Deepening my love affair with rocks, I got out into nature yesterday and spent some time among them. Finding out who wants to come home with me. Rocks have been with us since forever; since the beginning perhaps. For me they are alive with energy, knowledge, and history. Oh, the things they know.
I am in transition; a major life transition moving toward retiring from a day job I’ve been at for 12 years and creating a business as an Integrative Hypnosis Practitioner; and I’m finding places, within this journey, that I cannot explain which adds to the mystery that surrounds us – in play, in living, and in death.
A couple of months ago I wanted to braid my hair. As I child, my had mother taught me how to braid only one way, taking three strands of hair and overlapping the left across the middle piece, then doing the same with the right side. I wanted to go a bit deeper and be more versed within this art form. I have short to mid-length hair, so I asked google, how do I braid short hair? I landed on a Youtube video that showed me not only how to do more intricate braids but the guest, for this specific tutorial, was one of the actors (Amy Bailey) from the Netflix historical drama series, Vikings. After watching the tutorial, I tuned into a couple of the episodes out of curiosity. Nothing more. What has unfolded is an immersion into Viking culture, making a date with Ancestry, the Genealogy software that has revolutionized the process of finding where we come from, and not only feeling a connection to a group of people from a couple thousand years ago but coming away with a new understanding of these people.
I received my results from Ancestry but haven’t peeked into that world yet. I’ll do that with my husband tomorrow. We did the DNA test a few weeks ago and will unwrap the findings together.
Part of my fascination with this deep dive has been in the exploration of Runes which are the letters of ancient Germanic alphabets, used for writing and, in some traditions, for magical or divinatory purposes. The topic of Runes is deep and vast, more so than I want to cover in this post. However, for me and this place within my life at this moment - what makes this experience delicious is that I have no expectations or hard-fast goals of what I will find or what I want this to be. Will I actually learn to divine with them? Will they become a resource for seeing the future? Do I even believe in this stuff?
I have no answers. Yet. I am simply pursuing something that is enjoyable, that feeds my curiosity, that feels good and may turn out to be an artistic project. As The Old Grey Thinker said in a recent post that applies here, “Just quietly reinventing work on my own magnificent terms”.
I’ll leave the light on.
xx
