This week, I have decided to write every day, Monday through Friday. It just seems like the kind of time where this is necessary. And the first word that met my eye when I made that decision was "Peace". Strangely enough, it not only appears as if I have never used that title for any of my thousand-plus posts, but it is not on my list of Goddess words. How is that possible??!
Being this spontaneous means that I cannot hope to do more than scratch the surface...so that's liberating. I have increasingly written as freely as I can (early on, I almost always drafted my essays on paper first), but with a day or so between posts, I usually do some mental pre-planning. That may not happen this week!
So...peace. My old dictionary definitely presents the word within a duality context -- "freedom from or cessation of war...freedom from civil disorder..." And a number of modern online definitions start there as well. It has always troubled me that peace prizes always seemed to go to people who stopped wars, or who "fought" against conflict. Even before I really understood the post-duality world we are entering, it began to be clear energetically that fighting was fighting, and that if peace could only be defined in relationship to war, then there could never really be lasting peace. The world doesn't seem to have gotten there yet, overall, although I think more and more individuals have.
What would bring about a peaceful world in this Aquarian Age that we are entering? It is all about the landscape within us. Peace will come when more and more people go to their cores, and face their personal pain, traumas, and disappointments. This is hard work, but when you do it, inner healing is possible. When more people create a state of peace within themselves, they will attract other genuinely peaceful people. This is completely bottom-up peace process, doing almost all the work within and valuing that work because we understand it will eventually resonate outward, locally then globally.
For about three hours yesterday, I felt utterly at peace -- joyful, calm, happy. I won't say it was strange (although it was, a little!), and I haven't quite been able to keep it going, but I know that even when I can string together a few minutes of such a state, it may be "worth" any and all outward actions.
