[Video] Be a Lighthouse
The journey & the process...
This week we travel in a new space, exploring the pull of journey language and how to determine new direction. I took some time away with multiple projects and several programs beginning and this has been an excellent time to get in my studio and stretch out to rest…I needed that respite.
Poem Shared:
Peregrina
O mother of the sea
lend me a wave that is strong and true
to carry me from this Age which unbinds me.I do not need a ship, mother,
but make it a buoyant swell
to bear me up and float me on the sea’s dreaming
then beach me on some lighter shore.When I land there, mother, give me warp and weft again,
and an urchin quill to remind me
how the prettiest barb can lodge under your skin
and leave you undone.Only lend me a loom and I will
take up the threads of this unravelled life.
I will weave a braid from three strands of seaweed
I will wind it three times around my finger
I will dig my salt-encrusted hands into the soil
and wed myself to the thirstybrown roots of a new beginning.
-Sharon Blackie
Perhaps you are also listening, attuned to your inner wisdom yet unsure, taking some time “in” or being called to explore your stories or embark on a journey in unexpected ways. It is always valuable to enter a creative space with a few powerful questions.
Here are some of the questions I have been traveling with…
What does it mean to be a lighthouse?
What kind of lighthouse do I want to be?
Explore the tension of opposites…
Notice what you feel as you move materials on the surface of a new creative page…
Explore and express…
Be a lighthouse.
See what happens as you engage the creative…
Ask your art: Where you are being and how you are becoming…
Keep your council, take some space and be.
Find a way to see far beyond what is visible yet.
Below I share my Tower/Lighthouse…just a small part of a larger journey.
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Thank you for this share Cat. I created a round for my She for my Quest Path journey and in the distance was a lighthouse (I was in the foreground as my childhood self, my inner muse and as my now-self, my eldering self, on the rocks) I don’t feel that I’m living “on the rocks” right now, they are more symbolic of a rocky, lost at sea past. I knew the lighthouse was significant but I’m still learning what questions to ask on my Quest Path and so this video, poem and article are helpful for finding ways into enquiry.
I’m now realising that the lighthouse symbolises the 12 year rebuild of myself and of my life from the remains I was left with after my cancer diagnosis and it’s already helpful to see myself as my own lighthouse that has cycled it’s light through the dark, picking up on pieces of the rocks that were left from the crumbling of my self and my life.
Suddenly I understand that I have been also been the pearl on an oceanic journey of cleansing then honing myself! I am shaped and more whole and even beginning to finally feel I’m polishing myself!
Thank you so much, this contemplation of the ocean, lighthouse and Peregrina is very timely for me.