April 27
We’d like you to consider spider webs for a minute or two today. They hang from rafters and get stuck in your hair when you pass under them, a kind of unpleasant nuisance. They harbor potential death (look to their creators) and are often used to represent a morass, that which, once entered is almost impossible to exit. They festoon frightening displays at Halloween, and are often seen in the vicinity of black cats, witches and the like.
Breathtaking in the morning when covered in silver dew, glinting diamond-like in the early light, spider webs can also recall the extraordinary intelligence and passion that is at work all around you. And if you look with your heart, you will see an unprecedented illustration of the connectedness of all things in a spider web’s elegant design and execution.
So—it is all perception. Just imagine if you thought beyond human perception to that of the other beings that see and know spider webs. It is almost impossible to conceive of how many ways there are to understand this relatively common creation. This is what you might keep in mind today.
It is all perspective.
Yes, of course you know this, but it will help a lot if you can keep it in the upper ranges of your consciousness.
Even if you clearly see something as extreme as death stalking you, try to remember that there are any number of equally valid and real ways of experiencing your life.
Nice, if you can make the choice to see the universe and its manifestations in your sphere as benevolent and perfectly crafted to carry you where you need to go.
Nice, but not always possible. You can’t force perspective. You can cultivate it, you can court it, you can seek it out. But you can’t command it.
However, you can practice holding the truth that there are always many ways of looking at and receiving that which the universe offers up. That recollection alone can give you enough space to create movement, can give you freedom to turn and see things anew.
What indeed, if in the evening you met that basement web with the full knowledge that it was also the silver dew-spangled beauty spread across the juniper this morning? Or vice versa?
Always valuable, a willingness to stay aware of the absence of the absolute in the world of form will be invaluable today.
There will be many instances when that tiny bit of extra space–generated when you remember that your experience arises out of perspective—will make a huge difference in your ability to live as you want to live, to make the choices that you truly want to make, to hold your center and bring forth your gifts for self and others in authenticity. Some pretty important things.
Remember also that there is no end to the light which is always with and around you. If you do not sense this viscerally, we encourage you to try to feel into it and to allow yourself to take in even a little of the vast love and support which is with you in every moment.
All of our love and blessings to all of you.
–E. West
[As always, all photos are added by me, John de Nugent]
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