The following is a direct transcript of the video.
Welcome to this week’s message. It comes from the Rumi Oracle, Alanna Fairchild. And the message this week is “The Courage of Your Love”. This really is such a beautiful deck and it’s not getting into focus very well there. But it is a beautiful deck and just let yourself take it in. What do you notice as you look at this?
So as you listen, if it feels comfortable for you to do so, if it’s available to you, maybe you close your eyes and allow yourself to really get comfortable and relax into whatever surface you’re on. Maybe put one hand over your heart and another hand over your belly or over your thighs letting them rest.
The Courage of Your Love
Love is without reason.
Rationality is like a cane.
Judgment needs a cane because it is blind.
When love arrives, thought dies in its shadow.
Love is the sunrise, while thought is only a flashing light.
-Rumi
So maybe even just let yourself take that in and what does it mean to you? Does it feel like it means anything to you?
The path of freeing the heart from the effects of a fearful mind is an initiation into great power. So many lapses will happen before the heart grows strong enough to overpower old patterns and surrender without condition or equivocation. When it is ready to surrender in such a way, the heart is free and allowed to simply be. Even the mind then, finally freed from shackles and joyfully submitting to love, declares, “Let love be, in whatever way it shall be. I can bear it. I shall take refuge in it. I shall not turn away from it. I am that love!”
You are an ancient one with a heart older than the mountains. You are being asked to free yourself from the too-small loves of the youthful heart and come to understand and accept the wisdom of your mature heart. Your mature heart is not cured with hardness or detachment, but with compassion and tenacious devotion to the cause that is most real and matters most – the quest for life of the human soul.
Your ancient heart loves the soul and will roar like the lion of love at the wolves that would casually devour it. So trust in the courage of your heart. You are not cruel. You are not hard. You are not careless. You are passion personified. You are the lion of love. So allow yourself to be the lion, not the lamb. Stand true in your own heart. Cause trouble, make noise, be proud and be mighty. Then rest, after all after all that savage divinity, rest and restore, for day after day you shall claim your holy lands and refuse to give them up to less noble creatures. Though you survey their manipulations and attempts to claim power with compassion, you do not underestimate them or relax your vigilance. You shall not allow, for even a moment, that falsehood be vigilance. You shall not allow, for even a moment, that falsehood be accepted as truth in your heart.
This oracle comes with particular guidance for you. You are not to give into less than you are worth, or to the shaming stories of others of our culture that would cast your regal lion nature into the falsehood of beliefs that you have no choice or power. You are not to give into the idea that you are victim and cannot free yourself from your suffering, or that you are less than any other. These are lies. These are petty deceptions so unworthy of you. Do not believe them. Roar at them until the weak glue holding them together melts under the fire of your holy breath, and they lie dismembered and powerless at your feet. Then intend that those bits and pieces in decay are lovingly returned to the Earth Mother through whom they can be used to fertilize new life.
This oracle comes with another message for you. You have a challenge before you (or that you are now moving through), but you have what is necessary to succeed and overcome it. No matter how long it has endured, or how big you have built that challenge up to be in your mind, no matter how unsolvable the issue appears to be, there is and shall be a victory beyond it, and it is imminent. This oracle has come to you to let you know you are empowered to succeed, you have what is required within to do it, and that the time for your victory is drawing near.
So do not give up. Instead, do the sacred honouring ritual as needed, and when you feel so inclined, open your mouth and roar love from the very depths of your being. Create a sound of truth for yourself. In that sound you will hear the mightiest one of all roaring along with you, saying, “Yes love, I am with you, and together we claim divine victory! So we roar! how we roar!”
And just let yourself take this in. Let the energy move within, throughout, and just notice what is present. What are you feeling? Where has your mind gone? Do you notice sensations in your body? Was there anything that stood out to you that brought up a feeling, maybe a feeling of resistance or maybe a feeling of emotion?
Let yourself just sit with this for a few moments. Even when this ends, just allow yourself to sit, to let it float through your body and notice where it moves, where it tends to hang out a little bit. And maybe afterward, get your journal out And just write whatever feels present for you.
Thank you so much for joining me. Wishing you a beautiful week ahead filled with courage and love.