Hello,

This article brought home for me an energy that I felt was co-opting an exploration I was sharing yesterday. I said that the energy felt slippery and when I tried to get a better view of it, it seemed to pull itself tightly to me like a second skin, like my own thoughts. Where did it go? I finally saw it after relaxing and not forcing discovery, but by re-visiting my exploration at a later time with a gentle curiosity. The fresh perspective revealed that the energy shifted from each side of a polarity, twisting, and turning inside and out. I was able to see both of the polarities of fear with more clarity and thus unwind the distiortions so I could make a choice to move from a place of self-compassion and not be "owned" by the confusion of the energy as I had been before.

Interestingly, one of my lamps flickered from steady on, to on, off and on again as I was reading the description of the black snake as metaphor sentence in the beginning of the article. It continued to flicker periodically as I read on, but has remained steady on for the whole time that i was typing this response.

<3 September