Kim Elkington

with Kim Elkington

Everyday Rituals & Celebrations with Kim Elkington

with Kim Elkington

I feel almost as though we have turned the corner, that we are in a new world now. I can’t quite put my finger on it, just a feeling that we are slipping seamlessly into a new weaving of ourselves. One way to describe it is an awareness of being both engaged and detached at the same time, aware of breathing deeper and floating slightly above the constant stream of engaging events. That’s it; we are all lighter, a little higher, shining a little brighter.

The phone rang first thing on the morning of my birthday. Oh good, I thought, a loved one is going to sing happy birthday. However, at the other end of the receiver was a mechanized voice saying: “Don't be alarmed” (and then something about how there was still time to reduce my insurance premiums). Hmmmm. This was an interesting message to arrive for the year ahead. So I wrote it on my blackboard.

Remember to breathe this summer, because it is going to be a wild ride. Every moment is so full of meaning it is vibrating, leaving us all feeling too busy for anything extra. Ironically, I am most aware of the ‘quickening’ by how I will suddenly stop, mid-action, and disappear for a few moments, and then waken to where I am. Part of it is an exhaustion that comes from adjusting to the new pace. My personal theory is that we are being re-tuned, constantly, taking in more information from unexpected things, like the quality of light reflected off the water, or the vibrancy of a red nasturtium, or the presence of others. According to those who track the stars, this is going to be the pace of the summer.

We are being opened, expanded and filled from all directions these days as Chiron, the ‘wounded healer,’ is aligned with Jupiter and Neptune. We’ve talked about this before, in the sense that we need to let go of our attachments to past beliefs, past hurts, anything that is preventing us moving into creating a new world for ourselves. All of us are going through this right now and the stars are nudging us along.

At a simple level we might notice we are absolutely bored with the violent, competitive, degrading and dysfunctional world TV offers. We’ve moved on, and are turning it off.

At a more profound level we are exploring and facing deep wounds. People are sick, people are in pain, people are dying. Maybe we are just feeling deeply vulnerable, or frustrated or alone. Right now we are being supported to move into the pain. The deeper we go, the sooner we will be set free, to evolve into co-creating a new world. The Iranian people are doing it right now in front of the whole world.

Recently I was part of an incredible event, which I highly recommend for women and girls of all ages, where one can dance, drum, chant, didgeridoo, make rattles, do pipe ceremony or just connect and camp with like minded women and girls (www.drumcamps.ca).

The event was about finding our voices in order to express ourselves in the new world and explore where we are going, what we have to do to get there, and how good the process can be. We opened vortexes, we laughed, learned, shared, played and cried.