In Retreat.
I haven't written for days.... perhaps I have been more within and not felt willing to share. "Retreat" is a bit of an exaggeration, for I have had so many inputs from outside..... I'm ok with that, and havve adopted the Sufi stance, that we evolve not by taking leave of absence, but by being present. I had intended for this to be quiet and often silent. It isn't, and the big secret I have discovered is: it still works!
Some observations.
The power of symbols. I was never particularly enamoured of Freud and Jung, I'm too much of a rationalist for that symbolism 'trivia'. Again I have been proven wrong. On most days I have allowed a symbol to self-manifest and I am shattered at their appropriateness and the message contained within. Whether this is all a figment of my imagination, a genuine manifestation or tentative steps to communicate with the Universal Mind, I cannot say.
(day 1) I posted "Open Doors" in appropriate places.
(day 2) Tangled wires - which I found I could relate to poor mental wiring which needed updating and straightening out and sometimes dumping and renewing.
(day 4) During Brain Ev I saw a shaman's hut and a Pomegranite. Pomegranite means "to rise up" in Hebrew; it shows fertility of mind (where a good seed is planted harvest is sure); symbolises the fruit of the spirit rather than the flesh; the spirit finds a welcome depository of "things that are to come"; abundance, ambition and prosperity. I put three pomegranites (from India, Ganesh! as a link with you and your father) on my kitchen table.
(day 6) A stork flew overhead. This symbol really 'blew' me, it is so apt for my current situation. Stork in Hebrew is 'kindness, affection for its young'. Best Beloved is in Ireland, leaving me here to care for mother (85/alzheimers) and daughter (studying for baccalaureat). Stork, or pia avis (pious bird) for the Romans due to its dutifulness to its young, and as they believed, to its parents also! It is a migratory bird (and I have migrated from Ireland to Italy (7 years), Germany (8 yrs), back to Ireland and now to France (2 years). Selling our home in Ireland is a by-product of my migratory process. Storks rebuild old nests: our passion is restoring old stone houses that others may have a safe, healthy place to live (we rent them out!).
(Leap Day, 29 Feb., day 10) Parachute symbol. Leap is appropriate because the symbol the Universe delivered was a parachute. This illustrates best how symbols seem to seek me out and are made to measure. I was writing a reply to Ganesh yesterday and sought a Buddhist quote, what I 'found' was this "Minds, like parachutes, work better when open". After posting on the forum, I checked my emails. I got an email from an Australian-Italian whom I haven't heard from in at least 18 months. It was in Italian and you have probably guessed: he gave me the parachute quote I had posted on the forum not 5 mins earlier. And yesterday was a leap day - entirely the time for leaping - but who wants to leap without a parachute? The meaning of Parachute - old French (extra appropriate for me), from paracire (approx.) meaning 'to protect from' and 'chuter' which is to fall. To protect from falling. So I shall work with this symbol today and forthwith, until the next symbol comes into consciousness. Another meaning: "signifies that you have protection and security during a time in which many risks and turmoil surround you. Alternatively, it may also imply that it is time to bail out of a situation or abandon an old idea/habit." Perfect for me. I am bailing out of my old patterns and cutting free of my old life (including selling our dream historic home), and in so doing I am given full protection so I may take "the leap" in all security. Pretty amazing, huh!
I have to tell you that I am not generally a symbolic person. But this is an exciting method of 'listening to the whispers', and it sure seems to work for me. I am attempting to get in touch with intuition, to honour my intuitions and act upon them, so this is as good a vehicle as any.
There is a lot more going on, but that will be for another post. Have a good flight everyone, and happy landings, Purest Bliss
Topic: Bliss: Becoming a Better Me On Retreat (Read 162 times)
