Operating Instructions I
When the chaos takes root, it is not your time to give up.
When the chaos creeps in, acknowledge it, say hello, maybe learn its rhythm and dance to it for a time—a short time.
Let it teach you something.
If you do not learn from the chaos, if you do not allow it to teach or transform you, it cannot transform itself into something closer to balance, something touching peace.
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Sometimes we invite the chaos in.
In this case, we must not turn it away, wish it gone, or pretend it has not come.
When we invite the chaos, we must entertain it for a time—dine with it, sit with it, live with it (but perhaps not play with it—too much like fire).
We must get to know it well enough that we can ask why it remains, what it means to accomplish, if or how or when we can help it to transform.
Often the chaos will not tell us.
And, so, we wait, and we remember to learn.
In early 2020, with the state of the world beginning to wake us up to the transformation that the planet needs, I could not find the guidance that I—a human, woman, mother—needed. I took online classes, I read books, I did my daily meditations and shamanic journeying. Finally, I asked the Spirits/Universe/Source/God for operating instructions. What did I need to know to be in step with the transformation that is needed for a new paradigm to take shape? I encourage you to contemplate the message and, if it resonates, to apply it in your own life.