Darkest Before the Dawn

Welcome to the art/life trail

The keyword for creative alignment in March is 

Purify

To purify can mean many things to many people. For our creative connection: 

Think hospice.

Hospice is the process of supplying palliative care to one who is in the final stages of life. Hospice care givers are often thought of as angels by the patients and the families that they serve.

‘Hail’, detail, Drozda, Acrylic/canvas, 24 x 36″, artist collection

There is a quality of selfless service offered that we can benefit from emulating now. It’s a natural time to recognize that what has been is now leaving. Death of the old. This may be an outgrown habit, pattern, roadblock; a relational stalemate, a long lingering situation or circumstance that you sense it is time to release. The dying makes way for the new. This is timely, as it is the close of the Natural Year that began back in April of 2017. 

Next turn your thoughts to being the Doula in your own sweet art/life.

 

“Doula” refers to “a woman who serves”. It is now a term used interchangeably with midwife…a trained and experienced professional providing physical, emotional and practical support for the mother-to-be. 

Imagine being deep in your dreams. Imagine the moments just before waking up. That’s what this cycle offers. There is a stirring. A dream that stirs something inside. There is a dream that is pushing you. The push is to wake up.

At this time of year we engage in the heavy lifting of transformation. Begin to turn dreams into action. Expand the art/life outlook.  Spiral into the center of your true nature.

It’s time to take the dream out of The Mystery. Time to come h’OM’e to the Central. The Central refers to the home of The Archetypal Ancestors: Grandfather Sun, Grandmother Moon, Father Sky, Mother Earth and to the Elements: earth, air, fire and water…these are forces that sustain us all.

“…The power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. …The sky is round, and…the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle.     The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.”

                                                               Black Elk Speaks

This week we salute a trailblazer in the field of Thanatology: the scientific study of death and the practices associated with it, including the study of the needs of the terminally ill and their families. 

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Dying and living are the topics that transport us as we turn from the end of winter toward the beginning of spring.

During the days between now and March 20 (when spring begins) take time to expand your dream. Prepare to birth a new ME. Prepare to push, reach up, and reach out.

Purify the creative practices in which you are most invested 

Let some worn out habits and entrenched ideas go. Soon you will walk through the East Gate onto the fresh new path for the Natural Year ahead.

THIS IS EXCITING!!!

This year the art/life trail lines up with:

‘Look for the Silver Linings’

2018 syncs in with receptive-gestation time. Think seeds lying fallow until conditions warrant a sprout and a root. Consider the entire Natural year as a holistic-integrative time.

The art/life trail follows the effortless ease of Natural/Circadian/Feminine time.

This Natural approach to a circular relationship with time emanates from your heart-center and allows for an effortless ease…it makes you a ‘heartist’.

 

In 2018

look for the Silver Linings behind the dark clouds 

use the four directional points as primary navigational tools

In the upcoming ‘It’s About Time…’ video/teleconference course ‘Emerge n’ See’, we’ll dive into the idea of ME-first. ME is a code word for wise-selfish. This focus gives us a way to slow down and connect with BEing. 

Watch your email and register for the 6 sessions that will place you on track for a graced creative pace as the new Natural/Circadian/Feminine rhythm of the year unfolds.

 Turn to witness the spirit of what has been.  As this part of you that is now ready to be released rises on the wings of liberation , wave and say: “Bye. Bye.”

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