Find Spring
Weekly Reading Topic for April 4, 2020: Find Spring
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: “Find Spring.”
What follows is your weekly reading, dear one. I hope it doesn’t make you too dizzy, and I apologize if it is a head-scratcher. This week has been so spiral-ly!
Weekly Reading │ Find Spring
Q: What do we need to know about “Find Spring?”
April is here, and with April comes the full feeling of spring, the season. Find Spring means “stand in April’s weak warm sun and open your palms a little. Take a moment to breathe the recently sharp air. Feel the sturdy petals of the spring flowers: the bulbs deep in the soil that send up sturdy stalks and open with sturdy pastel petals.”
Spring flowers are strong for a few weeks before collapsing on themselves, folding their leaves back in great circles as the extra warmth melts their tissues.
Feel yourself, your spine a graceful tulip’s stem, your head a tulip’s bulb, opening at the top, allowing the world to peek inside.
Feel yourself, anchored to a bulb of earth well beneath your feet, drawing on the stored energy of an entire year to meet this day, right now.
The wind can still blow cold, and there is no doubt that there are high-pressure systems and storms, and that dog is about to pee on you.
And there are challenges still to come, that will bend you over, maybe even snap that hollow stem.
But you can bend, laying yourself nearly flat against the ground, against your fellow tulips, standing as sentries do, lined up a few feet apart. And when the wind stops pushing, you will straighten back up, until it is time to let go of your petals, wilt, spiral to the ground.
And Find Spring means another thing, too. It means remembering how to bounce, how to Tigger about your life, how to play and be zany and pretend that everything is exciting and wonderful and NEW, even when it’s sometimes the exact opposite, even when you feel like it’s an Eeyore kind of day.
No, friend, this is a Tigger time, when we all have to embrace the opposites in ourselves, learn how to bounce, up and down, up and down, without losing our balance. We need to boing and sproing from one challenge to another, finding the spring as we do.
The spring, dear one, is the part of the bounce that is not landing and not the topping. It’s the floating up, and the floating down. The spring is the In Between.
We have to take refuge, now, in the In Between. The up bounce and the down bounce, and the opening of the tulip’s petal for these few weeks, In Between the Realization of What Is Happening and the Decisions About What To Do.
The part where we have to make choices is coming in a few weeks. And now, yes, Find Spring, so you can explore the full range of your options in preparation.
Are you in the bulb or the petal? Are you the stem in between? Are you the top of the bounce, when you can see everything, or are you the bottom, when you press down and then off?
Orient yourself from moment to moment, because In Between Moments are the only ones we have available to us right now.
Find Spring also means remember spirals. We say that history repeats itself, and others say it doesn’t it only rhymes, but really … it spirals. Every human life is built to go round, and round, and round a couple of themes that matter to That Person, and That Person Most of All.
And as we approach each new decade, new year, new month, new day, new minute, we are circling, and circling, but also moving up, and down, sideways, and around.
And many of us also twirl as we move in these great spirals, just as the planets do, revolving on their axes as they spiral around their great stars as their stars spiral around our galaxy, which spirals around the universe.
The whole cosmos moves in spirals, spirals, spirals, giant millennial slinky toys that slip and slide down the stairs of experience.
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And so if you have been feeling a little dizzy, lightheaded, confused, spun round and round, and round, well.
That’s you, Finding Spring.
So. Congratulations, you are doing it! You are right in sync with the motion of this extraordinary epoch.
This time is a heavy-duty awakening and shutting up and closing down and waking up and taking-stock time. It’s an inventory and put-up-or-shut-up time. It’s a choice-forcing time and a pressure-building time. It’s a stay home-but-connect-deeply time.
And finding spring, really tuning into the Now-ness of every moment, is the only way to maintain your own relationship to yourself.
And so remember who you love. Reach out to the pure of heart and set your spiral to go round your heart, first, in every situation.
Spiral like a dancer does: pick someone or something you love, and watch it, don’t stop looking at it, as you spin. Turn your head only when you must, and snap it back around as soon as you can, to find your love again.
Keep your focus on that spot as you spin and spiral, and trust that others are spinning and spiraling, too, and that Spring Comes for Everyone, even those that seem stuck.
No one is stuck right now. Everyone is finding their new orbit, realizing that they may have lost the ground they thought was theirs. Reaching back down for their bulb, their anchor.
Find Spring means find the joy in that spiral motion, the loosening of the chest, the strength of the ankles.
And when you drop like a tulip at the end of the day, do so in a bed of springtime scents. Use lavender in your pillow, in your bath, your tea. Fill the world with lilacs and robins egg blue.
Experiences like this come along Not Too Often. We are being asked to focus on love, and even when we feel rooted and stuck, we are asked to Find Spring. Even when we are spinning and spiraling and wondering if we’ve lost our focus, we are asked to find that bulb under our feet.
We are heading for a Both/And time, a more inclusive and cohesive reality (yes, I keep seeing this! It’s not easy, our path, but it makes for a truly new world).
That time to come is very different than the Either/Or/Neither/Nor time that is ending.
And here we are, in the In Between. A time similar to the one Vivaldi lived in, the one inside his mind where he wrote this extraordinary concerto, played here by extraordinary musicians based on his original scripts and on the instruments he composed for:
Listen to that first movement, the allegro, and … notice how you are grounded AND in the dream world right now. Notice how you spiral and spring, even though you are not moving through the world the way you once did.
You are In the In Between. And you’ve got plenty of company.
Here’s to your bounce and spiral and love focus this weekend. Here’s to your lavender dreams and lilac mornings.
I am always here to serve in any way I can.
Much Love to You!
Molly
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