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“Steps” by Dove, September 2007

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After reading on a blog yesterday…people talking about a woman’s body like they have the right to control it, to control her, her life, her life choices…it angers me and it saddens me how readily women accept this.  We’ve been taught, brainwashed into believing (powerful) that men are above us — they believe it and we believe it.  And that creates a wicked reality, a reality where women can’t even say that their own body is their own…it would seem it is government property.

It came to me to endeavor to get the answer in a unique way for me.  I decided to ask before I did a pic on MS Paint.  When I do these pics, or any by hand, I never have a plan to paint anything in particular.  I just allow my “intuition/creativity” to flow through me.

So I asked before painting, “How do we re-empower women?”  And then I simply began to paint as I felt spurred to do so. 

As I was doing this pic, I heard, “Re-connect,” and when I was almost done, I heard, “Steps.”  I turned my head to the side and saw that what I had created kinda did look like steps.  I honed them up a bit and put the sprinkly footprints on them.  Note, it’s easy to follow one’s intuition in situations where there’s little to no potential for fear, ya’ simply do what ya’ FEEL like doing :)  It’s generally fear that mucks things up, and makes it difficult to know what we are feeling drawn to do (a further complication is that there are times when fear is justified and reflective of a our intuition). 

What I’m taking from this pic is that the answer to my question (and I’m sure it includes men as well), is that women will be re-empowered via the steps to “re-connect” with that powerful spiritual/creative part of them…that which we are.  (Note, I’m not speaking of religion here with the word “spiritual.”)  And I’m getting that it is a matter of steps — that is, it won’t happen over night.  I also often see multiple meaning in symbolic messages, and here I also feel that these steps represent the outer steps that we will need to take — but only once the inner ones have been achieved are we likely to take those outer steps…to self-empowerment and true freedom. 

Peace,
Dove