Visual Journey Week 8

Finding the Balance

Mar 17, 2024

Balance is one of my greatest life lessons. It has shown me where my inner work rests time and again. When life feels constantly in motion, it is usually a signal that I need to breathe into balance. I need to slow down, savor something, and reflect on where I am and what my spirit needs if I am going to continue doing the creative healing work that I am deeply moved to offer others. This morning granted me an opportunity to create this Visual Journey for all of you.

We are edging quietly into spring here with flurries and dustings of snow, patches of soft mud, and 40 degree days that have us shedding our layers. The feel of winter has lifted as the darkness opens to the light of the east.

In alignment with the east direction, we travel around the sacred wheel with Alban Eilir, which translates to Light of the Earth. When day and night have an equal amount of light and dark, but with light increasing, it brings the promise of a new day. Alban Eilir offers us a time of balance. This is our second place in time that we recognize as Spring is coming. It is the balance between the lunar cycles of Imbolc and Beltane and therefore a perfect time to embrace the balance in our lives.

Dakota Earth Cloud Walker, The Luminous Journey of the Medicine Wheel.

The last few weeks have shown me an abundance of opportunities to connect, heal and inspire art making in workshop spaces with others. There is a growing sense of building and planting seeds while watching my efforts emerge.

It has, however, left me restless within my own work. A new rhythm is taking shape and I don’t know how long it will last or quite how to navigate through it. What I do know is that I must embrace and savor it, as I do this quiet morning of thick fog and strong coffee.

In the words of Joseph Campbell,