Yesterday I was watching the wind blow. But not really...

I've had a few deeply meditative and contemplative moments over the years while focusing on the air, the wind. I love to connect with the elements, and the alchemy they create. One day I was watching the trees blow in the wind, and realised that we don't actually see the wind. We see what the wind moves.

We associate the Mind with the Air Element. Yesterday, I began to connect them in new ways, with a deeper realisation that we also don't see the mind - we see what the mind moves.

We don't really see the thoughts, but we witness what our thoughts motivate us to say, create, do. The mind is the unseen force by which mountains move, as we follow the steps to move them.

Current check-in: Mercury Retrograde has just begun. Mercury is deeply connected with the Air Element - the mind, its communication and expression. In a retrograde period, the energy slows so that we can edit, review, and understand cause and effect. Instead of ...