Being Abundance
I’ve been working too hard to try and fill the time, given these days that are calling us to make the world new. I recognize that this impulse comes from need—the need to fill my hours with “accomplishments,” “productivity,” starting (and sometimes completing) chores, tasks, projects, anything that gives a sense of moving things forward.
A sense of inertia is not welcome. A sense of treading water in a reality that’s become so choppy is not one that I want to invite.
Yellow island flowers by CBN
In my part of the world, the early summer rains held off our annual drought, so the plants have been growing and growing, unheeded, in parts of my yard. The tall grass, the continuous ripening of berries, the flowering weeds that keep giving, all demonstrate one of the natural states of Earth’s cycles: abundance.
Contrary to what our cultures might have taught us, abundance does not grow from or equate with productivity.
A yearning for busy-ness is often attached to something we don’t want to own or don’t want to feel. Maybe the reality of loss. Maybe a grief or pain that’s ready to be released. Maybe a feeling of loneliness or lack that the ego grasps at in times that require us to be still and patient.
Our true abundance comes from the stillness at our center, not from what we accomplish in the external world. This stillness resides in our deepest nature, our core being, which is connected to universal consciousness.
Buddha with grass by KB
If we look at things from a shamanic consciousness—that we are all connected energetically, that we and the u/Universe are all part of a web of life—we can see that we are everything and nothing at the same time.
By being everything, we already know the feeling of nature’s abundance, whether it be through enjoying the summer harvest or through experiencing a dark, starry night in winter. When we remember that we carry that feeling, and we tune into our embodiment of it, tasks get done and work is accomplished from JOY, rather than from need.
We can then bring our gifts, our sense of abundance, even to the most tedious of our tasks, simply through the nature of our presence. We can bring our energy from our sense of being, rather than trapping it in our external act of doing, and the gifts, often some we didn’t even know we had, are able to flow from there.
And therein lies the simplicity of the remedy to this feeling of need: recognizing that our gifts, the abundant gifts that we bring through our presence, compound, play off of, and learn from the abundance of nature and the universe that surrounds us.
Hydrangea blooms by KB
Fehu is the rune that teaches balance in abundance. It teaches us to allow the abundance that we receive (or embody) to also flow out into the world and be shared with others.
Nature gives all to us, including the energy of her cycles. If we remember that we carry these energies in our core being, they will not only make an impact on our own lives, but on those of others.
We will be able to live from abundance, rather than needing, seeking, wanting it.
As the days move through late summer and the harvest season in the Northern Hemisphere, and late winter and the seedings of spring in the Southern Hemisphere, we can ask ourselves what gifts we are bringing to the world around us. With what are we feeding the earth and our surroundings?
Our world doesn’t need more pressure to produce, achieve, or push things in a direction we think we want or need. Our world needs action from presence, action from a considered state of stillness. The strongest actions we can take are those that embody our gift of being.