We've all heard it: "There's no going back."
We've been places, created things, experienced relationships, and leave things and people behind as our lives take us into new territory and explorations, sometimes by way of 'dark and starless roads.'
Yet sometimes things come back up -- things that we might have filed away under 'in the past' -- and we see them with refreshed eyes and a transformed mind. Maybe even with a bit of new wisdom.
I experienced that yet again this morning, when I did an interview about my first book, Big Vision, Small Business. The paperback edition was published in 2003, and while I'm always amazed that I actually wrote it, and it actually got published, I considered it to be 'in the past'.
The seven years since Big Vision, Small Business was published have been radically transforming for me, and as one of my shamanic teachers said, with transformation, there is no going back. So I figured, been there, done that.
For readers, though, it's new, and when I hear from readers who've just discovered it -- an amazing thing -- it brings it back around for me.
This morning, after the interview about the book, I saw it with new eyes. I saw the link between then and now, like a bridge between who I was and what I was doing ten years ago, and who I am and what I'm doing now.
In speaking about 'the four keys' of Big Vision, Small Business this morning, in a sort of 'aha moment', I recognized the link between that body of work and the newly emerging Feminine Mojo work -- two things that I thought were light-years (and seemingly a lifetime) apart from one another.
The four keys of BVSB are:
* there is more than one way to define growth (qualitative growth rather than just quantitative);
* to live large, you have to vision big (the power of an authentic, inspired vision);
* "right-relationship" is a big-vision craft (a quality of relationship that's extraordinary); and
* to live from the source, you have to replenish the well (inspiration doesn't flow from a dry well).
The Feminine Mojo work dives fully into these, so we replenish and drink from the well, which allows us to show up authentically, heartfully, creatively, intuitively, and with inspiration flowing into expression.
I share this because it's one of those examples of insight that becomes clear only with enough hindsight. When we've taken what can seem like a detour or wrong turn, or life is shaken up to the point that it doesn't resemble what it was before.
And yet, and yet...
Suddenly our vision opens and we can see the connection -- the path of breadcrumbs through the forest we muddled our way through. We can see that the 'detour' or 'off the map' four-wheeling adventure has allowed us a deeper experience and understanding of certain ideas or values. We 'get it' more than we ever did.
There are a lot of people I know -- and many I don't know yet or may never know -- who feel like they're off-road or off-path, on that unexpected detour without map or compass. They feel like they're muddling their way through the dark forest and "know it not" (as Dante said). I know this place.
So if that's you, I share this for you, so you can know that even though it feels muddled and directionless, there is a path, and there will be a place where you'll look back and see the path with new eyes and a new understanding, aware of the the gifts you picked up along the way.
In the midst of my dark-forest walk, a sparkling gem of a message found its way to me from a little book by Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp), and I'll pass it along to you now:
"But you--you are of the little clan, for whom this book is: you who have gone upon dark ways, and have known the starless road, and perchance on that obscure way learned what we have yet to learn. Let me be not only of your fellowship but of that little scattered clan to whom the wild bees of the spirit come, as secret wings in the dark, with the sound and breath of forgotten things."
The wild-bee wisdom and the 'forgotten things' you've been gathering and remembering along that 'dark and starless road' are the medicine for these times.
Blessings on the Way,
Jamie
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