Why Circle?
One of my teachers, Jean Bolen writes "a circle is non-heirchical - this is what equality is like. This is how a culture behaves when it listens and learns from everyone in it." and "a circle is a place to practice honest and caring communication, until this is what you do and expect from others in your life."
I used to think that I created women circles in service to make a difference in the world. I used to think that circles were a fascinating way to draw wisdom down and through us for collective transformation. While both these are true, I now know that circles are a way for me to dance in peace with who and how I am in the divine company of my sisters. It is here, in circle after circle, from coast to coast, that I keep finding the blessing and beauty of who I am through the eyes of my sisters. It is here that I am enchanted and wooed over and over to discover the ancient magic that gives my life meaning.
Laura Day says "the circle is an energetic state of being that allows us to connect with ourselves, with one another and with the transformative powers of the universe. In the circle, what you perceive, what you conceive, and what you create are one- and you are at one with the infinite energy and possibility of creation, the place where everything you are connects as one energy with everything around you."
Sacred Circles are about coming together as beings, in sacred space, where we each bring the truth of our own stories, our unique flavor of chaos and passion, and together in circle we find the one still center, the place where our many stories become just the one story, the center where the chaos and uncertainty of our lives can find an experience of home. This is a place where instead of needing or having to stand out as different to prosper, we actually find that our sameness is a relief and a place where we can rest.
Often at the center of a sacred circle we place an altar, a tangible testimony to the one, a container that holds space for all our dreams and the divine mystery, the bottomless reservoir that sits in stillness as it carries all of creation.
In a circle with a sacred center, all truths are welcome. There is no right or wrong or have to. There is only the honoring that everything, regardless of how foreign or unfamiliar it may seem, is of the one true essence, the spirit, source, or energy that flows through all life and weaves on and on and on.
"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens." wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A friend of mine recently said to me, "Leela you are changing so many people's lives" and while I humbly hope that to be true, what I know now more than ever is that it is my own life that I am changing. And I know too that it is within a sisterhood of women as fiercely and vividly devoted to the oneness at the center of the sacred circle, where every end is a new beginning and under every deep a lower deep opens, that I come home, over and over to a place where my truest peace and wholeness dance. And that is why I circle!
I used to think that I created women circles in service to make a difference in the world. I used to think that circles were a fascinating way to draw wisdom down and through us for collective transformation. While both these are true, I now know that circles are a way for me to dance in peace with who and how I am in the divine company of my sisters. It is here, in circle after circle, from coast to coast, that I keep finding the blessing and beauty of who I am through the eyes of my sisters. It is here that I am enchanted and wooed over and over to discover the ancient magic that gives my life meaning.
Laura Day says "the circle is an energetic state of being that allows us to connect with ourselves, with one another and with the transformative powers of the universe. In the circle, what you perceive, what you conceive, and what you create are one- and you are at one with the infinite energy and possibility of creation, the place where everything you are connects as one energy with everything around you."
Sacred Circles are about coming together as beings, in sacred space, where we each bring the truth of our own stories, our unique flavor of chaos and passion, and together in circle we find the one still center, the place where our many stories become just the one story, the center where the chaos and uncertainty of our lives can find an experience of home. This is a place where instead of needing or having to stand out as different to prosper, we actually find that our sameness is a relief and a place where we can rest.
Often at the center of a sacred circle we place an altar, a tangible testimony to the one, a container that holds space for all our dreams and the divine mystery, the bottomless reservoir that sits in stillness as it carries all of creation.
In a circle with a sacred center, all truths are welcome. There is no right or wrong or have to. There is only the honoring that everything, regardless of how foreign or unfamiliar it may seem, is of the one true essence, the spirit, source, or energy that flows through all life and weaves on and on and on.
"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens." wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A friend of mine recently said to me, "Leela you are changing so many people's lives" and while I humbly hope that to be true, what I know now more than ever is that it is my own life that I am changing. And I know too that it is within a sisterhood of women as fiercely and vividly devoted to the oneness at the center of the sacred circle, where every end is a new beginning and under every deep a lower deep opens, that I come home, over and over to a place where my truest peace and wholeness dance. And that is why I circle!
Leela Francis
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