Leaning into luck

I have the good fortune to have wonderful conversations with the people I meet through my work. I have a great love of storytelling, archetypes, myth and legend.

Recently I saw a post on social media about how folk tales and fairy tales have been re written and sanitised. So that good behaviour gains reward and bad behaviour gains punishment. Cinderella hails from a greek tale telling of a girl born into poverty who becomes a courtesan. Then when she’s doing her washing a bird grabs her sandle and flies off and drops it in a nobleman’s lap prompting a search for the owner because of its shape and beauty and the strangeness of its arrival.

In our moralised, modern tales the element of luck is completely omitted. When I sit with the modern and older versions of these tales I find it easier to lean in to the possibility of outrageous luck than to lean into fairy godmothers and pumpkins.

It also brings to mind the luck potion ‘Felix Felicis’ from the Harry Potter books and the concept of belief in luck and opportunity. If I watch a series on television I am looking for the element of luck and in many thrillers it is omitted. In the series ‘Maid’ the protagonist determinedly works to change her fortune but it is an element of luck that ultimately facilitates her movement into a new experience.

So I am leaning into luck as a practice. How does luck appear in your life? Is it finding a car parking spot just when and where you need it, is it recognising synchronicity and opportunity? And how does synchronicity come about for you? Is it through conversation and connection? Through expressing yourself and putting yourself out there?

Experiment - notice how luck shows itself in your life, in the stories you read and watch, for the people around you, how you can generate this for yourself. Have FUN!