Offerings
What are you willing to offer of yourself?
I love oracle card decks, and I am an Archetype nerd so when Kim came out with this deck it was like Christmas. It is one of my favorite decks and I have dozens, it is my guilt-free pleasure to collect them. Besides using them to tap more deeply into my soul curriculum and to help me pay attention to synchronicities, I use them to inspire ideas for my writing and my art as a way to constellate around a theme, symbol or concept. Add in the symbolic realm of archetypes and it is like a metaphor soup. My favorite mode of communication.
So this week’s theme of the Offering as archetype came as always in Divine timing. I have spent this entire year deep in my own healing processes, accidentally I might add. I have felt like I was treading water (or maybe mud) and getting knocked down by the waves, over and over again. The water element has been so present, uncomfortably so for this Earth, Air, Fire person. I am not sure I have ever cried for no reason (or for some good reasons) this much in my life. Even as a child I did not cry tears. And while that is a story for another day. I definitely no longer have that issue. But it felt like I was hanging out with a stranger that I could not kick out of my house. Apparently, she had plenty to say. And now at least for the moment I feel like I am emerging out of the ocean.
Now that I feel some focus coming back, just in time for my favorite time. Virgo time!! I am able to sit with what I want to offer of myself for the next cycle. That includes what I want to offer of myself to myself and to the greater community. The ideas are starting to stir and I plan to use the Fall Equinox as my jumping off point. I usually do a process around releasing what didn’t work, preserving what does, and seeding what wants to come through me next. (I may or may not decide to do this as a group process as I have done many times in the past).
So I invite you to consider what your “Offering” is. Remember this is archetypal, not specific to a project, although a project may emerge from the awareness of your Offering. This is not about “business”or career although once you realize your Offering it will without a doubt shape those things. Offering with a big “O” means what are you here on this planet at this time to do and to give? And in true Jungian/Heroine’s Journey fashion what are you being called to sacrifice in order to stand in the power of your Offering? Most of us hope and pray we don’t need to sacrifice anything…but that is not aligned with the co-creative Human/Divine experience. Everything is reciprocal. But your sacrifice is just as sacred as your Offering. And it does not mean it has to include suffering. It may include pain that we transmute and becomes a part of the Offering.
Our Offering often means we are giving of our whole self and release our concern with people (including ourselves, most especially ourselves) getting too much, or taking too much because Offering in this way means we are standing fully in our power and no one can take anything from us. Paradoxically, it’s when we parse out the bits and pieces that we actually feel completely fragmented. And that is how I have felt this entire year.
One big part of my Offering is to inspire and to ignite, illuminate and coax out the Offerings of others. Starting with those closest to me. My role as Mother was to do exactly that. And now that my son is starting his adult journey with his offering and Soul Work I was starting to feel like my Offering was complete. And I think that is where so much of my angst was coming from this year. But my Offering is far from over, far from being complete and dried up. My prayer is my Offering will walk beside me through this entire life and beyond.
What is your Offering to the World?
