Unlearning What's Been Learned
In Flight
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
– Vincent Van Gogh
Materials: wool, cotton cording, fish fly and found stick.
Happy September!
It's hard to believe that we will be welcoming the fall winds and witnessing the grand changing of color in the trees in a matter of weeks. It still feels very summer here in Mid-Coast Maine. My mom was visiting for a few days and we were sweating it out cleaning up the gardens and strategizing on trimming trees and bushes. All of this activity and the anticipation of more changes that fall will bring leaves me in a space of grieving endings. With that grieving there's deep sadness of what was, and great excitement about the possibility of new adventures. The emotional waves I'm experiencing prompted my spirit guides to remind me that it's in endings that beginnings are birthed. They have asked me how I can be with change (both the growth and death spectrums) with integrity and with grace. I'm seeing that I need to re-learn, to unlearn and then ask to be consciously taught in the here and now.
I've been holding this in my heart noticing what and who came into my awareness. As I was resting on the couch one evening a spider appeared dangling right over me. I greeted the spider and asked that it not land on me. After a few moments this spider ascended back up its web line. I watched it so skillfully and gracefully glide up to the ceiling. The spider's balletic performance reminded me of watching a different spider in our sunroom window build and rebuild her web and lay her eggs last winter. It was a marvelous process to witness. She completed all of this amazingly intricate work only to destroy it all a day or few days later and start fresh. Jason let me know that’s just how she’s programmed; it's what she does. In many ways it's automatic for her.
This all leaves me asking myself what is just automatic for me. What are automatic reactions, automatic coping strategies, automatic ways of being. Which are the automatic strategies that suit me and support me? Is it time for me to make an ending so that I can have a new beginning? What's ready for me to unlearn to create space for grace and integrity? To create space for new learnings.
What are you noticing as we approach a new season? Who have your messengers been? I'd love to hear from you, drop me an email.
Much love to you and your spirit,
Sara
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