It occurs to me that turning fear to beauty is the Navajo way. Turning webs into an object of beauty with colors and patterns of our own choosing will help me with this.
A prayer from Reichard’s Spider Woman reminds me of an active way during a 9 day sing part of the prayer was:
“May happiness be mine again, I say.
The day may it be beautiful behind me,
May it be beautiful before me,
May it be beautiful above me,
May it be beautiful all around me.” pg. 167.
Beauty implies harmony to me. Beauty was a translation used by Gladys Reichard. She says that the Navajo word means many things: beauty, comfort, good luck, good health, etc.
The key is turning the feeling of fear toward action, the action of a creator, not the inaction of reclusive waiting, though both are true of my life here in Ashland. I have been both, going deeper into inaction, and more widely into active creation.
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