Follow the Thread

Dear Reader,

I have missed you, but I’m back.

For you regulars, you may have noticed that I have not posted through the powerful transition from 2012 to 2013. This time, for me, has been a time of inner transformation. Sometimes it has been quiet, at other times strong and insistent – “Whack you in the face” guidance, as I have referred to it in previous posts.

I have been following a thread deep into my inner landscape, and it has lead me through past experiences, seeming failures and successes, strong emotions, and childhood memories. Ultimately, it has led me to a deeper, lived sense of who I really am.

I am still integrating what I have found, and don’t worry, it’s good. I do know that at the end of that thread leading inward is always pure good, for each of us, simply because we are souls, made of Spirit itself.

Perhaps I could have tried to write sooner, but I didn’t feel ready until now because I didn’t feel like I would be speaking from an aligned place. That is, after all, what the process of following the thread inward leads to – alignment with your spirit and soul. As I followed the process, I knew that I wanted my next blog post to speak from a newly aligned place.

To me, aligned speech means: speaking from the heart, in direct representation of the soul, inspired by Spirit, with full cooperation of the mind and unrestricted use of the physical body. Isn’t that the state we are all coming to, sooner or later?

The visible (having awareness in my conscious mind) end of the thread I followed  was triggered, of all things, by a TV show. That’s what art does sometimes. It reveals the end of the thread and gives it a gentle tug (or a big old yank!) – leaving us to take hold follow if we choose.

My intuition told me it was time to follow the thread, so I did. That is our job, isn’t it? To recognize the end of the thread when presented in our consciousness, be able to keep our cool enough to choose following the thread (instead of trying to hide it under some bump in our psyche), to have faith in our feeling that if the thread appeared, now must be the time to follow it, and to go inward with determination not to turn back. Really, once you start following, is it possible to turn back? I think not.

So here I am, dear reader, getting used to owning my newly found alignment, not completely knowing on a conscious level what it means or where it will take me, but knowing on the soul level exactly what it means and exactly where it will take me. I at least know that I am speaking from a more fully aligned place, which feels good and right.

From that place, I can say that I love each of you with all my heart, and that if you are looking at the end of a thread that is begging to be followed inward, or you are already somewhere deep within following the thread’s twists and turns, you have my full support.

To me, that’s what “Intuitive Cartography” is all about.

I honor your loving heart,

John