Spiraling In
Journey from the Ego to the Soul
Recently I was playing with my new Tarot Deck called “The Sacred Geometry Oracle” by John Michael Greer. One of the things I like about John’s Sacred Geometry Tarot is that it forces me to quiet my mind as there is no other way I can make heads or tails of what these cards are trying to tell me. I also enjoying his detailed instructions of how to draw the geometries. It is something soothing to me like walking in the woods or chopping vegetables.
His website: https://www.ecosophia.net
His Bio:
John Michael Greer is a widely read author, blogger, and astrologer whose work focuses on the overlaps between ecology, spirituality, and the future of industrial society. He served twelve years as Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, and remains active in that order as well as several other branches of Druid nature spirituality. He currently lives in East Providence, Rhode Island.
This morning, I drew this card from the deck:
I have been having some really nasty dreams lately. Perhaps it has something to do with all the sadness, corruption, polarization, and violence in the world. Perhaps it is related to my own grief over all the difficulties I have had in my personal and professional life over so many years. I am not one that likes to hang around a victim state. For that reason, I hesitate to describe these dreams as “hijacked” but I do wonder sometimes. The trickster and evil energies have been strong lately in my dreams.
Recently a really evil man was trying to talk me and another woman into walking away from our soul missions or else “bad things would happen to us at the world fair.” She is a really big leader in our space, but we do not work together or even know each other outside of this dream. I have been blocked for many years working to clear intense emotional trauma to get my life force flowing again. This has been a multi-year journey as I have described in previous blogs.
For some reason, we were both in London. According to Google, to be chased at a fair could relate to the need to confront your fears or face your challenges. London, hmmm…no idea. Maybe London had something to do with changes to the world’s financial system. The woman stamped his document like a notary and I asked her why she would give into her fears like that. She felt sick to her stomach and shouted “yuck” over and over. When I asked her why she gave into his demands, she said she did not (and I was like “sure, whatever. I saw what I saw”). I told the man to his face he was not a nice man and I did not like him. There was a child-like innocence to my words, like my inner child was doing all the talking.
In another recent dream recently, my inner child was insisting I get my nails done. I finally did that today and painted them diamond blue just for her. She also wanted me to get my hair done, which I also did right before this weekend. She had the biggest smile on her face in the dream, the smile larger than her tiny face. After all these years of trying so hard to heal, to see and feel the joy and innocence of my inner child warmed my heart, calmed my mind, and soothed my weary soul.
So the “bad” man in the dream gave me the shivers. However, my inner child talking through me with such courage and grace gave me strength and hope. He had no power over her (“me”) anymore. These days I have trouble understanding the difference between my own healing or the healing of the soul of the world. Maybe that is the point. Maybe that is all any of us can do, to restore our faith and connection with our own soul and spirit. That was the message I received yesterday during a meditation. The Divine Mother and Father came through my meditation and insisted I open my arms wide to the sky and receive their healing first, so I have a full and overflowing cup of grace, healing, and compassion to share with the world. I was also instructed to release all my burdens once and for all into their arms.
Now back to the Tarot Card….According to the description for Card 21, “the spiral suggests that the design you have begun to draw upon your tracing board has much to unfold, if you allow it to follow the directions and dynamics it has already set in motion. Just as the oak unfolds from an acorn, the smallest portion of a spiral’s arc already contains the full outward sweep of the finished spiral in potential; follow the potential, and your design will unfold as it should.”
To unleash your soul’s potential means clearing out all the trauma and dark bits that get in the way of the power, love and light that are your birthright. It also means facing your fears, having strong boundaries, and speaking your truth regardless of how difficult that might be. That is especially true today. It takes so much courage with all this polarization, anger, grief and pain to reveal your truth in this way, so be good to yourself. Do not be hard on yourself. Just put one foot in front of the other, take it one step at a time, and know you are not alone.
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