past week was the last triad date of my lifetime, 12-12-12. I felt it to be
quite auspicious and shared with my classes one persons take on its significance
(from a friend of a friend of mine). Basically she said that it’s a powerful
time to connect in a way of supportive mediation to send healing to the planet,
our loved ones, as well as ourselves. And it is part of the greater cosmic shift
that is happening on December 21, 2012. This is said to be the end of the Mayan
calendar and the doomsayers were saying it could be the end of the world (I
don’t believe that, but perhaps more of a shift in consciousness).
What
is interesting is that this upcoming solstice has a particularly special
planetary alignment with very distant stars as it will be right along the plane
of the entire galaxy. “This precession of the equinoxes goes in a complete
circle and happens only once every 26,000 years. In other words, the winter
solstice moves 360 degrees every 26,000 years, or 0.01 degrees each year.”
(Greer Jonas, www.numbers4me.com).
Add the
galactic and cosmic activity to the unsettled nature of the holiday season, I
have a very strong sense that this was indeed a time to look at how we fit into
the big picture of this Universe.
If you think about our physical
presence on this earth and how we connect to it, the most obvious conduit is
through our feet. The soles of our amazingly adaptive peds connect the souls of
ourselves to Mother Earth. I think of this earth as being feminine, the Divine
life giver as she offers us all that we need. It seems obvious but without the
earth, we simply would not be. We have a truly physical connection to the
planet, one which so many of us have forgotten about and become disconnected
from. Many of our surfaces are flattened and paved over so the sensation of
stepping barefoot on a rocky path has become a metaphysical rather than an
actual physical experience. We no longer feel our feet gently kissing the
earth, unless we intentionally do so.
And then I got to thinking about
the vastness of the cosmos and how the planets and stars expand into infinite
space, doing what they do as I go along doing what I do. In order to connect to
this Universal energy and realm, I need to take myself there consciously.
We get so easily distracted and into our own lives that we step further
and further away from the truly gigantic picture of being humans living on a
planet. I start to freak out a little bit if I give it too much
contemplation…how does anyone truly comprehend all of that space?
As a result, I offer this practice of connection and seeing ourselves in
the big picture.
Stand barefoot with a sense of good posture. Bring
your awareness into the bottoms of your feet and visualize sending giant cables
of light down through the floor, through the earth’s crust and into the center
of the earth. Feel as if you’re connecting your cables into the heart of the
Mother and that she sends whatever serves and supports you back up through these
channels.
Now pull your energy up from the earth and through your body.
See an opening at the very crown of your head and send another cable of
energetic light up through the ceiling, into the clouds and out into the earth’s
atmosphere. See this cable expanding beyond the gravitational boundary of the
earth and out into infinite space.
As we stand with our feet firmly
grounded into the center of the earth and our energy reaching into infinity, it
starts to feel as though we are the conduit between a solid physical realm and a
less definitive celestial one. We are part of it all with this pranic life
force flowing not only around us, but through us.
Our place in the
Universe is as a complete individual, yet we are also completely connected to
and part of the whole. To show gratitude, how about slipping out of those shoes
to go kiss the earth with your feet?
