The Flower

Listen first to the recording of The Meadow, The Stem, The Flower, and The Hawk.  Then answer the following questions:


Describe in detail The Stem that is you.  What you love about being stemmy.  And.  The parts of being stemmy that are growing old, weary, exhausting.  Describe The Stem.  And do not shortchange all the beauty, satisfaction, comfort, safety, understanding that comes with being stemmy.  Be sure to speak to all aspects of being who you are now.  


Said another way, describe what it's like to be you now.  The you that you are now.  Not the one you aspire to be.  But the one who is in the meadow now.  And describe as much as you can about what it's like to be you right now.


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The Stem stays only green and stemmy for so long until the top of the stem starts to bulge and swell and grow with an unknown promise.  What do you know is inside that bulging and swelling for you?  Write with as much detail, specificity and audacity as you can.


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And The Stem cannot fight the swelling pregnancy of the blossom.  And.  The Stem has forgotten where it came from.  Forgotten having come from a seed, it was once inside a flower, and having been inside a flower means it WAS once a flower.  


Where are you in resistance to your flowering?  Where have you forgotten that you are a being of metamorphosis and that you LOVE the exhilaration of state-change, of becoming, of transformation?  Where have you forgotten that you are perfectly suited to change and transform with mystery as guide?


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Your resistance was futile.  The water broke, the baby was born, the flower petals unfurled.  The most tender, sensitive, unprotected bits of you that have ever been, on grand display.  Describe what it's like to be so exposed, so attractive, so vulnerable.  And describe all the things you want coming to you, finding you, smelling you, making honey from your pollen, birds weaving you into their nests, grandmas collecting you for dyes, boys choosing you to woo their first loves, shamans tincturing you for medicine.  


Describe what it's like for you to be so exposed.  To be so soft and vulnerable and in complete surrender.  In your life today.  


And describe all the beauties, wonders, magic that is finding you as you take on this new form of soft and open.  Describe this for your life now.  What are all the great gifts and blessings you are calling into your life?  Be as specific and audacious as possible.


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