Metamorphosis
A transformation, to transform. An alchemical process.
The process is never easy. In distinction to an adjustment or a rearrangement, metamorphosis occurs to the entire organism, leaving no part untouched.
The caterpillar to the butterfly, the babe in utero to the child born. Living to dead. Dark to light.
There comes a time when we might need to leave every part of what we knew behind and transform towards a different expression.
The process begins with a call or a push. There is grief, loss and confusion.
Followed by a gestation, a holding, a requisite stillness. This step must be honoured. The waiting requires attunement towards knowing when to commence the final stage. During gestation, be aware of frustration, doubt, and a desire to control. All in right time, kairos time.
The liminal space is doing the work on us.
Finally, we come to emergence. The threshold crossing into the metamorphosed form. Scary, intimidating, exciting.
Respect the process. Its timeline is not ours to control. Hours, days, weeks, months, decades.
*This was first published on January 9th 2019. A Syntropic Enterprise is a birthing, respecting the process of metamorphosis, and the role of the steward leader to hold the shape, the integrity, of the Source Idea being birthed.
Photo taken January 21st 2021
