Card of the Month, December 2012
Wolf of White Light (with help from Lilac Key) Looking Back or Looking Forward? “Lilac Key appears when mere survival is no longer enough for you. Your will to live is what is forcing the change…. Cleaning up the past is a process that is often painful; yet hope and joy are he after effects.”(quoted from Tori Hartman’s fable of The Lilac Key “During the time he {Wolf} prepared to be a guardian, his master trained him to never backtrack. "When we look behind us, we sap the energy we are to use in the future. If the Great Servant had wished us to look behind, he would have given us eyes in the back of our heads," his master said.” How do you balance thinking about the past vs. the future? Do you tend to look back, remembering both positive and negative event and people from earlier times in your life or do you like to focus more on what’s coming up-- goals you want to achieve, changes you want to make or people you want to meet? These are important questions especially at this time of juxtaposition when we mark both the ending of a year gone by with the hope and expecgtation of the beginning of a new. As we enjoy part in whatever holiday celebrations that matter to us, we also remember friends and family of yore, yet it’s also important to balance these memories from the past wit expectations and hopes for the next positive steps in our lives. How do we balance these sometimes competing perspectives? The Lilac Key (quote above; fable to be detailed more fully at a later point) is the metaphor for“unlocking” and bringing to the surface unexamined pain and hurt from the past. It may not be fun. In fact it may be downright scarey. But at the same time,if ““hope and joy are the after effects, then it’s a process well worth engaging. It’s not only ok,but it’s important to acknowledge, the role people, events and circumstances from the past have played in our lives . On the other hand, , the perspective from Wolf highlights the importance of looking forward. Let go of the old resentments. Limit the time you feel hurt. Even more, as you focus on the future, trust your instincts and you’ll be guided to the next steps. Wolf wouldn’t be giving this advice if he hadn’t learned it after training long and hard in the ways of being a guardian. After all, as his master has taught him so well, if the great servants had wanted people to look back too much, wouldn’t they have just created eyes in the back of our heads? So, poignantly at holiday time, there’s the dilemma: when do you use the Key or when do you follow the Wolf? In reality, the answer probably is, it depends. Yet for myself, even as I keep the Key handy as needed, I like to think the Wolf isalways in sight just up ahead, reminding me to find life’s next adventure.
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