bit by bit
non-sensical advice for modern times
Increasingly, different people are saying to me, “this is crazy” referring to some aspect of what we now have to call “normal life” that is NOT NORMAL.
This happened recently, and a little voice inserted itself…
My friend said, “these are crazy times” and the little voice said, “these are crazy-MAKING times. someone/something is literally trying to make everyone crazy”.
The high-level theater-of-greed-and-corruption of the geopolitical elite, I fear is soon going to take its performance to a shriller pitch.
I imagine “the show” will be destabilizing at best.
I have a bit of cosmic strategy for us.
It is a bit of a paradoxical strategy, but one that will serve us well in this particular micro-era in history.
The strategy has two parts, two identities within it, really. To the non-magical person, the two parts of the strategy may seem to counter the energy of the other.
But we are in WEIRD TIMES*. We need to be able to move in weird ways. In this case it is wise to maintain two seemingly opposite stances and flow between them with grace and ease. I imagine them as two poles between which we circulate, effortlessly weaving infinite infinity-signs between the two.
The first stance is the bit by bit part. We stay CLEAR on what we are doing and why; and we keep moving forward and doing the necessary steps, bit-by-bit. Even as the geo-political world tilts on its axis, we stay close to our intuition, we know what our purpose is and we keep living that purpose. Moment to moment, day by day, we do each small thing that eventually adds up to big things; even in chaos, even in craziness.
Do you remember the Aesop’s Fable of the crow with the pitcher of water?
That crow shows us how to do bit by bit.
So the story goes – a crow comes upon a pitcher with a little water in the bottom. The crow wants to drink the water, but the water line is lower than his beak can reach.
Then the crow figures out (because crows are SMART) that he can drop pebbles, little rocks, into the pitcher and the water line rises. So he puts enough pebbles in so that he can easily drink the water in the pitcher.
That is the perfect representation of the bit by bit part, tossing pebbles into the pitcher until the water gets high enough to easily drink.
We know we want the water, and we are willing to keep finding the pebbles and dropping them into the open mouth of the pitcher.
That is the first stance - a steady, gentle focus on the small tasks that must be done and being kind of dogged about doing them.
And then, paradoxically, for our cosmic protocol to work; for the second stance, we must stay flexible, read the room and be ready to move with currents within the larger collective.
So there might be times when we, as crow, need to move away from our pitcher project to attend to something else – chase away the hawk flying over our nest, or pull the tin foil from a burrito someone threw away, or romance a potential mate who has suddenly alighted next to you.
The ease with which we are able to move between these two states – being intent and committed to our bit-by-bit pitcher project AND being aware of and able to flow with (perhaps surprising) outer events - we use both stances to our advantage – we get the benefits of both.
I will just say it. The astrology of July is bananas.
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