You can’t skip the passage to get to the destination
On honouring the journey and aligning with the guidance of the land.
They say that a leap year is a year of…well…leaping. The extra day in February opens as a portal through which one may jump into different realities. The path opens and the next step is like a supersonic button that launches you ahead. Oh, wouldn’t that be sweet.
Would it though?
I know I get caught up in all those places I desire to reach in my life. Landing on my own property, caring for a homestead, having babies and raising a family, being financially free and well-resourced. It’s easy to think ahead to all those places and wanna just jump ahead to them. Can’t I just get there already? It would be faster, easier, but would it be better for me? Would I have grown into the person I need to be to hold all of that? Would I have experienced what is needed to be able to fully arrive in those realities?
I’ve been reminded again and again in my life that the journey is not just getting to a place, but it is the process of getting there. The journey prepares you for where you are going. It cannot and should not be skipped, bypassed or rushed. That process is an alchemy of the heart and soul that moulds and shapes one into the person living in those realities. It is the process of growing into. The transformation that naturally takes place through our experiences, each one leading us closer and closer to all the things we are moving toward. It is making of you what is needed. Often times I can see a series of events that need to happen before I can really arrive in that which I ultimately desire. Sometimes it doesn’t logically make sense even. It is simply a clarity that guides. Steps that need to be taken. Things that are asking to happen before that thing. I can see it all as a chronological order of sorts. One thing leads into the next. One version of me grows into the next and the next until I am that person who can arrive where I ultimately desire to be. That is the process.
It’s easy to want to rush through it all… to just get there. Trust me, I know. But being halfway through the journey to it, no matter how hard you try, you still can’t jump ahead. You shouldn’t either, because probably you haven’t built up the capacity to fully receive it. That’s why you aren’t there yet, after all. It is a process. In this day and age especially there is such a RUSH for everything. It is overwhelming really how fast people are going. How much they try to speed up these processes. And hey, maybe you find a way to reach that vision fast and efficiently, yet the question really is are you able to hold it when it arrives? Really hold it, in complete presence and stability. It can be easy to say yes, but then find yourself in burnout and overwhelm.
I know in many manifestation circles people often talk about jumping ahead to that person who already has or is that thing. And yes, I agree that holding the vision and really feeling it living already in the depths of you is where the seed is planted and takes root, yet I notice people forgetting that it will still take time, energy, commitment and love to unfold in the right way. A lot of talk now about this topic makes it sound as though once the vision is held the rest should happen very fast. Again, that is really the constitution of the western world rearing its ugly head. Always rushing rushing rushing. Always on the move. Sometimes when a vision is clarified and the steps towards it are taken it can happen very fast, it’s true. When that is your path, it unfolds. Yet I feel a lot of the time, it doesn’t happen that way. But still, people go on criticizing themselves and each other for not having reached it in a timely manner.
When you plant a seed, do you expect the flower to appear the next day? Some plants grown from seed need more than one season even to strengthen enough to bloom. Even when they do bloom in their first season, it often will be only a fraction of how much they bloom as a fully matured plant. It will reach its full bloom potential likely in a few years when it is more established and strong. When you plant a sapling, do you expect it to fruit the next year? Most saplings need many many years to eventually bear fruit and even more so to fruit abundantly and sweetly. So why are we expecting ourselves to launch ahead at the speed of light when nature is constantly telling us that good things take time.
It cannot be rushed. We all arrive where we ultimately desire and are needed. That is an innate truth of our soul’s plan. The visions we hold come forth in the soils of patience and persistence. You cannot hurry the blooming of a flower. Nature again is our guide here. As I’ve said many times in this publication, we are nature. Hello, hi, yes you, you are an animal of the earth tribe. The land is our elder that guides us in the ways we may act and be in the world. When we witness nature, we see the other animals mimicking the rhythms of the earth, we see the plants falling in tune with her song, we see the land swaying to this melody. So why don’t we? Human thought has convinced us that we always need to be sprinting to the finish line. What if I don’t wanna sprint? I wanna frolic. I wanna dance in the breeze and smell the flowers and even lie down in the grass. Oh, and what if there isn’t even a finish line? What happens then? The path unfolds anyway.
Now there are nuances in these spaces, as there is in everything. Life doesn’t ask you to be just a passive participant either. Letting life happen to you in whatever way is surrendering your choice in the matter. Surrendering your choice is leaning into the chaos of the world. Yet life also doesn’t ask you to run and run and run and never stop. It simply asks you to notice. To listen. To be led AND to lead. To let life happen and to make life happen. To hear the songs your heart sings and follow in their melody. To gaze upon the land and remember how you are so irrevocably held and taken care of by life. To trust without a doubt the process of your unfolding. That is our innate nature of CO-CREATOR. Honouring the creative process. Letting it be what it is, while directing its energy.
As with everything upon the earth, we move in phases. There is time for planting, for tending, for blooming, for wilting. Another layer of aligning with one's journey is being aware of what phase you are in. You cannot expect the same results from the wilting and blooming phase. Far from it. Many of us try to bloom when really we need to be planting. Many of us try to plant when we need to let ourselves wilt first. It is this misalignment with one's true place in their eternal now that hinders the potential of their unfolding. Fighting it really only serves to slow down what anyway will happen, because it NEEDS to. Attuning to it serves to accelerate the process. Perhaps that is what they mean when they say quantum leaping. When one is fully in alignment with what needs to happen in this moment, that process can be moved through much faster than if there was resistance. So, are you planting, blooming, or wilting? Do what you can to honour yourself in that space. It is as sacred as its counterparts expressed upon the earth. Do you criticize a tree for dropping all of its leaves in autumn? No, you marvel at the glorious display of colour they offer the land as they let go of what must be let go of. You are a masterpiece in every moment. In every phase.
This is returning to our innate relationship with the natural world around us. This is reuniting with our own natures. This is returning to the holy lands of the heart and soul.
At the end of it all, we get wherever we are going and then another vision arrives in our mind's eye in the quiet of the night and we are called again on a quest of the soul. The path continues. May it be all that it is meant to be.
What season are you in friend?
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