Windchimes and Meditations
My husband recently came home with a large set of windchimes. I have admired them for some time but have never made the plunge to actually purchase the kind I like. I like the big ones, the ones that sound like cathedral bells, the ones that are… EXPENSIVE. But he loves me, and wanted to do it, so what can I say but thank you!?
I hung them in the garden at the front of the house in a tree. They don’t ring often but when they do their melodic chords offer just the right amount of “company” while I am weeding or pruning or picking something. Having studied music for some years though, their sound does not fall into the major or minor scales. It is arrythmic, out of balance, even chaotic at times when listened to with the ear of a trained musician. It reminded me of something. Can you guess what?
A woman in labor, following the “curve”, behaving as told, obedient little instrument, performing at the will of her attendants has an easy road. She is lucky. Not so with all woman, and I would dare say MOST woman do not fall into this “major or minor scale” of labor-music. Most women labor as the windchimes… arrythmic, slowing down, speeding up, even *GASP* stopping all together for periods of time. Silence can be music too, you know. Their labor song is not one of 2 sharps or 3 flats played at an even 4/4 time scale. It is the song of the windchimes. The song of love, life, the chaotic, the extreme, the UNIQUE. Even windchimes made by the same maker do NOT sound the same all the time!
These women’s labor-songs need the care and attention of an attendant willing to listen to HER SONG. Not compare it with others, to watch for the wind blowing too strong and tangling the delicate chimes yes, but not one who will hold them fast, strike them with a hammer and expect music to be the outcome. The message of letting go and letting be is one of the ages. The message of trust and freedom and birth rings true. Let us LISTEN.
Tags: birth, childbirth, Fearless Birth, freedom, homebirth, labor, midwife
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