 Dear Friends,
There’s a folk tradition saying that the weeds which grow most persistently in your garden are actually the herbs whose energies and essences you most need for your health. I’ve often wondered whether the same might be true – on an emotional and spiritual level – with the animals and other creatures that live in our gardens.
In our own garden we have a lot of moles, so I’ve often asked myself what I could learn from the mole kingdom. The answer finally occurred to me a few weeks ago, when I was writing our February email newsletter. I suddenly realised how often I – and I think anyone who seeks to become more transparent to spiritual Light – feel like a mole! So often, when faced with the puzzles and challenges life places before us, we dig away, don’t we, in the dark, deep in material existence (the ground), unable to see the overall picture, and therefore – just like the mole – having to place our absolute trust in our feelings, and in the rightness of whatever life presents to us each and every moment, for these are our only guides as we sense our way forward and upward.
Yet afterwards (sometimes a very long time afterwards!) we can see how magically everything, even the messy bits, fitted together, and how it did, after all, bring us closer to the light.
Eager for confirmation of this insight, I had a look at Animal Wisdom by Jessica Dawn Palmer, to see what it had to say about moles. There, I read the following story:
The Tewa of California associated mole with their mythos about the world’s creation. In the beginning, people lived beneath the earth. They did not know that their world was dark because they had never seen the light. Eventually, though, man began to wonder: ‘Is there something else?’
Mole came along, digging his underground tunnel. The people asked him their question, and mole told them to follow. The tribe formed a line behind mole as he dug his way up to the surface. They emerged blinking into the light. The people had to pass dirt back in order to move ahead. The hole became blocked and they were never able to find their way below again.
Thus, mole had secret knowledge which it shared with others. It was not only the pathfinder, but the pathmaker. Mole’s gift to man was most profound. It was sunlight and illumination, wind and sky.
How beautiful and encouraging! And it reminded me of something I often forget but am certain is true: whenever, by working on ourselves, we achieve the tiniest increase in our transparency to the Light – to the wisdom and love we aspire to – this achievement cannot be lost. It is not subject to the normal cycle of decay and renewal, because at its core lies something eternal. Like a book in some huge, invisible, indestructible library on which humanity has been working throughout the ages, it is retained as a comfort and guide for all who come after us, wherever they may be. Thus, though we may often seem to be working alone, in the dark, we are actually all working together, helping to build a huge resource of Light on which anyone in need can draw.
So you see, we are like moles. Our willingness to transform, to work on the soil of our own being, to feel our way in the darkness of the Unknown, enables us, like the mole in the story, to give a profound gift to all, the gift of sunlight and illumination, wind and sky.
With much love,
Ann, Geoff and the Cygnus Team
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