Cast yourself down at the feet of mystery. Fling your heart wide and let all your dreams cascade out onto the welcoming earth. Match your breath with the heartbeat beneath you. Let everything you no longer need, seep away. Discover life is simpler than you thought. Let go of worry, release your fear. Feel tension roll away like an slow ebbing tide. Rise, scoured, and stripped bare, soft and renewed. Gather up those dream fragments that sparkle around you, but only those that still beat to your rhythm and that sing your song. Nestle them back beneath your breastbone, keep them safe and warm and breathing as they prepare to fly.
Years ago I dreamed I was walking around holding a large sign that said: “path to awakening” upon it. I couldn’t decide where to hang it and finally settled on placing it above my own bed, pointing at my own head, where I then, woke up. Disappointingly literal, or simplistically profound, I was not sure, but I think of this dream and about the things we seek and how we wander and what we crave. Perhaps we already carry what we need to awaken. Perhaps we already hold our own signs Perhaps we need only to open our eyes, to be awake, right here.
This was written as part of my current month of #30DaysofGoddess.
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