Life is Music: but what if your theme song Doesn't fit your movie?

All ‘things’ are energy. In the case of (seemingly) physical objects, our senses give the illusion of form to those energies, and the form they take depends on what frequency the energies are vibrating at and how our senses perceive them.

When I say All things, that includes our conscious and unconscious thoughts. In fact, what you perceive as being your life is an expression of frequencies, like a song. Whatever melodies your own energy puts out into the world will translate into what appears to you as the production of your perceived reality.

Actions you take and conscious thoughts you have constitute notes, but your song is also made up of residual notes from (things like) past life experiences. In other words, many of the notes being played are ones that you’re not consciously aware of, and this ‘noise’ can alter the show by creating things you might not want in your dreamed-of theatrical production – the curtains don’t open when they’re supposed to, none of the other performers are where you’d want them to be, and the box office isn’t drawing!

When a movie or play starts, you typically notice the music of the theme song, but as the show continues, your attention is drawn to whatever actions and forms are in front of your eyes. Your brain still hears the soundtrack and is influenced by it, but it’s been relegated to that etheric cauldron of don’t-need-to-pay-attention-any-more, and you stop consciously hearing it.

That melody that you don’t hear in your life energetically affects not only what appears, but the Quality of your experience. If it has discordant notes in it or if musicians in the orchestra pit are playing from a page of a previous (~ past life) production, you won’t be aware of it. It can ‘bring the house down’, but not in a good way!

Sure you can mitigate the effects of negative thoughts as you become aware of them by changing where you’ll allow them to draw your attention, but what to do about these notes playing in your lifedream’s soundtrack that you’re not aware of? How do you get everyone playing on the same score?

What to do?

If you haven’t heard of noise-cancellation technology, this picture gives a basic run-down of how it works:

If you play a frequency of an opposite wavelength (~ ‘anti-noise’) against the noise you don’t want, the effect of that unwelcome noise gets cancelled out.

Okay, great, but how to do that with your life?

Create an anti-noise – or ‘frequency cancellation’ – wave for it.

…? Okay, whatever – same question!

As I alluded to earlier, frequencies you’re no longer ‘hearing’ from past lives (among other things) affect this one. As concerns the stuff you’ve carried over that isn’t doing you any favours, you can have someone recall what’s in those past lives that might be screwing things up for you, but it won’t do just to hear a description of events (personally, I’ve always had a bit of a cheese on for past life readers who tell you ‘you were this person, you lived here, you did this, and then this happened’, without providing you the means to actually resolve anything). The issue being, unless you totally change your karmic intentions based on what they reveal (not any easy thing to do), hearing a litany of your past lives isn’t likely to do anything for you. In all likelihood, it’ll actually amplify the undesired wave.

But if you receive a reading done with the intent of creating that anti-noise wave, you can mitigate its effects. Now, wouldn’t something like that be Worth a Look?!

Because your angels and soul-guides have the Divine where-with-all to Know exactly what will uniquely work for you, having such a reading done can present you with information that will translate into the desired anti-noise score for you.

That said, it doesn’t matter whether the information you’re presented with in a reading is actually in the form of sound. After all, it is all energy. Reading an anti-noise script to yourself will cause your mind to create the energetic impulses needed to produce the desired cancellation wave. And hey, if it’s entertaining in the process, that can’t be a bad thing, now can it?

In my humble opinion, I believe your show’s due for a blockbuster run. People are already lined up, expecting to hear the sound of music!

You’re the director. Cue the orchestra; draw the curtain?

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http://blackfeathermedicine.blogspot.pt/p/worth-look.html

Big Medicine Love to You

~ Black Feather

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The Gratitude ‘Love Boat’: free yourself!

This post actually started out as a Soul-Medicine reading that I did for someone. There is information about a relevant past life of hers woven into it as well, though I’ve been nudged to edit it a little. The message from Spirit was a simple one, really. That said, it can be a most difficult one to understand, probably because it’s so simple. Apparently, I was to communicate information about ‘Gratitude’…

Most people attach the word ‘giving’ with ‘Gratitude’, as though it’s some form of action. Well, it isn’t. Feeling that you have to ‘work’ at giving gratitude is a concept borne out of an outworn paradigm, and it’s a drain on your power.

No one can sell you anything unless you’re convinced that you need to be or do something different. If I were the cosmetics industry for example, I’d be trying to tell you that you’re somehow not ‘enough’; the ultimate motivation being that I’m able to line my pockets. In the case of cosmetics, it’s disingenuous. And as concerns the ‘act’ of Gratitude, it’s disingenuous as well.

There’s no "Law of -" sales pitch coming here – Gratitude is something that’s entirely intrinsic to our Nature.

Our bodies, our beings, our spirit, automatically want to be in a relationship of Gratitude (actually, they already Are, but let’s go with this as a premise for now). It’s only that our minds – our egos – are not aware that this behind-the-scenes Love-Fest is just that ‘normal’ to us. In truth, all we need ‘do’ is allow for its existence.

For example, we want the tree- and plant-spirits to know how much we appreciate our ongoing symbiotic exchange. We want the star-stuff that provides us our bodies to know that we’re grateful for the embodied, interactive experience it facilitates. And (for those of us who are ‘water-talkers’ especially) we desire that water-spirits receive our signals of Blessed recognition (the communication of which they actually help make possible). Etc, etc, etc.

There is indeed a constant flow – or for all intents and purposes, a constant potentially ‘full’ flow – happening all the time. The kink in the chain, if there is one (and there is), is within our egos and our ‘conscious’ minds. I emphasize ‘conscious’ because, well, for ninety-nine percent of us, it’s a misnomer. There are indeed many strong influences actively working on thwarting our conscious energetic output by circumventing it towards erroneous thinking.

For instance, an intergenerational influence from an ancestral spirit might be influencing us towards believing we have to Fight to earn respect – in another sense, that spirit could be another past incarnation of ourselves, a soul-fragment we’ve left behind.

In the case of the woman whom this Soul-Medicine reading was initially for, one of her soul-fragments was still in chains in a past incarnation: a male prisoner, being taken by boat to be sold as a slave. His situation felt especially unfair to him because he was in love. Feeling that the longer he stayed on the boat the less were his chances of ever seeing his beloved again, he attempted an escape.

There was an aspect of the story that involved someone being knocked unconscious, but Spirit suggested it wasn’t necessary to know whether it happened to him or to someone else. In any case, the relevance of the karma that was caused to play out echoes a desired ‘escape’ from restrictions on consciousness in this woman’s present incarnation, as well as a desire for the emancipation of others, Gratitude-consciousness being one component of that. As was her escape in that life, this Divine mission of hers is also motivated by Love, in part facilitated by the sharing of her story.

As I was saying, there are many unseen influences that inhibit this flow of Gratitude. Many (but not all) can be described as being manipulative in that respect, but the truth of the matter is that they’re – to all intents and purposes – receiving Divine instruction to do so. The irony of it is that they don’t even know it; you could say that they’re unconscious in that respect. For the sake of simplicity, it’s helpful to think of them as ‘dark angels’.

Send a thought message out to whatever dark angels might be putting constraints on your own consciousness. Let them know that they’ve served their purpose, but/ and that their time here is done, and send them on their way. They’ll move on (or be moved on) to create another space for Love and Gratitude somewhere on the edges of Creation where there isn’t one in existence yet.

Get on with your natural tendency of Allowing the space they’ve created and vacated to be filled in. Allow the Body, Spirit, and Mind (/ ~Consciousness) connections to All link together, as Love intended.

Big Medicine Love to You

Black Feather

Call yourself a Shaman (…?)

I don’t. At least, not any longer, and it’s about time I got away from playing that old record for myself, stop living as if my past is still here, and Be the future self I Am.

Don’t get me wrong; I highly respect shamanism as a truly profound and miraculous healing art.  After all, I’ve been a traditional shaman in more than one past life and uphold tenets familiar to the practice in my present incarnation as well.

For instance, I continue to have a deep-level awareness of and respect for how Spirit interacts and communicates to us through animal messengers (and innumerable other manifestations) in this lifedream we perceive as our physical ‘reality’. I communicate healing messages by accessing unseen realms. And through connection to Source /Spirit /God /whatever-you-want-to-call-it, I energetically facilitate multi-level healing. But ‘shaman’ doesn’t describe ‘me’ (at least, not any more).

For lack of knowing how else to identify myself, I’d gone (along) with what other people were identifying me as, based on what they perceived I was ‘doing’ in my healing mission. And it made sense, in that the success of some of the methods I employ – like soul-retrieval or mitigating the influence of unseen spirits – are often attributed to the shamanic tradition. As providence would have it, I’d taken the proverbial ‘easy’ route; one that I thought would by association provide people an accessible recognition of how I might best help them.

In truth, though, I want to make sure I’m not doing the worthy practice of shamanism, myself, or You a disservice. While I’d rather not use another label at all, I’ve been inspired to refer to myself as a "lifedream illuminator". While I believe it invokes a more apt description, it doesn’t just describe what I do; it’s what (rather than ‘who’) I Am.

So, what does it mean to be a ‘lifedream illuminator’?

Spirit is suggesting that a better first question might be ‘why’, as in ‘why would I /someone /you refer to yourself as one?’

As awareness of it in this dimension goes, part of ‘Being’ involves a letting go of or ‘moving away from’. While shamanism is indeed enjoying a revived appreciation world over, many people who’ve been taught to fear it as something (how to put it?...) ‘untoward’ will continue to be frightened of it, and miss out on the help on offer to them.

On the perceived other end of the spectrum (to all intents and purposes), persons that could benefit from healing but whose channels get scrambled by the mention of words they’re inclined to associate with religious doctrine  (like ‘Saints’, ‘Father’, ‘Jesus’, ‘Krishna’ or what-have-you) will either disregard what’s on offer to them outright, or perhaps worse yet, hold it in ‘too’ high a regard. What’s the danger in that? It’s been my experience that certain spirit-beings take advantage of ‘adoration’ energies, in much the same way as others feed off ‘negative’ or fearful ones.

In other words, I believe Spirit’s motivation here is one of ‘accessibility’; making Heart-centred healing available to persons who won’t access it through other modalities as they’re presented. In other words, why should anyone miss out? If you’d like to enlist the assistance of Loving, helper energies to bring more Light into your thoughts and your life, you’re not alone. We’re all here to help you be who you’re truly meant to be.

If you’re looking for a shaman specifically, doing a search online will bring up names like Sandra Ingerman, Michael Harner, Nicholas Breeze Wood, and a host of others highly qualified in the art. There are many I could whole-heartedly recommend.

But since you’ve found yourself here, consider that it's where you’re ‘supposed’ to be, and contact me to find out what enlisting the help of a lifedream illuminator can be of benefit to you, personally. blackfeathermedicine@gmail.com

Or if you feel an authentic call towards recognising yourself as a lifedream illuminator, consider this an invitation from the Universe to do so – you have at least as much a right to the moniker as I do. I advise though, that it’s not a trademark or to be used as a marketing gimmick any more than is the word ‘shaman’.

Big Love,

Black Feather

Who's Holding the Reins?

You don’t beat yourself up over things all of your own accord. You wouldn’t wrack yourself with guilt, feel anguish, confusion or remorse, despair, doubtfulness, hopelessness or (blah, blah, blah, blah) all on your own either. You have help. We all do. We have our dark angels for that. And yes, I did just say ‘our’.

Taking a larger view, the world is a bit of a mess, and they’ve helped us get it there. While it seems that they’ve robbed us of our ability to live our lives joyfully and lovingly, they’re actually helping to facilitate it.

Have you noticed that breakthrough follows breakdown, expansion follows restriction, etc? Who hasn't questioned – if there is a God – why S/He would allow ‘bad’ things to happen in the world?

Imagine for a moment being ‘The’ original creator (or call yourself an ‘aspect’ of, or ‘intrinsically connected to’, if you’re more comfortable with that). You’ve broken up aspects of your supreme, omni-Consciousness into infinite little bits of yourself and separated them (‘Not’) from awareness of each other, as a means of expressing the ever-expanding nature that is your creation: Love, of which you are part-and-parcel.

For your creation to ever-expand, you ‘pave the way’ (as it were). For all intents and purposes, you can picture this as your Creation expanding itself into the black nothingness of space. From the blackness, shapes start to differentiate. The blackness becomes individual shadows. For the fact that you are the Source of Love, you could say that these individual (darknesses) are beings that are ‘not Love’. Without them, Love doesn’t get a space to ‘Be’. With them, well, as it follows.

We’re at a point in human evolution where we’ve been under the influence of beings of ‘not Love’, but (I believe) they’ve been helping in the ever-expansion of Loving Creation. There’s no judgement necessary; you could say that they’re just a ‘first differentiation’. They make what we are – as Source – more evident.

Do you ever have those moments of unparalleled lucidity where you realise, ‘Hey, I’m not diminished by externals; I’m not a slave to whatever happens to me from the outside’? Do you notice those moments happening more and more often?

There’ve been dark angels taking advantage of our energies for thousands of years now, but as Source, it’s ‘we’ who actually hold the reins. They wouldn’t exist at all, were it not for the ever-expanding nature of the creative process that is Love. And in truth, they’re becoming aware of that.

Be kinder to yourself. Realise what you are. You’re paving the way, and you’ve got quite the machine to do it with.

Sure, it’s a lot more complicated than that, but it doesn’t have to be.

Is your life crashing, or is it that you’re flying for the first time?

There’s some kind of disconnect between the Lion you’ve got inside you and what you feel will (energetically) work in the ‘outside’ world. There’s no point in presenting yourself as a leader with anything other than something that is ‘soul-level you’. It’s obvious to me that you’ve got strength, you’ve got courage, but how to connect you to it …? Don’t worry; I won’t make this sound any more ‘new age-y’ than it has to be! gol (‘giggle’ out loud)…

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 21^st Century” by Kelly Sullivan-Walden.)

Killer / Angel

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.

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[Quotations in italics are taken from “I Had The Strangest Dream: the Dreamer’s Dictionary for the 21^st Century” by Kelly Sullivan-Walden.]

Why read your past lives?

What’s the point? I mean, besides being intriguing or entertaining, what benefit could you possibly get out of knowing who you’ve been before, what you’ve done, or who you did what with?

In my humble opinion, the fact that you attain clarity as a result – while immeasurably helpful in itself – is overshadowed by the gift of being able to live your present lifedream more playfully, innocently, and with a lightened heart.

I was recently guided to do a past-life reading for someone in two versions. The first version was presented as a children’s story, told for the benefit of the woman’s inner child. Children are most naturally attuned and connected to Spirit. It’s our inner children that facilitate our connection to true spiritual wisdom on behalf of our adult selves, and without invoking their participation, they can essentially hold elements of our spiritual selves ‘hostage’. Without loving attention, their persistence to convey their need to connect with us – or perhaps more to the point, our need to connect with them – can result in escalating tantrums that manifest in our experiences as actual ‘pay-attention-to-me-or-else’ physical incidents (need it be said, not pleasurable ones).

Appeasing your inner child through compassionate, considerate connection not only facilitates greater personal well-being, it provides extended access to your innate psycho-spiritual abilities and helps you to use these gifts to greater capacity. This happens mainly through minimization of the effects of influential philosophies and others’ perspectives on ‘reality’ that you’ve accumulated, so that you can better self-inform. As connected as we all are, every soul’s path is intrinsically, essentially unique. We don’t have the embodied experiences we do on this physical plane just for the sake of observing what other persons have learned on their journeys, or for what they might be trying to impress upon you as the ‘truth’ about yours!

As adults, our mind’s preoccupations can influence us to view our potential futures with trepidation and even fear. Children learn through play. And how much more enjoyable would your exploration of this vast Überverse be if you were able to approach your learning about it that way? Enlisting the assistance of your inner child enables you to open up to what’s on the horizon with innocence and increased clarity as your guides. Re-invigorating yourself in this way by integrating not only your inner child’s assistance, but aspects of you left behind in previous lives facilitates deep-level healing and illuminates you on the value of your own soul’s exquisite process.

Now that my client and her inner child were collaborating, I produced a second version of (this part of) her past life reading that included a more detailed description of what was presented in the first, but in the form of interpretations, for the sake of her adult self.

Thankfully, our guides know what we need to see and how we need to see it for a past-life reading to be of greatest benefit. More often than not, though, they don’t try to impress on you how you should do things differently in your life so much as present things to you for the sake of invoking your observational powers. As any physicist worth their weight in neutrinos will tell you, in the absence of any other external force acting upon a particle, the behaviour of said particle can change simply for the fact that it’s being observed.

One example of the effect that occurs as a result of observing past-life scenarios is in our relationships with the more ‘challenging’ companion souls in our lifedream. The simple act of observing the connections we’ve had with certain individuals across lifetimes can activate the severing of energetic cords between us and them. The process of viewing how our interactions with them have contributed to our soul’s journey often stimulates the gentle release of these connections. Think of it as a rite of passage, not only a recognition of what karma you’ve accrued with them, but– by the contributions you’ve made to each other’s journeys – affirmation that the balancing of it can now be made manifest.

As an additional bonus, you come to realize that contrary to how you may feel at times, you’re never alone on your journey, and that you can indeed trust the guidance and support of your own soul’s Loving interconnection and expertise. If you think that you’re stuck, not getting anywhere, well sorry to disagree (actually, I can’t say that I am really), but you’re wrong. You’re on your own Perfect path, opening to your highest potential; it’s just that 'one step at a time' can often seem a little slow, without a fuller picture.

Big Medicine Love to You
~ Black Feather