No. 5 - Looking Closer at your Mascots
Vaness Henry: 0:02
I was just chatting with my son and he made me think in a new way. This is something I love about his totally open head. Sometimes in his presence I'll be talking about things I've always talked about, but just the way the conversation goes with him around, it's like it takes my mind somewhere new. And we were talking about the mascots we had in school. And me and his dad went to the same high school and our mascot was the scorpion. And now, thinking about this, I was like, ooh, I love the scorpion, I love what that kind of symbolizes and means to me in the now. And my husband was then like, well, growing up I was the Timberwolves, and then my next school I was the Lions, and the next school I was the Scorpions. And so my son goes I'm the coyotes right now. That's cool. I love coyote energy. And just the way he said that I was like, yeah, me too. That's cool.
Vaness Henry: 1:04
And it made me think about the imprinting of being in an environment with that characteristic, that spirit of that creature imbued into the culture and frequency of that space, like a mascot At the time. Right now there's a lot of football on and it's like Seahawks this and Cowboys that, and you know what I mean. And so there's all these like omen, omen, omen, all around to just kind of play with and notice the meaning in those things. And so when I was thinking about the energy of my son and the imprinting he's getting in that space from the coyote, I always translate that to look more into wolf. But right now, as I'm coming up to some of my translations and I don't have them, I am feeling called to fill it out. I've thought it would be fun to fill out my translations there just for, I think, my own growth and development.
Vaness Henry: 2:03
But whenever this type of big dog energy comes up, there's this juxtaposition of an animal that likes to be in a pack and also animals that like to be on their own, you know, and hunting and doing their own thing. So there's these concepts of the lone wolf or the pack animal and we hold these two aspects within ourselves the social environment and the wants and desires in that space and perhaps the personal wants and desires and how they sometimes might be the same or in contrast with each other. This is also kind of a playful competitive environment, a playful competitive imprinting. And so I thought let's revisit the scorpion, since that's the imprinting both me and his dad had at a highly impressionable time in our lives and the scorpion's kind of message and teaching is to express the things that are eating away at you and also that you might be entering a sexually heightened or explorative time. Which high school? Yeah, bumping bodies. Yeah, my little six line who was behaving more like a third line at that time, and same with his dad, also a six line who was behaving more like a third line, bumping into bodies, bumping into each other. It's a time of deep transformation and transmutation and bringing to surface toxicity and releasing old toxic patterns. Growing up, you know, letting kind of childhood go and making bonds and sometimes recognizing that when we hold things in or don't express ourselves we can get sick, we can get septic.
Vaness Henry: 3:45
I know I took that teaching on very deeply in my own life and so I wanted to kind of come just drop in a quick little insight and get you thinking about what have the mascots in my life represented? What if I looked at it that way? Maybe I didn't have a high school mascot, but maybe I had an elementary one, or maybe I had a college or university mascot. Sometimes it can be I was in a football club or a rugby club and we were called the Brumbies. That's a horse, you know, and that omen was around me for that time and just kind of opening yourself up to looking at the times in your life where there was an omen in the background and how that omen and that energy, the spirit of that mascot, imprints the experience and gives you some type of programming. You know, when we invest in ourselves and we get secondary education or something, we're really investing in our skills, we're investing in our development. When we join clubs or societies or leadership programs, anything like that, again it's a program. We're investing in some type of program to run through our system just like a computer. Would it's a? It's a system boot, it's a system upgrade. Would it's a system boot? It's a system upgrade. It's adding in a new feature that makes the whole function of the system of this machine operate differently. And what my son kind of helped me think about through bringing this up today and pointing it out in his special way that he can, was what if I looked at all those experiences differently and looked at the omen in the background there, to open ourselves up to being more connected with the spirit, part of reality and reconnecting to the land around us, the aliveness around us.
Vaness Henry: 5:31
We lead very plugged in lives right now. We're essentially cyborgs. We constantly have our phone in our pocket. At any given time, we can speak out to our phone or to reality and a robot will reply with the information to us. We're very plugged in. You know. We check social media constantly. We're always tuning into some invisible sphere, this formless part of our experience, but we also have a fully formed, tactile, tactile, material part of our experience, and sometimes it's important to find things that inspire us and reconnect us to those spaces.
Vaness Henry: 6:11
And that's why I find so much delight when that massive falcon lands on the roof or that giant eagle swoops by so silently. It's like it takes your breath away and reminds you of your aliveness. It puts you back in your body and there's an omen there, there's a meaning there for you to get re-inspired about aliveness, get re-inspired about what is actually going on here and unplug from some of the high frequency things that we do by living such a formless digital life as, as these highly evolved people so thought it would be fun to look back at the life, find the mascots in life and interpret them as omens and to go into the translations reading the creatures in the legend and just see what those things mean. And what does that then make you think and how might you look at that as woo? What kind of programming did I get during that upgrade or that investment or that time in my life when I was around the omen and energy of that mascot?
Vaness Henry: 7:17
This whole conversation teleported me back to a time when I was experimenting with sound healing through something called the frequency hotel and I was experimenting with this way of arranging my material so that others could experience it in a sort of meta way, and I really worked with the spirit of the flamingo.
Vaness Henry: 7:39
At that time. It really was this inspiration source for me and I was just reminded of this and how that flamingo spirit kind time. It really was this inspiration source for me and I was just reminded of this and how that flamingo spirit kind of lives on in my work and perhaps I want to bring that on as a little bit more of a present influence, a present mascot energy. The flamingo's teaching is to be mindful of the sound environment around you. It's a reminder that you're taking in messaging in multiple places and what sounds noisy to you and what sounds like music, and how might you dial up your awareness of that? I really love this and I feel really connected to it. So, since inner expeditions grew and were tested through something called the frequency hotel, which then became the frequency bar, a piece of the wellness club perhaps the spirit of the Flamingo was already imbued in that space Makes sense to me, and the idea of of playing with mascot energy also sounds like fun.
