I’m sort of a nature show junkie. Watching these shows reminds me how much there is to know and endlessly fascinates me with the strange way creatures and plants have adapted to their environment. Recently I saw something about the resurrection plant in the Sahara desert. It can hold out for rain up to a hundred years. It’s dried up leaves may look dead but inside life waits for its chance.
This lifeless, shriveled plant is merely in disguise, patiently waiting for a huge rain storm that will knock its seeds loose. They fall into the sand and sprout into new plants with just enough time to develop seeds of their own. Then the sand dries up and they curl up, faking death, just waiting for another rain storm to come back to life.
Does any of this sound familiar to you? Perhaps it describes the cycle of life many of us find ourselves in more often than not, waiting. This same idea describes the psyche and the cycles of opening up and shutting down. Fear keeps us waiting for our own psychic resurrection. And here again the key to new life is the ability to come alive when in contact with life-giving water.
Water is a very old symbol for the unconscious and the reality is we don’t know what variation or strange idea is going to wake us up to our lives and bring the healing power of transformation. We just keep waiting for the water that will nourish the soul. At times we sleep walk through our life, even feel dead in the midst of the endless activity, but then we come across something that makes us blossom. Here is the deep mystery, anything could bring us back to life at any time. It’s out there but somehow we are stuck waiting for it’s arrival. The truth is we don’t have to wait.
What’s different between people and plants is that we can consciously court what heals us rather than just passively waiting. In fact often we won’t recognize what will bring us back to life if we haven’t prepared for it. So what does the resurrection plant tell us about our own psychic resurrection? The waiting always ends, what brings us to life will come and we don’t have to wait a hundred years, in fact we don’t have to wait one more minute.
Stay alert and cultivate the changes you want in your life, when they come it happens suddenly so we need to be ready. We don’t want to miss the rebirth of who we are into all we can be.
Be patient and prepare, this new way of life is already inside waiting for its chance to bloom.
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