Shine a Light
This week we focus on the concept of “The Dark Side”. Today’s MotD encourages us to prepare ourselves for delving deep within—we’re going to need a flashlight and some courage. For today, we just need to be willing to open the door and shine a light onto this part of ourselves that we’ve kept under wraps for so long.
To quote Melody Beattie: “Not acknowledging our dark side doesn’t wish it out of existence, any more than not seeing the dark side of the moon makes it disappear.”
”It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.” — William Butler Yeats
So why would be want to go there? Because this side has a story to tell and answers to our self-sabotaging ways. The pathway to achieving what we truly want to create for ourselves goes through the dark side and onward out the other end.
How about you? Are you ready, willing, and able to shine a light onto your dark side…if even briefly?
BTW…Here’s the before…the front and back view of today’s puzzle piece and the pretty ceramic box that holds all my numbers from which I randomly choose each day’s puzzle piece number:
Peace & Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
Creating Mandalas 🔆 Awakening Inner Harmony
ABOUT THE 2025 Mandalas of the Day
Throughout the year, I’ll be building one large (48”x48”) Tibetan-styled Mandala one piece at a time…one puzzle piece at a time, that is. The mandala design and the reversed puzzle side were printed on artist-quality watercolor paper. The forward facing puzzle side was printed on a 48”x48” wood panel.
Each day, at random, I’ll be painting in watercolors one of the 365 watercolor puzzle pieces, that by the end of the year will become Archangel Mandala #4. Read more about the Archangel Series. The word/message for each piece will be inspired by Melody Beattie’s book “52 Weeks of Conscious Contact”.
Ultimately, the message of this mandala is about how we are all uniquely part of the one.
Mandala of the Day 