I was meditating yesterday morning, and the Goddesses of the Nitty Gritty came in with a message on death and destruction. If you are a gardener, there is the simple awareness that the life of this year's plants must die down and rot so that new life can be fed from the life of the old. We are entering into late fall and early winter. The leaves that fell from the trees are already crumbling into new topsoil. I have raked them off my lawn and put them into my compost pile to feed my garden, food for next year and flowers to enhance the soul.
This theme is to be considered in the lives of people too. There are many levels: from the ancestors whose mistakes and wisdom of life experience contribute to our DNA to the destruction to planets from stars falling out of their orbits, death and rebirth, destruction and creativity, form an eternal cycle reflecting the old alchemical statement: "As above, so below." Wars, infectious diseases, and other natural catastrophes break down life as we know it on a larger scale that over runs individuals.
The vision that accompanied my meditation was an image of the Grim Reaper fading in and out with the image of the Statue of Liberty. The message was two-fold. One: Death liberates from the old patterns, but in destroying institutional systems that no longer quite work, as in social revolutions, the original institutions are often replaced with something much worse, like dictatorships. Therefore, I believe it is better to work together to create improvement within the existing infrastructure.
And Two: This was a reminder to 9/11/2001. As Americans we honor our liberty, but I think we also take it for granted until the enemy, ramming jets into the Twin Towers, shocked us awake to our sorrow and despair. Instead of taking liberty for granted, I would invite readers to meditate on liberty. What does liberty mean to you? How do you appreciate the freedoms we enjoy from living in a free country? How do you utilize your freedom of thought? Freedom of speech? Freedom of expression? Above all, to me, liberty suggests hope.
Death and Liberty... A concept of death expressed here represents the changes of one part of life phasing out and creating space for the new and restructured life that comes from that. Death wants to be announced, and Death is not shy. If a person is facing a death of some aspect of the self that must pass away, it is a message from a shadow self that must be bared to be born into the light of forgiveness and healing. Or if death is the final death, can you look at your life and consider all you have done or left undone?
As I write this, I am thinking of all the wonderful people who come toward the "New Age" movement and want to see only the goodness and light, repressing the need to bear awareness of their own shadows, and receive the healing and clearing clarity to more fully become clear channels to bear their Light into the shadows of the world humans co-create with the gods.
Death, and birth, are cycles to new changes. To make these changes, we have the tools of introspection, self-examination, and the discernment to choose our response to the seasons of our lives. We have the courage to face our fears and the love to see us through.
This theme is to be considered in the lives of people too. There are many levels: from the ancestors whose mistakes and wisdom of life experience contribute to our DNA to the destruction to planets from stars falling out of their orbits, death and rebirth, destruction and creativity, form an eternal cycle reflecting the old alchemical statement: "As above, so below." Wars, infectious diseases, and other natural catastrophes break down life as we know it on a larger scale that over runs individuals.
The vision that accompanied my meditation was an image of the Grim Reaper fading in and out with the image of the Statue of Liberty. The message was two-fold. One: Death liberates from the old patterns, but in destroying institutional systems that no longer quite work, as in social revolutions, the original institutions are often replaced with something much worse, like dictatorships. Therefore, I believe it is better to work together to create improvement within the existing infrastructure.
And Two: This was a reminder to 9/11/2001. As Americans we honor our liberty, but I think we also take it for granted until the enemy, ramming jets into the Twin Towers, shocked us awake to our sorrow and despair. Instead of taking liberty for granted, I would invite readers to meditate on liberty. What does liberty mean to you? How do you appreciate the freedoms we enjoy from living in a free country? How do you utilize your freedom of thought? Freedom of speech? Freedom of expression? Above all, to me, liberty suggests hope.
Death and Liberty... A concept of death expressed here represents the changes of one part of life phasing out and creating space for the new and restructured life that comes from that. Death wants to be announced, and Death is not shy. If a person is facing a death of some aspect of the self that must pass away, it is a message from a shadow self that must be bared to be born into the light of forgiveness and healing. Or if death is the final death, can you look at your life and consider all you have done or left undone?
As I write this, I am thinking of all the wonderful people who come toward the "New Age" movement and want to see only the goodness and light, repressing the need to bear awareness of their own shadows, and receive the healing and clearing clarity to more fully become clear channels to bear their Light into the shadows of the world humans co-create with the gods.
Death, and birth, are cycles to new changes. To make these changes, we have the tools of introspection, self-examination, and the discernment to choose our response to the seasons of our lives. We have the courage to face our fears and the love to see us through.