Thursday, May 3, 2012

Spring Run

After what seemed like a long stretch of rainy, stormy, unsettled weather,  Persephone emerged from hiding and unfurled Her beautiful May morning,  complete with warm-enough sunshine and a cool breeze with the occasional blustery gusts.   The air felt fresh and new as I headed out the door,  lifting my spirits into the low throttle of excitement I always feel just to get out and run.

Despite the loss of long run days the past several weeks, crazy busy schedule,  and most of all the pressing in of the Great Changes underway,  my body craves movement and solitude within Mother Nature's embrace.  Somewhere on the link between Stirling and Griffin, I found that 'sweet spot' where the rhythm of my gait with its gentle percussive beats on the bottoms of my feet seems to massage through the kinks, aches and pains accumulated from the prior day...the soft loosening of stiff joints,  muscles expanding/contracting into the perfect paradigm of motion.   With lower endurance,  this doesn't last long...and I put plenty of walk breaks in today.   But Nature is full of Her usual lessons:  and if we look past the preconceived barriers of separation,  it will come to us,  that we are just another particle of Her,  breathing in the tumultuous Spring, breathing out the inner aspirations of our living being. 

Life is so interpenetrating we hardly notice how we take for granted the sheer existence of all this abundant beauty!  Ourselves and our bodies;  our world and its many magnificent manifestations!  Our deep psyches,  which push our realities out upon the canvas of possibility!  I watch people sleep-walking through their experiences with sad or mad faces, full of resentments,  stuck in the boxes of their internalized limits....just asking for the reminder that Life is BIGGER than anything we imagine, even in our wildest dreams....

This month,  the Forces conspire to put us in the path of so many powerful events and experiences...all we need to do is pay attention!  Synchronicity will be particularly strong, so watch as the World places that which will open you to a wider, deeper future....Move into it, and take with you whatever you feel,  sense, believe- for She will move you through it all,  dancing, laughing and shaking you loose from everything which holds you back. 

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