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