Giddy With Delight
As some of you know, I have spent many weeks breaking down boxes. Sometimes, while breaking down boxes I use a box cutter, other times I use one blade of a pair of scissors.
A few weeks ago, I came home and felt something in my back pocket. You guessed it, I had scissors in there. While breaking down the boxes, it is easy to have the scissors placed in my pocket so I can get them with ease. When I have tried placing them on the edge of the larger bin that holds the boxes to be broken down, they often slide into the depths of the bin and I have to lean over and reach far below to get them out.
These scissors that I found in my back pocket are not mine, I use them while breaking down the boxes, so I placed them in my bag so I could return them where they belong. Once I arrived, I took the scissors out of my bag and placed in the with the other scissors in a container just for them and began my task of breaking down more boxes.
The next morning, I reached into my coat pocket and yes, you guessed it, there I found another pair of scissors. As soon as I felt them, I began laughing out loud. Giddy with delight.
Scissors, used to cut, to slice, to severe.
Sounds right. All of this time breaking down boxes, deconstructing all that binds and holds, contains and defines and now the scissors are needed to cut through the rest of the attachments that linger, that want to remain.
Scissors, used to cut, to slice, to severe.
And there they were, in my back pocket, in my jacket pocket. Tools available to be used now, to cut away all that no longer serves, all that wants to still be attached.
Looking back, this is amazing on a few levels.
I am studying Jyotish and am currently in my Ketu Antardasha. Ketu is the cutter. Ketu cuts the conditioned ways of being- the should’s, the have to’s, the need to’s. Ketu symbolize liberation, learning from the past while simultaneously expanding the capacity to receive. Ketu, also an anchor, invites us to root, spread and bring, to share that which wants to be shared, to grow the seeds so they manifest in reality. If this is not enough to make me giddy with delight, Ketu was also paired with Mangal (Mars) in a mystical house, symbolizing freedom and unity. What? I can not make this up!
***Note: Ketu is much more than this…and we can not talk about Ketu without Rahu…although, for the purpose of sharing here, this is sufficient.***
As I said, I was delighted in the moment when this was all happening and a few days after these events of coming home with the scissors in my pockets, opportunities in the two community spaces that I have been active in for the past seven months have dissolved and have come to an end.
I do not even need to know why, nor do I wonder. I sit here in awe, utter awe and smile.
Everything always finds its way to be, exactly as it is meant to be.
Here I am, swirling with this, smiling with this. Anchored in this,
Sara
*Here is an audio recording of a message I left for my Jyotish group. You can hear the words flowing from me, giddy with delight.