To sit quietly in front of the Blue Glacier nestled in Mt. Olympus after days of walking up, up and more up with a pack on, through a temperate rain forest was a feeling that I don’t know that I can express with words.
The emotions of such a sight and the work it took to get to sit next to it was like it’s own avalanche inside me. Relief…awe… inspiration and it’s so often that nature, for me, shakes my soul to declare: “There is some kind of unexplainable, beautifully magical, mystical, relationship to energy and oneness in everything around us!”
I remember passing a woman on her way down just after she saw it. She looked new, freshly born with a shimmer of lightness in her spirit that shown out her clear wide open eyes. I was so close to the top and so, so, very tired but her energy rang in my ears louder than her words…“I just didn’t know…” she said.“I didn’t know what I was going to see. It was so beautiful, I almost cried.” she said in a low, soft yet powerful voice. Bless the strangers that remind you of your own ability to be moved and touched very deeply by nature. I could relate as I took the last few steps that lifted me to the height where the earth I was on dropped into the snow bowl before me and my eyes poured over the drastic contrast of the horizon filling white.
It’s wild to see so much water, known for it’s movement, fluidity and motion stopped. Frozen. Still. As if paused in a moment in time to let you glimpse her. It reminded me of looking at a wild animal in the eyes… those few seconds that pass where you feel like it’s wildness saw the nature of your own animal. Those few seconds that everything pauses and even the breath ceases in your ribs before the animal darts off into the woods after hearing the whisper of your spirit.
I sat there at the feet of this huge rock like lake resting at an angle that spoke to the physics of downward flow and gravity… yet it stayed, almost awkwardly hovering in space. I found myself reflecting on energy in motion, E-motion and frozen feelings. The element of water. The land of the second chakra where the water element swims in our own pelvic bowl in the deep sea of emotions, realities, stories, memories and history.
I felt her, this glacier, before me and saw the wild emotions that I connect to and feel dancing in the frozen glacier like places in the people I work with, clients, friends, family and myself. From my seat on the rock ledge next to her, I dove into the relationship of ice slowing down or pausing a flowing process, preserving it, to thaw it at another date and time when the river is ready to move again. It’s so beautiful to me how the human spirit can do this work of nature within it’s own mountain like body and eco system.
So I prayed before I dropped into meditation. I crawled into the vibration of water in me and surrounding me sending little drops of love to the melting areas in us all asking for grace in our journeys, forgiveness and compassion for our self and then to the other creatures we have met on our trail. Thinking of the time it takes to melt and open the currents. I pondered on the nadis, the meridians and our own veins and arteries… our human currents. I sent glacier magic, love, power and strength to all the frozen places in the hearts I know or the places of paused emotions. There is a time to be frozen and it’s all part of the natural, beautiful, awe-inspiring and sorta freaky magical plan.
The slow seasonal melting provides a stream that feeds the rivers in a nurturing peaceful way. As the currents of life flow sometimes large chunks break off and we get a raging river with rapids and take caution. While other times it’s a current that feeds the life around it allowing us to swim in the cool lazy flow and play in our freedom.
Here is to becoming an Ice Mermaid. Learning to swim through our own frozen parts, whether they chose to defrost or not and seeing the power in the stopping, the wildness in the wonder of the nature of it all.
Thank you Blue Glacier for being so solid. ;)
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