Phoenix
“What is my point of empowerment?” This is the question of my soul. Having experienced so much dis-empowerment (can you relate?), this is the reach. What alchemy shifts me from one to the other? A higher perspective helps. To see my human body down here on earth, living it’s human life, just one life of many, on just one planet in a large universe. Yet, this takes practice, and certainly doesn’t serve to soothe the pain when I’m really in it. I find Phoenix and her symbolism to be so wide-reaching, all-embracing and penetrating. Perhaps she has always been with me? Whatever way we look at it (whether spirit animals and mythological creatures are real and just in a different dimension, or whether they represent a purely psychological influence), the benefits are still there. I find myself re-visiting her regularly. She calls to me. I start seeing her in my mind’s eye, and sensing the gentle flutter of large, powerful wings together with an almost breathless heat. My throat catches...