You too, can be a visionary

To be visionary is to practice the art of seeing beyond. Beyond the noise of now, beyond the tech that taught us to trade our attention for urgency. It begins not with output, but with stillness and a softening inward. Itis about the ability to hold a question, not rush to answer it. It’s the experience of living the question (with deep gratitude, dear Joanna Macy) and letting it stretch out the insides of you until you feel its edges touch something vaster.

I know this space. It opens most fully when I’ve stilled my body or climbed up high, stomped to the summit of a hill and stood still with the wind. That’s when the static clears. That’s when I see - it is like a projection from the inside out.

Some say these are the moments when the ancestors draw near. I’ve felt something akin to this - especially during the tender moments birthing my daughter, when my whole matrilineal line seemed to gather around me. Were they offering me their sight, or was it the idea of them that expanded mine? It matters little. What matters is the clarity that arrives when I make space for a perspective beyond my own.

You don’t have to wait for a mountaintop or to be deep in labour! It takes a yearning to listen, and to trust that this way of seeing can be cultivated. Perhaps you might also consider that the world wants to reveal itself to you when you slow down long enough to see its truths…

Being visionary isn’t about seeing the future. It’s about seeing through the present.

And we need this way of seeing now more than ever.

So I invite you to ask: What does the world need to know, from me, to help shape a future in service to the whole? What question am I willing to hold, and live into, knowing the answer may belong to the next generation? What seed am I planting? What will I dare to dream into existence for those to come?

To support your vision quest this week, here is the Wonder of Stevie to keep you reaching for higher ground.  

xxx Megan