Having a perspective on how past life karma influences
successive lives is incredibly useful for healing and repairing our present
(and future) relationships. It makes it so much easier to see the good in those
around us, to have compassion for them and ourselves, and to see how the Divine
is at work in every aspect of our lives. Inevitably, it leads to a renewal of
the heart.
What follows is part of a past lives reading I did for a
client of mine. The first section is a synopsis of the images that appeared to
me during the vision quest I did, followed by a descriptive account of what was
revealed. [As an aside, if you’re a person who also receives images but they
don’t seem to make any sense to you, I can help you with that]…
in a large animal
head mask, shaking it’s head /ears,
bundle of sticks for
a muzzle
chief with a wary
eye, looking backwards, dying
dog /bear
fork, can opener
walking egg beater,
angel
sad /mourning bear
shark
dancing in unison,
aggressive race,
drums on hands,
bringing them together,
parachuting
flower, a scarecrow
/a tin man coming down
tin man with colander
on head, tank (pillbox)
communications
(/satellite) dish, target on fire
The animal head mask that was shown in the vision was a very
specific one; one that my client had actually made herself (she was a man in
this past life). I couldn’t quite tell what animal the mask represented. I
don’t think that it was because I wasn’t supposed to know as much as the way
that the mask was designed didn’t make it clear (either to myself or the others
that saw the person dancing in it on this occasion). The bundle of sticks that
delineated the animal’s muzzle was very interesting. As much as the animal head
mask /outfit covered enough of the man to obscure his identity, the sticks
muzzle would have made it possible for others to hear his voice.
The chief was suspicious and turned his head to look over
his shoulder, behind him. The chief was dying, but at this point, it wasn’t
clear to me whether he had already been ill and people were dancing for him in
a healing ceremony, or if this man had come in disguise to assassinate him. My
first impression was that the chief didn’t think this masked figure was very
competent with his healing, but as I looked into it further, that wasn’t the
whole story. The chief was indeed ill; this was a healing ceremony for him, and
this man – a warrior – had snuck in under the pretence of helping, but with the
intention of killing him. It would have been an incredibly bold move,
considering that the man’s chances of getting out alive would have been very
slim (whether he did make it out alive or not wasn’t revealed, as it isn’t
relevant for the purposes of what’s being shown here). I find it a sad irony
that the chief wondered what the hell the man thought he was doing as a healer,
as ironically, it’s not what he was there to do anyway.
The chief would have assumed that someone he knew was under
the mask, but became doubtful, having heard the sound of the man’s voice. He
wasn’t quite able to connect it with anyone he knew. More to the point, he
couldn’t quite connect the song or style of singing with anyone from his own
people. This was something the warrior was aware of, and he was taunting the
chief with it, as a means of demonstrating his level of bravery.
The part of the vision described as “dog /bear” relates to
what the chief was seeing and thinking, but is at the same time also highly
symbolic. As he was looking at the mask and trying to suss out what was going
on, he identified the man beneath is as not being ‘Dog’ (~ someone from his own
people, a Dog clan perhaps, working out of ‘compassion’ or ‘loyalty’, two
aspects of Dog’s medicines), but as someone from a rival (Bear) clan.
Bear medicine is hugely about entering the stillness to
connect to information available in the Dreamtime. There was a lot going on in the chief’s mind at this
point, but for the sake of what’s being presented here, you could say that he
realised that things he’d seen as being from his own experience of the
Dreamtime were being made physical /’real’ in front of his eyes.
While some of what follows isn’t information that the masked
man would have been aware of from his vantage point as the warrior at the time,
what’s being communicated next is how the chief saw things. First, I’ll
describe some of the symbolism – I find it fascinating that each has two
meanings…
Fork: “…you cannot
make a mistake. If someone is speaking with a forked tongue, this is about
communication that is coming from fear, duplicity, and an internal split.”
In essence, this sign was presented to communicate that the chief was now fully
aware that the man under the mask wasn’t who he or the others present had
assumed he was (‘there was no mistake about it’). But it also points to an ‘internal split’ that the chief was having that
relates to the fact that his ‘Dreamtime’ was becoming ‘real’. You could indeed
say that a ‘can’ was being opened. On the one hand, it was a can of mayhem
/trouble /(‘whoop-ass’) or whatever you want to call it, but on the other hand,
the assumptions his ego had him believing about reality were being blown wide
open.
Since a fork, can opener and egg beater are utensils
connected to food, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the warrior used a
food-related implement(s) to attack the chief, since they would likely have
been available, but as I say, their symbolism is perhaps what’s most
significant.
The chief recognized him as a ‘walking egg beater’. What
does that mean? An egg represents “…fertility
in business, conception, ideas, partnership, and the potential for success.” This
seems to point to a partnership between the two clans, and that the warrior was
breaking it; you could even say ‘beating’ or ‘scrambling’ it.
That said, “An egg is also a symbol of your ego, the
fragile, breakable, vulnerable shell that protects the golden life within you.”
While on the one hand the chief could see that the (fragile, but promising)
alliance between the Dog and Bear clans would be shattered as a result of what
was happening before his eyes, his ego was being shattered as well. The chief
didn’t see his assailant as an attacker, the way the warrior would have
imagined the chief was seeing him, but as an angel. At this moment in the
description, the words “know yourself “ were being channelled to me, intended
as a message both for my client as ‘herself ‘ /now, and for her/ the warrior
that she was then (since time isn’t actually linear, I could just as well have
said ‘that very same warrior that she is,
in this time-spanning, illusory moment’).
For the fact that the next part of the vision suggests the
Bear clan was in mourning, I believe I was wrong about which clan the warrior
belonged to and which was the chief’s. The Bear clan – the chief’s – was
mourning his death, whereas the warrior’s was celebrating, feeling like ‘the
predator at the top of the food chain’ (~ Shark). I believe Spirit had a point
to that: for me and anyone reading this, it blurs the lines when it comes to
who we decide is ‘enemy’.
Again, there are (at least) two messages in the symbolism of
Shark. On the one hand, it’s a reference to the idea my client’s warrior-self’s
tribe had about taking everything for themselves instead of sharing, being
‘ruler of the seas of abundance’, so to speak. But it’s also a reference to
what I’d describe as an alien energetic presence that’s been influencing and
taking advantage of earth-human energies for eons now. They influence people
using the idea that we should take everything for ourselves instead of
collaborating, so that they can feed off of the energies that we emit as a
result of that. I don’t exactly know why it is that they can’t receive
nourishment off the energies of peace and harmony instead, but I believe it has
something to do with the idea that when we’re in a state of disharmony, we give
away (more of?) our power [I’d welcome any insights you may have on that].
As concerns the Dog clan, everyone was “dancing in unison”
at this point. They were shown to me /described as an “aggressive race”
[personally, I’d like to add ‘…of angels’ to that (although I imagine they
didn’t know it). Haha!]. The image of them having drums on their hands and
bringing them together, I believe, is a specific reference to a way they
actually wore /used their drums, or perhaps more specifically, on this occasion
at least, in relation to what had just occurred.
Truth be told, though, I can’t at this point say for certain
whether what I’ve just written relates to the Dog clan or the Bear clan. In all
likelihood, it’s both, or it became that way, at least. I can well imagine that
in response to the assassination of their chief, the Bear clan wouldn’t have
seen his murderer as the angel the chief had seen him as. Even if he’d have
said something in the moment about what he’d been seeing, I can easily imagine
it getting dismissed as a delusion influenced by his illness.
Parachute: “…a desire
to be saved or rescued from a dangerous situation. They can also be cautioning
you to have a backup plan, something to cushion yourself should you fall.”
This image represents a successive life /situation my client incarnated into to
balance some of the karma from the previous one. While in her life as the
warrior she went into the camp she’d labelled as her ‘enemy’ in disguise, in
this life, she was parachuting into her enemy’s territory. Even if you’ve never
parachuted before, you can imagine how exposed a soldier would feel in that
position; they’d be an open /vulnerable (and slow-moving!) target. Consider the
contrast between that and sneaking in under cover of a disguise.
The images that followed are references descriptive of the
person she was. You could say that the flower identifies her as a ‘flower
child’, perhaps even part of the hippie movement. I imagined that she /he was
drafted into war service, though that might not have been the case. Actually, I
believe it’s more to the point that she went in with the intention of ‘fighting
for peace’ (which makes sense in a way, in light of the conflict her actions
would have precipitated in the previous life).
She’s also described as “a scarecrow /a tin man coming
down”. In the wizard of Oz, the scarecrow has no brain, and the tin man has no
heart. While I imagine the symbolism there is pretty much self-explanatory, a
connection I’m guided to make is that contrary to the ‘no brain’ connection, I
believe that the plan she undertook in her life as the warrior was (at least
mostly) of her own making. It’s worth noting that she’s not also described as
the cowardly lion, which is an indication that she wasn’t lacking in bravery in
this life as a soldier. This is connected to a belief she held (rightly or
wrongly) that she was fighting for a cause worthy of valour – it was much
easier for the soldier to be heroic, feeling that his ideals were ‘righteous’.
She as ‘the tin man’ was shown with a colander on his head,
which I suppose is a reference to (again) her soldier-self not only not having
a heart, but having ‘a head like a sieve’. In other words, when someone told
him something, it drained out of his head very quickly. He was aware of that,
thinking about it and – as a device for shutting out the fear that was in
danger of creeping in – focussing on his goal /mission. He had an enemy
(/German) tank on his mind (and perhaps a pillbox – a fortified concrete bunker
with a narrow slit in it for shooting out of. I think they usually held larger,
rapid-fire guns).
Satellite dish: “…symbolize
your receptivity to streams of information beyond your five senses. They also
represent your openness to receive wisdom, awareness, knowledge, compassion,
and empathy.” Ultimately, his target was some communications equipment, but
he had the sense that it was already on fire. I was going to say that he was
‘worried’ that it was already destroyed, but my sense is that this feeling was
more evident than that for him. It might have been a surprise to the soldier
that he could know it so strongly, even. In a sense, you could say that he now
felt that without a mission, there was no point to his being there. It brought
to his mind questions about what he was doing ‘there’ at all.
While her warrior-self felt that he had a definite purpose
in what he’d accomplished, her soldier-self died feeling as though he hadn’t
personally contributed to the acquisition of peace. Interesting to note that
the chief had been a man of peace and (she’d) killed him, whereas as her
soldier-self she was fighting for peace and ended up putting herself in a
position where she died without attaining it. In the first case, you could say
‘she killed the chance for peace’. In the second case, the chance to contribute
to peace was taken away from her.
At this point, I’m to call attention again to the symbolism
I’d posted about parachute: “…a desire to
be saved or rescued from a dangerous situation. They can also be cautioning you
to have a backup plan, something to cushion yourself should you fall.” It
seems that this second life was indeed a ‘backup plan’, a way of saving
herself, cushioning herself from her previous fall. How Divinely perfect was it
that she was coming down in a parachute (and that she’d enlist me to reflect it
for her these years later, Spirit knowing full well which source I’d reference
for it)?
Whether you’ve been doing your own inner work for a while
now or just starting, consider this as an opportunity to release beliefs that
are no longer serving you. Make a life shift by getting me to do a past life
reading for You.
[Quotations in
italics are taken from “I Had The
Strangest Dream: the Dreamer’s Dictionary for the 21st Century”
by Kelly Sullivan-Walden.]
