Embracing Personal DeGrowth – Unpacking Messages from Odin and The Norns
A Reflective Piece on My Own Art Process
Yesterday, I was working on a canvas, to continue my visual exploration of DeGrowth. I had been journeying with the Norns, the night before following a conversation with my father – and decided to bring this into my art practise for the day. I was exploring the weaves of DeGrowth that I wish to understand through art. At the same time, my windows were being stripped to the bone and repainted, to save them from rotting. Another thread that links into what I am working on artistically: ways to mend the weave (on a micro scale here).
The effect on my energy however was mild distraction and tiredness, and I had felt late afternoon, complete failure of my work that day to the point I would bin it. I had overworked a lot of it, because my energy was not flowing (due to my space being disrupted) and had stripped back the canvas many times due to my unusual lack of flow.
I did, however, take some photos as it was progressing. Before packing up for the day, I noticed Odin had shapeshifted clearly onto the canvas as a raven. In fact, 2 ravens were highly visible, along with the Norns and the sacred Cosmic tree.
An early night, and long sleep through till I naturally awoke along with a number of interesting dreams, restored my natural balance. The idea of applying DeGrowth to my personal state made was the gift that the painting gave me yesterday, delivered by Odin and the Norns. The Norns were quiet when I journeyed on Saturday afternoon, and Odin’s appearance, noted but not deciphered.
Odin - Appearing as a raven at the Cosmic Tree of Life
Unpacking the Message: The Benefit of Personal DeGrowth
I realised I had hit a wall yesterday, after a state of peak output combined with early morning starts for dealing with practical matters. I am also navigating my Chiron return, which has dismantled large chunks of my life, creating space for a huge burst of personal growth and renewed creativity.
The questions on my mind yesterday, while painting, kept drifting to personal issues away from the concepts I was exploring; how to better balance my own energy to allow for steadier stamina and sustained output that is a lifelong journey for me. It has improved significantly over the last 4 years but again referring back to the conversation with my father on Friday; he had indicated I could still achieve a higher level of peace in being more, and doing less.
How Personal DeGrowth Contributes at a Micro Level
On waking today, the entire sequence of seemingly mundane events came together. I slept in and recharged my batteries and suddenly gained the insights that escaped me yesterday. I dreamt of ‘rewards’ that are coming from focusing on personal balance as my top priority – more important than any external output. And I realised I am building a container to explore this with my current art focus. It can slow down now, the peak intensity of birthing it has completed, and I can now immerse myself in the reasons it came to enter my life in the first place.
Micro Level Benefits Ripple Outwards
I remembered that any unpacking of my own personal DeGrowth (personal consciousness development through slowing down) is an act of energetic responsibility that ripples outwards.
When I explore my own consciousness, refine my energy through my art, and clear my personal field of any lower-level vibration, I am contributing a higher energetic field to the collective consciousness. My shifted frequency automatically impacts the people I interact with, the space I inhabit, and the art I put out into the world.
Trained in both Acupuncture for the Mind (based on Hawkins’ scale of Consciousness) and Transcendental Meditation (so aware of the Maharishi Effect of group meditation in public neighbourhoods) I realised I had been trying to create ‘high vibration’ art, instead of allowing my own process to be enough.
I use art as a processing container, that unravels and unpacks ideas or enquiries within myself, before it leads to the shift in consciousness I am in. My canvas (created alone) holds the resonance of that entire journey… So my art holds a journey of frequency.
Going back to the Maharishi Effect, and adding group consciousness to art creation, how does that change the energetic field of a canvas? Aligning with my new body led awareness, I am going to sit with this question now, rather than pushing through tiredness, and see what bubbles up next, when I go back to the art… TBC