Journaling, blogging, writing, being seen, being heard. For growth, for offering inspiration, for pushing the comfort zone, for acknowledging that it feels exciting; that it is raising something within me that I haven’t felt for a good while. I’m welcoming that feeling and just sharing here a little of my now….
Today (that actually means a couple of weeks ago now…) I began reading about the Gene Keys. I’ve heard them talked about, they’ve been around in my awareness for a good while. I really felt like learning something new this year and this is where that desire has settled. I want to learn and I want to grow. A few things serendipitously happened that have opened up a dialogue within me and a path for growth…. I sit here sipping my cacao delighting in the sunshine on the terrace – it’s been grey and cloudy and rainy for days and today feels like the perfect day to start a new project. The new year is approaching, the energy of the Fire Horse, much talked about, much anticipated and welcomed – new chapters, new words of encouragement, new possibilities to hook into and ride the wave with….
I began the Gene Keys journey today with Key #26 Sacred Tricksters and it resonated within me.
Shadow ~ Pride
Gift ~ Artfulness
Siddhi ~ Invisibility
Things that sparked my curiosity this weekend.
People recognising me as RCM, telling friends ‘you’re sitting next to RCM’ how that made me feel – kind of weird, but kind of proud.
Having a conversation with a friend about the growth of RCM – do I want it, don’t I want it? How do i want it? How can I keep the authenticity and honesty of RCM but also bring it to more people – balancing the desire to share my chocolate/message with more people, inspire more people and bring in more financial freedom. Growing in a new direction – bringing more to my community, grounded in myself. How I can grow? What makes me uncomfortable? How I can embrace that in a good way? How I can push myself, stretch out a bit? Can I embrace my reluctance to do videos? Do I need or want to? Have I got the right phone to do that? Why do I want to do that? Is it rooted in a ‘good’ reason?
All this musing came from pulling that 26th Key and in the introduction Richard Rudd says that just beginning on the journey is the journey and well, yeah that feels right actually…….. it’s already opened up something in me, a curiosity, an excitement, a yearning to expand and grow. To do that in a grounded, real way. Actually, I always feel like this Raw ChocoMama path unfolds pretty naturally, opportunities come in at the right moment and more often than not, I say yes! Some work out and some don’t – I flow and I’m grateful. Grace and ease is the way!
For ages I’ve wanted to get my website more active, do a blog, share something. Hopefully inspire, motivate, communicate something worthy, but i didn’t find the way or the focus or the time. I’m also pretty crap on instagram and I know that you have to consistently show up these days ‘hop on here’ ‘feel called to share’ ‘reach out’ but it’s often felt contrived and unnatural. Even though there was a pull, i didn’t quite get past the uncomfortableness of it. Occasionally I’m in the zone and do something I’m happy with, but not that often…. do I really honour the amazing chocolate brand I have grown from seed!!
Here i am now though – sharing this with you and it feels like a great way to do it and also hold myself accountable in going through the Gene Keys (not just moving on in a couple of weeks to something else like a true Gemini…) Embracing it through the lense of both RCM and myself in a wider sphere of awareness…..a desire to grow, to share, to evolve and inspire….
So the shadow of #26 is Pride and I feel the resonance of this with regard to RCM. I AM proud of what I’ve created and how it is received and how it inspires and helps people. Not just the chocolate, but the energy, the essence of what I do, transmitted through my product. A huge part of RCM is words, the I AM statements you’ll find in each bar. I have my dear friend and teacher Rosanna Hanness to thank for that – she said years ago….’I’m seeing I AM statements in your choco bars….just saying….’ Never one to push, but just drop a seed and see if you water it… I did and I’m so overjoyed now when I receive messages from people saying how those statements have helped them, how much they resonate with them, how they have guided them in a difficult moment. That’s flipping awesome right!! I love that! I also light encode everything I do – I have self drawn doodles with words hidden under the areas I work. This came about (thanks to another amazing inspiration Sandra Walter) when I was consciously putting good vibes and prayers into the chocolate as I was making it, as I was wrapping it. Sometimes my mind would wander off and I’d have wrapped a couple of bars without consciously putting good vibes in – drifting off in thought or singing along to a song, planning my shopping list, you know, mind stuff, normal! But I really wanted to imbue every bar with good vibes and so, light encoded cards were birthed. Now when I drifted off, no problemo, the bars are still getting the juice!!
This all feels like a good kind of pride, grounded, open, a genuine pat on the back for how I’ve grown and how I’ve created RCM step by step. So the trick is not to get too cocky right, not to get boastful or big headed. The Gift of this Gene Key is ‘Artfulness’ Hellooooo 🙂 I’m genuinely so grateful of the life I’ve created here. I’ve taught myself how to do pretty much everything and also had a lot of help along the way – big up Maria Nekh who has been the design queen and huge kudos to my amiga Marina who has advised and supported me in the growth of RCM. If you don’t know – she is the creatress of ‘Marmels’. A delicious bonbon: a vegan, gingerbread, explosion of YUM!
The Siddhi of the 26th Gene Key is ‘Invisibility’
I just love reading about it – it makes me feel light and held and that all is well. It resonates. I’ll share some of what the wonderful Richard Rudd says about it:
“One manifesting this Siddhi stands nowhere. These beings cannot be pinned down to a single concept – wherever you look, they are there and whenever you try and pin them down, they are gone. This is the meaning of invisibility in this context – it refers to one who has become one with existence. One in who God is at play. Play is a large part of the 26th Siddhi. We human beings have always sensed the secrets of the 64 Siddhis, but we have rarely considered such divine manifestations to be concealed within our own genetic code. Throughout human history, the Siddhis have been anthropomorphised and projected outside our bodies into the figures of our gods, archetypes and mythologies. The gods of the 26th key are the trickster gods – the Nordic Loki, the American Indian Coyote, the Celtic Merlin or the Hindu monkey god Hanuman. Through these archetypes, the Divine is seen as being playful and sometimes mischievous. Those who manifest this Siddhi teach humanity to take life less seriously. They trick us into the great Truths.
To dance with the 26th Siddhi is to let go of all agendas. Such people are invisible in a way that most cannot understand. They are invisible because they do not care what others project on them. They do not seek to enlighten anyone; they do not really want to influence anyone at all. They truly have no agenda. They are simply here as loose cogs within the machinery of existence. They love to defy the laws that we humans cling to. They are the tricksters who love to twist and turn in the currents of existence, for no other eason than that they can.
Ironically, such people with no agenda have often left the greatest mark on the history of our consciousness. Because we cannot pin them down, because we cannot understand them with our minds, we either have to reject them or laught with them. Laughter is the true legacy of the 26th Siddhi. Their laughter peals like an endless string of bells throughout the Great Cinnabar Field of existence.”
There we have it – what a gift to be able to just flow and be playful with life and with work. To not get too stuck, not try to sway, influence. To just be yourself (who else can you be!!?) Maybe I’ll do more online, maybe I won’t. Maybe I’ll keep up with adding more here to the Blog…..for my own fun and to help ground these teachings for myself. I know I feel truly blessed to have this RCM life. A life where I am my own boss. A life where I get to create something that people love and that brings great joy. A life where I can take the time to delve into the Gene Keys, sitting out here on the terrace, in the sun, birds singing, on a Thursday afternoon in February. All my orders fulfilled for now. A fridge full of bars ready for the next ones. What a blessing. Thank you and I wish this contentment and abundance for all.
Check out the Gene Keys – Embracing your higher purpose – Richard Rudd……if you want 🙂
Peace out!
xx Dani xx
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