This Field of Poppies is Everything

A wildflower garden in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. © Maggie Battista 2024

This is a real photo of a wild flower garden near me filled with poppies and pincushions. And, it's the most beautiful thing I've seen this year.

The poppies open with the sunrise and close near dusk. Open and close, open and close. Kinda of like your heart, kind of like your soul. 

You open by healing and being your most whole and vulnerable self. You close by allowing external voices (or even the voice of the mind) to make you feel small or less whole.  

This resembles the cycle of a soul's becoming.

Open and expand.

Maybe it feels like too much…

So you close and contract.

I know this cycle because I'm moving through new levels of full soul trust and my body is feeling this cycle of opening and closing. 

Will I ever fully open?

Will you ever fully open?

Maybe it's not about fully opening but allowing peace and stillness as we move through the cycles of opening and closing. 

Because, in the stillness, you may choose, hold, and soothe yourself. It's in the stillness that you may hear soul clarity on next steps.

This morning, feeling way open, I had a beautiful conversation with my soul's voice about my next steps. It shared so much on how I may continue to open to what is most alive for me.

In fact, my soul's voice highlighted what is most alive, like:

• Self-healing in community

• A recent visit from my higher self

• A new small group journey that begins in late July

• Tuna melts, fresh sweet berries, and 6am cups of Cacao

Opening and closing, with you.