Book 4: Music of the Spheres

Chapter 6: Big Horns

FINDING PEACE

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“It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

Bilbo Baggins


Finding peace should always be one's life priority, like a trail of breadcrumbs that helps you find your way back home when you get lost in the wilderness. Your magnetic north keeping your bearings clear or a GPS you run in the background. It's easy to get distracted in this world, easy for our life to get off course. It's good to have a barometer to find balance. 

Big Horns are seen in the Native American culture as emblems of strength, power, and grace. They represent adaptability, survival, and a deep connection to nature, when you encounter one it's a sign of transformation and new beginnings. Unafraid to face challenges usually ramming them head on. 

It was fitting with these two Big Horns; I encountered them on an overlook that peeks down into the valley where I live. I was going through a big change in my life and on the edge of moving all of it across a continent up to the Continental Divide in the Rockies. As a joke, I screamed out from the overlook, "If I'm supposed to live here give me a sign." Turning around, these two were across the road looking at me, "Why are you screaming?" 

I'm an Aries ( a most Aries thing to say ), and I had never truly experienced my own sign so up close and personal. It was like the Universe slapping me in the face, "YES!" In the Wandering Wheel, Aries represents boldness, leadership, and the courage to jump onto a new path with the courage that has confidence knowing it will figure it out along the way. The big thing I took from this moment was that they were so calm, even with the screaming. Aries at Peace. That is what my heart was craving, so I moved my artistic practice to my new home. 

Even though we may know deep down in our soul the choice we need to make, it does help having some added justification, especially when it's fun. We face many decisions, many forks in the road that lead to different universes, different realities, and it can be daunting trying to decide. Almost paralyzing. A good rule of thumb you can ask yourself in those moments is, "Which way leads to peace?"

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