Posts Tagged ‘B106’

I received this bottle from Mike the day it was born - lucky i was standing outside in my garden as he was driving by. To my eyes this is a very soft combination, the misty quality of the two fractions giving the sense of a hidden depth in light rather than darkness. Olive is the colour to grow, to find our way, to live. Violet is healing, transformative, in this case transmuting even. As I looked into the base the first time I had a sense that something could be born from this violet depth, something could emerge from this mistiness, just as potential is born out of the Deep Magenta.

The bottle contains hidden complementary colours , yellow and violet. But where ordinarily these two might be opposed to each other, the olive allows for growth and reconciliation though. Growing towards the blue. A sense of our purpose from within.

Synchronicities

“Falling apart and going our own way.”

B105 was very much about cooperating and working together. In the few days just before this bottle was born it seemed that in my life some relationships particularly professional were falling apart, but, surprisingly and very refreshingly for me in what felt like a positive and freeing way.

I have come to realise that (some) other people get ahead by simply going forwards with what they want. My tendency has been to wait for permission and concensus. These last couple of days, leading up to the birth of this bottle I have been thinking it is time simply to go ahead with what I want. A very helpful thought for me in this has been:

“It is not that I am against the other (person or situation) I am simply for this (my own best interest).”

This thought is very different from that which was widespread following the birth of B102 and the attack on the Twin Towers, namely “You are either with us or with them (the terrorists).” Here a choice had to be made that did not allow for individual viewpoint. A thought that created a polarised world based on hierarchical loyalties. Notice how this new bottles colours are hidden within B102 Deep Olive / Deep Magenta.))

This new thought is a very empowering one and goes to the essence of the olive quality of stepping out into life. It takes courage and the willingness to go beyond the permission of another (blue) or the consensus of the group (orange / coral). It is striking that in the Colour Rose blue and orange appear as complementary colours top and bottom, but the Olive appears in the Colour Rose at 90 degrees to the Blue / Orange axis. In astrology this would be called the Grand Cross, it is a fundamental structure. Coincidentally I was speaking to the Australian distributor Marg Simon this morning and she said that for her olive is a horizontal leadership (not vertical) and, to me, the Olive in this Grand Cross shape in the Colour Rose would confirm that. The idea that we are all free to live our own lives with no one above us. From all this I find that Mike’s words on this Archangel being about personal empowerment resonate very strongly with my own experience.

Internationally at this time we have news of Kurds seeking the right to an independent country again. Also in Europe there is another attempt to create a larger European body and questions as to whether the people will be given the chance to vote on this. Both these items are instances of the tension between togetherness and individual sovereignty.

Meanwhile in our own home Daniel our son, now 3, has finally just got his own bedroom. He is just now moving from sleeping in our (the parents) room to having and sleeping in his own bedroom. Some nights here, some nights there. Finding his new balance between togetherness and independence.

A living example

One last thing. We have a new hero in the UK: Lewis Hamilton, a racing driver. Last night there was a TV programme about him during which one observation was made that has stayed in my memory. “He feels his ability to drive fast is a gift from God and he is going to use it.” His senior team colleague in the Mercedes McClaren team is Fernando Alonso. Alonso has been a world champion twice before. It is Hamilton’s first year at this top level of the sport. They say that this year Alonso found it a huge shock to be threatened, professionally, by his own junior colleague. But Hamilton has not held back. He has raced to win, not to come second. His action is breaking down the unspoken idea of hierarchy within the team. They say that the thing Alonso underestimated particularly was Lewis Hamilton’s sense of purpose. His purpose to be the best he can be, not against anyone else but for himself. Hamilton feels he has been given this gift and it is up to him to do everything he can to fulfil it.

This seems to me to be the key to this new energy. We all have gifts, we all have a life to live, it is up to us to honour and fulfil that. To do so is liberating. It is not against anyone else, it is for our potential.

“There is no way to Happiness. Happiness is the way.”

This is my favourite quote from the first morning of the course. The Level 2 is the yellow course- between the blue of the Foundation course and the red of the Advanced course. Feeling is the theme, and happiness is the opportunity of this course, confusion and anxiety are the perils.

The other idea that gave me food for thought on this first morning was a talk about the latest bottle, B106. Pale olive/pale violet. One of the olive associations is bitterness and the pale violet - new to me - was the assocaition with salt. Salt is a vital part of the treatment process for making olives edible. They grow on the tree hard and bitter, salt softens them and releases the bitterness that is in the watery part of the fruit. Of course i am used to associating salt with clear - suffering and the release of suffering.

The question I am left with is what is this salt within that can, if introduced at the right moment, create the alchemy of release. Is salt the light of insight. How to access this salt?

There is a postscript to this

I have this same night seen a programme about Robert Kennedy - Jack Kennedy’s brother. He was almost destroyed by his brothers assassination and yet finally emerged from it reforged, having found himself, his voice, his courage and his purpose. When Martin Luther King was assassinated, Robert Kennedy was in Indiannopolis and that night quoted to the shocked crowd the words of his favourite poet Aeschyllus

In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

Two months later Robert Kennedy was assassinated too. The same words were enscribed on his gravestone. Time and again during the documentary those who knew Robert Kennedy testified to his genuine transformation. He grew to discover his true convictins and the courage to find and live his way, having always supported his elder brother and having grieved so deeply that he knew the truth of Aeschyluss’s words. Salt in his wound. The salt of personal transformation.