in Ask Polaris by | March 2008 |
 We would like to begin this month by telling you a story, a parable if you like, similar to a story we told you a while ago. This is the story of the man who would not stop.Once there was a man who felt quite compelled to finish everything he began. While this was considered a fine quality in a person, enabling many others to be able to rely upon him and thus allowing his business to swell with gratitude and pride for his abilities to keep on going with his work at all costs, it also became quite a drain for the man who would not stop. Moreover, in addition to finding he was unable to stop and therefore felt quite compelled not only to finish his work, the man who would not stop also felt quite compelled to finish everything he said. Now as you can imagine, this man after a time found himself in many a situation wherein it would have been just as well or perhaps better if he had only the power (or, as some would begin to say, the wits) to stop talking at just the right time. But no, the man who would not stop simply went on and on. And he grew to anger many a former friend and business client because of his inability to simply stop talking when the others around him had had enough. One day, then, the villagers in this man’s village gathered together, meeting in secret. They knew that if word got out to the man who would not stop about the meeting, all their plans would be ruined, and of course he would be unable to keep any manner of secret himself, being unable as he was to simply stop talking when it was time to do so. The villagers decided to make the man’s life hard, very hard indeed. They decided to stop giving their business to him and to instead use a man two towns over who did shoddy work that was never on time but who possessed one redeeming quality that the man who would not stop did not: the power of judicious silence. So all the village’s business that would have ordinarily gone to the man who would not stop went to the man two towns over. And the man who would not stop was puzzled. Where were his friends? Where was his business? Where were the coins that used to come rolling in aplenty? The man who would not stop was puzzled. And then he became angry. He became so angry in fact that he simply disappeared one day in a puff of angry smoke and was never heard or seen from again. Now, the villagers of the former man who would not stop grew puzzled themselves. They felt that perhaps something bad had happened and felt guilt in their part in creating that bad thing. And so they began to talk. They talked amongst themselves. And it was as if they were becoming, each of them, a little piece of the former man who would not stop. And the quarreling started. And fights broke out. And villagers refused to do business with neighbors they had known all their lives. And the life of the village was disrupted. No one was happy. After a time, however, a witch decided to take up residence in the village. After all, it was just her sort of place: angry, mean, spiteful. The witch felt very happy there in the village. But the villagers grew even more suspicious. They began to blame one another for the presence of the witch and for every bad thing they thought had ever happened to them. One day, however, the witch called the villagers together and told them that she was going to tell them a secret: If it is me you no longer wish to see, call him in from the departed again All you need to do is allow him to be; let him speak and you set yourselves free! The villagers were perplexed. Did the witch mean that they invite back the former man who would not stop? But he was dead, was he not? They spoke among themselves and yet soon were in agreement. They would try what the witch suggested. And so the villagers raised a man from the dead and he did walk again among them. And he never again spoke a word. And everyone was happy. We have told you this story so that we may show you some things about the nature of your own lives. Now, this will not necessarily apply to you in a literal sense. But it is an aspect of human condition that all of you at one time or another has experienced. All of you at one time have spoken less than judiciously. All of you have at one time been hurt by the words of others. All of you have conspired against others. All of you have become angry at injustices. All of you have shared the wisdom of your own secrets so as to help others. And all of you return to life again and again, creating new situations for yourselves that allow you to learn and grow. This is the way of life on the physical plane. Each of you is all of human experience. In other words, you are the light and the dark. Now, we wish to tell you about the month ahead. The energy of this month is, as always, grounded in transformation. But now, you are using what is coming forth for you out of the power of your own inner awareness and also of a more global consciousness. Changes this month will likely begin on a very deep, inner transformative level and will erupt late in the month as possible manifestations of deeply held inner pain. Now, what will this look like? It depends of course on who you are. Many of you, however, will find yourselves making choices you had not even thought possible not very long ago. In other words, part of your transformation is in uncovering possibilities you didn’t know existed. Now, is there a flip side to this? An aura of pain that comes from the transformation? And again we say: it depends on who you are. Some of you complete your inner transformations on a very deep level with few outward ripples. Others prefer to be quite dramatic and like to let everyone know what they are feeling. There are no wrong choices and the idea of there being a myriad of possibilities opening up for you is likely quite energizing. The focus, then, this month is simply on being aware of your breath. Everything about you starts and ends with the breath. The more awareness you have of breath, the more awareness you have of Self, and everything flows from there. --Michael, channeled by Karen Murphy March 3, 2008 
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