I come from a small rural farming community west of Lebanon Indiana. I grew up plowing fields and helping tend the garden and frog giggin’ and riding snowmobiles for hours through the countryside. Most people around knew me, and my great, great grandparents too.
As we speak, there are a million big trucks and earth-moving equipment tearing it all up to make room for industry – pharmaceuticals and a Meta data center. A sign of the priorities of the time.
Farm houses, giant old trees, peonies, barns, and yards where kids used to play. All leveled. Acres upon acres that were family farms when I was growing up. All bare dirt now. 5 miles of road that I traveled zillions of times in my youth to get to town now looks like a nuclear bomb went off. It’s a wasteland.
It’s hard to witness.
I’m using The Wheel of the Year to help me process it.
The Wheel is an invitation to tap into the energies of the season. To connect with the natural world and the rhythm of things. Life and death. Light and darkness. It helps us tap deeper into our innate knowing. Our own sacred cycles.
We’re in Samhain season on The Wheel of The Year. The themes of this season are:
Endings…that always promise new beginnings
Allowing for the darkness, the void. It’s in the void that the creative impulse can emerge.
Releasing. Like the falling leaves, what you release is compost for the next creation.
The element of water- flow. How can you welcome more flow. Less resistance.
Connecting with our ancestors. This is a time for stories and home.
Exploring the magic and mystery in the dark unknown.
It’s so fitting isn’t it? The themes all apply. It makes pain poetic.
And this is life, right?
We can’t always change the circumstances. This circumstance is certainly out of my control. Lots and lots of people in Boone County fought it. It happened anyway. Sometimes it does.
So when the circumstance feels icky, and sad, and wrong…how will we choose to hold it? Cuz sometimes we get handed a pile of stinky shit. The darkness comes.
This is my work. I help people process circumstances that they do not like. I help them explore it and feel it, and decide how to navigate it.
We always have a choice about how we show up for any circumstance.
I know these tools well because I use them to navigate my own life. I’m a human, and I’m in this human game just like you.
We can’t escape the darkness. But there are tools available to navigate the path.
If you are faced with a pile of shit and want some help navigating, you can schedule a 1:1 energy healing session, or a coaching session, or join one of my groups.
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