When the Lightning Strikes
It’s not every day that you are struck with lightning. Matter of fact, I’ve never actually been struck by lightning, but metaphorically speaking, there are days when the thoughts just hit me and the seemingly mundane walk along the shores of my imagination produce a spark of creativity that cannot be ignored, like the sudden electrifying jolt from a burst of lightning. My mind was racing with ideas, my fingers itched to touch a keyboard, and the domestic tasks I was supposed to be doing were left undone—dirty dishes, laundry, and floors called to me, but I didn’t listen nor care, for I was off and away on a distant shore, writing and re-writing opening lines, metaphors, and similes. What was I writing, you ask, everything and nothing at all! That was the wonderful thing! Maybe…
The baby had fallen asleep for a nap and so I silently opened up my laptop and started writing fervently whatever came to mind, just to get the words out of my head and to store them somewhere retrievable. I was dwelling on branding and business and astrology and timing and chores and duties and motherhood and restrictions and Saturn… “I have to check the transits,” and I opened up my astrology app; Sun, 19 degrees Aquarius, Moon 11 degrees Taurus, Mercury 25 degrees Capricorn…and there it was, Saturn 16 degrees Aquarius right on my Mid-heaven! No wonder…
I turned on my favorite astrologer and listened to today’s horoscope like it was a weather report… “Venus and Mars are conjunct in Capricorn today, making a trine with Uranus in Taurus—You can expect the unexpected when it comes to your values, your desires, and your goals today with these three planets making this aspect.
Keep your head and your heart open to the changes in your reality that are coming, and coming quickly.”
“Mercury is only two degrees away from conjoining with Pluto at 27 degrees Capricorn, which happens to be the degree of The United States of America’s natal Pluto—a Pluto return that only happens approximately every 246 years! Mercury will catch up to Pluto by this Friday, revealing some very important information regarding this cosmic shift we have all been feeling in the traditional systems since the Grand Conjunction of 2020 between Saturn & Pluto.”
The baby woke up and my typing slowed down to a snails-pace, one-handed typing is like trying to drive with the e-brake on—hard and clunky, but I pressed on…
Eventually, I stopped and felt like I had spewed enough. When I took a step back and looked at what I wrote I was reminded of my song-writing days in middle and high school where almost every random piece of paper, receipt, or paper bag in my backpack had lyrics and poetry scribbled all over it and between all the chicken scratch and cliché lines maybe, just maybe there was something worth keeping.
Even though this free-write was neat and orderly on the computer screen, the ideas twisted and turned just like those long-forgotten lyrics that I wrote in 8th grade down one side and up the other, crawling around the edges of a torn-out comic page of the newspaper, winding down and in between the cryptogram to end upside down somewhere. But I forced myself to press, “Save As,” despite the fact that I felt like it was a worthless piece of fiction. Maybe someday I would have the courage to share my thoughts because you never know when lightning will strike the sand and make an unexpected piece of glass…art.