Tracking Yes
A Guide to Everyday Magic
This blog is a love affair with stories.
Their true magic lives in how they evolve and take on deeper meaning when we share them with each other, revealing the mystery, interconnection and wisdom that guides our lives.
“Interdependence”
We live in a culture that supports and encourages the ideal of self-sufficiency, and most of us spend our lives striving for it. It’s a myth, and believing it comes with a steep price.
The Magic of Saying Yes to Beauty’s Call
For all that beauty gives, it invites us to bring something of ourselves in return, because this kind of magic is a two-way street. I like to think of this list as an inside track to wonder...
“Sovereignty”
“Sovereignty” - The Mandala Project: #56
When you cultivate a steady, empowered sense of self, you don’t need permission, control or a safety net. You just need to show up and shine.
“Fracturing”
“Fracturing” - The Mandala Project: #54
In the fragments of what we wish was unbreakable, we might begin to see the ways that its very solidness needs to fracture to support us in becoming the next thing we’re meant to be.
“Dog Magic”
“Dog Magic” - The Mandala Project: #106
When the door’s open, there’s just no stopping magic from inviting itself on in.
“Gathering”
“Gathering” - The Mandala Project: #53
We are born of something bigger and more ancient than whatever form we’re taking in this specific moment. We are fluid, unique expressions engaged in a conversation with the creative power of life rearranging itself.
“Connected”
“Connected” - The Mandala Project: #52
There is a deep relationship and conversation between all things. Essential information is being passed through us and between us, love weaving its way along never-ending currents of aliveness.
“Co-Conspirator”
“Co-Conspirator” - The Mandala Project: #51
More than any that had come before, this mandala revealed the magic that is activated when we show up for the call.
“Threshold”
"Threshold" - The Mandala Project: #48
Sacred thresholds are powerful gateways that connect the ordinary to the extraordinary.
“Continuum”
"Continuum" - The Mandala Project: #47
Life—home in the truest sense of the word—is not a stationary place. It is infinitely rearranging itself in relationship with what’s come before, and what is emerging now.
“Enchantment”
"Enchantment" - The Mandala Project: #46
To enter into enchantment is to allow the spell of mystery to ignite your imagination and to follow the allure of its mesmerizing call.
“Shapeshifter”
"Shapeshifter" - The Mandala Project: #45
It’s fascinating what magic emerges when we trust that we inhabit a world where everything is connected, where change and transformation are the only constants, and where the adventure is to keep tuning in to the rhythm and movement of mystery.
“The Magician”
"The Magician" - The Mandala Project: #44
You discover treasure when you open to perceive the glimmers of magic all around you, but when you’re willing to deeply enliven it with the wonder of your imagination then its warmth truly finds home in your being.
“Storm Watch”
"Storm Watch" - The Mandala Project: #43
Storms are big, sometimes epically so. But while they seem to disrupt our rhythm and flow, that the very nature of them is vibrant aliveness helps instill trust that the force of them is a necessary, essential part of our lives.
“Grasshopper Divination”
"Grasshopper Divination”
When you hold that which is ‘dead’ with the full presence of your aliveness it lives on, collaborating and co-creating with the Cosmos in new and surprising ways.
“Earth Elder”
"Earth Elder" - The Mandala Project: #41
Grief is becoming intimate with the immovable truth that we’re not meant to hold on to or possess that which we love.