Dark to Light

What the real battle is about

Dark to light can feel so pithy when you are in a dark place and so easy when you are in a light place. It is so easy to see that turning on the lights is all you have to do once you’ve done it. But finding the light switch in a dark room - not so much. It is easy to let our rooms get dark when the actual darkness combines with cynicism. Cynicism is easy when our human aspects grow weary of taking the punches that come with bumping around a world of humans. My deep belief is that being human doesn’t have to equate to suffering or what is commonly known as “the human condition.” I do not think this condition is anything more than a condition that has gone on for a long, long time due to interference on our planet, and from within every tradition, every corner of politics. Hafiz and his friend and fellow poet Jahan dealt with the infiltration of Sufism by the dark. It’s happened in Judaism and Christianity. It’s in the metaphysical communities. It’s being cleansed out of the ethers, but it’s there too. It’s in Indigenous communities as well, as I had an indigenous friend for a long time and she was attacked psychically by other indigenous people who had sold out to controlling interests. It’s wended its way around and into every culture I know of, and it’s in the media/medium in which we are grown. Tele-a-vision. Channels. Programming.

My mother left the Sufi community where I was born because a woman there was doing voodoo and my mother was sure she had blackmagicked her. When I mother announced that she was leaving, the woman threw a chair at her.

Our battles are not with flesh and blood. And the way to fight is not with weapons of this world, or even weapons at all.

Rediscovering our original innocence…in both the black womb of no-thing and the childlike wonder of looking about at creation, and re-turning ourselves to back to G-d, divinity, within thee.

Prime Creator

Originator

Who made the one who became a basket weaver

The one who became the river

The one who helped another live by donating his liver

Source of LOVE

Innocence and Wisdom Unite

Undo our Fright

So that our Divinity may arise, open, TAKE FLIGHT

P.S. The image on this card came to me while I was dancing to Joyful Divinity - a song I co-wrote with my son. Later I found it in Alana Fairchild’s deck. It was the second one that turned up, after a cat one which I’d already had face up for my son’s birthday. Garuda Suparna is about protection and discernment, about being able to fly above storms, being able to make yourself big or small and being able to exercise wisdom.

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