It is Memorial Day Weekend here
in the States and the energy is shifting into summer mode. We have no special plans but I am looking forward to the way the energy settles and things get a bit quieter. Unless you are one to trek to crowed beaches, shopping malls, and festivals, of which I am not. I'm more of a stay home, maybe take a nature walk, napping kind of long weekend celebrant.
However your weekend and week
unfolds I hope it does so with ease and gentleness. Here are some ways I will be looking for the same.
1.
Anima Mundi
Each week I pull cards to reflect on and by guided by. One of the things I pull for is what is wanting to be integrated. This week Anima Mundi (from
The Wild Unknown Archetypes by Kim Krans) stepped forward.
Anima Mundi, Soul of the World, All That Is. It is a is lot. I mean, how am I going to integrate the Soul of the World? Which of course I know is impossible in a week or lifetime or multiple lifetimes and not at all the point. The point is to welcome
aspects of the archetype that will expand my wholeness and sense of self. To welcome parts of me that have been forgotten or unknown.
Krans offered these words in the guidebook that will help me integrate Anima Mundi: "Tending the sacred details of life." This is a balm to the parts of me that feel pressure to rise Bigger, do Grander, be
More.
Tending the sacred details of life, the holy in the mundane, the glimmers of enchantment that exist in even the smallest moments, this brings me into life, and Life, rather than waiting for or trying to make big events happen to catalyze me. Those are great when it is their time, but tending the sacred details, the small holy in the ordinary,
this is shimmering magic always within reach.
Are there sacred details calling for your tending? Tiny ones, easy ones that bring a spark of belonging to the World Soul? Stitching, baking, art making, conversations with good humans, tending the garden are some of the ones that do it for me.
2.
I found this in one of my (very loosely called)
art journals. Finding the shimmering magic in the everyday, the sensuality of living, the ability hold more and more of the tragedy and magnificence of being human, this is the archetypal dream of the Anima Mundi.
3.
Some bibliomancy from page 270 of
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin for those sacred details of living:
Be open to the
whispers rather than waiting for the shouts.
4.
15 minutes is a magic amount of time.
Enough to tend to a sacred detail or more. As I have been writing about these past weeks, I am tending my creative practice with a humble 15 minutes each day. Long enough for something to happen, not so long that it
seems too big to start. If no other creative work happens in the day I know I have at least nourished my practice for this bit of time and that feels good to my heart.
I know I am repeating myself but it doesn't have to be big, your starting point to the expression of your heart. I repeat this because we are so flooded with messages that only the big and splashy, already perfected
results count. I talk to too many of us who are stopped because somehow we don't measure up or have enough to begin at all.
It doesn't have to be grand. 15 minutes is not grand. It doesn't have to set off fireworks and change anything. It can be little pearls that string together to one day a beautiful necklace. Even when all the pearls are not perfect. It is a space of devotion to what
holds meaning for you.
Oh, and there is nothing really magic about 15 minutes. For you it could be 10, or 20, or 5. There have been times it has been 2 minutes for me. The magic is in the returning to self, returning to heart, returning to that which your soul wishes to grow.
5.
A blessing for your week:
(The Citadel by Fez Inkwright)
May you find integration and balance within your nature.
