Deep within the old maps of manifestation is a web of red threads. Like an oak tree spreading its roots, not deep, but wide, we find ourselves intertwining our lives with one another.* When the storm comes, we do not budge. We do not lose each other. We do not topple.
I might look like a single oak standing alone, but below the ground, we are a hidden terrain. We are maps and pathways and whispers of I’ve got you. We are hope holding up the collective and speaking along mycelial networks. We are and have always been one another.
Far beyond every religion, spiritual path, and magic, there is this one immortal fact. We belong to each other and we belong to the Earth. Our roles in this life will not always match or even seem complimentary. But the time of only aligning with people whose roles mirror our own has passed. We need everyone, every skill set, every passion, every wavering, courageous voice.
We will use this visual to weave our way into our deepest selves, looking for ideas, fears, belief systems, or habits we are ready to shed or transform. Using a very old perspective of manifestation, we do this work both for our own fully sovereign selves and for the collective.
To be the change we have to be able to imagine the change - to see it and touch it and welcome it.
*This is a visual created by adrienne maree brown in her book Emergent Strategy
