Today I open a gate, inviting myself into a journey where I hope to learn more about some of my habitual patterns of relating… relating with myself, relating with others, relating with the internet, relating with time and space…. this list could go on and on… so much relating!
I am entering an inquiry. I am experimenting through a practice of shifting what is known and comfortable so that I may better feel what it’s like to sit with the unknown and to be with myself in discomfort. If some of the habits and routines I have grown to depend upon are shifted, how will I respond? How might I come to better know and relate to myself ? to others? Where have I used these habits to help me feel whole? How might I grow towards wholeness through new ways of facing and relating with myself and others?
I’ve recently returned to referencing a 13-Moon Natural Time Calendar. I enjoy seeing when my day resonates with the tone and glyph of this calendar. Below is part of today’s description… feels in alignment!
“With deep roots into the earth and broad antennas into the sky, receive the medicine your soul needs to endure life’s transitions and discover trust in the unknown.”
“As we release that which no longer serves, we make way for new opportunities and understandings to emerge. Setting us free from expectations or definite notions, Spectral energy breaks us out of routine, releasing us into the spectrum of possibility, provoking us to see aspects of our wholeness that may be yet undiscovered.”
~from 13 Moon Natural Time Calendar
As part of this shift I am inquiring into my relationship with the internet. I don’t know how regularly I’ll be posting in this coming time. I leave you with another poem that caught me sweetly today. I found this one at Rich Life Cafe.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out
Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadow and shores and hills.
Open up to the Roof.
Make a new watermark on your excitement
And love.
Like a blooming night flower,
Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness
And giving
Upon our intimate assembly.
Change rooms in your mind for a day.
All the hemispheres in existence
Lie beside an equator
In your heart.
Greet Yourself
In your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide and travel
Back home.
All the hemispheres in heaven
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting
While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of
You.
Hafiz – 14th century Sufi mystic and poet