This morning as I sat down outside I noticed in the adjacent
chair a firefly spinning its wheels or legs as is firefly’s case. The morning dew on the blue plastic prevented
it from gaining traction. I placed a magazine close enough for one leg to finally
make contact then walked to the yard swing to hold the magazine, listen and be
with this little bug of which I had been thinking.
Just Monday night I was contemplating fireflies and how
their numbers seem to have diminished. They were abundant when I
was a kid. Even now in my yard in the country I’ve only seen two thus far. Are fireflies a casualty of decades of chemically
laden lawns?
The shapes and colors on its head were the first thing that
caught my eye. The black area between
the orange reminded me of the vesica piscis.
The vesica piscis is the oval
shape formed when two circles slightly overlap. In sacred geometry, this overlap represents the place of creation from
which all other shapes and patterns in geometry come.* I think of it as the place of the Unknown and
found the firefly’s black oval perfect for representing the unknown void and
the unseen dark matter through which quantum science suggests we are
connected.
At times I wonder if things like the firefly diminish because
over time humankind forgets. In our
lives filled with technology and haste, do things of nature fade as we stop
noticing and naming them?
In terms of the Vesica Pisces, are fireflies dying,
returning to the dark from which they came or do they wait in the dark hoping
we will not forget them? If fireflies
were suddenly “trending” might those left roaming our yards feel our vibes,
sense our texting and tweeting of them? Might they stay with us on Earth or
think they were only a passing trend in our distracted lives? Might those waiting in the dark feel us
calling them forth?
As co-creators with the Divine, we’ve an untapped capacity
for calling forth into form that which is needed. Some might say fireflies are the least of
needed things. I suggest we need them for their light in the night as well as for
the wonder, curiosity and magic they evoke.
I need their blinking bodies as a reminder that I carry Light especially
in what can feel like dark times within and without.
Even the name "fire flies" connotes sparks of creation coming from the dark.
I didn’t place the fire fly on a specific place on the
magazine. It crawled to ‘fact and
fiction’ and hung out for quite awhile as I wrote this. I felt like I was being reminded this is both fact and fiction for me, not one or the
other. It is a fact in my personal
fiction that I need to be reminded over and over, again and again that if I am
really going to grow and be who I came here to be then I must patiently and courageously sit in
the unknown, listen and sense the stirring, the stirring of creation’s fire
wanting to fly from my insides.
We carry a creative capacity so much more profound than we
realize. In this moment I imagine the shift of letting fire fly.
-Dawn, The Good News Muse, 18 May 2012
* To learn more about Sacred Geometry, I highly recommend Michael Schneider's "Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe."
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