Solstice Alchemy

There's something magical that happens when you live each day as though it could be your last.

Have you ever practiced facing your own mortality?

Recently I learned about a recall on my vehicle which comes with an urgent safety warning. The manufacturers are still working on the fix. The battery could catch fire at any time, and there is nothing that can be done except "park away from structures" and hope for the best. My hyperactive mind is swarming; what can I tell my swarming mind to make the best use of these bizarre times?

So I got down to work, living each day as though it could be my last.

I began thinking about things left unsaid and conversations left unresolved. I started thinking about the projects I never finished and promises I hadn't been able to keep. I realized that I wasn't finished, and I realized how much that mattered. This gave me courage to seek out the conversations I had been waiting a lifetime to have.

I started loading up my plate with vulnerability. Extra helpings of reverence. Gravy. Feast.

It's a slippery slope to taking life for granted.

It starts one night when you go to sleep angry, figuring there will be time for resolve tomorrow. The audacity! Expecting infinite tomorrows as though you're entitled to them is some thin thin ice. When you let today unravel into tomorrow, you run the risk of never finishing.

On my quest for closure, I was asked what I'm afraid of, and I blurted out that I'm most afraid of the things I left unfinished, the goals I never chased.

My vulnerability set the tone. And what emerged was like the ghost of a Phoenix from the graveyard of regrets.

What a most unexpected gift.

In my experience, there comes a point when you know you have done everything physically possible in the 3D and nothing is resolved. It can be frustrating. That is when you start the energy work, the 4D, the spiritual lessons if you will. Often when I can't move a solution forward on the 3D, I find success when I work with the energetics of the situation.

If I can extract a powerful lesson from this situation instead of believing this makes me a victim, then I am empowered instead of disempowered. That is alchemy: transmuting every experience into something of value. The Universe gives me raw material in the form of chaos from which I co-create my reality.

Next time something seemingly scary happens, remember you're an alchemist and you can transmute everything into gold.

Solstice brings the deepest dark so that we can see our own light.

I wish you a magical Solstice full of contemplation, comfort from the storm, and inspiration for the return of the light in the coming new year.