Okay, well, maybe it is
going to sound a little ‘woo-woo’, and right from the start, too! I was on a
very brief shamanic earthwalk this morning, and while my guidance suggested
that it was on behalf of a specific client I was working on, I believe it’s
also relevant to ‘us’ as a whole.
In case you’re unfamiliar, to give you some idea of what a
shamanic earthwalk is, there are a couple of examples of what might happen on
one in this post: http://blackfeathermedicine.blogspot.pt/2011/09/octopus-medicine-do-you-realize-how-big.html
Basically, you could relate to what I mean if you ever
consult oracle cards or the tarot. How is it that we can pick a deck up,
randomly shuffle, and yet we manage to either pick the exact card(s) we need,
or they drop right out of the deck for us?! Long story short, this apparently
solid physical existence we’re experiencing is actually an energetic one that
we perceive as having (material) limitations. In truth, our Überverse
energetically and physically orients itself into exactly what we need for the
growth of our soul /spirit. For the fact that cards get oriented in this seemingly ‘magical’ way, what’s to say
that the same doesn’t happen with other elements of the lifedream we live?
Answer: it does.
Moving on…
While ordinarily, shamanic earthwalks are much longer and
more ‘involved’ (I have to say I’m relieved that this one wasn’t, in
comparison!), there were (only) three significant signs that showed up in it.
The first sign was the black flight feather of a crow.
The way I’d describe the Crow totem’s ‘main’ medicine is by
saying that Crow is the keeper of Sacred Law. If you can imagine the
difference, it’s related more to what Spirit /God /Source
/whatever-you-want-to-call-it holds as ‘right and wrong’ than to what hu’man’kind
does. In other words, because the Divine Masculine has been so dysfunctionally
perverted for the majority of our known (or at least, ‘talked about’) history,
the ‘laws’ our civilized societies have fashioned – some even ‘in the name of
God’ – haven’t exactly reflected a ‘for the sake of Love’ agenda. In truth,
they’ve been fashioned for the sake of taxing our (monetary and) energetic
bodies for the benefit of other energetic beings that have been taking
advantage us as a species. I’d include links to information about those beings,
but that might be too large a scope for this post. I will say, though, that in
psychic illustrations I do for people, they sometimes show up as ‘Sharks’, I believe
that’s because they (used to) think
of themselves as being at the top of the energetic food chain.
That said, their influence has made it much harder to get to our own individual, soul-level Truths. After
all, we’re a species geared for acceptance and approval, and how do you gain
that approval if you’re not involved in playing the same game the rest of
society has been unconsciously coerced into playing?
For the fact that this was a ‘dropped’ flight feather, it’s
a sign that the reign of these other energetic beings is over, or at the very
least, coming to its end. The ‘problem’ now is, though, what to do with our new feathers, this newfound freedom
that we have? It’s not like we’re exactly ‘used’ to it, after all. Part of
what’s been happening as these beings are leaving is the collapse of our
financial systems. For the fact that we’ve based our ways of living (and
gaining approval, among other things) on that, how to come to terms with that,
and what potentials are available to us /you now?
The second sign that presented was stuck upright in the
gravel road I was walking on. Firstly, features of the road itself are
significant. From a *dream dictionary I sometimes reference, gravel is “…a sign to walk cautiously and take each step
mindfully. You may be feeling as if you are on unsteady ground”. On a more positive note, though, gravel is
also road-building material. To all
intents and purposes, that’s what’s happening here – while it might appear
there’s destruction taking place in
your life, consider that a new path is here being ‘made’ for you. A lot could
still be said about the fact that this was an old road that’d once been used to
extract forest resources, but hey, I’d be here all day if I got started on that as well!
But I haven’t quite
gotten to that second sign I mentioned yet, have I? I noticed a little, very
black shape sticking up on its end out of the road just ahead of us. Before I
got up to it, I’d thought it was a piece of flint. Actually, the word ‘schist’
came readily to mind. Unfortunately, I don’t remember my way-back-when college
geology course well enough to consider the symbolism! Ha! I do know that it’s a
metamorphic rock, though, which would indicate something formed under a lot of
pressure. Thinking about it as flint though (which as I said it wasn’t, but I’ll get to that), would
make it a ‘point of ignition’, so to speak (~ a description of what’s happening
in our lives at the present time). What it actually
was was a piece of rubber, symbolizing “…[your
willingness to] allow emotional upsets to bounce right off you. Perhaps this
dream is showing you that you will bounce back quickly from an upset and become
your buoyant and flexible [self?, or ‘new’ self]”. Don’t worry, as I say,
it was not a metamorphic rock,
meaning that while it can sometimes feel as
though we’re stuck in a certain spot or a moment in time forever, the prophecy here is: your
situation won’t take ‘geological’
time to change!
I tried consulting
my guidance to further clarify what this
second sign of the piece of rubber ‘means’, and was presented with a message to
convey about the importance of NOT compromising yourself, regardless of how
confusing things might appear in your lifedream at the moment. As when you set
out on a journey from any new crossroads, there’s bound to be a moment of
confusion. Do you go back the way you came, because that’s a way you ‘know’?
Standing where you are now, the first next best thing to do is to plainly acknowledge
that you’re confused, and ask yourself a couple of questions. Try this one on,
for example: “What is it you’d be trying to gain by ignoring your own personal
truth?” Or put another way, “What would you choose as your own path, were you
not worried about anyone else’s
approval or ‘influence’?” Once you’ve got that
sussed, take a step forward.
The third sign was
just a very short distance down the road from there (which can be read as: a
very short distance down the road from ‘here’). There was a little, tattered
piece of blue nylon ‘netting’ protruding out of the road.
So, what the heck
does that mean? Blue signs often appear on shamanic earthwalks that
I undertake. I can be in the middle of some no-man’s land, and still be pretty
much guaranteed to happen across a piece of azure or cobalt or aquamarine something. It’s incredibly fitting, in
the fact that while the signs that present can seem incredibly obscure from the
outset, they provide – as the colour symbolizes – “…clarity, peacefulness and truth” (…and I’ll remind you that I
said it’s just ‘a short ways down the
road’, another confirmation of change coming quickly).
The fact that the
object was a net references the energetic net that’s been cast over us for so
long by this alien influence (yes, I did say
‘alien’ influence). For the fact that this net is indeed in ‘tatters’, though,
we’re coming to realise that we can be in more conscious control of our own
energetic capabilities. That’s not to say that we fully know it or what to do
with them, having gotten used to being ‘flightless’ for as long as we have been.
Rather than being competitive or individualistic now, we /you have an
opportunity and the freedom to be ‘participatory’ instead, to participate in
your own life, to participate in a Universe which you could not even imagine being better.
Earlier in the
walk, I’d pulled on the second sign – the piece of rubber that I’d thought was
rock – and it hadn’t come out of the ground. For the fact that 99% of the
little square was sticking out of the road, it didn’t seem to make any sense at
all that I was unable to dislodge it. On the return trip, though, I’d tried it
again and it just came right out! Is it any surprise that the sword ‘Excalibur’
comes to mind?
So, what’s the ‘opportunity’
for you now? It’s to live without reacting to your life in an ‘established’
way, to engage with the character that is You underneath that and act
spontaneously. Open your Heart to your questions, and respond from it as well. Live your life as a
mystery to be lived; not as a
business to be managed.
Be gentle with
yourself, and recognize your own authenticity. I can wholeheartedly say (from
the benefit of personal experience), there’s no better choice of direction to
take than the one that’s essential-ly yours!
Big Medicine Love
to You
~ Black Feather
(*Quotations in
italics were taken from “I Had The
Strangest Dream: the Dreamer’s Dictionary for the 21st Century”
by Kelly Sullivan-Walden.)
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