Welcome.
This is a guided meditation for the Kabbalistic Sphira of Netzach.
And in this practice,
We will learn about this divine aspect through direct experience.
So go ahead and find a comfortable place to sit.
And you can gently close the eyes and allow for the breath to guide you into presence.
The breath has been guiding us throughout our lives.
Sometimes we notice it.
And sometimes we don't.
But as long as we are alive,
We are breathing.
And this is part of this quality of Netzach,
Often translated as endurance,
Or eternity,
Sometimes victory,
Or perseverance.
Netzach is what doesn't change when everything else around it does.
It is the essential truth,
What stays with us through the change.
So as we feel this quality of Netzach in our bodies,
We can feel it as the essential truth of our being.
Life challenges us.
Yet somehow we preserve,
We endure,
We remain.
Because of this quality,
There is something in us that allows us to continue on.
We can also imagine this as our younger selves.
Whether we were children or teenagers,
Or adults,
We have grown and we have transformed.
Yet our essential truth,
Our soul traits,
Remain the same.
So what about your being has endured all the way from childhood until now?
What is this essential truth that is in you?
Allow yourself to feel this quality.
I like to imagine it as the seed,
This kernel of truth.
It lives in us.
And even if the waters or the fires or whatever may come to us,
The seed of truth endures through it all.
So find your seed of truth that has stayed with you through whatever challenges life has brought to you.
In Kabbalah,
The Sfira,
The divine aspect of Netzach is associated with Moses,
With his leadership skills.
So you can also allow yourself to bring up his qualities.
Moses had to endure and preserve through so much difficulty and challenge in his leadership.
And not just freeing the Israelites from slavery,
But also leading them through the desert.
There were so many moments of hardship,
Of challenge,
So much unknown.
Yet he remained dedicated to this truth,
To the truth that was being revealed to him.
He remained steadfast in it.
So find the quality within you that is this Moses-like quality,
That dedication to truth,
The commitment to perseverance through life's challenges.
Notice how that lives in you.
Netzach is also associated with the right hip or the right leg.
So you can imagine that part of you holding the seed of truth.
Just take a couple moments here to harvest whatever insights came to you from this practice,
Feeling Netzach from the inside,
Feeling this enduring truth,
That which does not change.
What is this essence that's through whatever transformation life brings,
Endures.
So a couple more breaths here.
And in your own timing,
Gently returning to the breath,
The breath that continues to guide us.
Slowly opening the eyes,
Looking around,
Just noticing whatever shift has happened in us as we touched the divine aspect of Netzach.
