Restless Spirit
Leave a reply
Soul Mirror
At the core of our human journey is the relationship between our inner masculine & feminine energies. When our inner masculine & feminine are out of balance, we yearn for wholeness. As long as we have human bodies we must acknowledge the desires of the flesh, however by treating our sexuality with respect we come to realize our outer gender is but half of the whole soul unit. When we identify completely with our physical gender we create a deep longing for the opposite gender manifesting as sexual desire.
As we grow in soul maturity and our consciousness expands, any under developed energy in our psyche tugs at our hearts and minds. This energy will be reflected in a soul mirror, a person who comes into our life in order to raise the frequencies of both souls. A soul mirror can exhilarate and frustrate us. He/she can find knots of energy that have remained dormant for decades, even lifetimes. They enter our life to share information and experiences that enhance our journey and give us the feeling of moving into the wholeness that embraces our soul and frees our consciousness.
It is important to establish clear and honest communication, to honour the others living reality, and to practice patience and kindness. We must remember we are also acting as mirrors for other souls. We need to allow the other to expand and grow into their full potential without judgement or expectation.
~ Collette OMahony
Celtic roots of Samhain (Halloween)
As millions of children and adults participate in the fun of Halloween on the night of October 31st, few will be aware of its ancient Celtic roots in the Samhain festival. In Celtic Ireland about 2,000 years ago, Samhain was the division of the year between the lighter half (summer) and the darker half (winter). At Samhain the division between this world and the otherworld was at its thinnest, allowing spirits to pass through.
The family’s ancestors were honoured and invited home whilst harmful spirits were warded off. People wore costumes and masks to disguise themselves as harmful spirits and thus avoid harm. Bonfires and food played a large part in the festivities. The bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into a communal fire, household fires were extinguished and started again from the bonfire. Food was prepared for the living and the dead, food for the ancestors who were in no position to eat it, was ritually shared with the less well off.
Christianity incorporated the honouring of the dead into the Christian calendar with All Saints (All Hallows) on November 1st, followed by All Souls on November 2nd. The wearing of costumes and masks to ward off harmful spirits survived as Halloween costumes.
The Festival of Samhain marked the end of the Celtic year and the beginning of the new one and as such can be seen to the equivalent of New Year’s Eve. The Celts believed that night preceded day and so the festivities took place on the Eve of Samhain.
The decline in the strength of the sun at this time of year was a source of anxiety for early man and the lighting of the Winter Fires here symbolised mans attempt to assist the sun on its journey across the sky. Fire is the earthly counterpart of the sun and is a powerful and appropriate symbol to express mans helplessness in the face of the overwhelming sense of decay of nature as the winter sets in.
The idea that Samhain is a juncture between the two halves of the year saw it acquiring the unique status of being suspended in time – it did not belong to the old year nor the new. It could be said that time stood still on this night and the implications of this were immense. During this night the natural order of life was thrown into chaos and the earthly world of the living became hopelessly entangled with the world of the dead. But the world of the dead was itself a complicated place, peopled not only by the spirits of the departed, but also with a host of gods, fairies and other creatures of uncertain nature.
However, the ghosts may not have been entirely benign. They needed some sort of appeasement in the form of ritual offerings on this night. So long as the offering was forthcoming the ghosts were happy and benevolent, but if the offering was withheld another side of ghostly features were presented. Bad luck would descend on the household for the coming year. A vestige of this tradition survives in the modern Halloween custom of “trick or treat”. Children, dressed as ghosts and witches, invite the household to make a donation or face the consequences. The ‘treat’ may represent the ritual offering while the ‘trick’, nowadays a harmless prank, may have in antiquity represented the malevolent consequences of inadequately appeasing the ancestral ghost on this night.
The early Irish manuscripts are littered with references to the magical significance of Samhain. It marked the end of the fighting and hunting season for the warrior troop known as the Fianna. At Samhain they retreated into winter camp, quartering themselves on the general population until the return of Summer at Bealtaine. There remains little doubt that Samhain held a central place in the imagination of the Celts, where the festivities associated with several local gods became entangled, over the course of perhaps a thousand years, with the feast of the god of the dead. Remnants of these celebrations have come down to us in our own celebrations of Halloween.
Masculine & Feminine Energy…. Waking Up
The male and female ego are self-centered, using their opposite energy charge to fuel desires. The inner energy charge that is suppressed (the masculine energy fuelling the female ego; feminine energy fuelling the male ego) brings uneasy feeling and thoughts to the surface. Masculine and feminine energy must learn to harmonise and bring balance to the soul unit in order to dispel the dreaming state of egoic consciousness.
The inner masculine responds to the feminine’s state of consciousness. It will throw out the image required to guide the female ego to full consciousness. If the female ego resists the conditions approximated by the masculine energy, dependency on the outer physical male ensues which ultimately leads to emotional instability. This is also true of the male ego, if he resists surfacing emotions released by the inner feminine energy, he becomes dependent on the female ego, which leads to feelings of being used.
The destructive cycle playing out between masculine and feminine require a conscious commitment for equality and balance. Otherwise blame and judgement take over, forcing them into separate roles. The conceptual self, the ego, takes over… and the karmic cycle continues.
It is paramount for men and women to see beyond the roles and masks of ego. True soul pairings can help each other out of the destructive cycle of dependency. A soul partnership can work towards the freedom of suppressed energy within. A man can reflect to a woman the state of consciousness of her inner masculine. A woman reflects to a man the state of consciousness of his inner feminine energy.
The key is to see the partner as already whole, not someone to be ‘fixed’, allowing the pain that temporarily causes the rift to arise into awareness. The greatest gift we can offer to our inner energy, our partners, and humanity is our awakened self.
~Collette OMahony
October 2014
Art; Armando Alemdar Ara
Divine Atom; Masculine & Feminine (Extract from Science of the Soul)
The conscious pairing of masculine and feminine energy reveals the truth behind the universe. A true pairing reveals the Creator of the Universe.
The feminine energy, split from its twin masculine, becomes embroiled in noise and inner dialogue. This noisy self talk creates the ego through which the feminine expresses its life force. It becomes trapped in form and the egoic self takes over as a female ego. Female ego and male ego identify with their physical gender. It is only through quiet observation that the life force can enjoy physical form without being absorbed by it, and identifying with either male or female ego. Fearful emotions are a result of the unconscious ‘split’ from the twin energy. The masculine and feminine energies divide and are no longer one witnessing presence but two active egos.
To return to witnessing presence the feminine has to release any emotions that have built up. The masculine has to forego its need to think and create a memory mind. Both egos must overcome the need to act as a separate entity. Several male and female egos participating in unconscious emotive self activity create a global ego. This global ego lives through artificial intelligence such as media, internet, social networking sites, to name but a few. The global ego acts as an electromagnetic force binding all the semi-egos of male and female to its central memory mind. This memory mind is shaped by human history.
An atom containing an equal number of protons and electrons is electrically neutral. However in the case of a semi-ego, i.e. male and female, both will seek an opposite charge through the central force of global ego. The male and female ego that are a true pairing become polarized and seek completion through another positive or negative charge through the central magnetic force of global ego. The global ego, which governs collective human thought, survives through these odd pairings. If a true pairing unites it creates a void in the global ego and reduces its power supply.
The twin charge of a divine atom must reach a point where it can no longer suffer the insanity generated by unconsciousness, and seek unity for its masculine and feminine energy. The masculine energy must release the belief that ‘I am a male’ and the feminine energy has to release the belief that ‘I am a female’. Both must realise their dual aspects; they are masculine and feminine energy of one consciousness.
Once the divine atom sets the intention to unite, the Creator shall move the universe to bring the pair together, but first comes the arduous process of releasing attachment to physical form.
Universal source energy knows when a pair is ready to return to Reality. It knows the divine atom is ready when it becomes totally still. Stillness means witnessing presence and the end of self active thought. In other words the masculine and feminine pair no longer creates a male ego and female ego.
The divine atom is complete when a true pairing of masculine and feminine energy unite and realises I AM. This is the realisation of the Divine Atom.
~ Collette OMahony
https://colletteomahony.wordpress.com/books-2/
Art; Kindred Spirits ~ Armando Alemdar-Ara
Collette OMahony (Author's blog) 