UNDER THE MOUNTAIN

Everyone wants to climb the mountain

 

Within us we carry a deep desire to ascend

 

To climb higher

 

To see beyond that which we currently know

 

 

Yet the real gold is to be found below

Beneath

 

In the deep, dark places

 

 

As above, so below

 

We cannot know one without the other

 

Life must teach us from both the heights and the depths

 

The inner as well as the outer

 

 

We are called both to climb and crawl

 

To find the courage to go under the mountain of our life

 

To dive into that which we have ignored

 

That which is unseen in the darkness

 

 

This is where we dig for gold

 

This is where we confront our self-made demons

 

This is where we find our strengths and our gifts

 

 

We are asked to get down on our hands and knees and crawl into the caves

 

To trust the trickle of water to lead us down into the depths of Earth

 

To the deep hidden places of our psyche

 

The caves of our minds

 

 

Once there we are invited to sit in the dark and face all that we are afraid of

 

To see that our ‘demons’ are but mirrors of stories we must transmute

 

When we embrace the darkness of our ‘self’ we bring every aspect of us close

 

We must stop rejecting and judging

 

Hurting and punishing

 

We must stop running

 

 

In the darkness we are presented with our soul force

 

Full and complete

 

Raw and powerful

 

 

If we have the courage to really ‘see’ and know ourselves then we metamorphosise

 

We transcend

 

We become whole

 

 

So, before you seek to climb the mountain peaks

 

Make sure you have crawled into its belly

 

Make sure that you have gathered all your strength and gifts from facing your darkness

 

Then you are impenetrable

 

Then you are unstoppable

 

Uncontrollable

 

Divine