"The Meditation"

From "Oracle of the Hidden Worlds Guidebook" (Blue Angel Publishing)

As I prepare for the grand opening of Fae, Flower & Stone, I wanted to share one of the most beautiful and inspirational writings about meditation that I've ever read. I don't typically use decks for inspiration, but in this case I make an exception. This is like a book of fine art and moving poetry for me. During times of transition when I need faith to move forward I used these cards and feel divinely supported by the Universe.

As the "Illumination" below states: "Meditation is no luxury-it is my soul's food and drink". I've come to believe this, and it's the reason why I try to share different active meditation techniques through my products and experiences. I hope you will enjoy the excerpt from this particular card I drew this year.

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Illumination: Meditation is no luxury- it is my soul's food and drink, and I will no longer allow my soul to go thirsty, to hunger for the true source that nourishes us all.

This being is in meditation out in the wild beyond, yet deep within her own being. She holds a burning bundle of herbs, its smoke cleaning and clearing the human worlds all the way from her interdimensional home. She is all the gifts of the natural world, the flowers and the herbs, and she is offering you their secrets and gifts this day. In this stillness, amidst this beauty, she is holding the space for you to enter when you are ready, so you, too, can break away from the dominant reality, which is a lie and enter into the truthful song of the spirit once again.

Take a moment, this day, and feel your way into a piece of time that you can claim for your own. Remove yourself for several long, precious moments from the clamour and din of ego, and of competition, and of rush and hurry and sink into the earthy realness of the land. In this moment, open up the eyes that lie within you, find your way along the pathways of spirit and safely travel there, surrounded as you are by this cleansing, clearing smoke from the sacred bundle of magickal herbs. Find your way to the place where you can explore the expanding nature of your soul, its infinite light and possibilities, and spend a little while there, reminding yourself of who you truly are. In this way, you will knit yourself together again. The pain of expectations, of pressure, of the physical dimension will ease for a time, and you will return, refreshed, and whole, with love guiding you. In this way, you will stay close to your own inner truth, and the pain of dissonance will slowly decrease, until it is no more."