The Inconvenient Frog
Undoubtedly, the world is a lot right now. Regardless of which “side” you’re on, or if like me you’re one of the feral ones, subscribing to neither, being human on planet Earth is an accelerated immersion into all of the feels in this aeon-shifting cosmic turn of the wheel.
Here in the US, if you’re on the “side” that’s celebrating, I’d hazard there’s an inconvenient little frog in your peripheral field that you’re doing your best to ignore, croaking away, trying to get your attention with some gentle, cautionary whispers.
If you’re on the “side” that’s lamenting and fully identified with the rapid-fire onslaught of triggers that are arising within you, maybe you too have an inconvenient little frog softly tugging at your energetic sleeve. Maybe they’re asking you to breathe but you’re brushing them away with thoughts about how breathing is a “privilege” you can’t afford right now.
(If you’re wondering why this inconvenient presence is a frog, it’s because in the timeless tales, they’re often the ones that bring messages of transformation from the unseen. The poison-medicine of a certain Amazonian frog also sets in motion a profound death-rebirth process, one I can testify to having experienced in ceremony many years ago as the closest I have ever come to feeling like a visceral dying.)
Whichever “side” you may be on, I’m going to let this inconvenient frog speak through me briefly today. (It goes without saying, take what resonates, leave the rest - with this and with everything else you encounter.)
“The age of looking to external structures of authority, power and governance is dying.
Breathe.
Your powers of discernment require your reclamation but they will not be found out there in the information you consume.
They will not be found out there in your leaders or gurus or celebrities,
not even in the ones you have crowned your experts.
They will not be found in your instruments of measuring and calculating
or in the algorithmic echo chambers.
Breathe deeper, slower, all the way into the caverns of the belly.
The belly that is the Earth’s belly. Breathe into her.
She’s been waiting for you to reclaim your powers of discernment,
right here, in your body, her body.
Let all the meanings you’ve made from those left-right systems out there be felt here in your body,
meanings that are not native to you or her.
Put everything down and breathe.
Feel this empire of falsehoods living in you, with deep compassion in your Heart for yourself and all beings.
Breathe out and release them.
Release them into the Earth and let her regenerate them.
When the left hand and the right hand fight each other, we’re in insanity.
When they come together in service to the Heart, we’re in.....
The best thing you can teach your children now is to pause, to breathe, to feel the meanings they’re taking on as true and to let their Hearts be the judge.
The best thing you can teach yourself now is to acknowledge that consensus reality is forged in the fires of forgetfulness and ignorance.
The Earth is shifting her frequency, rapidly.
Your collaboration is required so she can enact through you and as you.
You obstruct her when you remain stuck in the distortions of your wounds, in the paradigms of oppressor and victim.
Unhook.
And breathe deep and slow from the root to crown - your birthright.”