ARA TRAN

I’m a mystic, a space holder, a story weaver, and a soul reader. 

I love nothing more than peeling back layers of conditioning and beliefs to reach the core of the matter — 

The essence.

This introduction emerged after another ego death—death of an old identity, of the old life. I burnt away years of stories I had held onto so proudly as a badge to prove the level of worthiness of my existence. For a long time I thought I knew who I was. I thought I knew what I wanted and who I would want to become. I always had a strong sense that my path would look different. But as I walked this path, even when I didn’t want to admit it, I was still somehow very much influenced by society's expectations—or worse, by my own ridiculous expectations of myself. 

As someone who has Pluto conjunct South Node in 12th house, (and Saturn conjunct North Node in the opposite), I tried to control life more than I flow with life. 

I subconsciously tried to bend the path linear, even when I had all the awareness to understand that it’s wildly not. 

I set the deadline, forced the timing, held tightly onto spiritual knowledge that comes naturally to me and collected life lessons like an asset, pushed myself to make things work in a short time to prove to the world that I’m enough:

I should be loved,

I should be respected,

I should be accepted.

I told myself that the work is done only when the result and outcome are approved by people around me, without knowing that it was just my inner child saying, “I just want to be normal. To be like other people.”

I kept myself small not because I want to be normal. I kept myself small because I unconsciously fear my own uniqueness and potential.

No one is actually “normal”. We were taught that we are. We were conditioned that it’s what we should be.

That fear has kept me stuck inside the rigid box of rules and norms that sucked my vitality and left me with a weary heart and an unwell vessel. Until I reached the bottom of the bottom and promised to do whatever it takes to change.

So, allow me to rewrite my story and reintroduce myself.

I have a mind that loves to analyze, investigate, and translate the esoteric and mysteries of life into a subject that is approachable and in a language that everyone can understand. But at some point, I realized my quest for knowledge needs to be balanced with the willingness to surrender to the unknown. Beyond any label I’m an intuitive being, living an intuitive life and using intuition not to get the answer, but to be okay with not knowing everything. Channeling is one of my ways to step out of my mind, tune into the invisible world, and simply listen. 

I channel more than I consciously know. Mostly in a form of journaling, when I open myself up to receive guidance for my path. I slowly build the trust muscle within myself out of habits with not too much effort like when I often deal with other things, especially when I control too much and push against the current. 

There’s one specific reason behind what I do, create, and also the essence of my work: it is about helping people reconnect to their soul blueprint and essence, to see and own their strength, gifts, talents, and share them with the world. I’m extremely passionate about people remember who they are and why they are here in this changing time. Because it’s my manifesto that we change the world by first getting in touch and transforming the world within ourselves.

And in the cusp of change, when I had no choice but to surrender to the force greater than me,

I saw a glimpse of a new beginning.