Monday, July 12th, 2010
I am not sure how we can make it through anything now unless we are on fire. Perhaps it means we will burn hot at some times and cold at others, but burn, I think, we must…
We must burn with who we are…
We must find out what ignites us and keep it ever-near and present…
At a recent get-together with friends I picked a card from a deck. In my own words it spoke about being the star that you are and burning with the energy of the new self you have become. Burning with the power of what you truly know. I often say that becoming the Oracle that you are is about not just knowing, but really knowing what you know. The card talked about not just claiming what you have recently discovered to be true inside yourself, but sustaining it. Burning with what you know.
I can do that, I thought to myself. I can burn like the star that I am.
In fact, in so many ways, there is no other choice for me…and I wouldn’t have it any other way. There are only two options when we face the truth of our own being…pull back or lean in. I am writing today to inspire you to lean in. To lean in to the soft skin of who you really are, and light a fire in your heart with that intimate touch. Let who you are be your lover, and the flames will burn away all the rest.
To do this you have to find something that moves you. And then you have to find as many things as you can, and keep visiting with them in the stolen moments, and in broad daylight, and the corners of the night. And you will find that with the right fuel and enough oxygen there is always something to burn within you…something that is newly igniting in creative beauty, or something that needs to burn away. It is a time of fevers. Necessary fevers that will wash our whole beings with their healing fire.
Later that night my love and friends and I went down to the ocean to see the phosphorescence and, though the night was chilly, I jumped into the dark ocean…and my body was made into light. It glowed with the light of thousands of bright green stars. (They were made from the special plankton that light up in the water at this time of year.) My soul and my body were as free as they have ever been and nothing…nothing was wrong or unharmonious in my universe. I knew, under the nearly-new moon and pre-eclipse energies, that I was being reborn yet again and that my star would burn brighter than ever.
I floated on my back in an ocean full of stars with stars up above me thinking, “Oh yes…burning stars indeed…”
It didn’t take something otherworldly, though otherworldly was just what it was…it only took a walk to the beach on a chilly summer night and the will to give myself over to the ocean. We each have an ocean inside us calling to us and begging us to jump in…to immerse ourselves in all that we deeply feel. We just need to take the leap, trust the fall, and be born anew. As the worlds fall down around us, we will be swimming in a warm night sea…looking at the stars.
Burn, dear Oracles…burn with all of what you are and never let the flame die out…burn like the star that you are and set the world aglow…
Love, Jennifer
