Sometimes deep soul work takes a long time. A lot of other things jump easily into the time, many very important things, and sometimes some things otherwise, so the process can be slow. Also, it most often just is a slow process. None the lesser for it, rather more. All good things take time.
And here we are. An intention birthed today.
2 1/3 years ago the intention was set at Samhain.
A solo blessing of the opening space last year at Winter Solstice. Perhaps deep journeying within requires more than one wintering to really even begin.
And then, as the seasons have turned, one round at a time, one stick at a time, the labyrinth has grown, all the way through yet another wintering. Along the way many messages shared - through windings and turnings and spirallings and weavings; through the life, death, birth, rebirth revisiting, as the cycles have continued along their way.
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| Peek a boo! |
Three winters, three times journeying within, three ways.
I thought I was making a two path labyrinth. A labyrinth that can be walked many ways. The same way in, and out, for integration. Another way in, and back the same way, for a different journey inward to centre, and outward, integrating. A way for two paths to arrive at the same place, two perspectives to meet in the middle. A way to walk another's path out, and back in, and out again your own way, carrying with you the perspective, the way of the other.
These weeks I have been thinking a lot about either/or, both/and, and more. The ways in which two voices or more sharing differing perspectives can come to yet another way, many times a better way. So perhaps that is the third way of this labyrinth. A way to find another way, together. Many voices, many hearts, many souls, many journeys, many paths and many ways to reach our intentions, for the highest and greatest good. Journeying within, finding our way out. Together. Alone we may journey within and reach insights. Together the potential is infinite.
Much love and work and thought and reflection and sharing, with the help of family and friends, and perhaps most importantly, many fairy wishes, have found their way in to this labyrinth.
And after such long journeying, this Spring equinox, finally, suddenly, the labyrinth was finished. And it is not finished. Because the nature of it is ephemeral. It will, it is, it has already decayed into the soil. So always the process will continue, with moments of completion, and then continuing again, journeying always. But it was finished, is finished, complete in its ongoing journey.
A rainbow arrived to bless the completing. As the equinox moment drew near, my family worked on the final round together.
Then my big-small one and I walked in together on new paths, each our separate way, for the first time into the complete labyrinth. We met in the middle. And then we took the path of the other on our journey outward. We met at the entrance, at the way out, and we walked out together, holding hands, on the new path (one path in and out for the entrance/exit had eventuated, instead of the two in the original plan). We felt satisfaction at a process complete, for now, the work done, a journey taken, and an arrival at a finish.
Equinox is a balance point in the world. Light and dark are balanced, day and night the same length, all over the world. The world is united. The world is one.
Balance too is a process. Coming back, again, to equilibrium, an ongoing journey.
And so here we are. Arrived, again.
And in the night, as the equinox moment drew ever nearer, I took another labyrinth journey, with the intention for equinox equilibrium and balance in the world. Under the night sky, under a new moon slowly growing, waxing again towards full, bringing with it the potential of intention.
The intention to return to balance and equilibrium once more.
Walk with me if you like.
Equinox Labyrinth Journey - link to video here
The frog song of cleansing and release.
The reflected light of raindrops landed, not yet absorbed.
Seeking balance.
Visiting of insects (moths?) - transformation. A filter to see through, a lighter way. Close. It wants to stay.
A patterned leaf - a gift for the journey on the path. So beautiful.
Old life holding lush new life. Nourishing new growth with the wisdom of what has come before.
Another leaf of glistening patterns. Not alone, together.
Spiralling in the centre circle.
The moment of arriving at the centre point, finding stillness and clarity.
Patterning, glistening, old life and new, veins carrying life blood, water, nutrients.
Listening for shared learning.
The way out unclear.
Another moth of transformation.
Protecting young life - this is clear.
Beetle on bark, waiting still in the centre of the path.
Exposing misconceptions.
Choosing a more beneficial, intuitive, caring, nurturing way of life.
Sudden darkness, shadow.
Finding the way with the help of the edges - boundaries.
The new moon shining the light of intention.
Stepping out of the shadows.
Letting the light shine on the path forward.
Finding the way out in the darkness.
Flash of insight from a shooting star above, a gift.
Blessed by a rainbow.
Equinox Labyrinth Journey - insights after
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Hope you can walk it with me, really, some time. Get in touch when that is possible.
