Into the Kiva …
Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time. … You don't need to do everything. Do what calls your heart; effective action comes from love. It is unstoppable, and it is enough. … The wave of the future is on the local level. … Out of this darkness a new world can arise, not to be constructed by our minds so much as to emerge from our dreams. Even though we cannot see clearly how it's going to turn out, we are still called to let the future into our imagination.
We will never be able to build what we have not first cherished in our hearts. Joanna Macy
My pen flowed across the journal page this cold morning as I settled in by the fire. A stream of ink forming words, thoughts, sentences from somewhere beyond my (so-called) rational mind, that part of me too long trained to ‘figure things out’ rather than to create, or rather co-create, with Source.
I was in the inside-out dance of a particular astrological event on this day before the Spring Equinox. For those curious, today Neptune, representing the inner, is conjunct the Sun, outer expression. Experimental Generative AI popped up in a quick search of what ‘the world’ has to say about such events, informing (tongue in cheek) me that the event marks “… a time when reality blurs and illusions thrive, encouraging intuition and exploration of fantasies.”
As I see it, that world has us all too focused on what we’re told is a reality outside of us, one that we are on this earth to simply navigate. That is the nature of the ‘power over’, domination paradigm that those who seek to control would have us believe in their idea that they know best. Oh, how the systems are designed to keep us ensnared! For, if we believe ‘navigation’ in their system is the Truth, we are caught in its prison, accepting its illusions, its crumbs of freedom, while complying with its ways. Going along to get along.
I do this. You do this. We all do this to some degree because we exist in the system. I use exist deliberately because I believe (and the ‘voice’ which spoke through the pen early this morning seemed to affirm) that this is not the purpose of LIFE. It is not the Truth of who we are, of our interconnectedness with one another and with ALL that is.
What came in the early hours by the fire is not new to me (or to you, if you’ve been with me for a while).
Life is not the busyness of the world! That is why there is such deep anger against systems and the current administration in the (not so) United States as well as corporations, etc. They do not affirm Life.
The choice is not good versus evil. It is Life vs. not life. Reverse evil to LIVE.
Choosing Life is aligning with that which Sources Life, knowing that Life is infinite and that you are a sovereign Being. Life is Living from this knowing, choosing from this knowing, speaking from this knowing. And this can be a lonely road.
It is both a solo journey and, as Joanna Macy suggests, a co-creation with a community of others, each from our inner foundation, our heart. We need a traffic jam on this road of Life, a tipping point that has us deeply know the Truth of our connection with all Life, a Truth that the heart knows. Indeed, a Truth that is buried in our cellular memory across many lifetimes. In this time, we are being called to go deep within to the quiet place inside that knows the Truth and is called co-create a new world from that place of knowing.
Let’s create a steady flow of traffic, co-creating with one another and that which Sources Life. Let’s LIVE!
Into the Kiva II