The Intensity Of The Intuitive Introvert ... Made Whole
Part 4
by Nancy R. Fenn
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I've learned through the years in my own symbolic dictionary -- we must all develop our own -- that ravens and snakes mean a time of great change is coming.
I decided to approach the Runes for a reading. I drew one stone, ISA or "Standstill". This was my message, the "meaning" of ISA.
You don't understand the meaning of the standstill, the need to surrender. Every rebirth is preceded by a phase of gestation, which is your situation now. You feel your usual energy diminishing and every try to go on will show that. Grow silent, realize where you hold on to the old and let go of it. That, which is full must be emptied, in order to fill up again. Give in and prove to be courageous and faithful, so you can leave the isolation you feel now behind you.
The I Ching would probably be even more cryptic than this. It might simply say, "Empty what is full."
I connected with this message. I heard the wisdom in the statement and it seemed to speak directly to me.
The core of this statement is a metaphor that comes to mind from the word gestation. It seems I am 9 months pregnant. And what does that mean? My mind wanders back to my own pregnancy and the waiting. My ex-husband was in Viet Nam. I took off work the last two weeks and sat in the garden. It was the most beautiful spring and I was in an utter ecstasy of peace and deep fulfillment as I waited. My daughter was born April 13 th.
Is there any rushing the baby? Is there any rushing the beginnings which are going to follow these endings and these signs of profound change that are coming? I think of my ancient friend Phyllis who said she always managed to be alone for several weeks before the major events in her life, never realizing it till later. She thought it was good to get in touch with yourself before a big change.
Our lives as women involve so much waiting. I think of Penelope, waiting for Ulysses, weaving her tapestry and holding the suitors at bay. I think of Andromeda, chained to her rock, waiting for Perseus to rescue her. We wait. And since my waiting this time depends on a man that I love profoundly, my mind wanders to gestation from a man's point of view. He is waiting, too, but how is his waiting different than mine?
The seed is planted in the dark. We have always known our mother but we have not always known our father. In our short history on this earth, we only recently understood how pregnancy occurs and only until the structure of DNA was discovered by Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, Francis H.C. Crick, and James D. Watson in the 1950s would be begin the process that would determine the father for absolute certainty. We have always known the mother.
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Nancy R. Fenn is an astrologer and intuitive consultant in the San Diego area. She enjoys working with intuitives, creatives and visionaries to help them discover their vision for the future and their mission in life. She has an international clientele and maintains a website full of
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