Shining Up That Crown
This past week has been a tumultuous time. As I prepare to teach a program that distills much of what I’ve learned and taught over the past thirty years about how to live a free and sovereign life, the dragons that guard the gates to my inner kingdom have been roaring and lashing their tails in a fine frenzy.
This is the way evolution works, sometimes. Each creative step forward on that winding mountain path to sovereignty and freedom requires us to shed identities, shed fears–to strip away all that weighs on our hearts.
Each step forward calls us to bow and wave kindly to the trolls that sit by the side of the road, chanting their litany of: You can’t do this. Nobody will listen/understand/care. You’ll get a nose-bleed/be eaten by mountain lions/freeze to death. Turn back, they cry, turn back before you fall.
Dear trolls, trying so hard to be good friends, to keep us travelers safe from harm. They are loyal. And notoriously short-sighted. They can’t see much beyond the ends of their noses.
So, to them, that path to freedom that feels so solid under my feet is a blur of what-ifs and yes-buts, of thorn and thistle, precipice and danger.
To them, I say: You and I and this mountain path are made of the same shimmering, vibrating life-force.
As are thorns, thistles, mountain lions, and the clear air of love and freedom that fills my lungs. That sustains all of us. That draws us into the unfolding future. That reminds us, always, of who we really are.
We are made of the same stuff as stars and galaxies. As the earth, the sun, and the tiniest microbe. When we remember this, we draw from the great, universal matrix of life all the nourishment we need. We inhabit our power, our grace, our majesty. We wear-lightly, lightly–the crown that proclaims us queens and kings of our lives.
And we join with all the other sovereign beings of this earth in creating a world that nourishes and supports all of us.
This Friday, November 20th, I’ll lead an open discussion on Sovereignty. If you’ve ever wondered: What is it? Why do I need it? Do I get to wear a crown? please join me.
10 am Pacific time. No cost, other than long-distance charges on your phone.
You can sign up for it here:
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How about you? I’d love to hear about your encounters with dragons and trolls when you begin something new, or start a creative project, or change your life in some way. And I’d also love to hear how you experience your own sovereignty. How you wear your crown.
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Hiro, I love the image of your dragons guarding the gates. And the trolls, trying their hardest to protect you from Perilous Nosebleeds.
Am signing up now for your call on Friday. Looking forward to taking part in this conversation – Sovereignty is a Major Theme for me if there ever was one.
.-= Amna´s last post … Germinational: There is no email at work until god knows when. I grumble along with the others, but secretly I am delighted. =-.
Troll and the Perilous Nosebleeds! Sounds like a band. As Havi would say, it’s just one guy. :-)
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Oh, those trolls. They trip me up because of the lovely disguises they wear. They look like people who care, who are telling you this for your own good, so you won’t be hurt later… Ahhh, shoot. Tricked again! I’m just wearing a tiara so far, but I think I’ll be fashioning a crown soon, and feeling solid enough to wear it.
.-= Shannon Wilkinson´s last post … I can SEE you! =-.
Ooh, I can’t wait to see your tiara! :-)
.-= Hiro Boga´s last post … Shining Up That Crown =-.
It is such a relief to learn that the trolls are trying to protect us (in their own misguided way) and that dealing with them is just part of our own evolutionary process.
Just knowing that it’s “normal” and that we don’t need to silence the trolls in a violent way makes it so much easier to continue on the path toward sovereignty.
.-= Victoria Brouhard´s last post … Reinvention =-.
Yeah, poor sweet trolls–it’s hard work trying to keep a human safe! :-)
.-= Hiro Boga´s last post … Shining Up That Crown =-.
I love when you say that the path and the thorns and yourself are all made of the same shimmering life force. I felt a release as I read that. Thank you!
.-= leah´s last post … Art Every Day Month: November 16th =-.
Thank you, dear Leah. Wouldn’t that image make a lovely painting?
.-= Hiro Boga´s last post … Shining Up That Crown =-.
Hiro, just want you to know I’m going to engrave this post on the inside of my gold-paper crown so I never forget to read it when I need to, which is every day.
O Great Queen Kelly, your crown is surely not (gasp!) made of paper! Gold. Emeralds. Rubies. Maybe a grande latte, but not paper! :-)
.-= Hiro Boga´s last post … Shining Up That Crown =-.
“[Our trolls are] notoriously short-sighted. They can’t see much beyond the ends of their noses.”
This is precisely why I have so little patience with and respect for them, Hiro. I don’t see them as allies, at all. They haven’t even journeyed a stone’s throw past their birthplace, and they’d like to see the same puny trajectory for me, too. And as I feel my chest inflate with resistance toward their idea of help… I am reminded, by you, that… OMG… they are me, too!
And this is a huge, sudden, unexpected realization. That the trolls are aspects of me. And here I have been so begrudging of “them” and “their” lack of vision and courage, when there really is no split.
If I am of stardust, I am of troll too, right?
*Off to blend and integrate.*
.-= Erika Harris´s last post … A Listening Life =-.
Erika, yes… Stardust and troll and everything in between. Enjoy the journey!
.-= Hiro Boga´s last post … Shining Up That Crown =-.
We are the same stuff as stardust. We are. Why is that so hard to remember. Maybe that is a good sharpie tattoo for the week. But then again, so are the trolls. I must remember that too. I need to re-read this often – thank you.
.-= elizabeth´s last post … simple things that make me happy =-.
Hi Hiro,
I really enjoyed this post :)
I’m leaving my job at the end of the year to pursue my passion which is Holistic Kinesiology. Consciously I’m really excited but subconsciously I must be freaking out because I am doing the silliest things. Rather than trolls I think I have little yappy dogs distracting me so I forget things and taking my stuff and hiding it! Maybe they’re just trying to distract me from my fear. I love this and will try to remember it:
“We are made of the same stuff as stars and galaxies. As the earth, the sun, and the tiniest microbe. When we remember this, we draw from the great, universal matrix of life all the nourishment we need.”
.-= Kerry Rowett´s last post … Sprung =-.
Uh, would it maybe possible offer a transkript or summarisation or something afterwards? I’m really interested in this, but kinda in a wildy incompatible timezone.
Carina (and everyone else who’s asked), yes, the call will be recorded and you can listen to it later.
.-= Hiro Boga´s last post … Shining Up That Crown =-.
Hi all, hi Hiro,
Just wanted to say huge thanks to the beautiful Hiro, Havi, Kelly and Marissa! I so enjoyed last night’s call (it was 6pm over here in the UK). Wonderful stuff and it gave me food for thought in lots of ways as to my process of tuning into my Self/Soul Self.
Yep so I am going to look into some energy clearing stuff/magic and dance with that a little more. It helped to answer a question I had about needing to clear painful stuff from my upbringing somehow stored in my body which often repeats in a hugely uncomfortable way on a bit of a loop some days, weeks, years in spite of doing lots and lots of work on my stuff and seperating myself from my childhood pains with parents.
I must admit that I felt a bit overwhelmed after the call. After a few weeks now of feeling amazing and connected to this magical divine source I comforted myself with chocolate and more. Red wine in fact and dvds and lots and lots of self created mess. Woops. Not ideal I know but there we go. It’s ok too.
The call got me thinking about what helps me to feel connected to my feelings, to hope, to magic, to source, whatever we call it. I realised that music, of all sorts, seems to be one of the magical tools that I employ. It’s a huge energy shifter for me and something which I really seem to crave and need in my life. It helps me tap into my Inner Funk/Magical Problem Solver/Hope Monkey. I move from feeling stuck to being a dancing devil in my kitchen and beyond. So I’m hugely grateful for it (the music/the funk) and for the realisation that there may even be deep reason that I need to be around it so much.
So a huge thank you for everything that you shared. Wonderbaaaa!
I look forward to more.
Love and light and may it bring you all more funky chicken dancing/moments for those who feel willing and able
Leila
Leila, hooray for your Inner Funk/Magical Problem Solver/Hope Monkey! :-) Music does indeed transform energy in magical ways. Wishing you joy in your journey…
.-= Hiro Boga´s last post … Shining Up That Crown =-.
A belated thank you for responding to my need for reassurance really. That meant a lot to me and will take time to sink in I guess. But huge thanks.
And thank you for the wonderful sharing. Developing this space here for us all to show up and be less than perfect and dare to be seen doing just that. Stumbling, falling and picking ourselves up again to learn and grow. Sharing what we glean wherever we are at with that.
Wise, big hearted lady – tapping into the source and spreading the magic. Thank you beauty.
Leila