Well, the girlie girl, squeemish, cowardly side of me wanted to go into full scale meltdown when H called me into the master bath to witness our first official invading scorpion. We’d found one in our pool a few years ago, and I recently saw one in the garage, but this was IN OUR HOUSE! And I used to fear and loathe spiders. Scorpions are like spiders on steroids that have bred with cockroaches for us arachnophobes.
Short of moving, I had to find a way to get a reality check quickly or go crazy with the ooogie, creepy crawlie, sheer paranoia taking over my conscious mind. Better believe that I shake and beat my shoes now before putting them on! So, I looked up scorpions in Animal-Speak by Ted Andrews and learned that when scorpions appear, it is a sign of TRANSFORMATION:
“Now is the time for transformation. Passions increase. Changes can be calm or chaotic, depending on your self-control.”
As I contemplate the last year of my life, nothing could be more spot on than the concept of transformation. The suffering of treatment is by and large behind me now, and I have the rest of my life to transform my daily routines, my goals and dreams, and my overall perspective on the present moving into the future. When I returned from Santa Barbara, I was filled with joy and the affirmation that I am finally, at long last, following my bliss (writing!). And yet, Monday morning I was back at the Mayo getting infused with drugs, and on Tuesday I was getting poked and prodded by the ray-diation nurse. Okay… so transformation is not a light switch. It is a process. And somehow I am going to find a peaceful way to co-exist with all of God’s creatures, even scorpions!
Jun. 20, 2013
Judy Richter 