There's a saying that's been going around the "New Age" and recovery communities for years: Would you rather be right or would you rather be in relationship? One reading of this sefirotic permutation is Surrender to Connection -- the place where being in relationship is more important than one's own ego or being right. The place where the "I" surrenders to the "us."
And because surrender is essential to let God in, when one surrenders in relationship it's an opportunity to let holiness into the relationship as well. The surrender is also to the connecting energy of Yesod, which in its positive form is like the thrust upward of the shoot out of a seed towards the light. It has the power to break through granite. Because it is a power that comes from, and seeks to return to, God, as God (or whatever you wish to call IT) seeks to know itself. When we surrender to this energy, we get out of the way and let it happen. We have no control over it, and thus that takes us to the other reading of Hod: humility. Inasmuch as we have no control over it, we have to remember that there's no reason to be proud of this connection. In fact, pride stops up the flow.
Or as I've heard it said in some rooms I've been in: Let go and let God.
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