We often hear about the 'wounded child', yet the Child archetypes that live within and through us also include the 'magical child', the 'nature child', the 'divine child', and others. To resurrect these parts of our Child is to resurrect joy, creativity, a sense of awe and wonder, magic, curiosity, hope, imagination.
In an Apple Farm Community blog entry, Irony and Innocence, appears the following:
"The archetype of the child has to do with the wonder of all beginnings and the wonder of beginning again. We are led by it to imagine being in the world as on the first day of creation, seeing the world for the first time. The child embodies and encourages spontaneity and joy, imagination and celebration.”
These facets are similar to those associated with the Feminine, so perhaps what gets squelched is the Feminine or 'Magical Girl' child, which would exist within each one of us, regardless of gender. Resurrecting what's been squelched is about wholeness...becoming whole again and bringing the gifts of that wholeness into relationship, parenting, work, and community.
Who, and what, kills the Magical-Divine-Nature Child that is so fundamental to wholeness, and to living from our innate joy of being? What is its opposite?
The out-of-harmony 'stern father' archetype -- the drill sargeant, Saturn, or the Herod/Pilate of the Apple Farms blog entry. This archetype appears in many myths, often slaying the child, or giving the child away, or demanding that the child renounce her magic and innocent and joy to conform and sacrifice her essential nature as a duty to the community.
The 'stern father' or 'stern leader' is all about law and order, rules and regulations, conformity and standardizing, perfectionism and rationality. The magical, chaotic, creative, wondering, inquiring, spiraling, relational, associative Child is an anathema to it. And that's what makes the Magical -Divine-Nature Child the perfect medicine for balancing (and healing) the out-of-balance Patriarch.
The Magical-Divine-Nature child is within, alive and well, if needing perhaps to be coaxed out, exercised, and let splash around in the puddles and play in the sun (or under the moonlight).
This is the magic that's dying to be born. It wants to be resurrected. It wants to play.
Blessings on the Way,
Jamie
* Photo/Image Credit - The beautiful work of Gilbert Williams/Gilbert Williams Gallery
Contemporary Shamanic Teacher & Author, Sandra Ingerman, is sharing an invitation for all to join in a global 'Circle of Love' collective-intention to create an energy field of unconditional love. I'm sharing it (at Sandra's invitation) with you.
As microcosms of the macrocosm, this is truly one way our personal practices ripple outward to co-create positive change in the collective consciousness.
By intending at the beginning of the day (or as you go to sleep the night before the 31st) and by attuning to Divine Love and Unconditional Love throughout the day, you not only shift and raise your own vibration and bathe yourself in blessing energy, but you give that gift out to the world through the collective energy field.
Here is an excerpt from Sandra's December 27th message - it's pretty simple to participate, so join us, and spread the word.
"As I wrote in the December Transmutation News we will be experiencing the alignment of the lunar and solar calendars and a rare blue moon on December 31. This will be a potent time.
On December 31 throughout the day and evening I invite you to join with me to drop into a deep place of unconditional love. This means opening your heart with absolutely no expectations of what will come from this event.
Place your hands on your heart and breathe deeply into your heart feeling the love for the earth, life, and all that is precious to you. Take some time and get into a true place of love that goes beyond your thinking mind.
Start by experiencing love for yourself and all you have been through to get you to this point in life. And when you feel ready expand your heart and allow your love to flow out to our circle throughout the world. Let's create a strong focused energy of love just simply pulsating throughout our global community.
Remember that you are part of life and that you cannot give love without receiving love. So as you breathe through your heart allowing love to flow through you remember to breathe in the love so that our circle is complete. The earth, our circle, and the rest of life will not receive your love if you cannot receive the love yourself.
And as you feel yourself part of that pulsation of love allow yourself to experience that flow of love going out to the earth and touching every living being. This includes the elements earth, air, water, and fire and all of life that lives in these elements - the spirit that lives in all things.
We do this to be in service to the planet in the same way we have been guided to for thousands of years. Allow yourself to sink into the true power of love that comes from beyond the thinking mind. Allow it to flow from the depths of your soul. This is true service!!
And when you feel the circle is complete and the unconditional love is flowing come back and continue to breathe deeply allowing the flow of love to continue and the flow of love to be received by you. Continue this throughout the day into your New Year's celebrations.
We give thanks for this circle, we give thanks to all of life, and we give thanks for our life!" (End Excerpt from Sandra Ingerman)
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Wishing you an abundance of Big Love as we move into a new calendar year.
Blessings on the Way,
Jamie
PHOTO CREDIT: Thanks to Pink Sherbet Photography for the Creative Commons use of this very heartful image.
Common wisdom, both contemporary and ancient, is that our vibration has a magnetic resonance that unfolds a sort of 'magnetic attraction' of whatever is aligned with our particular vibration. Most of us need to look no further than our experience to see that this is true.
Spiritual practices have, at their core, encouraged us to release 'low vibration' habits and cultivate higher-vibration by aligning with such high-vibe states as gratitude, appreciation, kindness, and love. In our world, with low-vibe stalking us at every turn, it's a daily practice to cultivate something different.
The practice of blessing is a beautiful way to shift your vibration and cultivate those higher-vibe states, sending a beautiful ripple all around you.
Many of us have heard of blessing our food, or saying a blessing before we eat a meal. This is just one of the powerful ways to practice blessing.
Another way to practice blessing is to bestow blessing, including, or particularly, on those people or circumstances or things that vex us. For example, we might say, "May he be well. May things unfold gracefully for him. May his heart be healed...". Or for a circumstance or event, "May it go well. May all involved speak from the wisdom of their hearts and find inspired common ground. May unexpected grace arise."
The visionary activist, radio host, and inspired myth-and-symbolist, Caroline Casey, shares another way to practice blessing.
When we're feeling 'snarky' -- not particularly positive towards someone or something -- we turn it into a 'reciprocal blessing'. One example of this is when we read the headlines or a news story, and change the headline into a more blessed, positive or desirable one, e.g. "Congressional leaders set party and personal interests aside in a historical collaboration on behalf of common good."
You can even bless yourself and the day ahead as you start your morning, using an essential oil and/or lighting a candle for a short blessing before getting started on the day's routine.
Play with it; you might find unexpected fun and humor as well as you raise your vibration. It's powerful magic in these times.
Blessings,
Jamie
* Thanks to Gilbert SantaRosa for the beautiful, creative-commons spiral fractal image.
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