Mystery

I am surrounded by uncertainty. Where is the world going? Where am I going?

Openings and Mystery

Openings all involve some mystery. There’s regular mystery and there is now. We are never sure what awaits us on the other side of the Opening. We do not know what the impacts of a choice to enter the Opening will be. Will we have the skills and courage once we enter the Opening? To recognize and embrace Openings we must have some level of comfort with mystery.

Today much of our lives and world are in upheaval. Within this upheaval, we are faced with choices to make about entering Openings. It’s like trying to stay steady on a bouncing trampoline. Things are shifting rapidly around us. We are far from grounded as what we were once grounded on, is slipping away.

Today’s Openings are challenging due to this upheaval. They force us to acknowledge the presence of mystery and the unknown. An Opening may offer us a new experience that is quite a leap. We start assessing it against where our life is now and realize that our life is shifting and it may be hard to predict what the potential impacts of choosing to enter this Opening may be.

Acknowledging The Mystery

In Lynn Andrews’ book, Crystal Woman: Sisters of the Dreamtime she tells a story of creating a sand painting and the lessons provided regarding the unknown.

The story begins with Lynn making a sand painting representing her life inside of time. Using color sands, she fashions her painting. It was becoming a microcosm of her inner and outer life. One afternoon Ruby, her teacher, walked into Lynn’s wurley and started shuffling her feet through Lynn’s sand painting, arousing Lynn’s anger and frustration. Lynn asked her what she was doing and Ruby said, “What I want to know is what do you have in your sand painting that represents the unknown?” Lynn realized this and put wavy black lines through the painting to represent the unknown in her life. Ruby said if you leave the unknown out, you show a lack of honor for what you perhaps cannot see.