29 Comments
User's avatar
Elizabeth Ross Holmstrom's avatar

Beautiful observations and I love the spiral imagery of our evolution. Thank you for the voice and birds. A lovely way to begin the day. 🙏🏼

Expand full comment
Camilla Sanderson's avatar

You're welcome Elizabeth, and thanks so much for your response♥️🙏🕊️

Expand full comment
Susan-Jane Harrison's avatar

Such a helpful reminder for me today!

Expand full comment
Camilla Sanderson's avatar

happy to hear that Susan! thanks for taking the time to let me know♥️🙏🕊️

Expand full comment
Shellie Enteen's avatar

I was so busy that I missed reading this post and came back to find it today. I'm glad I did. I love the symbol and honor its meanings and the effect you mention. Thank you for sharing this.

Expand full comment
Camilla Sanderson's avatar

what a sweet comment to read Shellie, thank you so much for taking the time to respond♥️🙏🕊️

Expand full comment
Kim Eckhart's avatar

That’s a great image of my own spiritual path. Lots of winding and extremes. Settling into a sense of holding the tensions in balance. What a gift to have a monastery and forest to meditate in.

Expand full comment
Camilla Sanderson's avatar

Yes we feel very lucky and often count our blessings. Thanks for reading and commenting Kim♥️🙏🏼🕊

Expand full comment
Michael Edward's avatar

May we honour the spiral!

Ohh how I enjoyed this piece Camilla.

I could feel your reverence seeping through it. Also, thank you for sharing it — I have never heard of, or seen, that symbol before, but, as you said, there is something very alluring about it. :)

Expand full comment
Camilla Sanderson's avatar

Thanks Michael, I’m happy to hear you enjoyed it♥️🙏🏼🕊

P.s. perhaps the paradox here is that I also immensely enjoy being irreverent too😁

Expand full comment
Michael Edward's avatar

Hehehe yes, yes! Gotta have a bit of irreverence! Glad to hear it :)

Expand full comment
Simone Senisin's avatar

Hi Camilla, l love this 🙏. Listening to the trees 💚

Expand full comment
Camilla Sanderson's avatar

Hi Simone, thanks for being here, and you can hear how different the birds here in the North East of the States are so different from Aussie birds. I love both, but I sooo miss the Aussie birds too♥️🙏🕊️

Expand full comment
Simone Senisin's avatar

Hi Camilla, Yes, your birds sound more tweety, I guess our larrakin birds drown out the tweeties, though it surprises me how sharp and loud the fairy wren is — the alarm call, that is. 🙏 🪶 🌱

Expand full comment
Camilla Sanderson's avatar

it's true! Currawongs do have a bit of a larrikin sound to them now that you mention it!😁

I'd never heard of a fairy wren, and just Googled them, "The striking blue and black plumage of the adult male superb fairy wren makes for colourful bird watching across south-eastern Australia." and watched a gorgeous video https://tinyurl.com/4vm7nvxx

they're so cute and cheeky looking

Expand full comment
Simone Senisin's avatar

They are divine — very cheeky, and bold 💙

Expand full comment
Camilla Sanderson's avatar

I love how Australia has the larrikin, cheeky, and bold birds - perhaps a reflection of our national character🥰

Expand full comment
Simone Senisin's avatar

i think so 🤣

Expand full comment
Martha Chabinsky's avatar

I love the spiral in nature, Her hand guiding life.

Expand full comment
Camilla Sanderson's avatar

Me too Martha. If you haven't read Julie Gabrielli's work, she wrote a beautiful post about the connection between the spiral path of the Heroine's journey and the spirals in nature https://juliegabrielli.substack.com/p/the-marvelous-potential-of-spirals

Expand full comment
Martha Chabinsky's avatar

I am very happy to read about so many young women picking up the mantle and carrying on the work of honoring the Divine Feminine. For quite some time the younger generation rested on the results of generations of women’s work to attain equality, ignoring the work of Carol Christ, Starhawk, and Margot Adler to name a few. It gives me hope!

Expand full comment
Camilla Sanderson's avatar

Perhaps we are living in a time where all the work around the divine feminine is being synthesized - I think this is what inspired me to start this Substack 2.5 years ago - it felt like the Divine Feminine was rising, and it still feels that way.

I was just writing in Beth's FB group, responding to a comment from Sally Jupe, "I find it fascinating how this group of mostly women are feeling called to offer their original medicine in the world at this point in time, and it makes me think of what the Dalai Lama said at the 2009 Vancouver Peace Summit, that the world will be saved by Western women"♥️🙏🏼🕊

Expand full comment
Jill CampbellMason's avatar

Imagry so precise and spiritual stays as long as music....yes

Expand full comment
Camilla Sanderson's avatar

mmm... thanks for being here Jill♥️🙏🕊️

Expand full comment
Bridget LeRoy's avatar

Oh Camilla! I think that’s the first time I’ve actually listened to the audio… How wonderful. I shared it with my husband. Let us all continue to spiral upward…🌀

Expand full comment
Camilla Sanderson's avatar

Thanks for your lovely response, Bridget! I've been missing your writing on Substack♥️🙏🕊️

Expand full comment
Simply Sian's avatar

Thank you for explaining the symbolism of this sign. I enjoyed listening and hearing the birds in the background adding their interpretation too 🩵

Expand full comment
Camilla Sanderson's avatar

oh I love that notion of the birds adding their interpretation too. Thank you Simply Sian for stopping by and offering your response♥️🙏🕊️

Expand full comment