Finding 

   Her

  True

 North 

There once was a girl named Sabrina, whose 

mother was very, very sad. In fact, all of the 

women in her little village walked around with

 melancholy and hopelessness.

Sabrina felt disappointed as she watched her 

mother wear ragged clothes, even though their family had enough wealth to purchase much finer attire. She begged her mother to take better care of herself, but Sabrina’s mother only shrugged her shoulders, as if even the idea of better self care was too much trouble.

As Sabrina grew into young womanhood, instead 

of becoming sad like her mother and the rest of 

the women, she became angry. She felt that being 

a woman lacked the advantages that men appeared 

to have. The freedom that men enjoyed stirred her

heart with a restlessness and a longing for more 

than the sadness allotted to the women in her village. 

One day, a strange cat wandered into the village and began asking all of the women the same question, 

“What do you want?”

But everyone in the village just laughed at the cat for asking such a silly question. “Imagine women taking time from their womanly duties and wasting it thinking

about what they want!”, they said laughingly.

That is everyone but Sabrina!

“Why do you ask such a question?”, Sabrina inquired

of the cat.  With eyes aglow, the cat answered, 

“Because the mystery of who you really are is revealed 

as you explore and answer that question.”

As Sabrina thought about what the cat had said, she began to grow bigger than anyone else, while she started walking farther than the boundaries of her little village. The more Sabrina grew and the farther she walked, the more she saw. She experienced the wonders of life as she explored to the edges of the universe. 

One day Sabrina, in her travels, came to a deep, blue 

lake whose beauty stopped her walking. She just 

stood before the amazing lake staring into its depth 

of blueness. She knew now that she could never 

again relate to the sadness of her mother and 

the other women in her little village. The vision 

she saw of herself with her enlarged world now 

extended much farther than those old, 

limited boundaries.

Suddenly an image of people, joined as one, began to spin around in the center of the blue lake. That spiraling movement created a vortex that grabbed Sabrina and pulled her into it, whirling her down to the murky bottom of the lake.

There, in the depth of darkness, Sabrina began to transform all those lies she had been taught about womanhood into the pure light of feminine truth. As each lie rose up to challenge her, Sabrina infused it with rays of brilliant truth, emanating from a place of knowing within her. The alchemy of this transformation empowered Sabrina with even greater knowing and confidence.

With an expanded sense of herself and her destiny, Sabrina rose to the surface radiating with the light of understanding and love. As the life force pulsed through every part of her being, she rested in complete peace. It was the peace of knowing and becoming. It was an awakening of herself as a powerful woman. It was the mystery of unfolding to her true self that the strange cat had told her about.

 

With this awakening came a passionate desire to image her transformative journey, so that others might be inspired to take the first step of their personal journey.

With intention and openness, Sabrina picked up her brush and painted the vibrant colors of her experiences. She became the vehicle through which that imagery and color danced its way into form and reality. The more she painted her canvases of truth, the more vibrant and full her world became. 

It was her gift to her mother and 

all the sad women in her village. It was her legacy to all women everywhere in their courageous journey to their true self…. women of the past, women of the present and those women who are to come.

                                                                And so it is!

            

  

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Note: The illustrations are collage cards I made before I ever conceived the story. I created the collage cards first and then sequenced them into a story that they inspired. It's kind of "right brained" story writing!