For me, it wasn't just any Tuesday. The Tuesday of the 2024 US elections was a turning point for many, politically, emotionally, collectively and personally. I felt the collective fear, the shock, but also the pain of polarization, of the fact that no matter which position you take, there is apparently an equally strong group holding another position which cannot understand your own. Yes, even attacking you with unprecedented aggression. Or the fact that so often the "losing party" is looked down upon with malice. But it also felt a bit like failure to me, like a step backwards into an era of toxic masculinity, like a missed opportunity for a collective change in consciousness.

Being sensitive in a world of chaos

At the same time, I hardly paid any attention to the election campaign until shortly before the election. I am one of those people who feel the prevailing collective energy, whether I want to or not, in a room, a place or even an entire country. Germany, for example, feels constricting to me, somewhat oppressive or uneasy perhaps, but above all rather apathetic. Not as lively and life-affirming as other countries. Not always the same, everywhere, but by tendency. Especially when you come from abroad and get off the plane, for example.

I used to say that I could feel the atmosphere. This is both a blessing and a curse. It's useful to always be able to immediately feel physically whether you feel comfortable, safe and at home in a place, in a situation or with a person, or whether you feel uneasy and uncomfortable. Or whether the group dynamic is about to change. Whether the apartment feels right. Or whether someone means well. But you can't always immediately get out of situations or away from places that don't feel good. And often enough, the body will let you know with pain or something similar.

In the past, I often suppressed this sensitivity, distracted myself, dissociated and was not really in my own body. However, that no longer works so well today. Especially when, like on Tuesday, it feels like half the world is in a state of shock (the other half may have been more or less quietly happy, but that only highlights the painfully deep rifts within the human collective). Today I know and am learning more and more that and how I can channel and release the collective shock I feel through my body without identifying with it too much. And today I know that this is a skill that I can use in my work and with my archetype of the healer. But also that I need to learn to take care of myself and my body.

I know what my role is - and what it is not

Why am I telling you all this? I am telling you this because it gives me strength, especially in times of shock, uncertainty, fear, and collective upheaval, to know what my role is, my purpose, my place in this chaotic melting pot of consciousness. And that knowing my role makes me capable of acting. Knowing, for example, that my role is not to take to the streets as an activist or get involved in politics (others are so much better at that! And honestly, my system wouldn't be able to cope, for example, with the collective energies of a whipped-up crowd of angry protesters).

But to know that I can make a difference in my surroundings. That I can support people who may have the purpose of the activist or artist, or whose role it is to make a difference in political organizations or science, but who doubt themselves or are still stuck in the entanglements, the trauma, the limiting belief systems of their ancestors and their soul lineage. That I can help these people to come into their power. To free themselves and then others with them. Perhaps to be able to shine a little light for those who right now can only see darkness.

Do you know your role?

That's why I'm writing this article today. Not to comment on the US election - there are enough others already doing this, and better. But to perhaps point out a way that can help you deal with the collective uncertainty: namely to know your role, your task, your place, your individual talent or light that makes a difference here.

And to know where your place is not, where a place would be a waste of time and energy for you personally, even if perhaps others are tugging at you and placing expectations on you to stand up for one thing or another, to get involved or be outraged. Because if you're not for their cause, you must be against it. What good would it do, for example, if I, as someone who already feels the collective outrage, were to add my own outrage on top of it? Not that it wouldn't happen to me. But it's not good for me, it burns me out and my body won't thank me. Can I then still achieve something meaningful with my role, my archetype? Hardly. But please don't get me wrong: For a different archetype, a different role, it might be just the right thing and might feel energizing and empowering to be politically outraged, for example.

Maybe you know what feels good and right for you, what your place is, but maybe you're told you're a dreamer who doesn't want to deal with the important things in life? Maybe you believe this a little yourself because what you're interested in just can't be “big” enough, or doesn't seem “meaningful” enough to make a difference?

Your role is valuable!

But maybe - just maybe - you simply have a different role, a quieter one perhaps, or one that is so far ahead of its time that nobody really understands it yet? Maybe you just can't put a price tag on it and say: look, my role is so and so valuable! Maybe you are a bridge builder who wants to bring peace and a bridge of consciousness between groups that have been enemies for centuries? Perhaps it is your task to bring a book into this world that is not a “useful non-fiction book” at all, but reminds many people of an ancient tradition, an idea or an ancient consciousness - who can then in turn carry this memory out into the world. Perhaps it would be a waste of your energy and your individual talents to do something that those around you think is “the right thing”? Whether in dealing with political elections or in your life in general?

This article is not a political commentary, not a classification of world events, not an attempt to find stability in a world of change. No, on the contrary, it is intended to remind you of the only path that can really give you stability: the path to yourself. This is not self-centered ego-babble, but logic: you need to know who you are in order to make a difference. And that this feeling of “purpose”, which you can only find within yourself, is what gives you stability. Especially when all stability is falling away around you.

You don't have to be a psychic to know that we're in turbulent times of upheaval, and that things are about to get a lot more bumpy and chaotic. But if you spent Tuesday wondering how the hell you ended up on this Trump timeline - or even if you're "just" afraid of the future, trust me: you're here because you can make a difference. Find out how.

If you have no idea what your role is or if you are still struggling to believe that you could even have a role at all, start small. Just take the first step towards yourself. Whether you start observing daily what makes your heart sing (more on this in my article Know thyself! How to get to know yourself), want to get started working with your consciousness (e.g. with Trance Work or Constellation Work) or want to delve deeper into the Mysteries (I recommend my Advent calendar 2024), take this article as encouragement and take the first step. Because you are needed.