Juin

Juin (Fr.)/ June (Eng.) noun: The sixth month of the year, in the northern hemisphere usually considered the first month of summer.

Smack dab in the middle of the year I find myself traveling more, with more social  and business engagements than all of last year. In addition, I have been house hunting in a medieval village in Bourgogne, France. And in July I will be going to The Netherlands for the first time and then Munich. Amidst all of this movement there has been a whole lot of reflection. Yet it is not the type of reflection that I am used to. You see, in the past I have induced my own reflective periods and conversed and pondered them intentionally. But now it seems to be happening under the surface, without any prompting from me. I am not even sure what it is all about.

"We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see."
- Taoist proverb

So does that mean I won't find out until August when things become still again?

Coincidences

There are a few books that I like to revisit from time to time. The Celestine Prophecy is one of them. This book is a first-person narrative of the narrator's spiritual awakening as he goes through a transitional period of his life. During his journey, he begins to notice instances of synchronicity, which is the realization that coincidences may have deep meaning. And along the way he uncovers eleven insights to his enlightenment. Today I found myself thinking about his seventh insight.

The Seventh Insight: Engaging the Flow
In pursuit of our personal mission, we can discover an inner intuition that shows us where to go and what to do, and if we make only positive interpretations, brings a flow of coincidences that opens the doors for our mission to unfold. First we have a question; then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions that lead us towards the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.