Oracle Cards:
✨ Hollow Bone: The Shaman’s Dream Oracle by Alberto Villoldo & Colette Baron-Reid
🌀 Becoming: Journey of Love Oracle by Alana Fairchild
✨ Tenderness: The Priestess of Light Oracle by Sandra Anne Taylor & Kimberly Webber
🌀 Ancient Oak Spirit: The Sacred Forest Oracle by Denise Linn
“Your soul chose obscurity to survive. Now embrace visibility to thrive.” This was the message that poured through as I was channeling this morning. For me, there is no denying the truth of it. For many years I stayed hidden, living an outer life of practicality and an inner life of deep excavation. Healing drove me, in many ways emptying out the persona of me that had been so carefully crafted to stay under the radar while still functioning in the “real world”. This was a necessary process for me, becoming the hollow bone. When the constructs of expectations were dismantled, my soul began to sing. Through my own hollowing, I found the path to becoming.
I am still becoming, growing and evolving in real time. My prayer is that I am still becoming as I draw my last breath, that I am always in the beauty of my own evolution. My life here in Luxor demands a different presence, a solidity of Self that was previously unexplored. I have returned to a place within myself that is imminently teachable, while claiming the teacher that I am. There is much about life here that humbles me - the generosity of the family that has welcomed me as their own, my lack of language skills and the dependency that invokes, navigating what used to be simple daily tasks in a new landscape. No aspect of my life is the same, save the words that flow through me as I both live and observe the unfolding of what is. In my own hollowing, I have found a deep self-compassion, a tenderness for the me that often feels like I am floundering as I find my way through the nuance of daily life in uncharted terrain.
So many of the ways I have self identified are challenged here. So many of the old values, the markers of merit in a framework that previously defined me, feel increasingly obsolete. Adhering to old structures, when the world around me demands coherence, rhythm, and resonance, is an exercise in futility. I now let the day structure itself, feeling into the energy and utilizing what is present to me to determine my tasks. I trust in my own strength, the discipline of those old systems an echo, leveraged in a vastly different way. I allow those deep roots to anchor me, so I stand more solidly in my Presence. I am visible here, like an exotic bird landed on a city street, my ethnicity and nationality exposing me, whether I like it or not. For much of my life, I would not have withstood the scrutiny. The gift of Egypt has been that I trust the deep roots of my soul, the strength of my heart, and the willingness to be emptied of ego so I may be replenished with Grace time and time again. I shine, therefore I Am. Let yourself be emptied, so your Soul may thrive.
Blessed be. Much love.
