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A Chairde, Friends,
I seem to be on a roll with guided visualisations for our creative rituals the past few months but I am following the energy, which led me to the practice I share with you today.
I recently had the honour of being a guest facilitator on The Hedge School: Tending Our Roots with The Trailblazery. If you are not yet familiar with their magnificent body of work, I highly recommend checking them out. My theme was, The Quickening: Vitality, Visions and Viriditas, where I shared perspectives on the greening power of nature as embodied by the 12th-century mystic, Hildegard of Bingen.
In preparation, I curated a dream incubation for myself, asking Hildegard for guidance in my dreamscape, which came, along with a flood of synchronicities. In the dream I was gifted, I was making my way down to the River Liffey in Dublin and at one stage on my path, I met two mystical, medieval women who, when I stopped to engage with them, gave way to themselves and became two rivers flowing through the street, then women again, then rivers. The dream repeated the image, which is always a sign from psyche to pay attention. This image, along with the whole dream inspired a guided visualisation that I facilitated on Tending Our Roots and now share with you today.
My intention here is to guide you to give way to your own river and follow the energy of your dán, your creative destiny at this time. In doing so, you can free yourself or parts of yourself from comparison as no one else can flow in your river, you cannot flow in anyone else’s. Here’s a message from the visualisation so you can get a feel for its essence:
‘You see that some of these rivers have people in them and some of them don’t
But the river runs nonetheless
Always waiting, always hoping for their person to arrive
The river knows who is meant to be in it
I cannot climb into your river or it will dry up
As yours is not my path to live
Yours is not my dán
Mine is not yours
But we can flow together
One day, we will all flow out to sea
To Tír na nÓg, to the Otherworld.’
One synchronicity that I will share is that after this intuition of each of us having a river for our dán came, I found this image I had doodled in my journal back in 2019. On it, I had written to myself, ‘Let go of comparisons and remember we all have our own soul’s path to live into. Yours is not theirs, theirs is not yours.’ You can see little stick figures in purple, each with their own soul-shaped river to flow into.
