Mother's Elf

Just as one accepts the physical body as an immediate reality, so too should one accept the emotional body in its present manifestation. It is what we have to work with, our brightest means of discovery. And just as it is with the body, we should feel it fully and follow it with utter devotion as a puppy follows its master.

This isn't to say that we are mistaken in the desire to change our momentary modality, however, for to accept the emotional state in its connection to the great primacy is to accept also its transformative aspect as all things are light-hearted with the spirit of change. Alchemy has a very loving approach to what it seeks to transmute, I think. When a mother pushes her child to grow in the world, she does so out of love.

We can be mothers to ourselves. We can love ourselves unconditionally, no matter what forms appear as the emotional body, and we can always provide encouragement. The mother understands that everything happens in baby steps. She never faults her child for stumbling. She accepts her child in its awkward, innocent state, for that is its expression of beauty.