12/01/2026
Sun ▪️ Chiron
A young seeker once told a monk, "I feel like I'm constantly waiting waiting for the right time, the right opportunity, the right people.
My life feels paused." The monk led him to a quiet garden and pointed at a small caterpillar clinging to a branch. "Does it look paused to you?" he asked. The seeker shrugged, "It's just... still."
The monk gently shook his head. "No. It is preparing." They sat and watched as the caterpillar slowly wrapped itself inside a cocoon. "Look," the monk said softly, "it appears lifeless from the outside, but inside it is dissolving, transforming, rebuilding." The seeker felt something stir within him. The monk continued, "Humans fear the cocoon phase because nothing seems to be happening.
But the most sacred growth happens in silence, in stillness, in the unseen." A soft ray of sunlight touched the cocoon as the monk whispered, "Your waiting is not wasted time.
It is sacred time. You are not paused - you are becoming." Tears gathered in the seeker's eyes as the monk added, "When the transformation is complete, the universe will not need to push you.
You will naturally break open into your next form." Walking away, the seeker finally understood that stillness was not stagnation
-it was metamorphosis. And for the first time, he embraced his cocoon instead of fighting it.