ka puta ki te whaiao, ki te ao mārama... now what?

And would you look at that, we’re a whole cycle into the new year… Hina (the moon) is taking some time for herself this weekend (new moon) and we’re getting amongst it with a change of theme for our blog.

We’re following the sequence of events that followed the separation of Rangi and Papa (heaven and earth), the kaupapa (theme) we’ve covered over the last two months.

the kids went to war.

Because……..

Some of the atua (elemental forces, gods) furious their ‘normal’ of being contained (stuck, cramped and crammed) between their parents had been abolished and they now had to readjust their whole existence to fit this new empty open space..

Some were all for it at the beginning, then changed their mind during or afterwards…

Some backed their decision and were excited to finally be free to explore this whole new world they had created from themselves.

Basically, there was no consensus but a decision was made and executed, regardless. There was a whoooole lot of dysfunction going on. Organised chaos perhaps lol riddle me this, have you ever experienced this concoction of feels and thoughts?

did you assume it’s wrong or bad, or that you shouldn’t feel that way?

As if, once you made a decision you should be sweet with it? No reservations, no uncertainty if you did the right thing, no nothing just pure conviction you made the right choice?

That potential is part of our whakapapa, some of our eldest tupuna demonstrated that so of course — if that’s what you’re feeling, go with it. However, one interpretation I’d like to make from this story is that it’s also in our whakapapa to resist change and even to change our minds about it while it’s happening. Just like te ira atua, who live on in us today.

So if you feel similar feelings or think thoughts along these lines, don’t be too hard on yourself — you’re just channeling tupuna (ancestors). It’ll be up to you to decide which ones to channel more or less of as situations require it, but remembering that we have options and aren’t confined to one way of managing a new situation or opportunity should provide some comfort.

Tēnā tātou,

Hana.