The Shoulder Blades

The shoulder blades are the two flat, triangular bones that lie like wings on your upper back. They are the suspension system of your arms — the place where your grasping tools connect to your torso. Everything you do, take, give, create, embrace, push away, bring into being passes through here. The shoulder blades are the quiet junction between your inner world and your doing.

And they are something else besides. Look at a bird spreading its wings — the base of those wings sits precisely where, in the human body, the shoulder blades are located. In almost every culture, in almost every image of angels and winged beings, the wings grow from this region. That is no coincidence. The shoulder blades are the symbolic place of departure. The place from which people would fly — if they allowed themselves to.