Month 1, Week 3, Moon Path: Seeking Awen

This week is about the inner journey, about going within, about meditation.  There are no specific questions, but a suggested daily meditation.

Having a daily meditation practice for the last 40 years has found me, not so much "striking a balance between opposing forces in our lives", as exploring the ever widening path before me.

Regarding the vista from which I view the world: I reside in meaningful alignment.  The result of my life's work has led me to unconditional presence; meaning, I know that presence can be sustained regardless of the inner or outer storms, regardless of physical or emotional disruption.  Or, as I often relate, "When you feel the world around you is spinning out of control, realize that you are standing in the 'eye', standing at center.  And that is a place of quiet observation."

More and more I describe myself as a 'woods woman', a 'staff bearer', and 'wisdom keeper'.  Perhaps because my every choice in life has led me to this moment, to the very gentleness of divine presence.  The life of this woods woman is filled with silence and solitude, with the exploration of deepness and wounds and trust and imagination and creativity .. 

Walking staff in hand is never tame or domesticated, but fraught with madness and poetry, with vigilance and intensity, with eyes wide open to receive perpetual light.

The lesson this week is to, "Consider the concept of balance that is embodied in the Awen. There is a left-leaning line, a right-leaning line, and an upright line. The upright line represents a balancing force between two opposing forces or opposite directions." 

God, or the Primordial First, is that 'upright line', that field beyond more and less, near and far, before and after, self and other, past and future, elsewhere and otherwise.  God, or the Ineffable Entity, occurs when there are no levels, no demarcations, no this or that.  God, or the Absolute, is the home you never left.