Recently, there has been something of a small miracle in my life. At the very least, I have had a wish come true that I had begun to become quite pessimistic about. This miracle/wish-come-true flashed into being both suddenly and unexpectedly. It has now been over a month since this event and my gratitude on a daily basis continues to gush out of me like the “Old Faithful” geyser in Yellowstone Park. The emotion of it just takes over and there I go… sending water up into the air.
I like this analogy because it blends two things that many amateur astrologers are loathe to mix; water and air. I always wonder about that since blending water and air in astrology is akin to mixing emotion and intellect. Some call that incompatibility.
I call it balance.
While the emotion of gratitude has not yet subsided for me, the intellectual aspect of all of this is definitely beginning to assert itself. What did I do that suddenly caused this little miracle to occur? How did things go from zero to 100 in just a matter of days? I found myself tracking backwards. Did my thinking on this topic suddenly change and I hadn’t noticed? Had the unexpected visit of a dear out-of-town friend somehow helped me let the Genie out of the bottle?
Had I released my obsession or somehow renewed my decision to have this particular brand of joy in my life?
There was magic here. But somehow I was missing it.
I say all the time that “life is magic” and I do truly believe that. I just feel that most times our ability to recognize it and make use of it is more akin to Aunt Clara, than Samantha. We say we want health and happiness but we more often only manage to conjure up a llama in the living room. So when something actually goes right, we’re shocked. Dismayed, even! And my mind (at least) starts back-tracking every move, thought, and action to see what it was that I did to get it so right. (This is the curse of an Aquarius moon and Jupiter.)
In my experience, creating magic in your life necessitates a real balancing act. There is a fine line between choosing and obsessing. There is an equally fine line between letting go and giving up. We more often get what we want when we can find that perfect alliance between choosing and letting go than when obsessing or giving up is in any way a part of the calculation.
As I re-traced my steps, I now believe that I was addressing this particular desire of mine from the “giving up” side of things. The funny thing about giving up is that it generally creates a situation where we stop choosing. Telling the Universe that you choose to have abundance falls pretty much on deaf ears when you’ve given up on any hope of it actually showing up in your life.
Jason’s visit to me was a true blessing. During his visit, we became sounding boards for one another on all that had happened in our lives over the past two years. If you listen to yourself talk, then (if you’re very lucky) sometimes you can hear just how cracked up your perspective on things has become. And that’s just what happened. I heard myself talking and I realized I’d stopped choosing something that was very important to me. (Thank you, Jason.)
I sort of came back to life on this dream. I woke up from my sleeping beauty coma and reconnected; not only with my wish, but also with myself. I re-found the part of myself that made me want this thing in my life. The wanting returned. I turned it into a choice. And I let go.
Poof.
I harbor no illusions that I have somehow found the magic key to manifestation. Trust me; I am still processing all of this to glean whatever other clues there may be in living this magical life I so advocate.
But one thing I have come to realize; no dream ever came true while the dreamer was asleep. It’s one of life’s true ironies.
For a dream to come true, the dreamer has to be awake.
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