Walking My Own Path
The spiral dance
The Spiral Dance
For some time now (possibly several years), during moments of contemplation I’ve been drawing spirals on a page. I am drawn to this shape, time and time again.
Each one starts with a tiny opening, half circular and perfectly formed. From here, the pathway begins. Always the same and so familiar, embedded into my distracted mind, translated to the page and often sitting neatly between the lines on the paper. Rarely does the spiral venture passed the confines of the ruled line, which dictates the paths are usually no more than three or four spaces at any time.
If I could shrink onto the page, I’d walk from the centre and follow these sacred paths.
Sometimes I allow the pencil to lift off at the end, leaving the path parallel and an exit point, but more often I close the spiral by narrowing the gap before the pencil leaves the page.
Delving deeply into my mind, searching for meaning of this repetitive ancient symbol, I find words which speak to me – to my intuition. They are: life-cycle, sacred-path, feminine-energy, divine-journey, spiral-dance and destiny. They sit alongside one of my spirals and I interpret them to symbolise my journey to the self - a return to the self.
My inner energies are drawing me (literally) towards union and merging.
The spirals indicate a span of time, beginning, pathway and completion. It always begins with a seed, that half-circular invitation. The pathway shows the cultivated ground and leads to a place of completeness, and satisfaction of some endeavour.
Sometimes, I draw rays radiating from the spiral like the sun, lighting up the endeavour.
It is my symbol of change and development – each layer building on the last. A symbol of nature, a changing of the seasons, the cycle of life: Birth, growth, death and rejuvenation. A connection with the divine self. My inner cosmic awareness leading to enlightenment of the ego. It speaks of evolution.
I am evolving, a work in progress. It is the journey that makes us who we are, not the destination.
I am walking my own path.