Sunday, August 24, 2008

Endings and beginnings...

"Endings are foretold in beginnings, young human," Moriana said, "and the seeds of destruction are sown at creation."  The dragoness smiled, a toothy sight.  "But if you're fortunate, you're able to come around again to start anew."

"Is it always the same, honored Moriana?" I asked, my child's voice not yet broken by adolescence.  I hopped from dragon print to dragon print, pressed deep in the leaf mold.  "The same ending and beginning?"

"For some," the dragoness admitted.  "But for others, it is the spiraling song of the lark ascending."

-- Covenants, by Lorna Freeman

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Meeting the Green Master

 In my last spirit journey, after the interlude with the jellyfish, I walked on up my path.  As usual, the woods seemed dark, the trees were tall, black, and clean-limbed.  As I walked, I practiced the exercises to open my heart, to try and accept more freely.  As I did so, the sun broke through the trees and the woods lightened up.  I stopped to look around, and it went dark again.  Whenever I concentrated and opened my heart, the sun showed through the trees and they appeared green and bright; whenever I stopped, it went dark again.  I have a lot of work to do, to learn to keep my heart open.

When I reached the clearing, my guides were there (Oak, Spider, and Swallow).  I greeted them and thanked them all for their help.  I looked to the stream, and the Green Master was there.  He/she is a guide who usually appears in an anthropomorhic form, of a person crowned with leaves and growing with leaves.  He usually works invisibly, under the surface.  This is only the second time that I have spoked to him face to face.

We talked about my wife Athena, who has been having a rough time recently.  He told me that I need to take care of her, she needs my help.  He said that she has special gifts that she gives to me, just be being who she is; just as I bring her special gifts just by being with her.  She doesn't know the gifts she brings me, and would deny it if asked; but it is true.  If I feel inadequate, or if I don't know what to do or say for her, to not get upset.  Sometimes just being there and doing what I can is all thats needed.  Keep focused on my love for her and my respect and admiration, and I will do what is needed at the right time.

I took comfort from this, and thanked the Green Master and my other guides.  I walked back down to the beach, and woke with a sense of peace and refreshed strength.