In this season on the edge between winter and spring, the seeds are stirring deep under the earth, the first shoots beginning to rise upwards. Even the mightiest tree begins this way, as a powerful impulse of life-force that has yet to create the form that will house its great spirit. The seed knows only to grow, to reach upwards. It is not concerned with the whole plan of the tree that will form to embody its spirit, only with the creative impulse itself.
In your life what creations are beginning to stir in your heart? Can you be like the seed, centered in the impulse and trusting that the form will unfold? or does your mind insist on seeing the final form before it starts to sprout the seed? Mine often does.
Mind creates form, but spirit animates it so it comes alive. The intention and impulse come from spirit into a form that the mind envisions, but the intention and impulse are prior to the vision, just as spirit is prior to mind. Only my mind, being aware more of itself than of spirit forgets this, gets lost in the creation of forms and then wonders where the animating spirit lies.
Do you feel you need know the full form before you can bring your spirit alive to animate a creation? and not finding or knowing the form yet, you are paused and your spirit is kept in waiting and nothing progresses? When attention becomes fixed on a lack of vision, the lack of knowing the form, we forget the spiritual core we started from, become discouraged, and the intention and impulse are lost.
It is all too easy to get lost in the mental effort we are trained to employ, all too easy to loose the initial impulse, the joy and passion of your spirit that is wanting to express. When this happens the life force that was lifting your seed is interrupted and, as the leaves of the growing tree will wither and die when the roots are severed, your project will falter and collapse back on itself.
Rather turn back to your spirit, kindle its flame and abide there until the form begins to become clear. The desire and impulse of the spirit to manifest, will itself begin to coalesce the appropriate form. Residing in spirit, trust in your passion and joy, you can create space for your desire to take form without knowing first what that form is. Creating space and filing it with passion and joy, the form will come into being as the universe responds to your intention, and honors the impulse living in your heart. Not only will the form appear, but the support and assistance you need in its creation will also be drawn around that space.
The growth of your seed into a tree is a dance of masculine and feminine: the impulse and intention, the making of space, the coalescing of vision into form. It flows outward from your spiritual core into the world, so you must always come back to spirit, remain connected to the source of the impulse. When the vision wavers, or you become uncertain, let the mind take a break, center in your heart and simply ask what is the next step? find your enthusiasm and joy, letting that flow through your being and the vision will come clear again.
Its going to be a glorious Spring, full of beautiful new trees.
(© 2/2013)
