Chaos in Transition

Posted on | September 8, 2009 | 1 Comment

 

This past holiday weekend was the culmination of phase 2 of our move to a new house in Baltimore — moving!

We’ve spent the last month packing (phase 1) and living in boxes. Now we are in the new house and moving into phase 3 of unpacking and living boxes.  Dianne Sylvan over at Dancing Down the Moon has a great post today about how one’s home environment is an “outer expression of [one's] inner world.”

Perhaps I have been feeling unfocused and out of sorts lately because of the chaos that accompanies transition.  I use my altars as a daily focus for what I consider important in my life. My idols and icons serve as focal points to ground and center me in my body, in this world. When they are packed up, I miss them — it is so very easy to forget to stop and care for one’s spirit without those visual reminders and the physical activities of tending the sacred spaces in my home.

But I also know that I want to take time to unpack, sort through the things we hurriedly threw into boxes, decide how we want the rooms of our house to look, reflect on how each room in the house mirrors our inner lives (yes, I am including my husband in on the decisions). We have dedicated a room as the library/temple room, two for my studio and his office, and a third as a true guest bedroom.  When people come to our house, I want them to breathe a sigh of relief and comfort. I want our home to welcome and embrace our friends and family, and us too.

So, I am willing to live with a bit of chaos in creation, to not rush to hastily toward cosmos or order for the sake of order.

And thank you, Dianne, for the Indian decor blog recommendations!

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