Three Kings’ Day: The Gifts We’re Meant to Unwrap 2026

I’m writing this with the bittersweet feeling that comes at the real end of the holiday season here in Valencia. I’ve spent these holidays in Spain with my family, and if you’ve been here at this time of year you know the rhythm: Christmas is meaningful, yes—but Día de Reyes (Three Kings’ Day), January 6, is the highlight. It’s the morning when children wake to find gifts, when the streets still echo with the wonder of the Cabalgata parades from the night before, and when a country collectively exhales: “This is the ending—and also the beginning.”

I have come to appreciate this day as a living parable—one that speaks directly to our spiritual development, especially at a time in history when many of us feel the world straining under political anxiety and changing international strategies. Across the globe, we are watching government systems strain, constitutional norms tested, and international relationships increasingly framed in terms of power blocs and “spheres of influence.” Fear-driven narratives are resurfacing. Control is being justified as security. Force is again being mistaken for strength.

Humanity is standing at a crossroads. From a spiritual perspective, this moment is not new. It is archetypal. And that is why Three Kings’ Day—Día de Reyes—feels especially alive this year. Metaphysically, this day marks a transition: the light that has been born is now meant to be received, embodied, and lived. So today, I want to reflect on the Three Kings —especially the gifts they bring—through a Unity metaphysical lens, and ask what those gifts mean for humanity right now. That makes the story of the Three Kings not just seasonal—but profoundly timely.

Wisdom Rising Above Fear

Metaphysically, the Three Kings, often called the Wise Men or Magi, represent the activity of inner wisdom awakening to the Christ consciousness. The star they follow is not merely celestial; it symbolizes the inner guidance that leads us when outer conditions feel unstable or unclear. The Wise Men are inner faculties within human awareness that awaken when the Christ presence is recognized.

The kings in the Bible story visit King Herod, who is fearful that his throne may be in jeopardy according to the prophecies of the coming King of the Jews. On Dr David Hawkins’ Map of Consciousness, fear is a low vibration compared to love and peace. The lower levels of consciousness demonstrate control and force. Herod believes that power must be seized or defended.

We are witnessing this consciousness showing up in institutions, governments, and empires today. When domination is framed as protection, when force is justified as order, when fear drives policy, we are witnessing force attempting to preserve itself.

However, the Wise Men act with courage, which is the tipping point on Hawkins’ map. From courage, consciousness shifts. They rise. They move. They bring gifts. The journey of the Three Kings is humanity’s consciousness in motion, crossing a threshold. Courage does not mean that fear disappears; it means that we choose Truth anyway.

The Gifts

The gifts of the Three Kings reveal themselves not as external offerings, but as spiritual faculties awakening and coming into right relationship within human consciousness, as described by Charles Fillmore in The Twelve Powers of Man.

Gold represents spiritual substance and true riches—not material accumulation, but consciousness aligned with Divine value. Gold symbolizes worth rooted in Truth rather than power, control, or domination. It corresponds with the powers of Power, Will, and Order—the capacities that allow consciousness to act with integrity rather than domination.

This is not power over others, but power aligned with Divine principle, as described by Hawkins in Power vs Force.  Gold represents the moment when human will yields to Divine order and true authority is exercised through wisdom, restraint, and moral clarity. Value is no longer measured by control or accumulation, but by alignment with Truth. 

At a personal level, gold asks: What do I truly value?

At a collective level, it asks: What does a society choose to prize, and therefore build?

Frankincense aligns with the powers of Wisdom and Understanding. As incense rises, so does perception. This gift represents the refinement of thought—the ability to discern, interpret, and respond from spiritual intelligence rather than emotional reactivity or manipulated narratives.

Frankincense is consciousness lifted above confusion, propaganda, and fear—into clarity, coherence, and ethical reasoning.

Myrrh represents the eternity of Spirit and the healing power of love. Appearing at both the birth and death of Jesus, it reminds us that even when forms change Life itself remains whole. Myrrh corresponds with the powers of Love and Life. It carries the awareness that Spirit is eternal, that life is not threatened by change, and that compassion is not weakness but strength. 

Myrrh represents the heart fully awakened—able to hold suffering without being defined by it. At this level, love becomes an active force for healing, and life is trusted as fundamentally whole.

Together, the gifts reveal the maturation of spiritual power within humanity: courage for the right use of will to illumined understanding to embodied love, thus rising from lower vibrations to higher on the Map of Consciousness.

The Journey of Awakening

Scripture is much more than history. It reveals patterns of awakening for humanity. Thus, the journey of the Three Kings is a story that is happening today, and one in which we are participating. Humanity is once again being asked:

• Will we follow fear or intuition?

• Will we organize life around force or around Love-informed power?

• Will we bring our gifts to the Christ presence within humanity—or lay them at the altar of fear?

Here in Spain, Three Kings’ Day closes the holidays. Decorations come down. Ordinary life resumes. But spiritually, today is not an ending—it is a commissioning.

The light does not disappear. It asks to be lived.

May we unwrap the gifts wisely.

May we follow the inward star.

And may we choose the power that heals, rather than the force that fractures.