I had a dream. I was rushing through the airport to make a flight. I realized when I got to my gate that I had forgotten my luggage and it was a 1.5 hour round trip drive to go back and get it. But I had to have my stuff!
I was running through the airport, but I was moving at a snail’s pace. I wasn’t sure what was slowing me down. Then I noticed I was wearing really high heals and the floor was slick. I kept going. Then I noticed that I was wearing a really large and really heavy pool floatie - the ring kind, ya know? This made navigating narrow spaces and tons of people really tricky.
I came to an escalator. It went down a loooong ways and then suddenly it reversed directions, so I had to walk down the up escalator!
So many challenges and obstacles!
Then I ran into someone I knew that I hadn’t seen in a long time. I wanted to talk to her but it was slowing me down.
All the while I was problem solving in my head and calculating timelines.
I was also navigating dangers - are those terrorists? What is that smoking gas can? People scurried about saying it was going to explode.
I almost reached the parking garage when I realized I had left my purse at the gate! …with my keys, my ticket, and my ID. So I had to turn around and navigate back through the whole ding danged maze again!
I could go on with the details, but you see the pattern here?
It’s been a whirlwind last 6 weeks. Lots of fun and wonderful things. But too many. I’m feeling behind and agitated by all of the little human details piled up that seem so important.
The antidote? Well here’s my morning so far:
I walked outside at 5am and noticed that we can actually SEE the full moon eclipse in Taurus today! I didn’t know it would be visible here. It was remarkable.
I did yoga in the dark to the Devi Prayer chant that I have been really loving lately. It helps me feel grounded and centered.
I sat in my meditation space and The Grandmothers called me to a reading:
“Stop what you’re doing right now and think of your connection to the earth. Pull back from that eternal busyness in your mind. Turn to your heart and become aware of your body. Drop into the weight of your body and keep dropping until you feel yourself at one with the earth. You aren’t separate from the earth. You’re not alone. You’re linked with Mother Earth always.”
The reading lead me through a meditative exploration of the materials of the earth - the textures, light, color, temperature…using all my senses. I did it.
“Let yourself open up to what She has to give you: peace, steadiness, healing, rest, nourishment, minerals, and much more. She is giving it all. Receive it now and rest in her embrace. When you’re scrambling around in your mind, racing from thought to thought, from image to worry, worry to image, you won’t feel good. So keep on diving ever deeper into your own essence. Keep on connecting with Mother Earth. You’re not a fragmented human being. You’re not someone racing from stimulus to stimulus, someone who’s run by fear and agitation. NO! You are great. You’re one with all of life. That is who you are. Own that! Release the worry now. Release the fretting, the fuming and the despair, and instead let yourself be held. Feel yourself being held. Move into the deep stillness at your core. Rest while Mother Earth fills you. She will do that each time you open to this place within you.”
Then I open my email and see a message from Guru Singh:
“The message within this Taurian Full Moon Eclipse is self-exploration; self-realization; self-nourishment, and creating containers of spacetime to hold the nourishment. Intuition in this moment cultivates deep peace and a groundswell of resourcefulness without all the emotionally chaotic attachments. This Eclipse is a high-emotion charge being added to the atmosphere. Slowing down is a necessity. Work with the Full Moon Eclipse to slow down to become more efficient and effective (speeding up successes in other words) is a perfect process for this moment.”
Then I remembered a quote that Sydera shared at our Sunday Samhain Soul Circle. I wrote it down because I knew it was for me:
“The fastest way to get to where you want to go is slowly.”
Isn’t it wild how we get the support we need if we just pay attention and listen?
Is getting those Halloween decorations put away REALLY that critical? Those 2 baskets of laundry WILL get put away. It’s really not THAT big of a deal-e-o.
If you’re stuck in the details of daily life, run down by the hustle and bustle, check out my invitations to help you recenter and connect at a deeper level; to remember that you’re not just a fragmented human racing and running about. No! You’re great! One with all of life. That is who you are. I’m here to help you remember that.