Time to Die, Mr. Bond

 I think everyone knows that line; it lives in your head, and pops up sometimes at the most unusual moments, like when you need to enter a title for your blog and you didn't have one ready. Sometimes going with your instinct, check that, I mean cross that out; not *sometimes* but *most* of the time; going with your instinct , or your first thought, or your inner voice from your *higher* subconscious self, is the best way to go. And without even planning it, I now have a subject for this entry,

Attuning to the process of listening to yourself, which I am learning about lately through all of the online lectures and workshops I have been doing off and on for the past five years, takes practice. And when I began to think of it as connecting with my "highest and best" (the phrase that Sabrina Lynn of Rewilding uses often) Sabrina Lynn Rewilding and that you have a universe of helpers (God, Goddess archetypes, planetary archetypes, and angels (why not?), and also ancestral wisdom, available to connect with, it becomes easier to trust your inner voice. 

It's all connected (Dirk Gently is right!), all the people, nature, planets, and "everything above as it is below," so practicing going deeper into yourself to understand yourself (whether through meditation, embodied astrology, prayer, psychology, or counseling) is a big key to connecting to and trusting your own intuition. Some people can do it naturally, but for most of us, after years of social and psychological conditioning within our family groups and general societal constructs, it takes practice to regain what we have 'forgotten.' It's like relearning something that your DNA already has, but the tricky part is not overthinking it. 

Time to let go, release, and accept your past self's choices and decisions that caused you harm or regret. Time for your "little self" or 'ego self' to die, so your real and authentic self, your true self,  and who you were meant to be, can move toward whatever you are meant to do. So the title makes more sense to me now, if you take Bond as an archetype for the hero, but one who is more superficial, an image of perfection that is impossible to maintain, but who has a deeper reason for being than just foiling an evil plot. There is a lot more to him, and it will come out when the old self is dead/gone. 

I woke up late, so this was just quick-quick, like a dance step, and it came from that (random?) title I typed in, but it is a topic that I think about a lot, and will probably try to write more about, as I, myself, am working on figuring it all out. To quote another of Sabrina Lynn's favorite mantras: "Live More, Love More!" (say three to five times daily, rinse and repeat).

Peace and Love, K

As I wrote the part about Bond dying, I realized there is a film adaptation where that happens, and he essentially gives up spying to do a lot of soul-searching and work on himself for a change. But, the Time to Die line is from a much earlier film, before that ever happened. So, there you go. It was a necessary transformation in order for the charcter/archetype to evolve.

ACTUALLY, I just tried to look it up to check, and the line isn't even: "Time to Die," but "I expect you to die," from Goldfinger, so apologies. The misremembered phrase I wrote is the one I say occasionally, so I am going to leave it as-is!