The Reflecting Pool

[cedar_grove]

The wife blue sky wants to benetrate the earth.
The earth longs for utter union. Look: it comes!

Rain falls. Rain falls as sky meets earth.
Rain falls. Earth bubbles with life.

Life springs forth from the damp soil:
Flock of sheep like clouds, oceans of wheat.

All gifts far earth's children. And one more:
peace. Peace that blossoms in a rain of love.

--Greek dramatist Aeschylus, The Danaids

But, yearning for companionship, she created the heavens which, arching over her in love, seeded her with life.

As above, so below...

Here is another truism that is all too often forgotten by many practitioners. We as children of the Old Ones are as a reflection of the Old Ones themselves - much as the moon reflects in pools of water, so they reflect in us, and through the nature of mirrors, we in them.

Just as the goddess yearned for companionship with which to inspire herself creatively, so we find ourselve at our most creative when we have someone with whom to share. It does not necessarily nned to be someone with whom we are in an intimate relationship, but companionship enhances the human spirit. The human, as so many other creatures with whom we are brothers and sisters, are social animals.

on a personal level I had so often been as at odds with that, and so have been called a little bit of a recluse - from everyone, and it's definitely not been a good thing - but of late I have been, as with the underlying negativity I was living under, consciously trying to turn aside from it. Making the effort to be positive and to see the good in every experience; making the effort to be social, and to talk, converse and otherwise engage with people, the most important of those being my guy. I acknowledge that I haven't always succeeded, but the effort has been a genuine one and I feel better for it.

I wouldn't say that my creativity has returned completely, but I will say that I feel more at peace in and of myself.