New Year… Old Patterns…

Today I sat down to doodle and see what image my hand would, bring me for 2021… It doodled out a familiar shape… A chambered nautilus, familiar to me as I’d seen this image last year in mindscape sessions… I wry smiled thinking that 2020 had not left the building… But then I guess the symbolism of the nautilus reminds us that nothing that is behind us is left behind…

Nature wastes nothing… The nautilus lives in a spiralled shell. When first hatched from the egg, it is born with 4 chambers already formed. The nautilus grows and out grows each chamber and adds new chambers. Old chambers are sealed off but are not without use – they become a structure that aids bouyancy and when the nautilus wants to dive, it can add water to these internal spaces…

I guess a big lesson in 2020 was learning to think outside of the box… Though I guess, like the nautilus we grow to find ourselves living  in a bigger box which in time we fill until it’s once again too small to live in comfortably…

The nautilus as a symbol for 2021? The things we outgrew in 2020 are small parts of our much bigger picture… The spiral shape a reminder of a mysterious blueprint that underlies all of life, a reminder that all is connected… Maybe that nothing is as random nor irregular as it seems… A reminder that spiritually, you never stop growing, that growth serves to connect and evolve a greater whole… A nudge to keep evolving and expanding sacred elegance…

I dunno? What do I know? I just make stuff up as I go along…