Hi Cedar,
It is for Halloween..... (for I will be a witch today)
In addressing our FOO, on the patterning and the roles that have been written for us, as well as imagery on each of us becoming unto our own.
We are wearing the hat.
Our "hats" have always been there, deep inside the closet of our subconscious.
The roles have been written in the indelible ink of our memories,
in the memories of our FOO, and those we have forged relationships with.
These roles did not allow us to wear our hats.
When we step out of those roles so long ago written
to claim ourselves
how puzzling we are to those around us who think they have pegged us.
What a mystery we become to those around us
who are accustomed to our responding a certain way.
Who would have us
be so meek, pliable and nice
that we would forget
about our own selves.
What a mystery we have become to ourselves,
as we begin to see ourselves
through our own eyes, wide open
and shed the glasses of yesterday
the eyeglasses
of those who would have us be
what they want us to be.
This indelible ink is that we can't erase our past.
That is unchangeable.
Removing the glasses that others have prepared for us,
trusting in our own vision,
our own capability for sight,
we peer truthfully into our past
and learn from our reactions in the old role
to develop into our own.
Then something marvelous happens,
we find insight
and understanding
and change
and growth.
We begin to see
the once before
unimaginable
endless
possibilites.
We dig through the closet.
We find our hats.
It is magic
this seeing of ourselves.
In the knowing who we truly are, who we truly can be.
And so we change.
We remove the glasses completely.
We wear our hats
of empowerment.
Those who have viewed us for so long
Continue to see us,
as they would have us see ourselves.
When we appear
with our "hats"
they are completely
utterly
confounded.
This wearing of the hat
is a reminder
to ourselves and those around us
that in not only us
but in everyone
there is
magic.
Empowerment.
We wear the hat.
Our hats that were there all along
but we were not permitted to wear.
