Weekly Mandala: The Fire of Winter

Under snow and ice and white
the earth boils and burns.
Only its cold face sleeps.
Behind its languid eyes,
the toil of a dream spits like a roiling furnace.
Deep beneath snow laden tree and frozen soil,
bone cold rock and glacial mountain,
the fire of the sun spins and uncoils
pushing itself out towards birth.

Ganesha Emerging

Ganesha is the Remover of Obstacles, The Lord of Obstacles and The Lord of Beginnings.  It is thus that he finds his way here to my first post of January 2012.  In my personal belief matrix, I associate him with Gevurah, the fifth level of consciousness in the Kabbalah.