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Want the answer? Ask the question. And look inside.

by Teresa

We are all students, seekers of the truth.

Souls having a human experience.

We want to touch the Divine, understand the Vast Mystery, feel the Infinite flow through us.

We want to know what to do. Why we are here. What our great purpose is.

Spoiler Alert: The answer is within you.

The answer for each of us, and our way to discover it, is each as unique as we are.

There are so many paths to explore, so many places to search.

Rituals, signs, religions, soul-family, spirit guides, nature, priests, drums, shamans, crystals, butterflies.

Spoiler alert: the answer is within you. Macro photos of white and pink tulip with bright yellow at its center. We ask outside ourselves in every possible way.

And they answer.

Or do they?

If my answers are within me, and your answers are within you, those things outside of us can’t give us the answers.

Can they?

Well, they can help.

We are rooted in this human body, anchored to this physical world.

We are constantly in touch with things that are outside of us – external cues and clues that form part of our experience.

The rest of that experience is internal – in the way we process those cues and clues and drink in their meaning.

The same way that seeing a large cloud might prompt us to reach for a sweater.

Or the rush of love we can feel when someone looks at us in just that way.

We experience our world, and ourselves, as a reflection of the world around us.

This reflection becomes whole and real as we internalize it and make it our own.

As we search, we find new things to receive.

New cues.

New clues.

Keys, even.

Through these we find the way through the labyrinth of our own soul, tapping into and awakening the deepest of our inner knowing.

We open the way for the Vast Mystery to flow through us.

We touch the Divine.

It just may be a tarot card that shifts open our understanding.

Or a pendulum that guides our heart to see something a new way.

Or the words of a shaman that melt the icy blockage in our heart.

It could be anything. The touch of a butterfly, the roar of a river. A kind word, or a dire warning.

We are surrounded by the keys in every moment, beautifully visible to a still and open heart.

Where do you look for your answers? How do you find the way into your soul?

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What are the words to my soul?

by Teresa

In the sea of my heart, words struggle to find purchase on the roiling flow of feelings.

I want you to feel all this inside me – to breathe in this wonder, to bask in this beauty, to fall into the softness of release.

Yet, words elude me.

They tumble and tangle in curlicues and filigree belying their past stories and busting into brand new moves.

I reach for them. Greedy hands trying to capture the bubble before it implodes, the butterfly before it departs.

The language reveals itself impossibly s l o w l y in tiny incremental tokens.

A discovery: Wonder and Beauty fuel my soul. Let me share how.

At the core of my spirit – of this practice – my soul is fed by Wonder and Beauty.

I wrote about this for the Wise Woman Council about self-care.

The more I hold these words, the more I study their facets and cracks, the more they awaken the Divine in me.

They are, of course, just words. Words that will fall short of the meaning I give them.

Words that may guide you towards this place I want to share, but may lead you somewhere altogether different.

An evolution:

I forget sometimes that this need not be a solitary act. In the eyes and hearts of the right people, the language, even the words, can evolve with their own wonder and beauty.

There, in my butterfly rabble, filled with all the right people, lovely Tina offered lepidolove – whose core begins with Lepidoptera, the order of insects that includes butterflies and moths, and whose apex is selfless and welcoming love.

A new word so filled with promise and butterflies and the peace of the universe. I can not help but be smitten with it.

A purpose:

This is all for you. For us.

A language and tools for us to find our way to our souls together. For us to awaken together in the light of our own Divine.

And can the threads be pulled together into a tapestry, a statement that guides my path?

Through the gorgeous and wonderful Purpose: Finding the Thread Course, there were new discoveries, new plans and thoughts and a grand coalescing of ideas, distilled into a beautiful purpose statement destined to evolve as we move forward.

“My role is to lead tender-hearted ready-to-heal people to the peace of their deepest knowing through Wonder, Beauty and artful spiritual tools.”

I fall down with the language of what I can offer, but I continue to flow into the path of the right words.

It will come together. We will find our language. In time. In love.

I stumble again when it comes to you.

Those of you whom I lead, those who lead beside me, those who are healing every day, what words can I find for you?

What do you call yourself? Seeker? Soul? Student?

I want to etch your word for you on my heart so I will know you whenever I see you, even when we are far apart.

Forever connected in lepidolove, we are kin. Forever bright in the eyes of each other.

Hearts entwined in shimmering tapestry, shattering the myth of alone.

Together.

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Want help making a decision? Ask your pendulum!

May 9, 2013

You can use your pendulum to hear the answers only your heart knows. Learn how to hold it, how it will answer you and how to use it to choose in any situation.