DragonFly

Transmission

Dear Reader;

In recent weeks I have heard so many speak to their psychic exhaustion, emotional burnout and deepening angst. This is a time when we are tested in our trust and may find ourselves awash in isolation and loss. A world we thought we knew has become surreal.

Even in such times, the foundational truths apply. The essence of over-arching Presence is wholeness. The shadow is our experience of the illusion of separation. We reclaim our potency as a Creator by coming face to face with the thing we fear the most. This is the direct route to a transcendent consciousness.

To be human is to know suffering and death. To face our pain is to set us free from its hold.

Suffering is not an accident, it is the catalyst. Our karmic experiences are not meant to be fixed but rather transformed.

"To live in this world, you must learn to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go." ~ Mary Oliver

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I stumbled upon the following wee tale recently. May it coax you gently through the sultry dance of human death and liberation. For after all, we are all born to die.

Photo by Sean Thomas on Unsplash

DRAGONFLY

Come closer
says the dragon to the fly
so that you may taste death
upon my tongue
and as I
sweetly dine
will discover the bliss
of entering me here
becoming
my breath
and becoming
my blood
until we are blessed
as one

You resist too much
says the dragon
to the fly
you quiver in fear
at my power
and yet
it is the very heat I exhale
that draws you ever near
until you
must finally alight
and the seduction
is done
like the lovesick bee
and the eternal, succulent
flower

So follow
my beckoning
and follow
your yearning
for what you cannot see
beyond the blindness
of fear
Open yourself
without question
and discover
acquiescent bliss
for it is death
that must be met
in the reckoning
held tightly in the hands
of the doubtful one
the keeper
of loss

And as you turn
following
yet again
but this time
around
a corner
walking my path
not yours anymore
and as you look down
see it flow
all the same
all undeniable
and easier
than anything you have ever done
before

For whether the fly
enters the front door
of the mouth
or the side door
of the ear
or penetrates
in her determination
through the back door
of the skull

However she enters
all that matters
is where she goes
when she chooses to see
that the fear of death
is nothing more
than
a missing trust
for once here
present
in my great full belly
of hearts
you will know nothing
care nothing
for all the griefs
of old

And so this
whispers
the great one
green eyes
and many tails
this
this is your chance
to learn 
of how all fears
connect to death
and so
with the relinquishment
of stale understandings
of what it means to die
you can fear
no more

You
in your darkest moments
you
in your most frail and broken
body
you
in your emptiness
when the whole world
seems to have gone
from the place
where you are
You
in the final shame
hiding
from all eyes
and most of all
your own

You are meant
through this visit
with complete acceptance
to witness
your unquenchable beauty
and the beauty of
every other soul
tiny and black
as they fly furiously
toward the one
who would eat her
whole

Princess of Dragons

You are dining
with heat
with conception
with 
immanent birth
for all this
lives in my belly
and when you inhabit me
you become one
with everything in me
which is all Life
all Matter
and all Time

It is a savoury invitation
this meal
that we plan
for it has nothing to do
with consumption
and everything to do
with the nourishment
of the soul
your hunger
my tongue
and a taste
that we share

Life and death
are One

Mermaid (Transfiguration) by Sulamith Wulfing

much love,
Adi