Diary of a Heretic

Of late I have been doing some spring cleaning and clearing out the dead wood from my life. It is amazing how the dead wood surfaces over the winter months of reflection. Strangely enough it coincides with my downsizing program which started back in April. I decided that I should lose weight and get fit, so over the past few months I have been downsizing literally, 2 dress sizes actually.

As the season changed to Spring so did my psyche; the tarot card the Knight of Swords defines this time of change. The card indicated that a clearing process is taking place, which entails a time of pruning, and of honing issues down into essentials.

The question I needed to ask was, “What do I need to prune in my life right now?” It was time for me to make space for growth and to allow space to breathe and be, to experience new joy and energy levels. As I took a look around me I wondered how on earth did I allow all this physical and emotional clutter to accumulate!

So at the moment I am engaged in pulling out my allegorical fallen branches and twigs and piling them up for disposal. It is amazing how over time the deadwood accumulates in the form of interests no longer pursued, possessions migrating to storage, and relationships altered as people live, die, and change. This project will no doubt take quite some time; after all it took years to accumulate. In the not too distant future I will need to think about new directions and decide what new trees and bushes I should plant.

I opine that a person’s life is like a forest. If one does not clear out the undergrowth from time to time, it accumulates until a once living wood becomes a dead wood.