From Spark To Flame
Iconic image of Grace Kelly from To Catch A Thief, 1955
With a crowded cosmic chorus of alarms ringing in heads and hearts all week / month / year, we are universally musing. We want to know what in tarnation is going on. Or when it is going to end or start or shift. We demand satisfactory responses to impossible questions when we already know the answer.
Yes. You bloody well do.
No matter the crossroads you stare down, the lifequakes you reel from, the trammelling opportunities almost in your grasp. Our remarkable ability to craft a narrative in our head around just about everything is the curse of our consciousness. It is absolutely self serving, but in that weird way where it actually doesn't serve anyone. And that little story we tell ourselves, most especially in the dark lonely hours after midnight, is what truly has us by the short and curlies.
Each of us actually know what we must do to get what we so ardently want. Our soul whispers it relentlessly to us. We just don't want to do it, or say it, or make it so. When did the thrill of risk get traded for complacency? We've stopped feeling the fear and doing it anyway. Instead we wring our hands or sit on them. We defer or make excuses, lay blame or shake fist at sky. Perhaps we wait for somebody else to do something first, while muttering under our breath. There is no point simply wishing on stars and moons and candles. Magic is a doing word.
When we shirk the work - no matter the why - the only path our life can possibly take is confoundingly circular. And here it comes again, presented in the round, for you to deftly sidestep or embrace. As the world and its evolution intensifies and quickens, a chasm is emerging between those willing and those squawking in indignation.
Choose your own side. Face the sum of all fears. Make the move. Nobody else can ever do it for you.
Welcome to Aries season, darklings. Turn that spark into a fire.
You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already on your neck.
~ Rumi
Words c. Kerrie Basha 2019