went from God to God, until they cried from me in me, ‘O thou I!'” (In Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy. New York, etc.: Harper and Row, 1970; c1944, 12.)
(5) “The Arcturian Group via Marilyn Raffaele, Feb. 26, 2013,” at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2023/02/26/the-arcturian-group-via-marilyn-raffaele-feb-26-2013/.
(6) Archangel Michael: We come from Source.
Steve: Right. Wow! … All angels?
AAM: Yes, it is bigger than you think. ‘ …
We are being fueled by the infinite Source, the eternal Source. And so are you. (“Archangel Michael on the Angelic Kingdom,” June 13, 2014, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/06/13/archangel-michael-on-the-angelic-kingdom/.)
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
By Master Kuthumi
Channel: Natalie Glasson
Posted on November 13, 2024
Monday, November 11, 2024
Back to the Home Port
Back to the Home Port
Thought Adjuster
Is The Teacher
Message received by Anyas
Posted on Noveber 11, 2024

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