Basically, it described a meditation in which you imagine sending love to everything – first, you let love grow in your heart and allow it to flow throughout your body. Then with each breath, let love expand beyond yourself to fill the space you are in and beyond. You could do this meditation anywhere. Walking down the street, send love to the trees and flowers and grass, to birds and animals that you see, to other people . . . Send that love out on the exhale and let it return on the inhale.
“Your shadow is moonlight on a plate of silver; your footsteps, the seeding-place of lilies; the mystery of your voice, a chime of bells across the windless river air. The movement of your hands is the long golden running of light from a rising sun. Young horses are not more limber than your thoughts. Your laughs are bees buzzing around a pear tree. I dare to reach to you. I dare to touch the rim of your brightness.”
I love how creating a piece of work, how that in-the-moment-feeling spills over into everything else in my life. Yoga helps me with being in the moment, too, but not nearly as much as visual art and music do.
Now is the time – if you’ve wanted to do something, but were afraid because it seems too strange, or “out there”, or impossible, use the energy of Aquarius, the Chinese New Year, St Brigid (the Goddess of Imbolq), and FIRE to give you strength.
holly troy ~ sacred folly 