Sitting outside, a
conduit to commune with Nature, a skunk silently saunters by unannounced...but
unaggressive. My throat chakra leaps forward by surprise, then resonates with
the passive passerby as she turns her head to sniff a hello to me...and I say,
'hi!' as friendly as a startled person can. She then waddles off down the hill,
carefully...lifting her strikingly beautiful (though infamously powerful) tail
slightly so it rustles no leaves as she wanders, protected by Mother Nature's
ingenious design.
This is the second
skunk that's crossed this same path in the past year, with me there to observe
and learn something each time...lap top in hand both times to instantly relay a
message that is at once specific to me, but also relevant to anyone else who might
happen to stumble upon reading it just as i have stumbled upon witnessing it.
The message is this:
Nature has already designed a precedent for peaceful power, and the protection
She offers for your own resourcefulness of your own strengths...it is nothing
less than the confident ability to stay true to your own path, no fear to lead
you astray or vulnerable, as long as you tread lightly as you walk upon Her
with love and gratitude for the wonder She is, and the wonders (like you, and
any living being you meet in your travels) that she will always create and
adore.
I am finding myself
open to infinite messages from the true reality of this world (the ACTUALITY of
our natural world)...messages that apply ubiquitously and symbiotically with
what we have come to know as 'reality' in the passing age of this planet. Wall
Street is falling in 99% of our hearts and minds...dead leaves scattered for
the world to witness like so many tourists flying east for this season's
majesty. The winds of change rattle the deciduous giants firmly rooted in our
earth and this time it truly awakens in us the same power to peacefully
assemble and speak the harmless force of our collective voice...showing that,
like the wind, you may not notice us until we gather our strength together and
create a rush of activity that will stir the most monumental of trees to shiver
off his covering of leaves and stand naked before the world.
What the 'trees' in
our supposed reality may not yet be conscious of is that the renewal of Spring
is worth the harshness of Winter. These giants, having accumulated so much
WEALTH, do not yet recognize their true WORTH...their love and gratitude has
not yet extended beyond their bubble...to their fellow humans (ALL of them),
the natural world that truly sustains them, and the Mother we all share. If
they wake up in the cold of winter, stripped of their leafy green dignity, and
see the blessing that transformation brings...they can surely withstand the
freezing of activity around them, the cold glare of the whites of their
Mother's eyes too upset to cry anymore, and the chill of the storms that are
meant to humble them. For our Mother keeps her promise of Spring. Life renews
after the lessons of the dark half of the year. And each new bud holds that
same promise that it can flourish in the light of each new day...the promise
that it will remember the power of the change that drives it to grow, and that
it must always give to receive.
There is a delicate
balance in all of this that the natural world is prodding us (sometimes
peacefully, sometimes forcefully) to recognize and attain. Silly as it may
sound at first, that skunk understands it (and you and I both know it, when we
listen wholly). Skunk is not an aggressive or hostile creature...she does not
seek to spray at every potential threat. She is resourceful enough to know that
the power that Nature gave her to be able to live in such peace and ease is not
continuous if she misuses it...for there is only so much of it, and it takes
time to restore. Could she walk so sweetly and confidently if she had sprayed
the last few passersby out of unnecessary fear? No. If a real threat came upon
her next, she'd have no more means to stun his senses as she makes her get
away...and she'd surely fall prey to him. Fear is the only option when you
misuse your own power...and we know what living in fear does to life.
The skunk inherently
knows it is designed with a warning that already wards off the most
knowledgeable of attackers...it's the dumb ones they end up having to spray in order
to get their point across. And they only need to do it once, enough said. The
rest is living by example...being the peace and love they wish to see in this
world...so that every living being may humbly bow to the natural order of
things and we all may live symbiotically in peace.
Love and Gratitude,
Felina Lune Kavi
(written in the month
of my first Saturn Return)
From KVNO News: Felina Kavi marched with her five-year-old daughter Alyrica, who held up her own sign that read “I believe in a 100% future,” a reference to the main message of the Occupy protests: that government should not reflect the wealthiest one percent of the population, and that the protesters make up the 99 percent whose voices are ignored.
Her eyes welling with tears, Kavi said of her daughter, “She’s five years old, and she believes when she grows up, everything’s going to be fine.”
“We can see how things aren’t working now and if it continues like this, it’s not going to be good for her generation,” Kavi said. “I don’t want her to have to clean up our mess, so I think it’s important that we take care of it now.” Kavi said the protests are the beginning of a “revolution.”
