Coming Home Meditation Tomorrow (Friday) at Noon EST

Dear Friends,

I have been quiet because I’ve been traveling. My daughter and I went to California for the holiday weekend. We had a beautiful trip and I made a meaningful mandala at the end of it all.

What I see in this image is alchemy. I like the stone at the bottom…the starting point. Anchoring. Grounding. Something sharp and hard to transmute. (I think we can all relate these days?) The dark red petals felt to me like dried blood. And the small green “berries” had such an odd and ominous black cast/shading. It all felt heavy and dense, even a little shadowy.

Into the flames! Oh, that orange like fire. Orange is so good for heat and transformation. The ladder rising from the flames was a new theme for me. I don’t think I’ve ever made a ladder. But, it was a strong impulse, very clear. And I made it in seven sections without thinking = seven chakras. The seventh section being the crown and the explosion of purple blossoms. The halo seemed obvious and necessary when I realized I was climbing the ladder to divinity or to the cosmos (same difference)…And then, the white petals…angels ascending and descending—making the infinite, timeless journey between heaven and earth and back again…reincarnation, transmigration, the wheel of life. One place. One Love.

And the tiny rose buds? Well, who can resist tiny rosebuds. They were about blossoming, potential, hope…the pink also a call for innocence, primordial purity and a restoration for all of us are still suffering from our own clumsy loss of innocence in a desacralized culture.

It was only after I dedicated the mandala to the earth, to the goddess, and the angels who held us through our tensions and big feelings that I heard the whisper, Jacob’s Ladder. Oh, the role of dreams in prophesy. Don’t get me started. Now, off to bed to sleep, perchance to dream…

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