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Taking command for the highest creative connection…a most wondrous part of the path in each Natural Year.

Hail!, Drozda, Acrylic/canvas, 24 x 36″

Creative tension! We sometimes feel ignited by and spurred on through a passionate urge to be pushing forward! During the creatively tense times we sense into expansiveness, there is a largess, we feel encouraged and even courageous! We have the ability to summon up the urge to continue-to-continue…There’s the genuine quality of: Here I go! There is the bursting forth into full bloom of function and flow. All this and so much more vital life force is one end of the “Petal Polarity” spectrum of working with Natural/Circadian/Feminine Time.

Conversely, adrenal stress, not belonging, not being, doing or having enough, not knowing ‘who I am’…usually experienced as negative/contraction pulling back, fear and hiding, joined with projection, judgments, confusion, jealousy, and giving up provides the counter-weight.

This is an energetic tug-o-war. It can happen between any of the points on the petals and in ways that we’ll explore in the future.

Now it is timely to focus upon the gentle return of ‘working from hOMe. We cozy up with the Ancestors and the elements. We nest and rest in The Mystery. 12 weeks of ‘not knowing’…even if only for 15 minutes a day.

From HERE we recognize the tug-o-wars. We note that they’re interior. They push and pull in a way that others cannot see. Yet we can feel when someone is in the throes of this inner battle. From HERE, there is the learning of our capacity to take a next step in the direction of function and flow. We turn toward the inner tension.

 We make a choice. Will I feed the creative tension or will I feed the negative stress?

If we make a conscious choice for the first, we open the door and sniff the air. We test the wind’s direction and we commit to moving forward…’working from hOMe’.

We have made the Creative Commitment

We’re ready to begin again. We play with the seeds in our pocket…each one holds a vision. We head out the door. We move fluidly. We’re on our path. We are the detective. We conduct our research. We take the appropriate action (this changes without warning). We sense into the higher creative opportunity and express what we feel. We pause and reflect. STOP. Look for the negative stress. If its following look it in the eye and demand, COMMAND!, “You may not enter HERE!

From this vantage point we scan the horizon, notice the glimmer of the creative flow. We move on. We document our finds (writing the poem, making journal entries, exploring eurythmic dance, sipping tea with our bestie, talking long walks in the wilds). We sit quietly, gazing into the still-point of hOMe. We connect with the Ancestors and the elements from this new vantage point. We feel the well of gratitude for this HERE and this NOW. We complete this day, this phase, this turn, this cycle, this season of discovery.

We notice, we dream, we rest and begin to hold the vision for the new/next challenge/opportunity. We are HERE.

We are the HERE-O of our journey.

To BE Shaman, Alchemist, Shape-shifter who expands the capacity to change the scared into the sacred.

We blossom and flow. We sense into our true function and we look the next demon in the eye (watch it shrink. watch it melt. watch it disappear itself.)

On we go!  Aware of the potential tug-o-war we expand the ‘endure dance’. We twirl and gently swirl in the Creative Tension.

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