Finding Your Light

And Letting it Shine

This painting, “Finding Your Light”, was inspired by a meditation. In the meditation I saw a man emerging from the waters carrying a lantern. I was told “we are all lighthouses.” I then saw an old stone lighthouse.

Traditionally the keepers of the lighthouse had to go out at night to take fuel up to the lighthouse to keep the light going at night or the boats would run aground. Many paintings depict these steadfast keepers of the light going out at night to take fuel to the lighthouse to maintain the safety that the light supplied to all sailing vessels.

In this painting, the man represents a soul emerging from the darkness of the unconscious (the ocean) because of a birth of consciousness represented by his lantern. That awakening connected him to the larger light of consciousness represented by the lighthouse. Putting the history of the lighthouse keeper with my meditation suggests that it is the responsibility of each of us to carry our own light of consciousness to maintain and contribute to the greater consciousness or collective light. Our light fuels the light of collective consciousness so other travelers can find their way in these times just like the keeper of the lighthouse in times past kept the light burning for ships passing in the night. May you find and share your light.