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Seeing Through Soft Eyes
by Cinnamon Moon
I was talking with a friend who
had recently been through an experience with spiritual aspects
to it. As she came out the other side of things she was a bit
hard on herself. This friend is really just coming to understand
her own journey and her comment to me about having missed seeing
some things along the way for what they were was: "For
an intelligent person I can be so dumb at times, eh?" She
wasn't dumb.
It got me thinking though…about
how many times we say that type of thing to ourselves…those
'duh moments' we all have. I knew if I let it go she's be adding
another block as a brick in a wall somewhere too if we didn't
take it further. I didn't want to spill at her, so our conversation
went on and some of the things I was pointing out to her seemed
appropriate to be shared here as well.
Hopefully this article will help
some of our community members that struggle with grasping their
guidance. I hope it helps them to know what's what as they strive
to grow. So here's the main point of our conversation in a condensed
form.
First of all, my friend wasn't dumb,
and I pointed out to her that she was just learning to decipher
and discern the soft voice of the spiritual…it presents
in such simple terms…but we have to look, listen, sense
in the soft ways, diffusing the physical reality. We are coming
into a more abstract language that keeps things simple…universal
in the sense that it is 'something' like we're being show. I
explained that what we're shown is in 'our code' what the symbols
mean to us is more than what the universals say…they provide
the flashlights we need to dig and find what the symbols mean
to us.
Once we understand our softer internal
symbols we can run with our guidance. She was just grabbing
onto that fact and see that those who are seasoned on their
paths understand their guidance … they went through the
same process. It's that process that seemed important to share
with the Spirit Lodge community so here you go. It would be
great if some of our seasoned pathwalkers want to share their
own experiences in this thread too.
We all come to things a bit differently.
I always say a Star is a good example of symbology and variations
of it. To one person it speaks of the universe, the vastness
of space and infinite abstract concepts. To another it will
speak of the feminine receptivity of the night, that energy
and all it holds, the essence of the calm and it's beauty for
the eye to behold. To another it is all about awe and wonderment,
the wishes we make on shooting stars, the hopes of the heart,
the possibilities. To still another it means success, achievement,
perhaps fame and fortune as in renown for wealth and accomplishment,
or for stardom itself…Hollywood.
Whatever that Star represents to
you is more than the universal meaning of the word but the universal
will help you get started on finding it. You'll know, for instance
if a message comes to tell told you that a star shines for you
and it likely meant something big…you'd know what that
was immediately (say you were in a contest…something big
would be 1st, 2nd, 3rd place in that contest…a shooting
star would indicate it's likely 1st place so you'd know what
to reach for.) It directly relates to an immediate issue in
most initial receptions. The universal meaning alters at that
point. Or if you are looking for guidance a shooting star might
indicate you would receive it...and to watch for signs...those
coincidences in life.
It's how we learn to interpret guidance,
trust it, follow it. When we do it grows stronger and even clearer…like
a muscle that hasn't been used in a while, it needs to be built
up and find it's full strength. If you let it go again it will
take some exercise before it is at full capacity, probably less
than the first time but it takes attention to get it there all
the same.
The senses we have are our radar,
but we have to tune in and turn them on with a 'soft' eye and
ear when we read them. They're subtle at first. When we learn
to recognize the different 'voices' they speak to us with, the
different languages and impressions they make on us, we can
define which sense, what element, what form of guidance is coming
in. (Provided we're studying the elemental forces too.)
It's a lot like knowing a radio
station well. Most people look to learn about spirituality with
the hard eye and ear…the sharp eye and ear. They strain
in the physical sense to see the spiritual, but it's not like
that. It takes the soft side to connect and they don't know
how to soften themselves, they think it's being vulnerable to
ridicule for weakness in the eyes of others, it's childish nonsense
isn't it? Or is it?
We think we're dumb because we don't
'get it', but that's only because we don't know how to soften
ourselves to it in the first place. We're learning through experience
to tune into it. You've always done it, but consciously recognizing
it for what it is takes some serious focus and serious softening
to see and hear…we have to soften to get through the veil.
I like the analogy of reading a
book in a lunchroom, you tune out of one environment (the lunch
room) by softening the eye and ear to it and step into another
(the book) and sharpening the eye and ear where you're focused.
We have to soften, step, and refocus. If there's disturbance
to the energy of the lunchroom you'll snap back and check it,
if it's minor and of no effect on you then you go back to the
book. If there's danger you put the book away and get back to
that later while avoiding the chaos around you. Same principle…shifting
focus where it's needed with an eye or ear to the other environment
(dimension). Recognizing when to do this is the trick and we
learn how as we go…it's 'normal' to have to figure that
out too.
Recognizing the difference is the
trick though and most people don't know how to go about it and
when they do find out they wonder if it's an overactive imagination
at play with them. It takes trusting the process, watching for
things to manifest, to know what's what but they have to remember
to watch for these things.
When we start looking for signs
they appear, we see them and the more we watch the more we see…pretty
soon they're everywhere. Why? Because we opened ourself to see
the softer side, the breeze that tosses our hair and catches
our eye at a significant signpost with just the right message
we needed for inspiration.
When we trust enough to see what
happens next with a cautious eye we find the experiences we
have certainly do match up to what we were shown. It's easy
then to say it's coincidence. But it's more than that and if
we watch our coincidences we start to see where our guidance
is active, how it plays into our own life (our unique way of
receiving the communication…there are main characteristics
to this but we're all a bit different too…sort of like"
this for me and that for you but along similar lines" if
you know what I mean.) and where we can go with it from there.
We can start taking stitches to connect the dots.
We need to learn to learn to trust
it too, not to second-guess and dismiss what we pick up on but
to watch for it playing out instead. That's the Dream we're
given…the bits and pieces that come together slowly over
a lifetime...and sometimes we see into the Dreamscape of others,
more bits and pieces, and we weave our threads this way.
When we can see the vision, trust
it, follow guidance, we see it unfold and manifest results and
we Weave our Dream. We can choose to be the one Dreamed by ignoring
these things--our inner spirit is the Dreamer trying to share
that vision with us-or we can choose union spiritually, raise
our conscious awareness to look for these things, and thus become
the Dream. We can weave it then and we can see how we use the
energy, how it co-creates with us, how Spirit moves through
our life.
Spirit is energy…omnipotent
energy and energy contains information…when we tap our
spirit we link to Spirit then and we're into the cosmic consciousness…the
collective consciousness…Source Energy carries that information
to us. But we have to go to our own center to find that...it's
'in' us that we make that connection and project outward from
there.
It's there in the Source Energy
because it is the permeation of All…all things, all thought,
all knowledge, all of life. Opening to the soft side of the
sensory impressions is where it starts, exploring them by watching
what plays out helps us define things, and soon we're able to
test and trust what we find. We then open our channel wide and
find we have constant guidance to work with at all times.
It takes some time, we need to be
patient, but softening ourselves is the start. We have to slip
into the DreamWeave to do that…the daydreaming state where
visions come forward and inspiration touches us…the soft
focus. Try it and see what happens. Feel free to share your
own experiences with us too.
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(Main Section, Medicine Wheel, Native Languages &
Nations, Symbology)
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