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Why We Must Learn, Become, Then Let Go to Know Thyself

By: Natalie Viglione

August 18, 2025

Let's explore the profound shift beyond spiritual identities that many are experiencing.

Delve into three essential phases of spiritual transformation: learning and discovery, becoming, and letting go. Discover how embracing and eventually transcending spiritual identities can reveal the timeless Divine Spirit within, allowing for deeper communion with GodSource and a transformative reconnection to our true infinite consciousness.

Through personal stories and ancient wisdom, join me in this soulful journey of awakening and embodiment.

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Have you felt called to expand beyond spiritual identities lately? The ego is shedding, the identities falling away... I see this as a huge shift that is happening to many, but it also happens exactly at the right time when a soul is ready as well.

Have you ever felt like you finally found a "tribe" felt into the things that resonate as part of a larger family: starseed, an indigo, an empath, or some other spiritual identity, and you feel that it’s that FINALLY moment. Like finally, FINALLY, someone gets why you felt so different your whole life. It’s amazing, it’s a wonderful feeling.

But lately... I feel something's been shifting for many.

Maybe you've started feeling boxed in by these labels. Maybe you've noticed judgment creeping in, toward others who don't "get it" or even toward other spiritual identities. Or perhaps you've felt this nagging sense that there's something MORE beyond even these beautiful discoveries.

What you're feeling is the call from your Divine Spirit, from the way that I peer into this, which is that God Spark of the Eternal Living Source that breathes within you. The True GodWorld is calling us home. The Eternal Living GodSource, the Creator is calling us home to a truth that lies beyond these identities.

As I shared in a video about the Divine Spirit called, The Meaning of the Divine Spirit & the Lineage of the Celtic-Druid Primordial Wisdom Keepers, this isn't about seeking some Source "out there" but it's about remembering the priceless treasure that's already within you.

The massive purification energies here this year coming in so, so, so strongly, and continuing into the coming years, are asking to be cleared. The work is clearing the "cages" which is the ancestral baggage, toxins, and impure frequencies that have clouded our ability to perceive our Divine Spirit.

This isn't random this ask for letting go of identities, and it's happening because your soul is ready to remember the infinite consciousness you truly are, beyond all names, labels, and even spiritual identities.

Here's what I've discovered through my own journey and working with other awakening souls: We're living through a most profound spiritual evolution, I’ve seen that it’s one that humanity has ever experienced, one of the most difficult due to all that has taken place to hide truth and control minds.

Our souls are remembering the Spirit, remembering who we truly are, but we're doing it while still existing in a reality that has forgotten and all but lost the Sacred.

So we grasp onto spiritual identities like life rafts in a storm. And they ARE life rafts! They're absolutely necessary. But here's the thing, they're stepping stones, not destinations.

I want to share with you one of the most profound spiritual truths that I’ve seen so clearly: The journey of KNOWING THYSELF requires Sacred Transformation phases, and I am going to frame them into three. So, if we condense things a bit to simplify, we have Phase 1 Learning, Phase 2 Becoming, and ultimately, Phase 3 is Letting Go. This isn't about abandoning gifts or your beautiful uniqueness and whatever mission you’re carrying, of course, but it is more so about transcending limitations to step into your true cosmic or a better word would be Universal Nature.

Peering into these 3 Sacred Transformational phases: none of these to note have time stamps, so it’s not to say that this doesn’t happen in rapid fire, or over decades.

This beautiful butterfly is all over our land we call One Song Grove here in Eastern TN and this little butterfly has really provided much wisdom as I see these phases now as the phases of a butterfly.

Phase 1: This is the huge learning phase: Awakening & Finding Identities

When we first awaken spiritually, we're like cosmic amnesiacs suddenly remembering fragments of who we really are. We discover we're starseeds, indigos, empaths, lightworkers, etc. And these discoveries are so very REVOLUTIONARY for our quests.

For the first time in our lives, things begin to FINALLY make sense. Why we felt so different. Why we could feel everyone's emotions. Why we've always been drawn to ancient wisdom, to the stars, to healing arts that can assist others. Why authority never felt right to us. Why we've always known there was more to reality than what we were taught.

These identities become these “sacred containers” or, as the butterfly has shown, the chrysalis, for our awakening consciousness that blossoms like the rose, the lineages of the Rose that many of us know we are of. These identities give us:

  • A sense of belonging and a more refined purpose to begin to make sense of so much that was left hanging for us since we’re kids 
  • Truly comprehending capacities or capabilities of our unique gifts and the challenges that we’re facing around those (given they’ll be unique for each of us as unique expressions) 
  • Connection to our soul family and others who are “speaking our language” as far as knowing thyself 
  • Framework for our spiritual missions, again always different for each of us 

And this foundation phase is VITAL. You cannot skip it. Just like a butterfly cannot skip the caterpillar phase, we can’t skip the phase of learning our cosmic or universal heritage connections and discovering spiritual identity of some kind.

Here’s a quick personal example: In my own path, discovering I was an Indigo with the Empathic abilities, it changed everything. Suddenly, my rebellious nature, the questioning WHY to everything made so much sense. My ability to see through lies and manipulations. My profound empathy for animals and the Earth. My calling to expose truth and challenge authority. For the first time ever, I wasn't weird anymore, but I was wired for a reason.

Phase 2: This is the Becoming phase and is about embodiment, or as I like to say IN-body-ment. Getting to the core of embracing the spiritual identities in our fields, anchoring into our body.

This second phase is where we fully step into these identities. We embrace our soul family mission, there’s a developmental process with our psychic abilities perhaps. We seek out articles or books to gather more intel from the soul family that speaks to our very cells. Many of us begin to do the work we came here to do in it’s early stages or building a framework.

This is the phase of empowerment, really. Empowerment of the spiritual aspects of who we are. We're no longer hiding our light. We're no longer trying to fit into a world that was never meant for us. We begin to stand in our truth and serve via our unique purpose, or at least, not being afraid to begin to stand in more bold ways to fully embrace ourselves.

But here's where it gets interesting. As we fully embody these spiritual identities, INTO our body, we start to encounter the same limitations that ALL identities carry:

  • Separation: "I'm a Pleiadian starseed, but they're just a regular human" 
  • Superiority: "We're the awakened ones, but they're still asleep" 
  • Attachment has set in... clinging to the identity itself rather than the consciousness it represents or an archetypal energy that we can peer through.  
  • This brings limitation: Defining ourselves by what we are rather than the Infinite Consciousness that we truly are that is not disconnected but WHOLE.  

This isn't wrong or bad, it's part of the natural and necessary process of the BECOMING. But it's also preparation for a final phase.

Quick personal example: During my years as an embodied Indigo, I was confident and clear in my mission. But I also carried an edge, sort of this “warrior” part of me, an "us versus them" mentality in many ways that I saw was separating me from the very humanity I was here to serve. It was a weird disconnected feeling, and while doing important elements of an overarching mission, I could say, but I began to see that it was doing it from a place of still a bit of separation rather than what a true Christic or buddhic unified consciousness feels like.

Phase 3: this is the “Letting Go” phase, which is the rebirth and awakening to the Divine Spirit

The third phase, an initiation phase, is the most profound, and often the most challenging. This is where we're called to let go of SO MUCH, even our spiritual identities. This absolutely necessary to merge into the Divine Spirit that we are, merge into that God Spark that is direct and of the Eternal Living GodSource that has been within us all along. Perhaps hidden or unfelt, but there. That is the Magick I speak of and in this phase, it doesn't mean we lose our gifts or that we abandon our mission. In fact, it’s the opposite. You DEEPEN and we EXPAND simultaneously. It means to transcend the limitations of identity itself to become pure expressions of the Divine Spirit in service to the One Source.

Many may hit this stage before knowing much of anything about theirselves, and this is like traveling with a friend and you know not their name. The phases assist us on the quest and all needed, all vital to the unfolding, becoming and then letting go.

For many of us, this phase is initiated by what I call "cosmic disruption" of some kind, which is a feeling of falling. A feeling that perhaps was pre-empted by, for example as

I’ve talked about before, a blue ray is typically walked into the hands of a massive mysterious illness. Or perhaps it’s a crisis or spiritual emergency of some kind, or a profound initiation. The Universal Force of Unconditional Love lovingly begins to dismantle the "cages" around our Divine Spirit in order to reveal the essence of who we truly are. These purification energies ask us to do so much clearing work; clear the ancestral baggage, toxins, and impure frequencies that have clouded our ability to perceive our Divine Spirit, for example. Much purification!

A quick personal example: For me, this did actually come through a very difficult and very mysterious illness and it brought me to my knees spiritually and physically. In the depths of that purification, I experienced something extraordinary and it’s this feeling of the Indigo-ness recalibrating or expanding with what I now know as the Blue Ray of Creation as it came with much clarity on that. But more than that, I experienced the dissolution of "Natalie the Indigo" and any sort of “Natalie in the Before” and melded into the everlasting spirit within. It’s what the ancient Celtic-Druid lineages called becoming "one of the Awakened Ones" with the "Splendid Vision."

The paradox here (and a profound truth), it is only by fully learning and becoming these spiritual identities that we can then transcend them and meld or merge or dissolve into the Divine Spirit. You cannot let go of what was never truly embodied. You cannot surrender an identity you've never fully claimed.

This is why I see these phases as essential, even if they are simplified for the sake of this video. The learning gives us INNERstanding (for we begin to stand from within to comprehend ourselves further). The becoming then gives us embodiment or IN-BODY-MENT. The letting go then reveals and strengthens knowledge that is felt and perceived from our Divine Spirit, the priceless treasure that was always in our keeping.

The deeper truth as to why I see this process as essential...

This quest and three parts isn't just individual, but I see it as Universal, if we can see that as beyond even what we call “galactic” or “cosmic.” We're not just mending or seeing that we are Whole, but we're clearing the "cages" that have been built around our Divine Spirit both energetically and physically. We're not just remembering who we are; we're remembering the God Spark that breathes within us all and the Living Natural World. We receive the Splendid Vision that ancients spoke of.

There's an ancient text called The Kolbrin that speaks beautifully to this truth:

"Those who turn away from the glorious jewel within to seek an outside God, a separate, unresponsive being, are looking for a mere trinket, while disregarding the priceless treasure already in their keeping." ​

When we identify as separate spiritual beings, we're still a seeking of an "outside God." When we transcend identities while maintaining our gifts, we become an Awakened One, those who have remembered the Divine Spirit within, that beautiful jewel. We become bridges between heaven and earth, unified and whole, we feel the Universal and we are Human.

The ancient phrase "Know Thyself" doesn't mean to know personality, gifts, or even identity, though of course those are parts of this, but what it ultimately means is to know the Divine Spirit that flows through you. It’s the same Universal Stream of Life that flows through the wind, trees, water, flowers, animals, and all of the Living Natural World.

This is how we begin to commence on the bigger aspects like:

  • Clearing the ancestral miasma and energetic blockages that cloud our clarity that comes from the direct relationship with the Creator of All That Is and runs through our Divine Spirit
  • Maintaining our unique gifts while serving the Infinite and Eternal God within all
  • Keeping, expanding, evolving our cosmic mission while embracing all humanity as expressions of the same Divine Spark for this dissolves separation completely, yet still honors uniqueness in that all
  • Holding our spiritual knowledge while remaining humble servants of the Eternal Living GodSource
  • Embodying Divine Love without spiritual bypassing or separation

Where are you in this quest if you were to see it in that 3-part magical unfolding?

Phase of Learning: Embrace it fully. Discover your cosmic lineages, Earth lineages. Connect further with your soul family. Study, expand your spiritual gifts which can be done easily through meditation even and stillness. This isn't a phase to rush, because it's the foundation for everything that follows, as part of the larger Flow.

Phase of Becoming (or unfolding...): Stepping into your power of living and serving from the unique gifts you carry. Staying open as there will be calls, initiations and signs that the 3rd phase may be approaching; the longing for something greater, the feeling of limitation even within your spiritual identity, things like this that ask “it’s time to let go.” It’s a little scary because that means we have to see BEYOND that and be OK with that at the same time.

Phase of Letting Go: Trusting, trusting and then trusting some more. Allow the dissolution. Know that what's dying is only limitations, not truths. What emerges will be more beautiful and powerful than anything you could imagine from a point in the current perspective that you’re within.

For all of these unfolding... remember that this is a spiral and it's not linear in nature. That’s why it feels like unraveling rather than breaking, for example. Like curls of a ribbon unfurling. You may move through all multiple times, or have deeper elements that call you in, but as you expand into greater and greater expressions of your true Self, these all become so clear. Rebirth is given its true meaning that is felt, nothing that comes from the mental or mind aspects, but FEELING.

A powerful way to dive into this can be through stillness: meditate on this question: "What am I beyond all identities?"

Write about your your sacred transformation you’ve been through, are these phases there for you?

Connect with others who are navigating this same path.

See whatever part of your unfolding, becoming or letting go as a way to serve and evolve right along those who you desire or who you already serve.

We are here in a most profound spiritual evolution in the human story. The builders and bridges, part of 144,000 archetypes that have been talked about for thousands upon thousands of worlds, and realizing that realizations and evolutions are a part of how we come together to help during this profound time, it’s really about Remembering. The Remembering of the Divine Spirit and an answer to the Creator's call Home.

By learning, becoming, and letting go, this is a response really to a Divine Call that we feel flowing. Every identity you embody and then transcend makes it easier for others to clear their own "cages" and remember their Divine Spirit as well. Every limitation you release creates more freedom for the collective to remember their true nature as expressions of the Eternal Living God, and I’m always desiring this to be very clear it’s the PURE and ORIGINAL not false gods or false light that has been far too rampant in this Earthly plan.

The True GodWorld is calling you home, and it’s not really about a place, but to a remembering. Home to the Divine Spirit that breathes within you. Home to becoming "one of the Awakened Ones" as part of those who have "seen the bright flash of Truth in the darkness of earthly existence" and remembered the everlasting spirit within.

If this resonates, you're hearing the same divine call that's echoing through consciousness right now. Your Divine Spirit is awakening to itself. You're part of the solution to humanity's amnesia about the God Spark within and now it’s about that word SURRENDER as to trust the divine call enough to let it unfold through you...

Learn fully, become completely, let go courageously. This is how we remember our Divine Spirit. This is how we know thyself. This is how we serve the Eternal that breathes within us all.

Thank you so much for watching and leave a comment below about which phase resonates most with you right now as we can support each other through the incredible journey of Remembering ...It’s how we serve the Grandest Mission of all to truly BE anchors. BE the bridges. To allow that Divine Flow to FLOW wildly, but also being strongly rooted n our bodies, rooted in the EArth, and rooted into the Living Natural World in all ways.