The sun is glinting through trees, houses, trees, houses, tall buildings, stations where we don’t stop, flashing by, sun glinting, light flashing through; sky bright blue on this February day that will never ever happen again, and it has already happened and it has never happened at all.
We’re making it all up as we go along from the core of our being, the reflection of all we see is us, reflected back in this glorious scene called life.
Its all upside down, this day that I am just beginning, is closing now for my beautiful Chinese dragon niece, Jess, metal chines dragon no less – the highest order there is.
She is in Japan and so as I write on this sunny bright Wednesday morning, the day is nearly done for her – her evening stretching in front of her..
When Jess landed briefly in London at the end of last year, we started to talk about all the rituals and rhythms that reflect us… And how we can investigate them, to deeper and deeper discover who we are, our make up, our energy…To understand the life we have come to lead, the energy we have come to bring from the shadows, to integrate and clear and so set us free to be…
And so with both the New year as we know it approaching, and the Chinese new year following swiftly behind it – Jess, Anadi and I looked up all our Chinese signs and discovered that my beautiful niece is a Chinese dragon… And a Metal Chinese dragon, the most powerful of all the signs…
When we know these things, it can help us discover aspects of our self that we might have hidden or lost or disowned through the rough and tumble of life…
Life an opportunity to feel and heal, to see and understand, and so free ourselves to know who we truly are and live from this place… Limitless expression… Freedom!
So today has already been a wonderful day…
I woke at 6am, and at 6.30am, as planned, Jess and I spoke to one another on WhatsApp video – across all those miles and hours of time difference, we were in one another flats! The miracle of this Star Trek world we live in…
Her scene all snowy white in the afternoon light – and my day yet to dawn!
When we finished chatting, it was nearly 5pm for her and I set of for an 8am morning spin around Battersea Park… I encountered a mixture of seasons, biting cold winter weather, wrapped up runners and walkers, with spring blossoms white promise on some of the trees; yellow crocuses pushing courageously through on their journey to bring in their full bright expression of joy..
It takes courage, for all of us to push through the adversity we all encounter at times on our life journey, to bring in our full bright expression – and the crocus and snowdrops, so fragile and light, yet so strong are like us all…
Being aware off our sensitivity and strength – all at once – can helps us to be real, to feel – and to keep growing and trusting when things feel too hard… As Antonio Machado reminds us in my favourite Spanish poem… ‘Caminante no hay camino – Se hace camino al andar…’
‘Walker there is no path, we make the path by walking…’
It takes courage to keep walking when we don’t know the way; but when we dare to trust, we can stay in the step, and know that the next will take care of itself – and so we make our path, we make our way by walking it….