Sturgeon Moon – Deep Abundance
Standing in the shallow waters, my jeans rolled up to my knees, my toes touching the shifting sands, I watch tiny fishes dart through the ripples created by my tentative steps. These miniature creatures, certainly no longer than the length of my pinkie finger, dodge in and around pebbles, underwater plants and my feet, searching for food, exploring every nook and cranny.
I watch them for a while darting in and out of shadow, their scales refracting the light that penetrates the surface of the waves. No-one would ever bother catching these fish. They are so small that any energy expelled to hunt them would not be replenished in their consumption. No – what we really want are the big fish, but they so rarely swim in the shallows. To find them we must take a risk. We must push out from the water’s edge where the ground can clearly be seen below the water, to where everything gets a bit darker, a bit murkier, a bit wilder.
The lunar cycle in August was named the Sturgeon Moon by the Native American tribes who lived by the Great Lakes. It was during this time that the largest fish in those lakes, the sturgeon, were at their most abundant.
This celebration of the big fish reminded me of David Lynch’s book about Transcendental Meditation (TM) called Catching the Big Fish, which is all about his meditation practice and its impact on his creativity.
It got me thinking about the metaphor of big fish and its connection to abundant creativity, and it struck me that a certain amount of risk is necessary in order to fully appreciate abundance. We need to give ourselves over to those life-giving waters in a state of conscious gratitude and absolute trust that we will be provided for, whether this provision is in the way of creative ideas and joyful moments, or in the more practical sense of an adequate flow of money coming through the door.
It’s just too easy to live in a place of lack, always believing that you don’t have enough and that everyone has more than you. We paddle around the edges of the water watching the small fishes, feeling impoverished, particularly as we know that the bigger fish swim in these waters too.
What is infinitely harder to do, and yet so very worth the effort, is to actively embrace abundance in whatever form it may come to you. And, as Jo Anna Rothman of The Receiving Project claims, it’s not enough to attract abundance to you – you need to learn how to receive that abundance through noticing, consciously accepting, recording gifts and expressing gratitude.
In other words, you may draw the big fish towards you, but if it just keeps on swimming past your boat, you and your family will go hungry.
So over the next four weeks, I want you to think about the way you receive (or refuse) the gifts of abundance that come your way, and I want you to raise your awareness of the gifts that you receive on a daily basis.
It’s time to transition away from a position of lack. It’s time to stop paddling with the minnows, and start swimming with the big fish!
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