The Seventh Direction

PART THREE: Stalking Violet. Episode 37

[Dorothy-slash-Alaya narrates ("D/A" from this point forward) —A.A.]   

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                                               Dreamtime Dorothy

___The Clearing

Dreamily, I entered Valley Forest...................descended into its dark depths, somewhere near center, and stood. Not floating, standing! On solid ground! (My feet are working!)

One step, two steps, three! I completely let go to my 17 year-old self, walking The Forest, experimenting with my newfound friends. "Feet, wonderful feet!" I stopped and jumped up . . . up, way up, hovered a moment . . . then back down to feel them strike the ground. "Such a soft landing; such spring to them!" And I walked on, wondering just how magical they might be. Up ahead, not far along the overgrown trail, lay the thicket. My thicket, my sanctuary. Deer-energy came to mind—into my awareness. I glanced this way and that, half expecting to see a deer, or something. Nothing. No movement. I knew, however, the deer-people were near (at some level of experience) and looked forward to a time when I might see them. And, maybe, talk with them.

The forest seemed to radiate its own light—subtle, if not invisible; but I sensed it alive, and Mary and the dream-vision of her holding "God's-image-for-man" reappeared in mind's eye. And it inspired the notion that one should be standing in God's Image and viewing the Earth from within it . . . for All could be seen as beauty from this stance. Still, it isn't always easy (I knew from experience) to stand clear in the light of God's Image, for we all have a purpose and a mission and work to do. No, not always easy to throw-off the blur of limitation (the illusion) and stretch ourselves into the beyond, so as to reach nearer our potential. Mm-hmm. Work to do. Clarity to be found. One way or the other. Sooner or later.

I felt the clearlight of God's Image, moving within me, and radiating round me, bringing higher meaning and glow to all His creations. And I thought for a moment about my own higher meaning, and for a longer moment about Mary, and how her innermost, inborn-nature, central to receiving and transmitting the Immaculate Image and her bringing forth a son, physically, with all the divine  attributes that an Immaculate Conception must hold . . . well, I thought about how wide open that innermost place must have been in her! Holy! And I thought about Joseph (yin/yang) and HIS role in the clearlight of God's Image and the bringing forth of The Kingdom. Just like woman was, I knew that he too (the Joseph-aspect) was a working part in the growth of The Image. An equal working part. And suddenly I felt alone.

Lonely for that aspect, for that male energy, for the companionship. As if some twin aspect of my divine nature were missing, I felt alone and a bit off balance. Sure I felt the innate instinct of woman, that of bringing forth a child  from the clearlight, but I felt as well that I was missing the support and the unique approach of my Divine Counterpart: I felt that my focus  was needed to hold the image and my twin's focus to move forward with it. Not totally metaphoric . . . no, but as if someone had said 'That's enough for now,'  my yin/yang line-of-thinking passed and my perception changed. I heard running-water and went to have a closer look.

On through the forest, I tracked the sound, a continuous babble of water over stone, till I reached its source. There I felt a more-balanced feeling, as I followed with my eyes the river through the foliage in one direction till it bended out of sight, then in the other direction till it did the same and became lost in the trees. Here I had found the center, I thought. "I am always at river's center (as I walk along), for from my point of view, in both directions, the distance to where it reaches beyond  is relatively the same . . ."