Rose Diamond
On Saturday 27th December, we held our first local meeting of A Whole New World. It was New Moon in Capricorn, a potent time for planting seeds, and we met to create New Moon Magic.
Sitting in our heart sharing circle, we talked of many things. Most of the people in the group defined themselves as creative. An important aspect of my vision is to build a world in which everyone is free to develop and express their creativity and to live their passion. I’m convinced when each of us is free to be authentic and to offer our unique gifts, the whole will work perfectly together. Each of us carries a fragment of a Grand Design, and when we bring our fragments together we reveal the whole picture. The fragmented picture is full of stresses and strains; when the whole comes together there is a beautiful flow and luminosity.
We are a long way from achieving this vision. Most of us who have chosen to follow our creativity get by on a wing and a prayer. A creative state is open, expansive and focused, it is the realm of possibility and it demands all one’s attention. It is easy to get lost in this state and forget that the bills need to be paid. Then suddenly, yikes, it’s rent day, and we contract into survival mode, a state of fear and lack.
I know both of these states very well, since the evolution of A Whole New World has involved three years of mostly unpaid work. The creative benefits are huge yet the economic hardship is stressful at times. I know the majority of people in the world live in economic stress far worse than anything I will ever experience and my own financial limitation brings me a little bit closer to understanding them and being compassionate towards the struggles of others. It is very hard to be creative from survival mode. Fear is a contraction on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. It creates physical disease and keeps us trapped in limiting emotional and mental patterns. Fear cuts us off from Source energy, it creates the illusion we are separate and struggling alone, it is the great controller of the human spirit.
As the economic meltdown deepens more and more people are being pitched into survival mode. Yet we are resourceful. We can learn how to live a different way. We can learn to share more, to be more compassionate to each other’s struggles, to live without material luxuries, to find our satisfaction from within and through building community together. We can learn to drop the prideful egoic beliefs that have been instilled in us as part of our western conditioning: that we have to do it alone, that we can’t show each other our vulnerability, that success comes dressed in a corporate suit. We can learn to live more simply, more sustainably, more deeply, more authentically. We can learn to build co-creative businesses with heart to sustain many people.
We are in the transition right now, from the old to the new. We are standing on the edge of a crumbling cliff and the new is on the other side of the chasm. How will we build a bridge to take us across? Perhaps we will be like the spider spinning the silken threads from her own body to build a web which is strong and mostly invisible, creating something out of nothing, just because it is in her nature to do so.
One of the prime intentions of A Whole New World is to bring together people who are awakening to the new consciousness, to the realization of our essential interconnectedness, and our collective need to start living in a different way. We are building a local, national and global community of people who want to support each other through this transitional time, to share or experiences, to learn new skills, and to co-create. As an educator one of my passions is to live the experience and then to pass on the fruits of that experience to support others: this is one of the purposes of our monthly New Moon Magic publications and local/global sharing circles.
On Saturday we joined our energies through a meditation and visualization and we sent out New Moon seeds of vision, love, and intent. New Moon in Capricorn is the moon of Christ Consciousness, or Love-in-action. Together we can create more of that expansive, creative, loving energy, latent with possibility. We can support each other to be Love-in-action; to walk the talk.
Each one us makes a difference
and together we can do what seems impossible.
To join us in creating A Whole New World, go to http://livingyourpassion.info/nmm/
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