This beautiful insight came in this week:

“I was thinking about where we all are at the moment, and I realized that at the moment, it feels that the whole planet and all of us who are living on it (human/animal/vegetable/etc.) have reached a state in which there is nothing that we can or should do to try and move anything forward. When I think about this, I remember what it was like being in labour – I can remember spending hours trying to be present and to work with the energy of the contractions, but there came a point where I knew I couldn’t go on – what was happening to me was simply so much bigger than me or my will or my willingness to be there, that I simply gave up and stopped trying to do anything – there was literally nothing I could do, I couldn’t walk away from it, and it didn’t feel like I could go with it any longer with any sort of intention; I had no control at all, all I could do was surrender to the energy; and it was then, when I stopped trying to control even the tiniest aspect of the process, that a huge rush of energy came through my body, and shortly after that I could work with it again to start pushing my son out into the world. I trained as a midwife some years after he was born, and I saw many women (if not drugged) reach that point – some would even say things like ‘I’ve had enough, I’m going home now’; from my vantage point, it was always great to see a woman giving up at that point, because I knew that it meant that the actual birth was imminent.

“So it seems to me that we have collectively reached that point – and what is going on is so much bigger than all of us, that all we can do is surrender, be in the moment, and trust that that huge wave of energy will come in its own time; and it also seems to me that it’s really important that we take care of ourselves, and nourish ourselves and rest in the arms of the great mother and the net of light, so that when that wave does come we will be in a fit state to work with it to help birth the new.”