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My Dragonfly - A Summer’s Tale
One of my ways of finding stillness is to step into nature, most often my garden, either putting my hands in the soil, snipping a plant here or there, feeling the warm breeze on my skin, or listening to the deafening sounds of cicadas at dusk. These experiences, and more, slow me down - help me to find my center in my busy world.
Stillness
So, at its essence, stillness is connected to co-creativity for me. It is a shared relationship. Co-creativity and stillness have a physical connection in my imagination to an open hand, respectfully available, inviting and willing to partner, ready to be transformed. When I take that position, physically or in my imagination, I am softened, hopeful, strongly present to myself, and attentive to the world around me.
Blessing: An Art to Practice
Blessings call us to breathe and integrate them with our lives. They come with connection – carried by events or relationships in which we are called to come present to meet the world, in which we and the world are both touched and refreshed through our engagement, in which we are sometimes stretched and made new, but always invited to become more whole in ourselves.
Standing in Light: A Call to Our Power
This moment in our history calls to us to stand in our power, the power of our love, our hope, our joy, and our Light. It’s up to each of us to determine how we do so in order to bring energies of peace, compassion, and courage to meet the needs of the world. As I say, there are many tools available to us to bring love to our world. We simply need to use them.
The Beauty of Human Energy
But what my latest illness has done is given me a portal into this arena of human endeavor on behalf of humanity. It has made me even more aware of the beauty of our human energy and creativity as we seek to make the world a better, safer, healthier place. Now, I take into my body not poison, not chemicals, but Light flowing from this human energy.
Maramataka
As we approach this September Equinox, I was preparing by focusing on the time of balance and the equality of day and night time, on that moment between the shifting of light and seasons. Then with the super full Moon we have just experienced here, I realized we all have the same moon cycle wherever we are on Gaia. Our planetary rhythms dance in and out of wholeness itself!
A Time of Balance
But what really stirs my heart is the night sky, so clear, so full of stars. The Southern Cross is the smallest constellation in the night sky. The Crux as it is called holds special meaning in Australia and New Zealand. There is an Aboriginal myth that uses the Southern Cross to tell the time. Paying attention to which way its tail is facing, they ask someone to, “wake me up when the Cross turns over.”
Becoming the Asking
I have found that how I discover what I know is to hold the person or the question or the issue or the tangle in my heart, in my body, and pause in stillness, to notice what comes to my awareness.
Here's the key, for me: I feel I am becoming the person or the animal or the tree or the idea, in my Deep Imagination. And then, I hold the intention to notice what I know.
Incarnational Spirituality & Knowledge
Incarnational Spirituality (IS) accepts all methods of assembling truth as valuable contributions to a larger understanding. This is not because IS would like to be nice to all the other systems and non-confrontational. It is because this system of thought requires it. IS is interested in knitting together wholes not deconstructing self or world.
America and the Election
With President Biden’s halting performance in the Presidential debate with former President Trump, followed less than a week later by the Supreme Court decision to grant complete immunity to a President for crimes committed while executing “core Constitutional functions,” the Presidential race has taken on even greater drama and urgency.