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Buried
Heart Treasure
Mary Gravelle
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Title:
Buried Heart Treasure
Artist:
Mary
Gravelle
Size/Medium:
Crayon, 8 1/2" x 11"
"We are our stories. It’s time we started investing in them and treating them like the asset and opportunities they offer us." – Rob McKee, StoryCon.org
About this Drawing:
Igniting Session -- December 16, 2005 Day 18
Intention Statement: I complete the final details to moving on NOW.
Visualization / meditation:
Sticks
forming a teepee shape could be a source of fire, or building a
fire foundation.
Indian maiden dressed in ecru suede has quill of arrows on her back, leaning over the fire. I see her digging in the dirt, then placing a pumping heart in the hole. She covers the heart over with dirt – burying her heart? – grounding her heart? Are the sticks actually sticks or arrows taken from her quiver?
I thought
she might have put an arrow through the heart or taken a
sledgehammer to the heart, sending blood bursting out. Now that
I take a second look, she is tending to the heart very gently,
carefully, tenderly caring for it, holding it in her left hand,
caressing it, looking at it.
She says to the heart, “Heart, have I buried you for safekeeping? I love you heart. I’m sorry that I kept you hidden for so long and that now I have to unbury you.
The arrows in the shape of a teepee have protected the heart. She reaches in and under the teepee shelter (heart shelter) to unbury the heart. She is on her knees. She takes out the buried heart, rinses off the dirt, places it back in her chest, and mends the broken skin around it.
She lays her arrows down, the ones that were forming the teepee around her buried heart. Did she leave them there on the ground? Or did she put them back in her quiver on her back? Yes, she is picking them up and putting them back in her quiver. It’s almost as if her heart had been buried someplace far away from where she was.
Now, she
has gathered / secured her heart. There is no need for outside
armor or protection. She gathers the arrows, and leaves no trace
of the buried heart or teepee surround. She takes it all with
her for her journey ahead. She returns the quiver to her back
and looks forward to the path before her. She breathes in deep
and gazes at the path stretching out before her. She smiles and
knows that it is good.
Drawing:
Indian maiden, teepee fire burns bright lighting her way. Quiver on her back, turquoise arrowheads, turquoise headband with eagle feather. She reaches out for her future. Her hands are lighted or they are healing hands of light or something. Maybe her hands are her future? Her path is paved in gold coin.
She has long brown hair. This Indian Maiden has a bright and abundant future. She is on the threshold of her future. She is poised toward it, feet at the beginning line. Her future has just begun. She is ready.
Her hands wave as if they are the magic wands that make it happen. Like a twinkling of Samantha the Witch's nose, she twinkles her hands and it is done. She speaks it and it is done. She shakes her hands and it is done.
She is
magic made manifest in the world of desire. Her heart placed
fully inside her chest, she is ready for the journey that
awaits. She need not wait any longer.
Drawing's Message:
Sunken
treasure has been lifted. The treasure has been revealed and is
inside your heart. Your heart is the source of your gold. Fan
the fire of desire. Fire has transformed your heart and burned
off the coal revealing the gold. Shine it up. Shine that heart
so it gleams in the night and lights up your way brightly. You
see the way, follow it now. Follow your own way. Light your own
way. Shine bright the beacon of your happiness. (I envision my
heart lighting up by me holding it and squeezing it, it lights
up and glows through my chest.)
Inspirations
from IshaLerner.com:
Triple
Goddess: Journey Home--Identify your own journey and fly
straight into the ecstasy of self-realization and rebirth.
Inner Child: Wishing Upon a Star: When this card appears in your reading, an important wish, desire, or hope may be fulfilled soon. Open your mind and heart to your star-self, your higher identity that guides you upward on the path of destiny.
Journal
Entry:
I AM IN POWER OVER MY LIFE AND ALL OF THE EVENTS AND MOMENTS WITHIN, WHEREIN. I need not answer to another. I need not ask what I should do – I know what I want and I need to follow that.
I guess I
attract predators when I’m not fully in my power to defend
myself. That’s why it is SO IMPORTANT TO EMPOWER ONESELF –
AND TO HELP OTHERS EMPOWER THEMSELVES. When we are in our full
power – fully Empowered, we are safe. We are safe because we
are able to hear, see, and detect danger thus able to thwart its
threat. We become our own best defense.
It’s becoming clear that the subtleties in life are what control us unawares. When we are unaware, we are magnets for the aware – the ones who can control us because we are not controlling ourselves. I’m getting a sense, a visual, a feeling of tai chi and how subtle and slow the movements are. In this subtle slowness, awareness is heightened. We are able to stand guard, be in control of the slightest movement. This puts us in total control of our safety.
Can we
control our environment in this way? Can we be in total control
of our environment by tuning into our intuition? Or does our
intuition simply allow us to know when danger is coming in order
to prepare ourselves? Is danger always present? Are there always
wild cards out there? Is our job to simply be aware in order to
control /defend our home front? Is this the case of our best
defense being our offense?
So, I need
to be my own best offense and defense. That means I need to be
fully empowered in each and every moment. I have let myself
attract negative experiences in the past simply because I was
not in control of myself. Predators are real. What’s not real
is the threat. The threat is only real if we let our defenses
down. If we are not fully powered in – powered into our Self,
into our inner awareness that is tuned into the outer world at
all times.
All of the
oriental arts, the martial arts movies are coming back to me
now. The warrior stands strong against any would-be attacker.
Moving ever so slowly and gracefully wards off any attacker. He
is able to move in a way such as to avoid injury; or in a way
that injures the other if that is warranted. In this way, the
attacker becomes the victim of his own actions.
Acting
from intuition affords one to be fully powered in the moment.
This is strength, true strength, real strength. And like the
bamboo, the strength becomes flexibility when needed, bending to
avoid or deflect attack. Nothing can injure or harm the
intuitive warrior. Hmm…. Is this a new term?
So, must
we always be tuned into danger? Is danger real? Are there
threats all around us? Or do we create threats when we are not
fully engaging our power to create? Is it the power to create
that I’m referring to or something else? I think it is – our
power to create our own reality.
I’m
envisioning myself positioned like a triangle – squatting down
with hands upward, thus becoming the triangle is like becoming
my own shield of protection. Arrows being shot my way are simply
averted from entering my path. My attention then is diverted
from defending against terror to simply being true and strong to
self. This is the way of the Inward Soldier; one who defends his
own inner nature by remaining so true and strong to Self that he
is unable to be penetrated by outside forces. His attention is
so strongly directed inward it becomes in-tention. This is where
attention meets intention. Hmm …. A new thought – 'at' vs. 'in'.
This
brings my awareness to the surface of things, the outer meeting
the inner. Attention looks in and intention looks out. This is
not to be confused, however. Attention is outside, intention is
inside. So, does this mean that we need not even use attention
in our vocabulary? If we constantly remain in the state of in-tention,
then we inherently are in a state of at-tention?
Yes. I see
a soldier at attention. He is so strongly postured at attention
that he is fully aware of what is happening around him. He is so
strongly at attention that he is naturally deflecting danger at
all times.
So 'at' attention becomes 'in' intention?
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Posted: March 6, 2006
Written by Mary A. Gravelle
© 2006 Mary Gravelle
All rights reserved. Please do not copy or print.
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