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| Photo of an earlier lizard visitation by Charles "Beautyseer" Elliott |
Just in case I didn’t get it, another lizard scrambled up
the side of the house and was making a racket outside my office window. Just a
little earlier, there was one doing pushups in the driveway when we got back
from our morning walk. It seems it’s time to pay attention.
Lizards symbolize regeneration and risk taking. I have new
ideas I’m getting ready to implement. Lizard may be trying to tell me to keep
going. It reminds me to take risks and know that I’m ready and even if things
don’t work out, I can recover. I’ll take Lizard’s appearance as I sign of good
fortune as well as an indication I need to take a moment and make sure I’m
following my heart.
Spring, butterflies, wildflowers, wasps, lizards all remind
me of the return and rebirth principles of life. Sometimes I get down and feel
as though I’ve missed my chance. But, this season, these creatures remind me
that all rises again. When we’re in the flow we can’t help but know all returns,
all rises again. We need only look to the day and the cycle of the sun.
Opportunities are never lost. Another chance always comes around. We simply
make ourselves ready. And when our
opportunity comes back around, we begin again.
Those around me will tell you it seems I’m always beginning
again. As I wrote that line a hummingbird came up to my window. It keeps coming
by. Hummingbird’s ability to fly backwards can be seen as a reminder to step
back and get a better perspective. Something Lizard is reminding me to do as
well. Step back and take a look at why I’m always beginning. Of course, the
joyous hummingbird could also be reminding me to look up and not brood over it.
So I’ll step back for a moment and wonder instead of
ruminate. When I do, I see a pattern of stop and go, but I also see that each
beginning was not a start from scratch. I don’t have to see it as always
starting over but taking another step on the path. Spring comes around every
year, but it’s not the same as the last. The trees have grown a little more. The
creatures birthed last year are now giving birth. Through time and season we
grow. We return a little wiser, a little stronger and a little more able. Like
the sparrow on my balcony, singing its song, I’ll feel the breeze and leap into
the flow, letting it take me where I want and need to go.
