Trust is defined in the culture as: a firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability or strength of someone or something.
Here is how the Divine Feminine defines trust from The 13 Moon Oracle: “Trust is a state of surrender to the Divine Self, knowing that one is supported on ones journey toward wholeness, no matter how it looks on the surface appearances of life. Trust implies the acceptance that the lessons one is given are serving ones highest evolutionary potential toward wholeness. Part of the initiation we are all in around trust is to learn to trust the darker faces of love and enter in fully without denying, turning away, moving into addictions to avoid, withdrawing, judging, trying to change or fix, trying to control with the ego, react or struggle against and resist the processes of death. Forces greater than ourselves in the Mystery have the power to devour us, so that we acknowledge the ever present forces of death. Knowing that every moment may be our last, invites us to live more fully in the present moment. It is simply not possible to have surrender without trust or trust without surrender. Trust is a state within surrender to the Divine Self. Trust is a direct pipeline, the direct distance dial to the Divine without which there is simply no connection.”
And from The Alchemy of Ecstasy:
“In love there must be trust. Without trust there is no real relationship. Trust can be looked at as a provisional tactic for a conditional world. On a personal relational level when trust is apparently broken, the divine connection feels broken between the “trustees”. And we all know how horrible that feels. And yet the rupture of trust/betrayal, of all the woundings that we may suffer as a soul, can be the greatest agent of growth in the sacred. It marks the end of primal unconscious trust and forces upon us those terrible conditions that accompany the taking of the next step. In all the great myths of betrayal, such as Judas and Christ, Osiris and Set, Lancelot and Arthur, we find the loss of a simple faith. The condition of this trust has acted as a subtle but powerful binding that blocks the fullness of the greater consciousness needed to respond to new situations. Trust always contains the seeds of its own betrayal. Betrayal/loss of trust allows for the coming of deeper self-reflection and therefore allows us to enter more fully into the evolutionary world of growth, responsibility and consciousness. The key to unifying the duality pair of trust and betrayal and thus redeeming broken trust/betrayals, is forgiveness. Only forgiveness will allow one to return to the Garden after the gaining of awareness that opens that gateway into fully conscious partnership with the divine creative principle. Through genuine forgiveness, love is restored and the deeper evolutionary soul potential is revealed.” The following poem from Osho eloquently reveals the deeper nature of trust.
