Mapping the Moments that Matter

March 5, 2014
Mapping the Moments that Matter

     This week I have been working on a leisure time project in which I was required to create a map of some time in my life; identify an important place on the map, and write the details of what happened there.
     I have been spoilt for choice.
     My parents were adventurers who did not stay in any one place for any length of time. As a child I lived in several towns, attended several schools, and enjoyed visiting many places and people in the United Kingdom and the Low Countries before being launched into North America at the age of 14.
     As I have struggled to narrow down the scope of my map, I have become accutely aware of the meandering path that has been my life.
     Given my experience and possible obsession with labyrinths, it is hardly surprising that I would recognize – again – the strength of the metaphor of the Labyrinth as the Path of Life.
     The corners and turnings in my life can be measured in geographical changes which is not true for every life. I know and have known people who spent their entire lives in one village or county, rarely stepping outside the terrain that they knew and loved.
    My path can also be seen to turn at times of transition far more impactful than a simple, physical relocation.

 

     A change like the move from England to British Columbia affects much more than material space. My experience was like the beginning of the labyrinth pictured here. For fourteen years I had been inculcated into a culture that had particular and detailed plans for my future.  I could see where I was going, just as surely as this picture allows me to see the stone in the centre of this seven-circuit Cretan labyrinth. For fourteen years I had been moving forwards, however ploddingly, knowing that my destination awaited.
     Waking up on Vancouver Island, however, was like being at that first turn in the path, veering off to the left.
     My life was suddenly taking a less direct route. I was granted the chance to see new things; absorb more vistas; and observe the centre from many new angles.
     In my wanderings I discovered new truths which allowed me to create a life that served my own Spirit. Turns on the path were informed by books and ideas and ideologies. I reframed my understanding of the function of my life. I stopped feeling connected to an arcane system, or feeling any duty to accept a role which would serve it.
     Instead I have questioned and experimented and explored. I have expanded my understanding of how life can be. I have come to a place where my behaviour expresses very little of the cultural system into which I was born.
     I am not yet at the centre of my labyrinth path. I am enjoying the walk, knowing that it is taking me where I am supposed to go, without focusing on any distant destination. I am here, now, and life is good. With each step I can check in and see how it feels and what my choices are.
     The only rule of labyrinth walking is that there are no rules. I can choose today to turn around; to stand still; to side-step into a different lane; to walk backwards; to kneel; to dance; to laugh. In this moment choose to simply be. I choose to believe that the path I walk will bring me the events and people who will most support my journey, and I know that Cosmic love is flowing into me and through to others. What else matters? 

     Jo Leath has been supporting clients through change and growth since the 1980s. She has been working with labyrinths since 2008, and is a Certified Labyrinth Facilitator with Veriditas
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Pictured is the labyrinth at Nan's Rock Shop and Spiritual Center in Wilmot, Nova Scotia.


Posted by Jo Leath. Posted In : Mindfulness 

 

The Vibes of March

February 26, 2014
The Vibes of March

     As February concludes a long cycle of months, we can close the door on the burdens we have been carrying, and have faith that March will open some very interesting windows.
     In this Seven year (2+0+1+4=7), March adds a creative Three to the Spiritual Seven, and we are granted a month to live in the energetic new beginnings of the One vibration (7+3+10, and 1+0=1)
     We are all beginning a phase of creative Spiritual expression!
     To understand even more about wh...

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Posted by Jo Leath. Posted In : Numerology 

 

It is what it is

February 19, 2014
It is what it is

     I have written before about the enriched experience and the ease which comes with Allowing. When we stop resisting reality and simply allow it to be what it is, then we can find comfort, ways to cope, and release the anger and angst that grow from trying to live in a world that does not exist.
     I have written also about Honouring what is, which consists of finding the gifts in all that life offers us. When my partner of 17 years passed away and I worked to accept that ...

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Posted by Jo Leath. Posted In : The Miracle of Physical Life 

 
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Jo Leath Jo Leath has been practising Numerology since the early 1980s. During her career she has studied synchronicity and various ways of accessing Cosmic Wisdom. She is a Certified Labyrinth Facilitator with Veriditas: Worldwide Labyrinth Project. Jo meets clients in person and online, and is sometimes a featured reader at metaphysical stores in various cities.

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