Forget everything you’ve ever learned about rejection — until now.

Rejection is an initiation into oracular leadership.

We grow up believing we are at the mercy of life and the events that happen to us.

Rejected by caregivers, siblings, peers, groups, communities, the school system, the workforce.

Everywhere you go, every new space you land in: the familiar story repeats.

You have internalized that story.

You’re a reject. A misfit. The black sheep. An outsider. An outcast.

This is your lot in life.

But what if this part of your story is just … the first half of your fairy tale?

Think of all the fairy tales you know — even the polished and sanitized Disney versions.

No heroine begins as the Crowned One, the Queen, the Sovereign.

No.

She begins her story as the outcast.

⫸ Cinderella sweeping cinders for her cruel stepfamily.

⫸ Ariel longing for legs in a watery world full of people with fins.

⫸ Belle reading books surrounded by provincial people who scoff at her dreams and lofty ideas.

⫸ Moana dreaming of the sea in a village of people happy to be landlocked.

Rejection is an initiation portal into the crown and the throne —

into sovereignty.

It is the beginning … not the end.

What if life is waiting for you to engage this initiatory process so that you can claim your destiny?

If you collapse at the first sign of being misunderstood, life knows you are not ready to accede the throne.

This is not a judgement.

This is not shaming.

This is life’s neutral assessment.

Because energy doesn’t lie.

The world as we have come to know it is crumbling around us.

The news headlines are panic-inducing. Global chaos is at an all-time high.

Things won’t be slowing down any time soon.

Amidst all the destruction, many people are people called to pathmake a new way forward.

To literally forge a new world as the old one crumbles.

To be a bridge from old paradigm to new. 

But this work is not for dabblers and weekenders. 

I don’t mean this isn’t work you can’t do on the weekend (of course you can and many do!) 

What I’m saying is this: 

Energetically, you must be all in.

You must be willing to be forged by life just as reality itself is being forged anew. 

The times ahead will ask you for steadiness of vision, heart, resolve, and trust.

This work is for the devoted. 

Your metal will be tested. 

And metal is magnetic.

Many people will not “get” what you are doing.

Still more will not like it. 

Others? Will mock it. 

And some? Will full-blown hate it. 

We’re talking rejection at the mass scale. 

Are you scared yet? Good.

Because if you have not integrated and alchemized the microdosed poison medicine of rejection at the personal scale, how do you expect to stay steady and clear-eyed in the face of rejection at the collective scale?

It’s simple. 

You won’t. 

And life would not ask that of you, because life is not cruel. 

But life is honest.

Life will not give you more until you have shown that you are willing to engage the initiation.

“The one who is faithful in a very little thing is also faithful in much,” Luke 16:10

I don’t say any of this to scare you. I say it to ignite you.

I desire a world full of visionaries, dreamers, artists, and oracles who are unstoppable.

Can you imagine a world like that? Because I can. And it’s awesome.

But until you are able to complete your rejection initiation, you will stay small and quiet—self-censoring, afraid to rock the boat, and terrified of being disliked.

Welcome to the initiatory pathway.

Are you ready?