Power and Balance

I have had a great time this week writing and understanding my character more deeply. There are two worlds in my book; one world of beings doing what they love, living life, seeking harmony through the gifts they bring, you might say a world of light. The other world is a darker one, filled with beings doing what they love, living life, and seeking harmony and in a more life or death way. Much more of a shadow world.

Understanding the inner workings of my characters is very important to the stories and the whole book. Seeking more information I went into my Way of the Heart™ Feng Shui II manual asking to be shown at what level  of awareness my shadow character is living. Right now in this moment he is  living from a Feudal awareness, one of the ego, acting impulsively and power. The colour at this level is Red. Which is perfect for my understanding of this character and his world because it is his impulsive not thinking which may be the cause of his troubles and his blessings.

Feng Shui II offered me a question to ponder: 

Where do you project your courage onto someone else? 

As I breathe into this question and what it might mean for my character I realized, he will need his power to succeed and he will need to understand about courage. Courage within himself and the courage of both worlds coming together to work for balance. He will need to help inhabitants of both worlds come together in partnership, to truly understand about balance and working together. A big feat for a being who right now believes ego power is the only way to accomplish anything.  My character is teaching me about himself.

Remembering

Who I truly am.

Living into that remembrance.

Owning my Gifts.

What happens in the balance of a world when people don’t realize they bring a Gift to the world?

In a book or story there are only just so many characters and one can see the hole, the place where a character needs to fill the hole with what is needed in the moment.

What if it was like this on our Earth. Many places where a deep need is just waiting for one of us to bring our gifts to that place. For us to remember who we truly are and our reason for being here.

Personally I have been working with remembering who I really am, my gifts and what I have to offer, not a surprise that my character would be walking the same path.

Tonight I did a “Return of the King” – Way of the Heart™ Integration with an intention to help me write my stories from a deeper higher place. To write the stories that are waiting to be told. My action from the integration is to remember who I truly am. Owing my being a writer. Again I am touched by the synchronicity of my life. In J. R.R. Tolkien’s book –  The Lord of the Rings- The Return of the King each character is asked to remember who they are – truly are. To own their own courage and to live into their strengths.

Near the end of Return of the King –  Aragorn who ultimately become the king speaks about fear and that how that fear could take his heart away. And that there may come  a day when the courage of all men and women might fail. Then he speaks from his heart – “but not this day.”

What I am wondering about my character and myself is can we say “but not this day”.

“This day I remember who I am and what my heart is calling me to do.

This day I realize the world is waiting for me to bring myself to this moment.”

Aragorn and the free races of Middle Earth are rallying to a great battle. Some of the characters in my book will need to take the same stand, make the same decisions about the big and everyday smaller actions in their lives. Writing their stories makes me realize all the actions we take change worlds.

Thank you for letting me explore the many aspects of being a writer and the characters coming to teach me, show me and have their story told.

“Knock, And He’ll open the door

Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun

Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens

Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.”

Rumi

Aragorn: 

Hold your ground! Hold your ground!

Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers,

I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me.

A day may come when the courage of men fails, 

when we forsake our friends

and break all bonds of fellowship, 

but it is not this day. 

An hour of wolves and shattered shields, 

when the age of men comes crashing down, 

but it is not this day!

This day we fight!!

By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, 

I bid you stand, Men of the West!!!

J.R.R Tolkein