May the Great Dream of our Ancestors

Inspire Heartful Action
Guiding us ever onward
as the Living Embodiment of their Eternal Light
~Amaya O'Duir~

10/22/09

The day the sun moved into Scorpio, I partially witnessed a terrible accident. An SUV struck a man on a scooter in the middle of an intersection. After hearing a most dreadful sound I turned around to see the man splayed in front of the wheels of the car, face down on the concrete, unmoving.

I don't know if he is alive or dead, comatose or recovering. I may never know. It was a bad impact, and I was deeply traumatized and shocked by it all.

All I knew to do was stand on the sidewalk with my arms extended, beaming Reiki, praying aloud. When I reluctantly decided to leave and return home, I trembled with shock and frozen tears.

The poem below I wrote in honour of this tragic happening which deeply moved me, and has forever changed me. I am going to create a shrine near the scene of the accident and will include this poem.

these are simple words
human words
compassion words
words humble
and so careful not to disappear as tears

these words i shape for you
are what i have to give
and i give them to you freely
the brother i never knew

it was here i heard that dreadful sound
saw you crudely spilled on concrete
face-down, unmoving
in the middle of this road

yes you could have been my lover
could have been my friend
a cousin or even my son
you could have been my father
or my uncle too

nameless brother without face
into the circle of your tragedy
my heart cracked open wide
wider into the circle of this life
i gift these words to you

the sacred act of witness
is a precious and vulnerable thing
so fragile so blessed is this human life
such a gift
to have these words
this moment
this heart

I am you, and you are me and together we are three

sOuL mAtEs

Phew! It's a mighty catch phrase which holds a great deal of electrical charge and expectancy, a phrase which rivets and wrenches any mundane and over-domesticated heart into romantic contortions, standing what's bland and randy completely on it's head. Sometimes the very notion of a 'soul mate' is altogether dismissed as an embroidered modicum of wishful-thinking, or existentially downplayed as mere yearning best fulfilled as spiritual or religious practice.

But how can we so easily disembody and deny an ancient human desire to manifest the emanation of our heart's love in a significant other? And further deny our desire to express this affection toward a mate through our devotional senses? Yes, perhaps a longing for a soul mate is indeed a yearning to be ignited by God's Fire.......Perhaps we SHOULD first seek our alignment with Source before we search the planet far and wide for our human Beloved, our 'mavourneen daelish'.

However, we are clearly here to RELATE together, to learn valuable, intimate lessons through our diverse interconnections, to evolve our consciousness through our relationships with others. This may suggest that as we evolve, we set the inner and outer stages for more powerful alliances, and we become increasingly magnetic to the kind of relationships which magnify our Soul. And if you believe, as I do, that our Souls reincarnate throughout time, space and dimension then it is likely that we will eventually encounter more than a few folks who just 'know' and 'remember' us in our current incarnation.

Perhaps it is my potent astrological blend of Sun conjunct Venus in the 8th, with Scorpio Rising, and a birthday which falls on the Summer Solstice, because I have been blessed to have met, mated, mixed and mingled with folks I consider nothing less than Mates of My Soul. And yet every time it happens, (usually quite unexpectedly) it is so damn EPIC, fantastic, powerful, earthshaking and transformational that interactions on the mundane, daily-grind-level feel cumbersome and weighty in comparison.

Presently, I'm smack-dab in the middle of channel 99, Soul-Mate Drama. Yes folks, drama! Soooooo, YOU think soul mates just magically effervesce into our lives from celestial realms singing angelic arias in impossible octave ranges, bearing the equivalent of frankincense and myrrh after having followed your personal star back to you for eons? Think again! Your soul mate will wrench you......mirroring back to you every disowned fear, every misaligned fragment of yourself you left out in the dark, every forgotten dream, every discordant note of you that needs to come back to God/dess.......while triggering you to remember this and that which needs to be karmically resolved, and of course, all while loving you deeply, fully and magically.

You can't HIDE from a soul-mate, it's futile to even try. You'll have long, engaging conversations on the telep-o-phone, and you'll feel they're walking beside you, sometimes within you, when in linear reality they are geographical miles away. Time will dissolve. You will feel yourself more lucid and alive as though you're getting a cosmic vitamin-rush from deep space, all those trace vitamins and minerals your life has lacked for far too long. Soul-mates give you a wicked contact-high of upper frequencies because together you vibrate more Light.

You might at times feel as if you're going to super nova together when your circuitry gets so overloaded with refined electrical frequency that you start to see strobe lights pulsing in your third eye. Yet soul-mates also challenge your status quo, your prejudices, your self-limitations and anything else you've stubbornly embedded inside yourself to keep you reciting the monotone narrative you call your life. (which your soul mate may call your habit, your comfort zone, your personal hide-away grove)

Soul mates always open new doors of perception to you, forge in you new pathways. They kick your freakin' ass into gear while sending you into elated ecstasies. They sober you up with karmic buzz-kills when needed. I actually don't necessarily recommend that you make it your art to hunt your soul mate unless you've done enough inner homework to prepare for potential catharsis. Unless you are more than ready to take responsibility to align your life to it's Mission and it's Purpose. Because soul mates ALWAYS bring you a mission and a purpose for mutual growth, and the searing Truths that soul-mates activate in you might radically juxtapose your quaint version of reality.

And there isn't just one out there who can do all this, ya know. There might be 4 or 5 (your soul group) Sometimes less, sometimes more..........We tend to romantically idealize the ONE, and surely we are blessed if we encounter that ONE. Yet there are potentially many. We are linked together in a cosmic weave of synchronicity which is sometimes pretty freaky, man.

You'll definitely know exactly what I'm talking about if you've ever been on the adventurous, white-knuckle, roller-coaster ride of soul-mate-dom. If you are prepared to do the homework, or the 'om'work which is required of you in such an association, a Soul Mate relationship can ignite wondrous blisses and ecstasies beyond imagining. A soul-mate is your closer-to-god ally who is a true cosmic gift from the high-heart of above-LOVE.

When you're ready, a soul mate will come.