Moonrise 13Moon Digital Magazine Volume 1, Number 9 - October 13, 2015 | Page 26

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Then it occurred to me to do what I always do... sit and listen. So what’s being
shared here is the result of sitting with my thoughts and listening to my guides. I
hope it helps enrich your life as much as it has mine.
Time is running, fluid and fast like water cascading over a waterfall, or sand
dribbling down through the hourglass, the minutes we don’t use escape from
us, never to be seen again. With time speeded up, there is now an urgency to
respond to and process previously suppressed emotions and thoughts we have
suppressed or believed we had dealt with.
In the aftermath of the eclipses, we are being asked to unplug and totally
surrender to the silence. We always talk about peace and quiet, letting go, and
all, but we never seem to be able to thoroughly commit to the follow through.
Between the conversations and mayhem of the work world to the unrelenting
cacophony which accompanies family obligations, added to the sounds emanating
from the computer-assisted industrial engine, there is hardly a moment to be
found which isn’t already inhabited by noise of some sort.
Silence is hard to find and harder still to claim. Sometimes, it only exists in a
hint, or in the middle of the night when the daily symphony has retreated into
the deepening night. It is the fleeting time when good children are snug in their
beds, with sounds of slumber occasionally piercing the calm. It is in this space
that silence reigns. It may seem like such a small thing, but silence has no
boundaries. It exists wherever it decides to BE, and when you become otherwise
distracted, it is gone.
Silence is GOLDEN. Stillness and tranquility exists in each moment, but if
unclaimed, the moment no longer exists. We’re not talking about the absence
of noise; rather, it’s about finding and preserving within self the ambient sounds
that routinely are ignored.
You don’t have to wander out into the woods, nor do you have to find the
perfect place of calm in order to find it. Looking for the silence is more about
withdrawing from the world around and tuning into that which exists on a deeper
level.
Basically, it’s not about running off or venturing out to the countryside in
order to seek silence. When you least expect it is some of the easiest times to
encounter silence.
On the practical side, you’re probably only going to discover the space of a few
minutes of searchable time each day, so make the best use of what you find. And
sometimes, silence might just pop up out of nowhere. It may just decide to make
itself known, especially when you’re alone with your thoughts, having removed