Step Into the Steam that is Life!

There is an effortlessness to the movement of Duck as you watch them glide downstream. Just as Duck enjoys the current that guides them, you too are asked to stop paddling ineffectually upstream against the flow of life. Elder Duck in The Animal Elders Oracle Guidebook by Asha Frost

Just before entering a conversation several days back, I drew a card from the Animal Oracle deck. Elder Duck invited me to ‘follow the flow’ into that conversation which unfolded as quite magical. And in the days since, I’ve felt Duck’s presence as I’ve made choices walking through each day.

Such was the case yesterday, Pivot Wednesday, when what I thought and ‘planned’ to be a fairly short meeting extended several hours. While I could have chosen to wrap the meeting before business was complete and schedule completion at another time, I felt Elder Duck’s guidance to ‘follow the flow’ and honor whatever time was needed to complete the business. Somewhere beyond my rational, thinking mind I sensed ‘This is the time. Move with the energy. The Pivot will flow in its time.’

And on this ‘day after’ I find myself in a flow that invites me to share Elder Duck’s wisdom without my typical musing as I integrate a deeper sense of both yesterday’s meeting and my choice to allow it to unfold rather than stepping in to control.  Elder Duck speaks:

Invoke my medicine when it is taking an overwhelming amount of energy to move in a certain direction. Yes, there are times in life when we need to dig deep and push through, but this is not one of them. Roadblocks and hurdles, like boulders or dams across the river, are powerful signs at this time. My medicine reminds you to stop trying to jump over them or run through them. With my help, you can choose to glide around them or take a new stream entirely. Follow the flow, for the water knows exactly what it’s doing. Elder Duck in The Animal Elders Oracle Guidebook by Asha Frost

This may not be your ‘medicine’ at this moment in time, but I invite you to take a brief pause. To breathe. To be present to the moment. And to inquire ‘am I in the flow that Life wishes to carry me?’ Carry this question with you into tomorrow’s potent New Moon inviting us to step into the flow of co-creating the world our hearts desire.

The Ziggurat on a Colorado Blue Sky Day