Commentary

It is another spectacularly stunning day here in mid-Wales.  It is cool, but as I write in the early morning the sun is strong and the colours of the mountains and trees are vibrant in their chakra colours.  I wrote yesterday of the beauty of our blue planet, and as I look around me I can see much evidence as to why it is so special, truly unique in the solar system, the jewel in the crown.

It is appropriate, therefore, that the hierarchy of nature - which includes humanity - is perfect also.  I wonder, often, at the precision with which nature operates, every part of it designed exactly to fit like a complex jigsaw.   Our role as humans is to be the bridge between the plant, animal and mineral kingdoms and the world of spirit, honouring and helping both.  Unless we play our part well, the jigsaw is incomplete.

I watched a television programme last night on the sun and its importance in the solar system.  It was wonderful - most interesting and with wonderful photography, totally justifying the cost of my TV licence!  

Much was made of the history and power of the sun, and the amount of energy that is available from it for us to use as a resource.  It made me wonder why we are spending so  much in terms of money and environmental repercussions on higgledy-piggledy projects here and there instead of focusing on developing what is there already.   I know it can be done and will be done.

What struck me particularly in the programme was the beauty of Earth - the Blue Planet as it was described.  I saw places and views from on land and from space which were breathtaking, and it reminded me never to take our home for granted.  We have been given the greatest gift in to living here, and sometimes we forget the privilege this is.

Towards the end, we saw the aurora borealis on the Arctic Circle.  I have seen it once here where I live, but that was nothing compared to the incredible sights ...

The case, currently prominent in the British press, of the child-killer of a child in 1993 who has for unexplained reasons been returned to prison after ten years of freedom, raises questions and cause for thought.  Here are a few of my ponderings.

The implied suggestion is that he has shown himself to be, potentially or actually, a danger to the public still. After many years of intensive therapy and education, does this mean that rehabilitation for someone like him cannot succeed?   If so, is he evil?   Is he a "lost soul"? What does this mean?

For his own protection he was given a new identity many years ago, and it is likely he will need to be given another identity because of the public interest and the near-impossibility of maintaining his anonymity.    So, a young man may have lived as three different people in the space of nearly thirty years.  His childhood roots have been denied him and the life that was created to help him integrate back into society may be taken from him also.  Many of us struggle with identity problems to a certain degree, but for most of us they are nothing compared to ...

Without exception my clients are wonderful, inspirational people, and I honour them for their courage and determination to move forward on their path in their own unique way.  I have noticed in recent weeks that many of them are coming to a point of  - you could say, no return, when choices they make now will change their life forever.  For some, the decisions will affect them and their famies in a very personal way, for others they may change the world and far beyond. 

Neither outcome is better nor worse than the other.  One of the key reasons for being human is to make choices and often in so doing to take risks, to move beyond our comfort zone and embrace the unknown.  We cannot make progress along our soul journey unless we do - and that is what it is all about.  It is also about recognising that these choices, whatever outcome they bring, are perfect, we cannot make a mistake.    By expanding ourselves, testing ourselves, as humans we are manifesting the Plan of God on Earth. 

This is a crucial time on Earth, a time of change for the Planet as it is for so many ...

It was the full moon last night, the moon in Scorpio which is the sign of testing and triumph.  So, don't be suprised if you are reminded frequently of your human frailities and the learnings for your personality and soul in this period!

As I look out at my blustery, squally landscape, there is a feeling of fracturedness in the air, tension, as if a falling apart is imminent.  It wouldn't suprise me if the strong winds bring down some trees in the next few days, but my sense is that I am feeling the breaking down of society, and more. 

My heart feels bruised today, a little sad at more news of the devastating impact of man's activity on wildlife and the Planet.   Perhaps this one of my tests for the month ahead, to remember that when a species seems to die out another will take its place, that it lives on elsewhere in another dimension, and that, like the millions of humans who suffer terribly,  these birds, plants and animals which face extinction are wise, generous and necessary teachers.  As such, they surely will get their reward in Heaven.

Overnight the calm sunny days of our October Indian Summer have transformed themselves into squalls and turbulence.  The water meadow beyond the river, opposite my home, is covered in new springs, streams and mini-lakes, and the Wye itself is in spate.  Yesterday all the great oaks were covered still in their leaf summer finery, but now their limbs are bare.  I don't remember the change from summer to autumn/winter happening so fast ever before, but as I swept leaves as best I could, buffeted by wind and rain, I was exhilarated by the reminder of the power and inexorability of Nature.

I pondered also the synchronicity of the timing of the dramatic switch of season, as the moon becomes full once again, marking the end of another cycle, as October moves to become November, and my work moves to a close in one respect and to a new beginning in another - the ending and beginning of cycles in my life which may impact others too.   As certain people and processes choose to move on away from me, or vice versa, some constants remain, and if I were asked to define which were the most important, I would, ...