The last week has been quite interesting and challenging for me. Right after the Solstice/Full Moon Labyrinth Walk, many confrontational situations came up for me, and I mean right after. The struggle to bring the two elements into harmony was not as gentle as I would have hoped for me. By the time I got home from the ceremony, I had phone messages and e-mails that challenged my balance.
And, I must say, I'm very happy with the way I handled them. In each case, I found the right thing to say to diffuse the situation and get to the heart of it. Instead of immediately reacting as I would have, I tried to see what good could come of each confrontation, and I learned a lot. And, I'm happy to say that abated quickly, so I must have gotten what I needed from it.
Then Sunday a friend and I took a very nice spontaneious trip to Galveston, spent time on the seawall, listened to the music he created, and had a lovely dinner at Landry's Seafood looking out on the water. It was an unexpectedly wonderful day. However, sometime in the night I began to feel physically unwell. The next morning I was feeling really bad, and it was followed by an entire day of clearing my body of everything from both ends. Yuck!
There are two theories on what happened. One is that I had food poisoning, that's the third dimensional reality. On a cosmic level, I woke up feeling bad in the night at the exact time the NASA proble smashed into the Tempel 1 Comet. I have a particular affinity with the word and concept Temple, even when they spell it Tempel, and I believe there was a huge metaphor in smashing into this particular comet and the state of aggression among religious factions on this planet. It would not be the first time, nor the last that I have been in alignment with planetary turbulence. I got sick right before the Tsunami hit, and I had a relapse of my "food poisoning" this week on July 7, 2005 (which numerically equals 777, a very mystical number) when the trains were blown up in London. I had a similar physical processing of the 911 events.
We are very connected to what happens in our world and in the universe, more connected than we even know or can imagine. We have to really understand and accept the concept of "everything is one" to realize that what we do to others we do to ourself. The Golden Rule says it, "Do unto others as you would that they do unto you." It's not a platitude, it's a truth that reveals that what we do to others we do to ourself. Everything is one.
Anyway, it has been eventful, but good in the long run. I've cleared out my body, detoxed my caffeine and alcohol for a week, and started to think about what my body really needs. And that's something I haven't considered enough lately.
Have a great weekend... Sandy Penny, WritingMuse.
