Breaking Free

Well, that was a bit more of a blogging hiatus than I anticipated...  Funny how time flies when you're trying to decide what to do next.  After a move, and a 360-degree change in lifestyle, I'm slowly remembering that change really isn't a one-shot deal, but an ongoing process.  An evolution.  It's not about the destination, but the journey, right?  Change into something else, and you will find that the something else brings even more change!

Right now we are in the time of Cancer.  Whether you follow that sort of thing or not, we can learn a lot from the tiny crab.  Astrologically speaking, just like the molting crabs whose soft-shelled state is so popular with the seafood-eating set this time of year, we are fighting our way out of the "shell" that has become too small, to limiting for us, and moving to better digs.  But, the price of that journey is a time of vulnerability and insecurity.  This year the change seems especially intense and precarious.  So much is shifting on our planet; so much chaos seems to surround us, both in the minutia of our individual lives and collectively.  Many animals I have worked with this year have chosen this time to transition, finding that this period of intense planetary change is best navigated by transforming not only their soul, but their form.  Others have pointed unequivocally to the need for humankind to re-establish Order on the planet, and that means to step up into our rightful place as stewards, not just "users," of all that is around us.

So much has been written about the changes coming in this year of 2012 - and much of it is, most likely, utter nonsense.  What is not nonsense at the collective level is that we are in a time of re-calibration.  Each living thing on this planet is being nudged towards a choice - to change, or to stay forever limited by the shells we have built for ourselves.  And the choice is not always easy.  We get pushed and pulled, nudged and prodded, and for many of us, that is enough to keep us firmly ensconced in a place that feels "safe," no matter how small it may be.  I am no different.  My path has increasingly led me to be a voice for those that have none, and yet the more I am asked to speak, the more I want to look around for others who might do the talking!  We all face these challenges, and yet I do know that unless each of us is willing to recognize our own potential - just acknowledge it, not to create it, or figure out how to make something big of it - we are consigned to forever feeling that we've somehow missed the boat.

Right now, it's like test day in school in our world.  We're being asked the big questions.  Will you buy into the chaos and darkness you see as reality, or will you accept and know that the solution is already here, that the Light IS here?  Will you step up to be who you really are, or will you be what someone else tells you to be (and someone who is NOT your Creator at that?!)?  Will you take responsibility for those who can not help themselves by ensuring that the choices you make bring more Life to all and less to none?  Will you recognize that when we choose this, then we end lack, and find that there IS enough for all?

It's scary, I'll give you that.  For most of us, this is a new way of thinking, living, being.  There might not be a traditional model to follow, there might not be the signs of what we've come to recognize as "security" around us.  But, take heart, you are just building your new home!  And it is a bigger, better one than the one you just left, without limit or restriction, and probably with some cool new features too.  Scary? Yep. Hard? Yep. Worth a shot? Yep.

For a crab, it's a matter of survival.  And so, ultimately, it is for us as well.