the heart of a circle

The number 7 has been swirling in my consciousness like bubbles at a birthday party.  So, it seemed apropos to let it be my blog post guide this month.

From the Hidden Artist Quest Card deck I chose Card number 7. The question… "what’s missing?”

At this I want to yell from the rooftop, NOTHING!

I wrote a bit about the number 7 in the companion book to the deck.  One thing I didn’t note there is that in Judaism, 7 Is the symbol of completeness - - wholeness. 

There is nothing missing - I am whole, I am enough - complete, exactly as I am.

The photo on the 7th card in the deck is a plant in a glass ball.  The water and earth appear to be missing.  But they are not.  This plant is an air plant, complete just as it is.  It gets its nutrients from the air and is perfectly perfect - nothing is missing.  Notice how it sits held in a globe with circles that allow air to nurture it. It is complete.

I photographed my card selection for this month propped in another seemingly incomplete plant, the magnificent staghorn fern that has been hanging on the wall in our yard for more than 15 years.  This plant thrives growing on trees, boards or rocks and doesn’t need soil to grow. We may think it’s missing something, but it’s not.  It is enough.

This harkens back to the comment in last month’s post about the perspective of glass half full or empty. When we answer ½ empty we are coming from a mindset of lack, broken, and missing, not enough.  While this can be a powerful protective mindset that keeps us from harm and can help us find a fix a problem, find a typo and get all the important details right, when that really matters, it can also be the way to a perpetual state of dissatisfaction, overachieving, relentlessness and restlessness born of NOT ENOUGH.

The saboteur of not enoughness rears its head so often that I would venture to say that it is the faithful cousin of the universal Judge saboteur.  It seems to lurk everywhere and can be insidious.  Our life’s work just might be the very journey of letting go of Judgment along with its cousin Not Enough and find our way to the place where we can truly know that we are complete, whole and enough. 

I waited a lifetime

many a nighttime

memories made

in finding this place

sit

here

where there’s always enough space

in the cool morning air

a breath of worthy

a breath of despair

breathe in enough

breathe out too much care

a flashlight

a map

won’t guide the steps

the heart of a circle

moments of regret

walk

around

wholeness is your birthright

come meet it here

in the center

is your light

The invitation on this card is to watch the sun set, paint or draw how it makes you feel - the sun, a powerful circle that makes life possible. Try it, what do you notice? What other circles can you find as a reminder of your own wholeness?  Your own I AM ENOUGHNESS? 

A 7-circuit classical round labyrinth is now a prominent feature in my backyard.  So much more to come on this including an invitation to join me here in the circle, the journey of seven circuits, within which dreams and a consciously created life will be born. 

photo and poem

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by Lynne Harris Bernstein