Fire, cauldron, crucible. The dictionary definition of cauldron includes this: "a situation characterized by instability and strong emotions." To me this feels like our present experience of these days. Once again, I feel led to rise above this campaign place of polarized opinions and slings and arrows. In the U.S. this fire burns super hot. We have wildfires burning out of control. We have long-standing issues of humanity and health heating in a pressure cooker. And the current instability provides tinder for the fires of change. This is a time of purification and release. This heating up is necessary in order to purge past ills from our collective mode of operating. There is much fertility in the ground after a large fire. The charred remains leave amazing nutrients in the soil, and the seeds from some plants are activated through fire to germinate and begin the next generation. These processes provide nourishment for new growth and new life, which we desperately need as an opportunity to begin again. So this situation may feel uncomfortable for awhile. But I believe strongly that it is leading us to a larger life of compassion and cooperation. This belief is the place that I choose to reside in as I move through this cauldron of change.
"Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotch potch of impulses, our perpetual miracle--for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fanatic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life."
--Virginia Woolf
