The dreamcatcher-making, about which I wrote in yesterday's post, was part of a study I am engaged in. A very lovely women is researching people who speak to plants (or, rather, are spoken to by plants) for her doctorate.
Earlier in the day, we had our first group meeting. It was strange as I usually feel weird or as though I am confabulating when I speak with people about this, but when everyone there was having the same experience, it was normalised. Most of us are women, but there is also a young man. All the messages or insights we receive seem very similar.
I know, I know: the cynic will see that we are a certain type of person and our unconscious offers up the same kind of spiel. Maybe. But the unconscious is not scientifically verifiable, so why favour one non-verifiable theory over another?
Anyway, we were led in a meditation and I recall now that a meditation on a particular tree had proven very rich back in the Spring; this was too. I was given the word "might" and then the phrase "you need might to embrace the might." I interpreted this as suggesting that one must be strong to face the uncertainties of existence. But then one of the others, the young man, actually, said what about the idea that one has to be open to possibility in order to step into one's strength. This delighted me.
I took the question to Kairos, who, as ever, refuted the binary - it's not either/or, but both/and. The oak's trunk is mighty, enabling it to withstand wind and predation; the oak's twigs and rootlets accept changeability, are mobile and questing, to respond well, effectively, strongly, to the environment.
Right now, I don't feel especially strong or especially adaptable. But the ideas are pleasing.
The ideas are wonderful!
p.s. Just struck me the interesting contrast between the meanings of "might" - strength and 'perhaps'. The latter suggests flexibility/ openess/ non-binary-ness to me ex. one thing might not work very well, but another thing might work better.