Love Notes on Liberation 5
Dreaming in color while wading through shadow
I dreamt I went to visit my dear Aquarius friend in Spain. In the dream we are sitting on stone steps that lead to the sea at night. Over glistening water and the dark horizon, the sky is technicolored. The colors are moving gently in all directions, blue, yellow, orange, red, purple…it’s as if a celestial painting has come alive in the sky. It’s beautiful.
We get up and walk into the sea. There are twigs in the shallow water near the shore and suddenly I realize there could be anything underneath us in the dark and I want to get out. We go back to shore and I say something about not getting in water at night.
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In the waking world, it's a New Moon. The Lunar New Year. It's the year of the snake in the wood element. I decide to do a two card pull from my deck to mark the threshold. One card for my path in this next Moon cycle and the other my challenge.
The cards mirror the dream.
The path card is about traveling through the murky waters of shadow energy and the the challenge card is about bright expression and creative vision. Maybe these are actually cards for the whole year. Maybe these cards aren’t just for me.
Collectively, we are walking in a dark underworld—shadows emerging, truths uncovered, fears asking to be healed. Old systems and ways of living are falling apart.
This is a shedding moment. The snake skin that is no longer needed. The caterpillar releasing its old ways so it can begin its transformation. We can learn from this wisdom—make time to cocoon, rest for our well-being, protect our vessel as we too transform.
As my dream and the cards suggest, we must also envision a new way forward, the butterfly we can become. We must call on our collective light, which is our love & care and our heart filled imaginations. We must hold dearly what we know is possible and let that lead us to aligned action.
Facing shadow with the light of our hearts, we accept what is decomposing in front of us, we step up as the keepers of a new way...
We are wading through dark waters, but we are also holding the technicolor sky steady in our gaze.
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Love you,
Emily
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. Audre Lorde
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