Greetings! In today’s Red Thread Letter #916 we are exploring Soul-Stuff and the Revealing of Great Work – recorded in the dark of the morning – the time when my soul voice is most alive! I invite you to tune in with a cuppa for 15 minutes and then journal or draw what arises. Cuz’ that’s what we do around here. We Create!
Intentional Creativity is a wonderful way to access the soul language and discover what wants to come through you, as you… I mean, who are YOU anyway? Someone wonderful to be sure…
Evolution of a painting created during a weekend retreat
with Shakti Durga, by Shiloh Sophia
The images shared here are the evolution of a painting created last weekend. We had an incredible teacher here at MUSEA offering her gifts, Shakti Durga. The way I participated was to paint the energy of the teachings as I perceived them through my framework and to work with the energy of the group. If people were processing, releasing, or creating, I included that in the art. I was thrilled to be with my dear soul friends, Lynnea Brinkerhoff, and Gary Malkin – and have Jonathan make us yummy food!
We were all in inquiry about the song of the soul and how it expresses itself. Sometimes I think of Soul discovery in the way I think of painting – one layer at a time. Each layer reveals the next layer…
Red Thread Letter #916
Soul-Stuff and the Revealing of Great Work
Dear One,
How does the Soul reveal itself through you? I rise in the dark. It is so early in the morning it is still nighttime. The dark of the moon and the mist reveal no brightness. Yet my Soul stirs me to take up the pen. Who is doing the talking here? I wonder. I want to write a poem but something else is being requested. I submit and write the first sentence…
“Every single one of us comes into this life as we are.”
From there the pen flows without stopping, as energy moves into form, organized in black words on a white page. I co-create with the life force flowing through me. I want poetry because of the liminality it brings, but instead, I get the hard questions, the provocation that challenges beliefs, and the call to more awakeness than we had before.
This is what we call our Soul, our innate ‘us-ness’ seems to ride in with our incarnation. We come in with our own flavor and sass and sometimes a bad attitude and sometimes an innate call to do the work of saving ourselves and others.
All of us are carrying innate qualities, like imagination and identity – and the soul in which our being has being-ness. A conversation with our Soul is something we all need to have… But how do you do that?
How does each one of us navigate arriving here and not really coming in with a map of where to go and how to get there? Well. That is THE Question of Questions. How do we navigate this thing called life? How does it work and who lives in here?
How I experience my relationship with my Soul is how I live my life – yet it is through a veil – sometimes clear and at other times hidden. I always say that being awake means: As awake as our soul is willing to be at any given time. To me, it seems as if the soul moderates what we can handle, and safely integrate. Kindness seems to be the mode of the soul towards us, and…creativity.
Self-expression is one of the ways we can get to know our soul stuff. When we create, who we are gets revealed in the visible world and we can take a look. The Soul cannot be understood in abstraction and the mental constructs only – our body is the prism through which the currency of the soul reflects true colors.
The idea that the Soul is carrying information specific to it, seems possible. But can we say for sure? Do we need to assert surety? Can the mystery be included when we speak of the Soul? For me, the mystery must be included whenever we are speaking of soul, and the work of the soul.
Keep reading or listen to me speak this here
XO
