What's ready to emerge from deep within?

Success, the love of your life, and wealth do not just happen. A seed does not immediately produce fruit. What happens in between can be daunting, exhilarating, boring, and even fun.

A seed in the ground serves as readiness. Potential that always exists when other key elements come into play. Our values, choices, and decisions bring forward the dream.

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." Joel A Barker.

The long dark winter days showed what was and was not working in our life, careers, and relationships. Emotional eating? Technology distraction? Unpredictable finances? A job that you no longer enjoy. It's only from this place of awareness that a new life can emerge. The first step of growth is always a quiet internal rupture.

This deeper awareness softens and slowly dissolves our hard outer shell. The seed does not sprout until the shell is punctured. Nature always reflects this back to us.

The desert ecosystem clearly demonstrates the latent life waiting for the right conditions. In Death Valley, dormant seeds wait in the soil for the right conditions to appear. Then, in spring, a rare rainfall arrives.

Moisture penetrates the seed coat, the way new awareness comes from within. Enzymes activate the seed inside the way new ideas for being, doing, and living come to mind. The seed shell splits open the way the first action to a better life unravels without seeing direct results yet.

Transformation begins in darkness and invisibility. Roots form with each step of being, doing and living to build a deeper foundation for a different life. This is where our stability forms and presence becomes paramount.  As the sun rays begin to penetrate the soil, energy consolidates and moves up through a shoot, pushing towards the soil surface.

Discernment and decisions along the way reflect internal restructuring before external movements are validated.  As the shoot breaks through the soil:

• What's ready to emerge?
• What are you ready to receive?

Applied discernment recognizes the window when conditions are ready to support it.

In Death Valley, the rare rainfalls deliver an abundant array of wild flowers. When conditions align, growth becomes visible.

Before new life moves forward, the old form must dissolve.

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