SoulCollage® – Committee Suit – Sending My Heart Ahead

SoulCollage® – Committee Suit – Sending My Heart Ahead

I send my heart out ahead of me

On softly feathered wings she flies
Carrying my intention
Like an olive branch
Or a message
Seeking
Creating
An alliance between what is
And a vision
A hope
Of what might become

Buoyant and agile
Keen of vision and true in flight
A homing beacon
Lighting the way with her gentle glow
Building a bridge of rainbow light
Opening the way before me
Softening the space I move toward

I send my heart out ahead of me

My avatar, my envoy
Reaching out so that we may meet
Heart to Heart
In a new field of vision
A new space of peace
Awakening the future
We came here to create

Claire Perkins, 2020

(Free Use Images from Unsplash and Pixabay)

 

SoulCollage® – Council Suit – Ancestral History and Future Vision

SoulCollage® – Council Suit – Ancestral History and Future Vision

Two of my recent SoulCollage® cards, each belonging to the Council suit, remind me of my place in time, sandwiched between the long arc of history past and the infinite future that has yet to unfold.

I am reminded of the importance of “being here now,” of staying mindfully in the present, that NOW is all I have. But my NOW is balanced precariously between the history of the past and the unknown of the future.

Council Suit – Ancestral History

My NOW is informed by the past – not only my personal past, but the history held in my pulsing veins, in my DNA. The history of my ancestors, the history of my land, my country, this planet, the Universe. To be ignorant of that history is to miss the mystery and the miracle that I stand here at all in this NOW. To be ignorant of that history is to risk repeating its mistakes. To be ignorant of that history is to risk being ungrateful to all those upon whose sacrifice and struggle I stand. To be ignorant of that history is to risk never knowing what I’ve gained, never mourning what I’ve lost. Never knowing, really, who I am and where I come from. History is the scaffold upon which my NOW is built, it is the skeleton ’round which my flesh and blood is woven.

Council Suit – Future Vision

And from here in this NOW, I am empowered to dream ahead, to envision the future. I am tempted to ask She Who Sees the Future to show me what is to come. But I know that whatever she may see is only a potential future, for it is not yet written what shall come. That ambiguity, that unkown and unknowableness of the future brings meaning into how I spend this NOW. What future will I create through the actions of this moment? What legacy will I leave for those that follow? What mistakes do I bequeath to future generations? What is gained by my own sacrifice and struggle? What stories, what history will be woven from this moment in time, this NOW that is all I have?

And, of course, this NOW in which I stand is no more mine alone than was the past or will be the future. This NOW of ours is a multi-player game. No one of us, including myself, wields total power. It is the collective forces that shape both past and future. Collective forces at play in the NOW. And every move counts.