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The Seed
We have only a few weeks left of winter.
The seeds planted are beginning to blossom
and grow. The imps are coming out, playing
in our gardens, woods, and all the magickal
mystical places they roam. We, too, likethe
seeds will rebirth ourselves in Spring.
How will this year's rebirth look like for
you? Can you draw a picture of yourself,
newly awakened after the winter's rest?
Do a collage of the symbols you would like
to create? Spring is traditionally marked
the New Year for indigenous people. It is
a birth, a regeneration, of you and your
journey.
Birth, like every stage in life, consists
of a letting go process. We must let go
of the known to move forward. The seed must
let go of its form to become a flower or
a tree. It cannot stay a seed and be a magnificent
oak. A soul must leave the omnipresent light
to enter a body. The baby must leave the
womb to enter our world. And yet you take
each experience forward with you. Inside
you exist all stages that have come before.
Release attachment to the image of yourself
as it stands today, knowing you are meant
to evolve, to change. All stages are beautiful.
The pain comes from holding on when its
time to move forward.
It takes great courage and faith to let
go. Perhaps you let go just to get a tighter
grip? Sometimes I do. Once I asked God/dess
during a particularly difficult transition
in life how much I really needed to let
go. I really still wanted to hold onto my
images of how things were going to turn
out instead of t rusting in Divine Love.
And the message was that of the monkey bars.
You know how you have to push off from one
bar to the next to get across? I wasn't
happy with that answer, but it was true.
People don't let us down, our expectations
do. As we reenter the season of light, remember
to let go. Take that Nestee plunge. Take
deep breaths, find your heart center, and
unclench your fingers. As the earth rotates
toward the sun, turn your face and body
toward the light, open and ready for whatever
comes.
All that you want is yours.
All that you have has been with you before,
and
All that you have left behind will be the
light to guide you through the darkness
Blessings,
Jamie
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