inter-connection

Since I chose this theme partway through last month I've had plenty of time/opportunity to think about what it might reflect in terms of the presidential  election.  This has led to more generalized thoughts on how we do or do not engage ourselves at a political level.  And what that means to the world at large as well as what it says about us as individuals.  Of course this all winds up looping back to rigorous examination of my personal life view and political opinions; it's imperative to remember that the process of building a medicine wheel doesn't effect itself without a primary force of balance and clarity.  

So, initially, I had a paragraph in here containing some links to sources that reflect various aspects of what I think/believe (as well as what I tend to say) about homeland politics.  I've decided to omit it simply because I thought it was more relevant to stick with a wider frame; to focus on globalized reality and how badly we as a country need to rework the ways we do (or, more to the point, do not) relate to the rest of the world in a constructive fashion.  Tuesday offered us a glaringly obvious and intelligent choice concerning how we intend to proceed and we did indeed make it.

While it has seemed something bordering on impossible not to make a note of my response to the election results, this entire topic happens to be a place where I have been feeling the most overmediated.  My personal comfort zone would have been well served if we could have forgone the unrelenting saturation of spin doctoring in favor of voting much sooner.  Still everything has its season of ripeness, be it authentically organic or at least partially contrived.  It feels good to be an American right now - particularly in the context of how our country and its collective pscyhe/intelligence level is viewed by the rest of the world. 

The concept of personal and willingly assumed responsibility having a direct relationship to collective projection is an underlying theme of this page.  Recently sTeph left a comment mentioning Fire Keeping.  In a traditional sense the Fire Keeper plays a central role in the creation of sacred space.  They are the human force that stands watch over the flames which ignite and sanctify the process of taking one thing and making it another.

In my direct experience the Fire Keeper is the first to arrive and the last to leave a newly designated space.  So I wanted to convey a sense of what this role contributes in a co-creative sense.  The original eight-pointed star has started to send energetic ripples of itself in an outward direction.  The central force and focus of the Creator Stone feeds the star-form(s).  The powers of prayer and quantum healing are called into be-ing in a way that serves the good of All.

At a technical level these additions are a bit problematic.  The leaf-shaped beads are very floppy.  I'm going to need to give them a spot of tacky glue so that additional stitches and beading is not inadvertently mis-placed.  While the glue dries I can return to SafeKeeping.   Had not actively planned to make a series of mandalas for this year's theme but, so far, that's the way it's been most effective to articulate the individual months.  I suspect this will change with December's piece but, for now, it's been a good way to organize my innately chaotic & fractured vision.

Comments

[jude]

mandalas always seem to emerge with growth outward and sometimes without intent. which is a comfort somehow. a sign of embracing on a larger level.

[Helene H]

Discovering your progress on this page this morning gave me a pang of delight. I love this journey around pink you are doing. We would call this colour in French "rose tendre" (tender pink).

The winning smile of your new president is everywhere in Paris (posters for newspapers) and it seems the American vote has spread much joy around the World. Yesterday I was in a jazz concert focusing around a Mumbay born drummer and his multicultural band, and he cracked a joke how "anything can happen, look at the USA", which set out happy ripples of laughter. Well, let's hope we collectively and individually start acting seriously for a better World.

[jeanne herself]

there's something so calming about mandalas. i've got a friend who mandalas her way through meetings. tis the only way she can keep her butt in the chair and her focus on what's being said (or not said).

[Kathy V in NM]

Very nice, Acey!

Kathy V in NM