The Great Gatekeeper

Fear.

It arrives uninvited—tight in the chest, heavy in the gut, whispering doubt through clenched teeth.

It says, “Stay small. Stay safe.”

But I’ve come to know fear not as the enemy, but as the gatekeeper to transformation.

We were never meant to conquer fear with force. We were meant to meet it with presence.

To sit with it, breathe with it, let it speak. Because fear, at its core, is ancient intelligence—it arises to protect, but it often forgets we are no longer living in the wild, hunted by lions.

Now, the lions are inside.

They roar when we rise to speak our truth.

They claw when we choose joy over obligation.

They growl when we dare to follow the call of our soul.

But what if fear is not here to stop us—but to mark the edge of a breakthrough?

What if fear is the trembling veil between the known and the possible?

In my own sacred path, fear has shown up at every portal of expansion—

when I opened my heart to love again,

when I offered my medicine to the world,

when I chose to live in devotion instead of survival.

I’ve learned that courage isn’t the absence of fear—it’s the holy act of moving with it.

Hand in hand. Breath by breath.

And when we do, something opens.

Behind fear is freedom.

Behind fear is the true self.

Behind fear… is the song we came here to sing.

So if fear is rising for you now, take it as a sign:

You are close.

You are growing.

You are remembering your power.

Bow to the gatekeeper. Then step through