With the current energies supporting inner work, my guides have been nudging me to focus on loving all of myself. The specific piece that keeps arising has to do with noticing the dark and light aspects of self and allowing love to flow through, encompass, and fill my entire being.
I pulled out the Animal Dreaming deck by Scott Alexander King for this week and the Horse appeared. Horse, with the key words personal power, has to do with travel and movement both outer and inner journeys. This fully supports our inner work of loving the whole self. Specifically King writes:
Horse Dreaming embraces the essence of Personal Power and what it means to spiritually journey within in search of inherent wisdom…
According to tradition, a Horse stands symbolically at each of the four cardinal points on the great Wheel of Life…Each of the four directions offers a sacred gift of Power and a wealth of corresponding energetic wisdom.
It is up to us to go out and spiritually seek this knowledge and, once found, integrate it into our life. Metaphorically journeying to the East, for example, brings with it the gifts of illumination and introspection, while heading to the North inspires a healthy blend of innocence and passion. In the West we learn to understand the art of introspection and meditation, and in the South we are offered maturity and judgment.
Lying in the dark before I go to sleep this last week, I have played around with different ways of opening to and experiencing myself as love. Feeling the beat of my heart and allowing the vibration of love to pulse through me with each beat, to fill not just my physical being, but my energetic being so that I can feel that I am one giant being of love. Or standing in my heart center and checking in all directions for areas of dark and light and calling in healing streams of grace to fill me, dark and light pieces. These are ways I can shift my experience into that remembered space where I am all love and I am not merely I but merged with the All. My journey is one of remembering that I am already enough, I am already whole, I am already love.
May you feel the support of Horse as you love your whole self this week.
Namaste