I was thinking about concentric circles just yesterday. Self (god), family, friends, vocation, public face, and others. These circles for me contain a duality: comfort-safety and restriction-expectation. I imagine each spinning circle with a small opening, but only rarely and briefly do the openings align so there is a lighted path to the space outside the circles. A space to become more fully yourself while accepting that you may no longer fit comfortably in all of the old spaces. A place where you can resize, realign, and replace those circles where you no longer fit.
I love the synchronicity, Bob! And the image of spinning circles and the pathways to change … so evocative. I am going to be musing on that for a while!
Lovely and inspiring, as always Hannah. You are indeed the embodiment of the Connector!
For me, I imagine all the shapes and configurations you mention as being part of what eventually becomes the River of our life: coalescing, branching off, trickling out and then having more join together to become deeper and wider...
Stepping back even a little farther my own energetic intuition sees something even more three-dimensional, like the way stars are drawn together by gravity. Or closer to home here on earth, like how the currents of the ocean swirl and flow into dense and powerful movements. This joining together is something that is part of us at any scale; both the vast cosmos and infinitely small... I didn't produce the picture below but is exactly what I feel when I think of all the flows of our lives coming together.
Wow, Doug, this is so beautiful ... both the image you found and your description. Ocean currents is a great metaphor to work with, I'm going to be musing on that one!
Loved your epic muse.
I was thinking about concentric circles just yesterday. Self (god), family, friends, vocation, public face, and others. These circles for me contain a duality: comfort-safety and restriction-expectation. I imagine each spinning circle with a small opening, but only rarely and briefly do the openings align so there is a lighted path to the space outside the circles. A space to become more fully yourself while accepting that you may no longer fit comfortably in all of the old spaces. A place where you can resize, realign, and replace those circles where you no longer fit.
I love the synchronicity, Bob! And the image of spinning circles and the pathways to change … so evocative. I am going to be musing on that for a while!
Wow Bob! That speaks to this older. Muse🤗. Thank you 🙏🏾
Lovely and inspiring, as always Hannah. You are indeed the embodiment of the Connector!
For me, I imagine all the shapes and configurations you mention as being part of what eventually becomes the River of our life: coalescing, branching off, trickling out and then having more join together to become deeper and wider...
Stepping back even a little farther my own energetic intuition sees something even more three-dimensional, like the way stars are drawn together by gravity. Or closer to home here on earth, like how the currents of the ocean swirl and flow into dense and powerful movements. This joining together is something that is part of us at any scale; both the vast cosmos and infinitely small... I didn't produce the picture below but is exactly what I feel when I think of all the flows of our lives coming together.
https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/%C2%A9-iStock-sakkmesterke.jpg
"Electromagnetic fields of nanostructures"
So many of my circles keep shape shifting and so rapidly, the spinning forces me to slow down to evaluate and find some kind of balance 🙏🏾
I think a spiral might often be more accurate than the static notion of concentric circles!
Wow, Doug, this is so beautiful ... both the image you found and your description. Ocean currents is a great metaphor to work with, I'm going to be musing on that one!