"Many individuals stand up and declare an idea that is "destined to be a movement". Many of these individuals end up just sitting back down. A few begin showing signs of a movement, but turn around and sit back down as well. Out of those many, a couple will succeed on their mission. They will demonstrate a level of enginuity, and enthusiasm to make their idea a movement. " Rev. Eric T. Schuetz

Are you a dreamer or a visionary? Do you live your dreams or do your dream live you? Everyone has thoughts about what life could, should and would be and it´s important to ponder these things because from these we get new ideas and life no longer follows the same old boring patterns. If our dreams become visions which then reach out into life and transform it we become visionaries! But then we can forget the grounding of life, we get lost in our dreams, the insubstantial misty thoughts that are anything we want them to be except real!

One symbol that I find inspirational for this is the pentacle, in the obverse. I have five words or "IN´s" for each element, so earth is Instinct, water is Intuition, air is Intellect, Fire is Intent and Spirit is Inspiration. There are two more "In´s" that I shall describe later.
Usually the pentacle is point up, spirit reaches into heaven, air and water reach out the sides and fire and earth reach down. But I find this to be ungrounded because here heaven and earth are separated into dualistic thinking. But that´s the problem of many religions and spiritualities, they seek "God", heaven, meaning or truth outside of mundane life. This is for unhealthy, unreal dreamers, not visionaries.

Taking the pentacle again we can put the spirit point down, bury it in the ground. This means to me that dreams or Inspiration are grounded, that they have real expression, they are not delusions that lead us away from the vitality tha is life. At its sides are Intellect and Intuition tthat support it like struts either side. Then there is Instinct and Intent, these are raised toheaven where they commune with "higher" realities. The sixth "In" is the Individual which lays within the pentagram at the centre, where it is sustained, supported and protected by the other "IN´s".

In some schools of thought this symbol is often seen with a horned animals head. We humans are just animals with basic animal needs, food, air etc. Now the mouth "feeds" off of Inspiration but only when it is grounded in the Earth. The ears of the animal are Intellect and Intuition, they are our tools of perception. Then the animals horns, Instinct and Intent are raised to the heaven´s fending off useless pipe-dreams. Here is the balanced and healthy human animal, where heaven and earth are married and not separated. This gives us our seventh "IN", Integrity. A life with Integrity in a healthy, happy and balanced one.

Here we have an image to help us make our dreams and give them reality and meaning. If we feed ourselves only with the basic necessities of life we become empty shells, devoid of meaning and if we forget these in favour of dreams then we become nothing more than empty visions. But if we can align these two, seek Integrity then life becomes something good and healthy.

But what´s important isn´t the symbol, I was just using that to convey a point (or five ;) ), so I leave you with this thought,

May Instinct sustain you and not constrict you,
May Intuition guide you and not confuse you,
May Intellect give you sense and not ignorance,
May Intent be strong and not burn you,
May Inspiration manifest potential and not empty images
And may Integrity flow through the Individual in health and balance.