EMILIE PAYET

Le Rendez-Vous

Added 2025-10-21 13:57:50 +0000 UTC

Dearest Patreons,
After careful consideration and some hesitation, I have decided to publish this full series, produced outside of the professional framework that my standards allow, and without any retouching. I believe that in all confidence, you will find a resonance with what will follow...

Photographs made by Moran during Sacha's event in Mykonos.

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"Le Rendez-Vous"

I recently came across something that has sparked interrogations.
A personal development course that notably offers courses to "overcome the ego".
What does it mean? What if, somehow, in some cases, ego was necessary?
What about learning to recognize what triggers it in the first place?

Understanding is a power, but the real magic occurs when understanding arises from a need that a comfort zone cannot offer us.
All courageous endeavors require a will that resists our daily life’s turpitudes.

It may seem wise to distance ourselves from the people’s turmoils.
In fact, to overcome everything that is beyond our control, it is important to know how to put oneself in others' shoes.

People laugh when I say that I don’t have my driver’s license but that I know how to ride a horse.
The wheel is one of the best inventions of humankind, but sometimes it makes us believe in an illusion of control and freedom.
Most people who have made fun of me about this often say they are afraid of horses.
Mankind fears what it cannot control.
While it is control that should scare them.
When I am on wheels, I trust the people around.
When I am on horseback, I trust the horse.
And I believe I was less disappointed in trusting horses than humans.
Working to make only one with a horse is such a life lesson.
You have to feel and trust what you can’t control.
Control has a deep link with stability.
And "stability" is a step backward towards failure.

The ego seeks a stable environment; it can therefore reveal itself under the appearance of a defense tool.
But whoever seeks stability means they don't have it.
It is this sand dungeon that we have rightly built to isolate ourselves because our presence is no longer valued despite all our devotion.
"Overcoming it" sounds as if it should be taken from above, from a higher point of view, whereas it seems to me that a deep observation open to questioning and understanding would make it a good teacher.
We may end up denying the triggers, which prevent us from confronting them in order to take action.
The system of defense here no longer applies to the world around us but to the projections that it reveals within our being.

It turns into a vicious circle.
Understanding triggers leads us to know how to better protect ourselves.
From the outside as well as from the inside.
This is where the tool becomes effective and does the cleaning.
Observe what it prompts you to do and how.
Life doesn’t make decisions for you; you do.

Sometimes lack of ego makes people take advantage of us.
In certain uncomfortable situations where I decided to put my ego aside to avoid conflicts, it led me to mistreatment or a ‘ghosting’ of my existence, making them take my presence for granted.
Without seeking any recognition, it is clear that the field of relationship here is no longer nurturing, whether artistically, professionally or personally.
Nothing can be built on this kind of land.
In short, not knowing what triggers it blinds us to what the universe can offer, sometimes for the better.

Human beings must face what is difficult to watch in order to change it.
All actions in this world against cruelty and hatred stem from having witnessed horrors.
How can we change something that we have no knowledge about?

The extreme sensitivity in which the energy shifting into Scorpio will make us dive can lead us to develop aggressive defense mechanisms.
Inviting us to delve into the parts, not bad but 'dark' of our being, those that we consciously or unconsciously prevent ourselves from exploring.
Rising under the energy of Libra, this moon calls us to listen to what lies in depth, with temperance, even if it will hurt, in order to fix it.

Vulnerability brings us closer to what is fragile inside, but also to what is true.
What we sometimes want to distance ourselves from, but we cannot escape our true nature, can we?
Our ability to recover our entirety resides in our wounds.
Give them a chance to become a power more than a flaw.

For this new moon, I invite you, beautiful souls, to dig into this.
Vulnerability is not a weakness, it is a state of raw and pure beauty.
Surrender to it in a safe place and it becomes a power.
The safe place starts from within, don’t be afraid to meet you in depth.
It may not be as unfixable as you think.

How genuinely beautiful you are when you are vulnerable.