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Finding Home in the midst of the Storm

11/4/2017

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It's late as I walk homeward by the light of the full moon. My own moontime is nigh and so my sensitivity and vulnerability is prominent. It's been an intense day, with immense sadness and grief. Sadness for what we are doing to Mother Earth, ourselves and all of nature. It began when out for a morning walk and "Farewell to Pripchat", a song by Christy Moore began to play on my ipod shuffle. This song beautifully and poetically tells of the impact of the Chernobyl disaster on the city of Pripyat. This is one of the thousands if not millions of stories relating to the insanity we are creating in the name of power, greed, a sense of safety, convenience and comfort... etc. It feels to me like we have entered a phase of mass extention, including that of our own human species.

Yet death was always inevitable. It begs the question, why are we here? What is our purpose? And I ask you the question "If you knew the world was going to end tomorrow, would you still plant an apple tree?". These chaotic and troubled times offer us great opportunities for growth, understanding and personal development. Rather than deny or avoid the probable unstainability of our current ways of living on the earth, let's embrace and acknowledge it. Work through the feelings we may have around it and find our purpose and heart song on the other side. As the quote here illustrates, maybe we have created the storm for a reason...

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Back to the womb of Mother Earth

For me one of the things that has been really supporting me through this grief is feeling the support of the Earth and her energies beneath me. I know that I am always supported and never truly alone. I know that deep inside myself there is a place where all is in harmony. The world is full of distraction, yet we can always find peace within our own being. “Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm”. There is a place of pure presence where nothing needs to change. Through exploring, feeling and expressing within the challenges of this life, we locate our strength, we discover the depth of compassion and find love through all things.
The words below speak to me of finding my inner home within...
"Listen
It's dusk and the moorcock cries:
Go back - go back - go back
go back to what?
go back to where?

The first place you ever knew
was warm and wild and wet
And in that dark womb you grew"
Karine Polwart from Wind Resistance

There are times when I need refuge, I need to focus internally and refuel my reserves. I leave the outer physical world behind and find the sanctuary of the womb again. While the babe is in the womb, it is supported by the energies surrounding it, the warmness and walls of the belly, nourishment through the placenta and underlying universal love. The symbology of the womb is always available to us whatever age and whatever is going on for us. When we pause and reconnect to our inner strength and truth we can re-emerge into the world energised, stronger and wiser. We can find support in one another and in the Universe around us too, as we are all connected.

In her show Wind Resistance, Karine Polwarth expresses many varied themes, one of the underlying themes is that of the symbology of goose skein. A goose skein refers to the way in which geese take it in turns to fly into the wind, reducing the wind impact for those who fly behind by as much as 65%, thus enabling the conservation of energy for those who fly at the rear. In the same way we can find support in one another and the Universe, when the methaphorical winds blow and the wild weather comes.
May we each find our own way home...
With love and blessings from my heart and womb space,

Fiona
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Fiona is an Active Listening therapist, reflexologist, Openhand Facilitator and experienced doula. She is passionate about living true to her heart and soul and empowering others to do the same. She runs various workshops related to the vibrancy of conscious plant based eathing and women's issues including being childless/free and loves joining women in circle. Her website is www.fionareilly.co.uk or click here for her facebook page - True Living

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