Haiku Ellipses...Invitation...Response...

BUTTERFLY complementary colors align in circles center butterfly butterflies are transformative creatures...starting on the ground as earthbound caterpillars...sealing themselves in cocoons where they dissolve into a goo with some special message in their genetic code that allows them to transform into a winged creature that is no longer earthbound--AMAZING! Many butterflies have a complementary winged pattern, often with circles as in the image. can we find the circular patterns in our lives that serve as transformative codes, transforming our earthbound caterpillic goo into a winged angelic creature that flies through the heavens...that is the challenge of this mandala.

STARS 4 stars at center triangles and squares surround circle connectors like a mandala, the star, triangle, and square connections are readily apparent...mesmerizing to gaze upon, the lines drawing the eye to multiple connectors. how do the different stars (dreams), triangles (three forces that triangulate around an issue related to the dream that, depending on the position of the triangle, may be solid/stable or dynamic, ready to tip/move/change), and squares (solid, stable forces/energies) manifest in your life? can you feel the connectors/connections between them? where are the levers that might activate positive change? how might you facilitate the movement of one of these levers?

GROUNDED feet sink into earth tendrils from the sun and moon current flows...grounded Melinda Connor writes in her book, Accessing Truth , about grounding the energy from the sun and moon through the body and into the earth...two tendrils from the arms reach up to the silver moon and yellow sun energies, taking them both into the body through the crown of the head, down into the heart, and further down through the legs and into a ball of energy at the center of the earth...the energy moves back up through the body and out the head in a cascade waterfall, enlivening the aura and energies around the body. Find a special time of month when you can see both the sun and the moon in the sky...let yourself be barefoot on the earth, raise your hands towards the heavens and imagine the sun and moon energies coming into your body through your arms and the top of your head, making their way into your heart and then down through your feet to the center of the earth...stay there awhile, breathe, fe...

PASSION FLOWER looking into the  colors, lines, and the designs passion flower speaks mandala-like in its symmetry, she lures me inside the multi-layered colors, lines, and designs...i hear her voice...willingly, i follow... when looking for passion in life, are you mesmerized, lured, brought into a rich multi-layered set of desires, motivations, and needs that call you to follow...give voice to this experience in whatever form it needs to take--journal, poem, song, dance, art, spoken word, conversation, meditation...