answering that question about limitations as portals
Greetings, on the eve of a fun calendar day on TUEsday: 2/22/22.
Alternatively, the palindromic 22/2/22, if you use that date format.
Last Tuesday, I sent a love letter, and it sounds like it didn't arrive for everyone.
(If you *did* receive it, you can skip the next paragraph.)
If you did *not* receive it, I shared about upcoming offerings + posed a question, which I promised to answer in this love letter. I recommend reading it and pondering the question on your own, before reading my answer in this love letter. But, if you want to skip ahead and get my answer now, read on. No judgement :)
A reminder of the question: Do you see limitations as portals?
My answer – yes, absolutely. I have plenty of examples, but I'll choose something personal. Grab and beverage and get comfortable, 'cause I need a moment to explain.
As I've mentioned before, I have a chronic illness; I've been living with migraines for over 30 years. I don't like thinking of my life in terms of limitations, but for the sake of making my bigger point here, limitations will suffice.
Here's an example: in late January, I had lots of plans for sharing the workshops and music that are happening in February and March. I had notes and outlines and ideas to start crystallizing into web copy, music rehearsals, and so on.
Instead, though, I got a few days of migraines, a bender, in my parlance. Migraines, for me, come with fever, insomnia, and appetite disruption. My whole life is disrupted, actually.
So, I had a 3-day bender of managing migraines, fevers, and insomnia.
After those 3 days, I was exhausted. Finally able to sleep, I was in a foggy stupor for another 2 days while I recovered from the migraine bender.
Basic math gives us 5 days. 5 days of my life that disappeared, in a haze of physical pain, emotional distress, shitty naps, troubled dreams. And eventually, some fitful sleep, around further emotional distress.
My life is more than these limitations, but I think you get the idea. And January was a chill month.
It's rare to have a chill month. Even rarer to have consecutive chill months. So few, in fact, that I can count on one hand how many times in my life that I've had stretches of chill months, in my 30+ years of migraines. But that's a whole 'nother story, and I want to stay on topic.
So, I encounter limitations. With my time, my energy, my wellbeing.
Returning to my answer—I have the opportunity to make those limitations into portals.
My time, my energy, my wellbeing are not guaranteed. 5 days of my life can disappear, and I can never recover that time.
That limitation turns into this portal: my time, my energy, my wellbeing are not guaranteed. I want to make the most of all my time.
In other words—I can't afford to hesitate. I don't know when or how long tough times will happen. When I feel capable, when I feel good, I want to act.
Creating this portal has made for a life of few regrets. Not because I'm into risky behaviors that could lead to serious harm. But that I am unafraid to face fears, try unusual things, be vulnerable. I don't have a life in which I am always available.
Why share this now? As I mentioned last week, I'm offering 2 versions of Kinetic Intuition, a workshop about pendulum practice.
Some people dismiss pendulum practice as too simple, and thus too limited. It's so simple, so basic, that it's too obvious and thus not useful.
But the way that I practice it, those limitations are portals. In fact, when I shifted my pendulum practice to better frame those portals, the entire practice became more powerful.
So, I invite you to join me in Kinetic Intuition. The online version is less than 24 hours away, on 2-22-22 / 22-2-22.
If you're local to my area, an in-person, different version is happening at Arabia Mountain on Sunday, March 13th.
You don't need an "official" sanctioned-by-new-age-shop-or-influencer-with-6-months-of-experience-with-divination pendulum! In my 15 years of pendulum practice, I've never had an "approved" version.
Bring a pendant and some cord. You can bring a washer and a shoelace. Seriously. We'll start with ways you can make a pendulum for yourself.
I would love to frame some portals with you, as you connect with your energetic field via pendulum practice. I hope you can join me!
(Between those 2 workshops is Psyche & Spring, an online sound journey, on March 10th. Hope to see you there too.)
These are all by donation, for the sake of removing any financial restriction.
Limitations and all,
S.
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Siderealchemy
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