Hmm, yes purple_scorp, lovely image. The nursery rhyme of course is Mary and her lamb going to school....I'd like to imagine her walking towrds a wood cottage, nestled in the forest without the city's distractions.
Hi Marina,
I thought about this symbol today, and wanted to express it without any religious overtones.
I’ve seen little lambs sprint around a meadow, jumping, bouncing, stretching as if they were on a trampoline (giggle)……and yet….there is a tenderness, a gentleness about them, those big huge eyes, black noses and fluffy white coats…they are very childlike, uplifting, free-spirited and fun to watch.
‘Most’ children are similar to lambs, free from the encumbrances of life they play, laugh, jump around and just have fun. Mary and her 'domesticated lamb', I’m sure loves to laugh and joke about…..bet she has a terrific imagination and a wonderful fantasy life. She probably believes in angels, gnomes and fairies. What would happen when Mary started school? Will she have to wait to play with her lamb after school? Is not the lamb also a metaphor for our inner child?
In a positive sense, Mary’s skill in school would be to make a solution to an old problem…the lamb (inner child) would provide the next level of ideas with highly creative ideas…..then comes the Aha! A peak experience that would exhibit someone way ahead of their time. Someone who is so opened, they can lift all the answers that lurk below the surface to the light of day.
But School does have the Virgo tendencies of being precise…….we are taught that it takes a lot of repetitive hard work and practice to get something right. At its worst, school can be oppressive, demanding and exacting!! It can stimulate and inhibit parts of our psyche and our brain! Remember laboring on all those school projects? Or studying for exams, stopping only to collapse for a few hours……eat something quickly….then back to the books? Where’s the lamb now?
Since the beginning of time, scholars have written on stone, tablets, scrolls and books…poets, novelists, artists, creating pictures and words of their own understandings and experience. Some of these arts and writings continue to be a complete mystery.....which is prbably why we (adults) have become so-o-o obsessed with everything we read and write.
Knowledge and awareness are one. Separating them prevents us from seeing things in their totality. Lambs are full of curiosity and passion……constantly flitting here and there, but metaphorically they lack direction. When they do make a dramatic leap into the earthly realm we can use our analytical side to express its sensitive insights and sense of joy through the arts, through helping others and even through a smile.
These are my initial thoughts for this symbol now........goodness knows how it will look tomorrow!!
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