What is mastery and can we ever achieve it?
This is one question that that keep me up at night. Maybe not everyone’s question but I remain curious about what we can know, what we can develop wisdom for…..and what will always remain a mystery.
I had a surf lesson with a different coach this week. All of the coaches I’ve been exposed to have different areas of wisdom. This guy (in probably his less than 30 years) was so imbued with ocean wisdom that is WAS HIM. As in, it didn’t feel egotistical or even like intellectual knowledge…it was a knowing, a feeling as he watched the Ocean move. I could feel it in his energy, sitting with him at one of the most extreme surf breaks in the world (disclaimer; it’s almost Spring so reasonable for someone at my level).
Calm, present and completely a part of the water around him. He knew what wave was part of what swell, he could feel a wave approaching that I could not even see, and it was like he was speaking to the water.
A wave whisperer.
It’s so humbling to be around someone like that, especially in the vast, deep setting of the Pacific, where big waves can knock you for a loop at any moment.
But I realized that I have my own sect of wisdom, of life experience that seems to be in my cells. Some days I wish it was of the Ocean kind, but my life is different. It doesn’t mean I am the smartest or most accomplished in the birth field. But birth, and wisdom about having babies, and holding space for women….it’s in my cells, the way the salt water was in this guy.
I don’t say that to toot my own horn, although it’s something I have “worked” at, like a lot of wisdom…it probably just came in with me, and my astrology chart, and maybe it’s a hangover from other lifetimes.
My prompt to you is to actually not care what my wisdom is, but to decipher what yours is.
Maybe it’s feeding plants, or animals. Maybe it’s a gift for making a space beautiful. Maybe it’s food or taking care of people.
What is in your cells that you came here to offer? Each of us has gifts, and none of us is better or worse, and sometimes it’s seeing someone else in their shining light to make you realize that you have one, too. It’s just a different sort of light, a different color.
So today I will honor my own wisdom. My ability to birth 10 children pretty easily, and to do what I do. I remain open and curious about the wisdom I would like to develop, and pray for the patience to allow that to happen as it will.
I’d love to hear from you.
PS Circle is accepting early applications. It’s almost too precious to speak about but here we are, all of us in the Circle, open to the energies of resonating beautiful women. If that is you, check out the page and apply.
Oxoxo
Maryn
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