'Avocation' Articles
Your avocation is what you find yourself doing even when you didn’t really intend to do anything at all. In hermetic terminology, it’s also called “true will”. Avocation is just ones “calling to action”. So you may have always suspected something about yourself, and dismissed it in saying “Ah no, that’s just silly”. Your first impression of yourself was right, the rest has been silly, but you can have that first impression again at any time. Right now, entertain that you have a calling. Feel it inside of yourself. It’s freedom, and realize that every time you felt free, it was because you were on that path and doing that very broad thing. Find your invocation, the presence of the infinite divine in you. Then pursue your avocation, the expression of the gift that you are anyway, even if it isn’t trendy right now. Then accept an evocation in the world.
“My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight”
Robert Frost (American poet, 1874-1963)
Avocation vs. Vocation
Avocation is also known as ones “Calling”. We all deal with the realities of vocation in one way or another, but that is not the same thing. Your vocation is just gainful work you do because someone employs you to do it, and it can be completely arbitrary. Avocation is what you will do from your core. It just rises from your being, and you do it no matter what practical thing you would do. You do it even if you don’t mean to. Your avocation is something you do even without “thinking”. It sounds like we’re not so lost… Seek More
Way of Being
Destruction is sometimes the way to get the wall out of the way of a creative person, or destroy the philosophers principles so they can find better ones. The person whose calling is destruction, brings the gift of strength. The person whose calling is fundamentally creative, brings the gift of possibilities and hope, but avocation is never a specific activity. It’s more your way of being active in the world in general. What about a fundamentally inquisitive person? Inquisitor is a calling. It‘s a powerful one. They help drive everyone’s learning. The inquisitor is often seen as frustrating, almost like someone… Seek More
Self Discovery
Avocation = calling, or that which you find yourself doing even when you intended to do something else. If you feel your body is a gift to use to help others, that may be your calling. Some peoples magnum opus is powerful labour. Magnum opus? Latin. Great work, and also the term for the spiritual path in hermetic philosophy. You will have your calling without effort. It’s just your nature, but it can be either in balance or out of balance. When out of balance it seems more like a curse? Exactly. For me, when my avocation was out of… Seek More
Our Calling
The topic is avocation, and we won’t be talking about your career unless it’s noticeably congruous with your nature, but this isn’t most peoples experience. Avocation is calling. It’s what we find ourselves doing even when we don’t feel we are doing anything really at all, and it stems from our nature. We all know people who seem like natural mother types and father figures, but there are more “types” (for lack of a better term) than parental figures. There are creative types and organizing types, advocating types and voices of moderation, and yes it’s a good thing that there are… Seek More
Our Question
We all have one question. It’s really pretty easy to identify this one question. This question is about life. The question isn’t about ourselves. A very young human being just sort of accepts that they are here and things are around them. They don’t go much farther than that as far as purpose goes. The question is about life, and although it is one question, not everyone has the same one question. My question is “Why is this apparent?” My life experience seems to be filled with an awareness of the difference between the apparent and the real. A philosophers question… Seek More
Understanding Avocation
If your calling is the philosopher, you function on meaning and principles, and if a situation seems to have no principle you feel lost. Me, I function on rhythm or cycles, flow. I function on chaos. When the fire stops burning then I wonder what’s up. Creating chaos? Ah no, I don’t need to create it, and I’m not interested in arbitrary disruption of things. But people do become very stable in fear states, and I do love disrupting those. Some get so caught up in the “sense” of their pain that they will defend the cause while complaining of the symptom.… Seek More
Be On Purpose
If your life seems repetitive, don’t sweat it. It’s just your soul trying to give you a message. If you are out of connection with your avocation, life will seem very stagnant. Fake. This applies to everyone, because for you it’s true. You aren’t in touch with your own reality, so how can you be in touch with anyone else’s? Now am I saying a vocation is beneath you? A job or career? No, not at all. If your vocation corresponds to your avocation, that’s great. If not, that’s fine, but I would invite you to consider what you are… Seek More
