Words of Wisdom—The Ferocious Collection
What words of wisdom do your power animals and ancestors offer you for this next year?
Mine have a lot to tell me right now, and I’m listening.
The Dear Body December prompts this month have unleashed my ferocious and wild heart. I often share how I have self-inquiries on certain themes in my own healing process. It’s a pretty common tradition in the healing arts, and it began for me in a women’s group on Embodying the Feminine I joined in 2017. That year my inquiry was Be Wild, a call that was also on the cover of the journal I was using to record my process. My inquiry then transformed to Becoming Unleashed, Courage, Compassion, Nourish and for the past several months, it’s been on Connection.
As we celebrate the Winter Solstice, close out this current year and head towards 2022, I have been reconnecting with my heart, with my ancestors and with my power animal: the Snow Leopard. She came to me quite dramatically also in the women’s group, and I wrote the following for my final paper on learning to feel my heart in a class on Krishnamurti’s Self-Inquiry in the Transformative Studies Department also in 2017:
“Self-inquiry is a fascinating thing to me because it is at once the most basic unit of the self and as such incredibly simple, yet it is also one of the most complex and difficult things to comprehend. It was Jiddu Krishnamurti who asked, “Is it not possible to explode from the centre?” His question has captured my heart and my imagination over this past year, and I have come to the conclusion that, yes, it is possible to “explode from the centre” with the full force of our selves or beings. At least, that has been my experience. . .One of my recent meditations involved the vision of a female snow leopard bursting forth from my very center—the chest and upper belly. She leaped out from my body, and we stared at each other. I have seen her in one other meditation since, but I am left with the feelings of raw animalistic power, strength, softness, and the awareness that I feel more compassionate and alive within myself than I have before.”
As we enter a new year in which the global themes revolve around the transformation of the power of love, focused on our astrological placements of Venus, her lover Mars, and also influenced by Pluto, it makes sense that my ferocious heart is front and center for me. My Venus is in Scorpio and my Mars is in Capricorn. 2021 has seen the integration of my Saturnian lessons and really embracing and embodying my own power and voice. I look forward to seeing what 2022 continues to unleash within me. My new inquiry is on Fierce Hope, and I will be using these words of wisdom from my soul and my ancestors as I go into it this winter. May these words also inspire you on your path.
I would love to hear if anything here inspires you and what messages you have been receiving from your guides and ancestors.
