Time and time again, I find that my house is a metaphor for what is going on in my life.
There are different sections of my house that represent the different areas of my life. The entryway, for my house and the entryway to what is coming into my life. The living room: how much recreation time-space I have. The dining room: the place where nourishment and entertaining takes place. The kitchen: the place where I cook food to nourish myself with. The bedroom: the place for sleep and sexual experiences. The bathroom: the place where I cleanse myself. My office: the place where I do work. The guest bedroom: the place where I store a bunch of my stock and overflow business equipment.
Each place has it’s purpose and each place reveals a spiritual metaphor.
When my entryway is cluttered, I got a lot of stuff going on in my life. I may even have trash bags piled near the door, stuff that I need to get rid of… it’s been identified and separated, but it just has not made it out of my life yet. Sometimes my entryway is covered in boxes of items that just shipped in. Sometimes the bench is full of stuff I dumped when I got home and never got around to organizing. The entryway tells a lot about what is coming into and out of my life.
My living room reveals how much I am prioritizing recreation. Right now, my living room is under construction. The sofa is pushed into the kitchen. There’s storage from the kitchen is pushed into the living room. The TV is still in place. Right now, my house is undergoing renovations. I have enough space in the living room to watch an epsidod of a TV show for breakfast and for dinner. I am pretty busy with the renovations and with work, so I don’t get much recreation done right now. I am jut too busy, and I want to finish up the floor job before optimizing my living space again.
The dining room is not really useable for dining right now. My sofa is pressed against the dinning table. I have my bags of bird seed accessible to feed my birds. I did install a swanky chandelier a few months back, as part of the on going changes in my house, but I can’t take guests in my house until the changes are done.
My kitchen was barely useable for a bit, but it is slightly better now. I have enough space to cook small and basic meals but the kitchen island is covered in painting supplies and baseboards.
Some of my stuff from my living room and kitchen is shoved into my bedroom near the door but otherwise my bedroom is pretty organized and is one of the places in the house that is complete. The walls were painted a sovereign purple colour, the carpet is shampooed, and my paintings surround me as I sleep.
As I update this post, my house is undergoing changing. I am, with my own hands, renovating my house. I have gifted myself a deeper bathtub, removed the peeled up vinyl flooring and laid down tile, re-painted the walls, upgraded some appliances, and installed granite counters. Part of the moving and painting required me to physically pick up every item and dust it off too, and decide if I want to keep it, which is quite fitting for the de-cluttering nature of my numerological year 9. I am on the home stretch of finishing the renovations. Another hoot is that in own of my own tarot card readings to myself about money, it looked like I would start to have my money with better flow once my house is settled, which makes sense on two fronts: (1) I will finally stop spending money on just one more bag of grout, box of tile, etc., AND (2) my space and my life will be in order, allowing better energy/money flow into my life (and bank account). I do think it is a great metaphor as I am taking care of myself and my space, no client or boss would bark at me for such a thing, so it won’t get done unless I set my mind to it.
Look around at your house and see what metaphors you can decipher from your own life are.
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