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Angel no. 35

Kawaqiyah

«I learn to master what limits and oppresses»
Hebrew letters
kaf-waw-qof
Choir
Powers
Period
From 13 to 18 September

Kawaqiyah accompanies the period from 13 to 18 September and belongs to the Powers. Its motto is «I learn to master what limits and oppresses». In this symbolic portrait, the gift is recognising obstacles that stifle a person and helping them find a path where they can grow.

You may have high aspirations, creativity and a desire for a life broader than the one that seems allowed to you. If your family environment is full of rivalry, conflict or rigid expectations, however, you may absorb these tensions until you mistake adapting for the only possibility. You keep functioning, but an important part of what you want remains on hold.

The risk is spending a long time between disappointments and things you give up, learning mainly to endure. Mickey Rourke evokes talent passing through waiting, defeats and difficult transitions. Struggle can make you very attentive to those living through something similar: you recognise the fear, resignation and anger often hidden behind someone who seems unable to react.

This attentiveness finds a direction when it becomes practical support. You can see an aspiration that is still unclear, give it words and help someone take a first step. Teaching, listening, guidance and defending rights are fields where the ability to understand obstacles can be useful. Your task is not to choose others' destiny, but to help them recognise possibilities fear had made disappear.

Agatha Christie and Oliver Stone represent a gaze that looks beneath the surface: resentments, cowardice, interests and hidden hostility. Understanding these movements lets you look beyond the most convenient account of events. In everyday relationships, that same gaze can help you distinguish a real difficulty from a justification that now keeps a person stuck.

In young Henry's journey towards becoming Henry V, Shakespeare stages a separation from an aimless way of life and a burdensome inheritance. The character changes his relationship with his own past by taking leadership of others. Responsibility towards a community matures his abilities and frees him from humiliation. The meaning is the possibility of not remaining a prisoner of the part you received in your family.

Óscar Arias Sánchez, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987, brings this direction into public life through work for peace in Central America: seeking a way out of a conflict involving many people. Renzo Piano instead evokes the ability to create spaces where others can live, meet and find new possibilities. The gift takes shape when what you build also makes someone else's life more manageable.

The main obstacle is reproducing what limited you. You may discourage a desire because it seems unrealistic, teach caution when you are passing on your fear or demand from others the same surrender you made. Advice becomes a way of normalising a defeat you have not yet accepted.

The need for revenge can make this closure even harsher. If you gain authority, you risk imposing conformity and obedience instead of opening possibilities. Porfirio Díaz represents strength reversed into a power that holds back and limits. You may justify every imposition through circumstances until you no longer hear those affected by it.

Changing direction requires recognising your less comfortable intentions too. Listening to criticism, admitting resentment and returning to a personal project prevent helping others from replacing your entire life. You can be close to someone without saving them and want something for yourself without first having to prove you are indispensable.

Kawaqiyah's direction is to turn knowledge of obstacles into practical freedom. Valuing neglected talent, recovering forgotten knowledge and supporting a possible step make your strength visible: opening a path rather than deciding how narrow it must remain.

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