Something happened in my life last week that really rattled me, and I acted out of an uncomfortable feeling of panic. I’m rarely happy with the resulting actions when I do that. (understatement!) I realized later that THIS is the exact kind of situation that would have been served by having a concrete, physical ritual. A physical action to take as a way of dropping an anchor and giving myself a pause. In those moments of fear and extreme upset, it can seem like the action that anxiety is suggesting just HAS to be taken – RIGHT NOW! The mind wants to take action, (almost any action) to make the anxiety go away.
If I had remembered, I could have physically gone to a Kachina doll I made in Lali’s last workshop. I would have been able to touch its realness and been able to interact with its image, its textures, its evocations in me – all of which are not constrained by words or my own biases and old methods of surviving the deeply uncomfortable. The Kachina itself was made with objects from Nature, and made within the container of Lali’s last Kachina workshop. The intention imbued in the Kachina is an awareness of the inherent connection to Nature’s Wisdom, my wisdom, and ways of being in the world that step outside my mind’s limited understanding and conditioning.
Yes, the Kachina reminds me of wisdom that is already inherent within me and everywhere, accessible at any time. Yet it is such a gift to have a non-verbal, natural-image portal to help me step into Larger Wisdom Systems that can show me new options in really uncomfortable situations that threaten my mind and make it want to cling to known (currently unhelpful) patterns.
Fresh from this real-life situation, I am so newly curious, open and glad to be participating in Lali’s springtime Kachina-making workshop. It starts this Saturday and I’ll be helping her do Zoom stuff. And I’ll be making a new Kachina and re-grounding myself in the beauty of innate, pre-language, vast information of Spirit.
I sense that some of my knee-jerk reaction had to do with the general agitation in human consciousness that we are experiencing right now! Maybe making a Kachina and reconnecting to Natural Wisdoms bigger than what we already know appeals to you too right now. If so, I hope you’ll register and join us.
Regardless of whether or not this workshop lights up as a path into that wisdom for you right now, I celebrate YOU and YOUR wisdom. I stand in the knowing that WISDOM is all innate in all of us. Because we are nature, we are LIFE ITSELF. We all will find our paths into new ways of seeing and remembering that we are WHOLE, ONE and inseparable from whatever intelligent energy it is that creates all Life.
As always, thank you so much for reading this and for sharing this awe-inspiring ride with me!
Love, Christina
