“I am Londolozi and the message I have for you is to defy gravity.”
When Martha Beck asked the 12 wayfinders who accompanied her this past May/June to South Africa as part of her STAR program to drop into wordlessness and to hear what the sacred ground and spirits of Londolozi were trying to tell us, each of us received our own unique message. Mine was “Defy Gravity.”
Martha had told me during a conference call prior to departing for this trip that she was so excited to meet me because I was “the exact archetype” she wrote about in her book, “Diana, Herself.” The story is fiction, an allegory, about an average woman with a less than perfect past, a conflicted present, and a feeling that she’s an insignificant little girl. This character embarks on an adventure that awakens her to her power and makes her realize she is limitless. Diana initially refuses to believe in her power because she feels that to do so is arrogance. But as Martha explained, the true definition of arrogance is to claim oneself. Culture and language and society have translated the word to mean something that’s negative. Diana must kill the good girl within to become who she is meant to be.
Martha’s book as well as Londolozi’s message both resonated with me. Actually, the word “resonated” doesn’t do the transformation justice. “Enlightened” is more truth. Something within me clicked. And similar to the lyrics of “Defy Gravity” from the Broadway musical “Wicked”: “I’m through accepting limits cuz someone says there so…”
