What Money Has to Say
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 03:32PM 
As I sat with Money today to have our usual conversation (I say usual but I must admit it’s been a while), Money seemed pretty flat. That surprised me. It was in its usual form- coins in my play jar on a bookshelf across the room from where I nurse my daughter, but the coins seemed pretty lifeless. Normally when I imagine having a conversation with money and ask: “What would Money say?” I get a varied array of responses that often bring interesting insight and guidance into my relationship to money.
But today was different. It was almost as if Money was bored or didn’t want to engage. I asked it what was wrong and it kind of shrugged its shoulders and replied: “Well, we (coins) are not as interested in you these days”.
Really?!? I asked, how so.
“You’ve forgotten to write”, it responded. “You said you were going to write a book about me, about us, (i.e. about Conversations with Money) and all of that went to the waste side. You’ve gotten sidetracked by the rest of your life”.
Ah ha!…that was it. Money felt abandoned! Totally get it. I had promised to engage with it and I didn’t. I had assured Money it would receive some of my creative juju and it didn’t. So…its attention went elsewhere.
Interesting, I thought. Money really is a form of energy. It goes towards where there is other energy to interact with. Does it judge whether this “energy” is good or bad? Not quite. That is why many people get angry at it and blame money for being involved in “unmoral” things (i.e. “money is evil”) when in fact it is our responsibility as humans to discern where our creative energy gets channeled towards.
Instead of getting stuck in the blame I often tell people that the important thing is to call money in. Not for the sake of “acquiring” money (which is an illusion in itself because money will never represent the true security we are looking for), but for the importance of being in relationship with this important form of creativity. Money is a doorway into the material world. It helps us manifest our deepest dreams and most elaborate creative endeavors (although these can happen also without). But money wants to be included and called on board. It has a role to play.
Today Money was there reminding me that in addition to being a full time mom and part-time Inner Economist, I still had to find time to write. It was imperative. If not my Creator-Artist would eventually dwindle and die (much in the same way Money would one day lose interest). And again, interestingly enough, I didn’t feel “money’s love” to be conditional. It wasn’t telling me that it wouldn’t be in my life anymore. Of course it would. I’d always find ways to “make money”, but it wouldn’t be there with the same aliveness and vitality as when all of me is involved- my Creator-Artist, my Warrior, my Mother, my Woman-ness, all of me. Money wanted to play with “me” (much in the same way my daughter wants!), and the satisfaction of that play would grow exponentially when I didn’t leave a single part of me out.
Growth…satisfaction…inner/outer security….sounds like the economic system we’re all striving for!
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