Preparation

I take a match to a candle to bring in the light, carefully I choose incense, not too strong, just enough to help change my mindset, a familiar scent to encourage the flow.  I scan my eye across the small white clothed table when I feel that oh so familiar tug towards a faithful stone. Gently I caress it in my hand quietly waiting for it to speak to me. The gentle pressure builds in my inner ear, the slight pitch change signalling that other frequency.' Game on' I think to myself as I align myself towards the task ahead. Softly I feel leaf by leaf the offering I wish to present to my companions, I whisper to myself 'from tiny acorns do great oaks grow'.  I search within my heart for the guidance the words of a loved one echoes through my being 'I have faith in you, be brave, move without fear.' Outside the window I can hear the wind rushing through the trees and hear their straining voices as they ride the element who a day previous was almost absent. Intermittent pattering and the odd chime as rain droplets strike potted plants below. Tightening my senses I feel the earth holding my standing friends breathe again as it  absorbs the life giving liquid so precious at this time. I give thanks to the earth who holds me, who feeds my living being. I give thanks also to the sky who shelters me, gives me warmth or guides me with his stars, pin pricks of wisdom.  I take a deep breath and am humbled to be here.  So I begin. Chosen ones here we stand as seemingly insignificant as the droplet of water teetering on the edge of my windowsill this stormy night. We are akin to this droplet in so many ways but have you ever stopped to consider it?

The droplet takes the form of a sphere, the most energy efficient shape in the universe, if it was not for gravity all water would float in spheres. It is bound into shape with a tensioned surface, you can possibly liken this self formed casing to the boundaries we set in our minds or the physical auric shell surrounding our bodies  as both things are borne from us. Indeed many psychoanalysts of our time have likened the self to a sphere with the ego floating as a tiny island within it. The sphere of the self is free of location, free of linear factors and is seemingly unique to each one of us. Our little rain drop is gripped tightly by the window sill, for a moment they have a symbiotic relationship hovering there for a moment in time. The sill does not require the rain no more than the rain requires it, their meeting is mere experience. We too have encounters that for a moment or more that  pull us out of our energy efficient state of aloneness and cause us to melt for a while with another which in the case of the windowsill may not be the most feeding of relations . In this vain there are many interactions that should be marked down as nothing more than experience but sometimes this is not the case, how many times have you felt gripped by things that pull you out of shape, do not feed you, cause you to resist the pull of 'gravity' and keep you from moving onto your path?

 Imagine our droplet again. Its momentum may catch up with it and cause it to gradually regroup to fall away from the sill again carrying on its journey leaving behind a small residue of itself. We too can part from situations or events that require us only to pick up information and move on, we too energetically or maybe emotionally speaking leave a residue of ourselves behind however in falling we gain momentum, a freedom from that which we leave behind. The droplet is attracted to more of its kind as it lands on another surface, the droplets may meld together forming a bigger union. This too may form momentum and fall again, leaving a little residue behind. Likened forms merge boundaries for a while and there is a meaningful exchange, such connections may have a more lasting place on the journey but these too may in time find themselves moving in separate circles.

So this is where we find our selves, maybe you might want to cast your mind to where you on your path in terms of the interactions or bonds that may be present in this phase of your life. Have you found your way to this blog to form a new alliance, to share for a while? Will you pick up likemindeds here or just collect information you need to gather momentum again to move on with your journey? Whatever it may be chosen ones, remember you are unique, a fully formed self moving through this life so do so with clear intent knowing you will only flow forward effectively if you learn to stay a self contained being of light.