Silence is Calling, Loudly ~ Join Me for Meditation at Noon EST Today (Tues)

Let's sit in sharing and silence together

I’ve not felt inspired to write for a while. Some of it is that I’ve been deep in the process of editing my book, Tenacious Magic. But also, the source within myself that I know so well, simply hasn’t been active. It’s been very quiet. At first, I was concerned—because I love writing. I even tried to force it until I realized that a different channel was open; waiting for me to notice it. Silence was the open channel. When I tuned fully into that, I found something spectacularly beautiful.

I miss silence. I miss knowing myself and others in the space of silence. I miss the silence that is necessary for listening to the world, especially the subtle and natural world. We live in a very noisy time and the earth is calling us into silence. How will we respond? I plan to respond by attuning myself to silence; by dedicating more of my time to listening and replenishing my subtle senses.

I notice there’s a grain of fear and resistance in that choice. I recognize that part of the impulse to speak, write, post, etc, etc, comes from a fear of not being heard, a fear of feeling isolated, and also a fear of living without fully speaking my truth. I hold that fear with compassion. I think it’s common in this time—a symptom or residual effect of the tremendous effort marginalized peoples, including women, have had to exert to have a voice and be heard in this time (and the last few hundred/thousand years). So, I hold our ancestors’ courage in SPEAKING as I voluntarily take myself into periods of silence.

I also hold the reality that there are voices and experiences being ACTIVELY silenced—I think of the Epstein files and the people, mostly GIRLS, hurt by those monsters. I want to speak for them, but maybe silence is a way of standing in solidarity with them, of HEARING them. The chatter is actually part of the new mechanics of distraction and misdirection that the silencing powers use to keep their secrets. Can we get silent and know ourselves and this world better? Can our intentional silence show us another way?

The time I have spent in silence and deep listening has always been a relief and revelation, and has helped me recover a more precise and directed use of the great gift of communication. Less chatter, less nonsense, less noise, less confusion…more power, more clarity, more impact, more certainty.

Today, we will share our stories and then we will sit together in silence. Join us. Let’s practice listening to the silence.