Endings and Beginnings
Weekly Reading Topic for November 7, 2020: Endings and Beginnings
Well, good morning, love! I just opened a Reading for you, my newsletter subscribers and here’s what I heard in answer to the following:
What do my readers most need to hear this weekend? What is the most important message to send to my beloved readers?
The answer was: “endings and beginnings.”
With the U.S. Presidential Election not yet called (it’s 4:00pm EDT on Friday 11/6 when I write this) this message feels particularly useful to me this week.
What follows is your weekly reading, dearest one.
Weekly Reading │ Endings and Beginnings
Q: What do we need to know about “endings and beginnings?”
We are at the beginning of an ending, the end of a beginning, and the end of an ending and the beginning of a beginning.
Wow. No wonder we feel so much energy!
They say that if a door closes a window opens …. Well, all the doors and windows in our house are banging open and shut repeatedly. It’s hard to hear over the clattering of closings and the creaking of openings.
And that’s OK. That’s actually the way it always is on this planet, we’re just not usually going through the Same Ending/Beginning at the same time.
So what do we do at Endings, and what do we do at Beginnings? Let’s take a look.
Here is a VERY partial list of Beginnings:
- Birth
- Naming a baby
- First solid food
- First birthday
- First time riding a bike
- Swimming across the pool for the first time
- Graduation from High School
- First day of college
- College Graduation
- Wedding Day
- Birth of first child
- First job
- First day of retirement
And here is a VERY partial list of Endings:
- Weaning yourself from your mother
- A new sibling being born
- Death of a close relative
- Graduation from High School
- Graduation from College
- Wedding Day
- Birth of first child
- First day of first job
- First day of retirement
There are many, many life events that are both Endings and Beginnings.
In fact, every day’s sunrise for you is someone else’s sunset. Every single moment on this planet features sunset and sunrise. Every moment!!
So we REALLY know how to do this! Let’s ground ourselves in this idea of constant motion, endless endings and beginnings, so we can better understand this dynamic.
Put your hand on your heart for a moment, and take a few deep breaths: in for five, hold, out for five, at least ten times in a row.
With your parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) engaged, take a moment and feel your feet on the ground, or if you are sitting or lying down, feel your body on the chair or bed. Remember, the more you relax, the more support you feel … so relax and continue breathing deeply.
And now, picture your body in this place, which is connected to the center of the earth. Even if you are on the 32nd floor of a high rise in a city, you are still connected to the center of the earth through your furniture, the building, the ground.
Feel that solid support under your body. Let your body relax into it. You’re not going anywhere. Gravity and you are friends, and it keeps you plastered to this planet for your entire lifetime.
And now, with your body fully engaged with the earth, tune into the cosmos that surrounds us on every side. Feel the vastness. Feel the possibilities that stack like dark bricks of dark matter out there in the void – and inside our cells and the planet — and let the opportunities (all those open doors and open windows) announce themselves.
As you sit, floating in the void, with me, let’s attune ourselves to the very essence of potentiality that the heavens represent. Perhaps tonight, you will go outside and see the stars, and feel as one of them, a brilliant point of light that someone on a distant planet is gazing at, millions of light-years away.
Take this attitude this weekend, and into the next week.
You are grounded in the present, this planet, this reality, and also infinitely aware of the endless possibilities twinkling and calling to you.
When we give birth, in the same instant we cease being Only Ourselves and start being Parent to This Person.
When we are born, in the same instant we cease being One and start being Two.
Endings and Beginnings always come at the exact same moment. That’s why it is so important to listen for the creak of a window opening when you hear a door slam shut!
And here’s why it’s so important: when you End/Begin, you are responsible for What Happens Next.
There is always a “next” that comes immediately after an Ending/Beginning.
You were a person, and now you are also a parent … and you have to figure out what that means. How do you breathe, with all that responsibility??
You were a fetus, and now you are a newborn … and you have to figure out how to breathe on your own. How do you breathe, without your mother’s oxygen??
The next is the thing, dear ones. What’s next?
Because there are all those possibilities before us, and we are ready for them, and Now Is Our Time. What will we make next?
What will I make next?
What will you make next?
What is this new world, and how do we make it work? We have been tasked with a sacred responsibility that countless of our foremothers and forefathers handed to us.
Let us set about tending to our new world the same way we would that newborn. With great tenderness, and gentleness. With endless fascination. With love that breaks the heart wide open.
We sit, grounded, mind in the heavens, heartbroken, open. And from here, we set about growing up our new world into a fine, competent, wise, kind, and loving adult.
It begins!
I am always here to serve in any way I can.
Much Love to You,
Molly
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