Friends,
Even as the Sun ramps up in activity (over the last 3 days) to levels not seen for a decade, I wanted to share my sense of peace about solar activity. Scientists have confirmed that they have absolutely no hard data about what the Sun is going to do, only that it's up to something. That scared me for awhile, I'll admit. It's like two doctors arguing about whether or not you've got cancer, right in front of you.
But fear, that old friend of mine had to go. If you can call a monkey on your back your friend. I do, because I learned so much from my fear.
Or really, it was finally facing my fears that brought insight. It turns out that all of my fears were not nearly as bad as I imagined them to be, not once I faced them. And I know it sounds clichéd and lots of people reading this already understand how to manage fear in their lives, or even how to transcend fear, so I'm not preaching - simply sharing my personal experience. And I've got to say managing fear was ok, but I'm digging the transcending fear part. Talking yourself down is one thing, but to be in the moment of crisis with a sharp mind and steady hand, wow that's an experience that blows fear out of the water. I'm beginning to experience this transcendence on a consistent basis and it is spectacular. And in it place of fear, joy.
Frank Herbert is one of my favorite authors; he wrote sci fi stuff when I was a kid that had a cool spiritual tilt to it. In one of his books there was this mantra called The Litany Against Fear which I find myself murmuring under my breath from time to time, but lately it has taken on new meaning.
The litany is as follows:
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
I mean, wow. I don't know if anything that deep is in the Harry Potter books, but I'm going to slip a copy of this one to my kid when they're old enough. It gets me choked up when I realize that despite the challenges of my life and the poor role models who surrounded me, that something/someone/god/cosmos/guides/angels saw fit to lead me to truth such as this, that one day it would seed, sprout, and grow strong like an oak.
And it is a profound moment when you finally see the truth of a mantra you've murmured frantically in the darkness since you were a kid. Now it’s not my mantra, it’s my truth.
Now as for the Sun, keep an eye out for northern lights anyone in Canada or the northern states and latitudes this weekend, we should get a good light show around the 10th. Disaster or not, I am very thankful about everything I've learned of our star, and what an amazing generator of energy it is. Truly, a being of light. Let's think nice happy thoughts about our neighboring solar source.
What the Sun does isn't as important as what WE do; not in preparation for disaster but preparation for transformation. And not as if the world is ending, because it's not and wont - not right now anyway. I mean readying ourselves every waking moment for the next lesson, the next challenge which will allow us to increase our vibration through insight and expansion of capacity for love.
And what comes, comes.
Be well friends, nice to have a few minutes to write and share! Loves to all!