Ah, we have arrived at the last of this little series of Wizardly Words, where Meghan and I have been sharing our understandings of those great foundations of the Gene Keys … The Shadow, The Gift, and The Siddhi. And this one, the Siddhi, oh, it is the deepest concept, and, for me, the hardest to define.

Richard Rudd, in the glorious Glossary of Personal Empowerment within his Gene Keys book says this about the Siddhi …

The frequency band relating to full embodiment and spiritual realisation … The word siddhi is from the Sanskrit meaning divine gift … There are 64 Siddhis and each one refers to a different expression of divine realisation … The 64 Siddhis are not obstacles on the path to realisation but are the very expression and fruition of realisation.

(You can actually read The Glossary of Empowerment here on the Gene Keys site.)

The part of that description I love most is that the word Siddhi is from the Sanskrit meaning “Divine Gift” … so my Siddhis are basically my Gifts on steroids! Wow! That is pretty powerful.

“The arising essence”

But how to even start to talk about “divine gifts”? There’s the rub! I have decided to talk about my own Siddhis, my own experience of this glorious Golden Path of mine, so that I might at least share the tiniest glimmer of what the Siddhis are, and maybe intrigue you enough to contemplate your own! (My cunning plan to get people to explore their Gene Keys … ha ha!!!)

But then of course, comes the next problem … I have so many amazing Siddhis in my chart, how am I to choose?!

I have Freedom and Liberation. I have Illumination and Awakening. I have Universal Love, for goodness’ sake!! And I was unsure how to write about any of these Siddhis, because they are all so elusive.

But then Meghan, who always brings her wisdom into our every conversation, suggested that I choose just one of my Siddhis and talk about that. And it was easy to choose. I love my whole chart, I mean, I am in love with ALL of my Gene Keys, and since I’m working in my Brand sphere as I write this, you’d think I’d go for the Siddhi of Liberation. And I did think about that, because I do love it.

But honestly? My favourite Gene Key is my Purpose key … Gene Key 48, with its Siddhi of Wisdom is, for me, the fulcrum around which my whole chart wheels and dances. Yes, when I was I my Culture sphere, I knew without a shadow of doubt that the Gift of Acceptance was the Gift that is lodged at the heart of all of my Gene Keys. And yes, when I was in the Core sphere, I could see Gene Key 31 at the core of every other key in my chart!!

But when it comes to the Siddhis, Wisdom is the one that I can really feel in my body. So, I thought that Wisdom would be the one I would (mostly!) talk to you about today. (Although of course, I won’t be able to help myself from slipping some of the others in!!)

My Purpose Siddhi

Richard describes Wisdom thus …

Wisdom is the primal state of not knowing that emerges from the complete relaxation of mind and body in response to life. Wisdom reveals that all the answers are already inside. True wisdom is not the accumulation of skills or knowledge, but infinite trust in the ever-changing stream of universal energy. Wisdom is the unshakeable fearlessness rooted in an integral connection with all of life.

“The Beyondness of Being and Not Being”

Honestly, if I were of an esoteric mind, then that one liner description of Wisdom would probably give me enough fuel to contemplate for years!

But I’m not esoterically minded (well … not completely esofuckingteric!!). I’m a practical spiritual woman. I want to take these concepts on the Gene Keys, like “Siddhi”, like “Wisdom”, and integrate them into my everyday, ordinary life.

And do you know what?! That is exactly the ethos which Richard Rudd embodies himself. Yes, his teachings can sometimes feel esoteric and other-worldly, but that is only because he has a poet’s heart. But essentially, even when he says things like, “the beyondness of being and not being”, he is leading you on a path towards embodying this Gene Keys work into your mundane life; and, trickster that he is, he shines a light that lets you see how much magic there really is, glittering and pulsing in the very fabric of your mundane, everyday life!

But I Digress … Back to Gene Key 48 …

There are a multitude of definitions and interpretations of the word “wisdom”, but most of them imply a kind of “inner knowledge” that allows you to see beyond most people’s “normal awareness”.

Richard describes the Siddhi of Wisdom as a great paradox … it is something we humans aspire to, but it is also something that terrifies us because it is the Siddhi of the Void … the great state of NOT knowing!

Now, that alone would give you years’ worth of contemplation … how can wisdom be NOT knowing??

This is something I have been contemplating for nearly three years, as I’ve travelled with my Gene Keys. But I can see now that it has been bubbling under the surface of the 25 years of inner work I did before I found Hayley and the Gene Keys!

I love that Richard describes this paradoxical concept as both “delightful” and “infuriating” … he is right … I love it and delight in, it terrifies me and makes me crazy, all at the same time!

“To know takes great effort and exertion”, he writes in the Gene Keys Big Blue Book, “whereas not knowing is already there inside you”.

Yes!!! You KNOW it’s there! You feel it. You want it, this well of wisdom; but it terrifies you because it is the Void, the black hole of NOT knowing; and as Richard says, “everything about wisdom is about being UNsafe and UNsecure”!

I Get a Double-Whammy of 48

Because Gene Key 48 sits in my Purpose sphere, that means I get to look at it through two lenses … the Purpose of my Activation Sequence and the Purpose of my Venus Sequence …

The Black Hole

Or …

Finding the Black Dog on a Pitch-Dark Night

This Siddhi of Wisdom makes me think about a dog I used to have … Oscar, a great hairy, black galoot of a hound, who was the sweetest beast, but he wasn’t exactly the brightest!! He was a bit of a “fairy” dog, floating through life, easily distracted; he would be so intent on what he was sniffing or looking at, that he’d go completely deaf to me calling him!

I lived in a very dark valley in Ireland; no streetlights or other houses anywhere near me, so on moonless nights, or cloudy nights, it was pitch black on my land. And Oscar, the great hairy galoot, would wander around my land, just ignoring me (or maybe not even hearing me!), when I wanted him to come back into the house.

Finding a black dog on a black night is a bit like looking for Wisdom … you can’t “look” for it directly … you have to soften your gaze and allow the subtle shifts and nuances of a living being in a field of trees and flowers to register in a deeper part of your brain, rather than in the optical or auditory perception areas of my brain.

That’s how I used to find Oscar … I would defocus my eyes and just allow the sounds of the night, wind and rain and leaves in trees slip into the background … and I would allow the slightly blacker black of Oscar’s coat to register against the blackness of the field.

I always knew he would be there somewhere. I trusted him not to wander farther than the boundary trees of my land.

By “not looking” for him, I always found him.

Finding Wisdom by Not Looking

Wisdom is like that … you cannot find wisdom.

You simply have to trust that it is there, in the deep well of not knowing, and it will be revealed to you … usually in a way you’re not expecting.

And when it does, you will sigh, and you will say to yourself, “of course, of course that is the answer”.

I suspect that a lot, if not all, of the Siddhis are like this elusive Wisdom that bubbles up when you stop looking for it and simply trust it.

In the context of the Gene Keys, the 64 Siddhis are the biological expressions of the ultimate state of enlightenment. They are quite literally an encyclopaedia of the many expressions of spiritual realisation.

You cannot go looking for the Siddhis.

You could read the whole of Richard’s Big Blue Book over and over, but no amount of learning the words and stories that book holds, or indeed that all of the glorious Gene Keys courses hold, will bring you into contact with the Siddhis. You cannot will yourself into a Siddhic state.

But you can get glimpses of them!! You can catch the movement of air around that black dog on a dark night!

It Begins With Contemplation

The journey into the Gene Keys begins with contemplation. Richard describes the core pathway into the work as being built on contemplation, absorption and embodiment.

This takes work.

This is a slow path.

Like I said, you can’t just read the book and expect to find the Siddhis.

You have to take the journey along your own Golden Path.

And you have to make this journey again and again, going ever deeper into yourself. (In January 2026, I’m going to be starting my Golden Path journey all over again, for the fourth time!)

And then, if you’re lucky, you may catch a few glimpses of your Siddhis.

You may have moments of such startling clarity that for an instant you embody the Siddhi, what Richard calls “making the leap beyond light-speed”.

But just like someone travelling at light-speed, the clarity, the realisation, the knowing is gone before you’ve really even registered it.

But you’ll know it’s there, just like I knew my back dog was there in the night time field.

And you will want to carry on doing this work.

Illumination

As I said at the start of this, I am very lucky. I not only have this glorious Siddhi of Wisdom in my Purpose sphere, but I also have many wonderful, light-filled Siddhis that give me such hope and optimism for the world.

Shit, I even have Gene Key 64, with its Siddhi of Illumination.

Enlightened Poetry

The 64th Siddhi is the Siddhi of Illumination. This is Imagination without the I. When that “I” surrenders its need to exist, magic shines through. The evolutionary force obliterates the identification with form and Illumination floods your being … To be illuminated by the 64th Siddhi is to remain empty, while being constantly flooded with the rainbow colours of the inner aurora – it is to be an easel for the imagination of the universe itself.”
Richard Rudd

To be illuminated is to remain empty … there is that glorious Black Hole of not knowing showing up in this Siddhi too.

We are not here to KNOW everything!

We are here to realise that we know nothing, because that NOT KNOWING is the field of pure potentiality out of which all life … all creativity, all bliss, all miracles … can grow.

Embrace the confusion of life! (Confusion is the 64^th Shadow!) For confusion is the chaos of the elements, it is “a state rippling with pure potentiality”.

It’s okay not to know!

In fact, if you truly want to experience the Siddhic state of your own Gene Keys, I would say that not knowing is a fundamental pre-requisite before you start the journey.

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Meghan’s Reflections

Lizzie has done a beautiful job investigating this elusive frequency Richard Rudd named the Siddhi. Truthfully, our human brain as it is now probably can’t actually understand this frequency. I know when I read about my Siddhis I can only grasp parts of the descriptions. And that’s ok, they continue to inspire me nonetheless.

In the other two articles we’ve written on the Shadow and the Gift, I brought in the Dream Arc world. I’m going to bring it in here too. The Siddhic frequency in the Dream Arc is represented by the bird realms. Every one of the 64 keys has a bird representing its spiritual frequency. However, since this is a state that many of us will never reach in our lifetime, or even our many lifetimes, Richard has wisely made the birds Vision Keepers. The birds help us hold the Vision of _______. For instance, the Dove, Gene Key 6, holds The Vision of Ineffable Peace.

The qualities of the key are then represented by the chosen bird. For instance, the Golden Oriole (50) has a very harmonic singing voice and is well suited to holding The Vision of Essential Harmony. And the Nuthatch (36) holds The Vision of Worldly Compassion and can climb up and then down a tree, representing our own Humanity reaching to the highest realms while still remaining grounded on earth.

I will do as Lizzie did and explore the key (and vision keeping bird) from my own chart that is closest to my heart at the moment. I’m picking the Crane and Gene Key 20 in my Evolution Sphere… s/he holds The Vision of Mythical Presence. 

The crane is a portal between the human realm and the celestial. It represents the sacred word of God and the ability to embody the Divine attributes in human form. Cranes are well known for their balletic courtship dances and the people of this symbol will learn how to see their own lives as a dance in which their challenge is to integrate the mystical into everyday life. The crane also has mythic associations with many sacred alphabets. Thus, the people drawn to this symbol are here to communicate the sacred presence through language, physical movement or some other form of high art. - Richard Rudd from the Dream Arc

How do I bring this kind of teaching into my everyday life? From a bird no less? I think Lizzie has a great idea… I look at it sideways, feeling into it, catching the sparkly essence around the corners, letting it seep into my ears and skin and belly and feet. Another way is to watch the bird itself (we have a pair of Sandhill Cranes that nest in our neighbors’ fields from May to Labor Day every year and they graze often on our land). I bow to the sheer presence of this ancient, almost prehistoric bird and let that majesty of natural flowing movement and sound inform my aura. I filmed this video in late summer 2018. The pair of cranes had two young ones that year.

The sheer primal power of the Crane, who is clearly totally present in its very physical being, holds the vision for me to be more present. Some of the words around the hexagram for Gene Key 20, and from the Gene Keys book are also helpful and in my imagination I drape them around the images of the Crane I create: Contemplation … Intention of Receptivity …. Listening to the whispering wind respond to life with complete trust … Presence is Clarity in Stillness … Divine Relaxation.

I like to find quotes to help me to get closer to the message of the Crane and the Siddhic energy of GK 20. And make art around them.

“Do I want the present moment to be my friend or my enemy?” The present moment is inseparable from life, so you are really deciding what kind of relationship you want to have with life. - Eckhart Tolle

I love the quote from Hayley Curtis (above in Lizzie’s musings) about using the Siddhi to help us bridge the space between the shadow state and the gift state. So when I am feeling like I am in my shadow of superficiality … closing down my self awareness, skating on the surface of life, jumping from one thing in my mind to another and future or past ruling my thoughts … I can use the heightened concept of Presence. I can bring in the creature that is Crane, and tune back into myself, and ask my “go to” question: Where (or who) am I now? And in answering the question come into my gift of Self-Assurance.

What the Crane is asking me in the above image reminds me of something Byron Katie says. (Isn’t my avatar’s hair ridiculously lush?)

Every moment is a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now... -Byron Katie

If you needed some Siddhic energy to help you unwrap your gift in the moment, which one of your Siddhis comes to mind (if you know your chart)? If you don’t know your chart, do you have a bird that inspires you that might help you bridge that gap between your shadowy behavior and the gift you know it contains? What bird might help you face your fears?

I imagine in time we will end up calling on many of our Siddhis to act as this bridge depending on which of our shadows might be active. There is nothing like the precise medicine to help with an illness. I might be feeling like I’m forcing something in my life (34)… to get to the gift of strength I could call on the Emu and her Vision of Grounded Majesty. If nothing else it gets me to smile at the thought of an Emu looking me in the eye and asking me to let go of force (and trying so hard to put a round peg in a square hole), and instead take the path of ease and full bodied majestic being. What space it opens up as I pause and bring a smile to my predicament.

BTW, you can find the Dream Arc animals and information on your hexagrams for all of your Gene Keys in the Living Library on the Gene Keys site where you can also get your free profile.