I was sleeping on the ground outdoors with a baby — a toddler really — nestled fullly content in my arms. A large hawk flew up next to us and sat quietly beside as if to be a watchman. I was hazily stroking its smooth dark feathers, half in and half out of the in-between state of waking wondering why it has come to me. Was it okay? Was it sick? Hurt? Broken? Trying to examine it gently using my fingertips, I sifted through its shiny stiff feathers🪶 waiting for a reaction to give me the answer, but there didn’t seem to be anything wrong.
I laid there amazed by its presence with me in this moment. Staring, I wondered deeply, ‘why it was here?’ The baby I was cuddling smiled happily at me then crawled up and kissed the birds beak, then cheek, and fell safely back into her nap. It was so sweet and loving that I followed suit and did it too, first the bird then the baby♡. The bird must have felt our love because it shuffled even closer to us, and the three of us sort of snuggled, nesting and resting together.
I laid in observation of a reverent moment that I am aware was much larger than me – than my life – as we seemed to be energetically melting and merging into each other … we were simultaneously becoming one!
When I woke up in real life, I was still submerged in a dream-daze. I didn’t know what to think about us three merging altogether into one.
Did I turn into the bird? The baby? Did they turn into me? What did it mean?
This dream had a very lucid erethral feeling. It felt very real.
I was still pondering the possible message, when I sharply recalled that my ‘spirit guide’ in most experiences has been a hawk! In meditation journeys, I usually see it approaching from afar as it flies up to me and simultaneously turns into a large being with big beautiful wings that open up wide and engulf me into what feels like an eternal embrace which then holds me and cradles me in safety and love as its dear child. The love I feel being collected into its soulful center is a feeling of complete bliss.
I remebered the child which was held within the saftey of my arms, nestled into my center, protected in the embrace of my own life-sized wings.
Then came a stunning realization … the baby was me! My true innocent, non-emotionally wounded, uninjured, unhurt, perfect self! Whole and complete. Blissfully ignorant.
The next realization quickly followed…I’m the one who’s hurt not the bird! The mind, body, soul ailments I’ve been through within the last 3 years came to the forefront of my mind to remind me just how much I’d survived.
Wave on wave of challenge and trauma to overcome, my spirit guide was there to help me heal. And the baby was an aspect of myself when I was “pure.” She was there to help me let go of the current damage as well as release old programming, karmic imprints, energetic debris, and layers of experience that no longer serve me for highest good.
The three of us didn’t just become one in that moment, we have always been One! And let’s go even one bigger truth blanketing that, WE ALL ARE ONE!
This is a short story I’ve been working on for several months. Recapping what had happened in the dream, piecing it all together after having experienced divorce, death, unemployment, corona-times, a car accident and then cancer (in that order) within a very short amount of time…too short actually to have time to recover and heal adequately from each individual hit.
It has happened in the past several times, when I need to heal from a traumatic experience, spirit people come to me in my dreams to help (like in my Dream of Bear Medicine). This is exactly what happened in this dream.
The story flowed easily out onto this virtual page offering me (for the second time) a powerful transcendence. I hope it does the same for you.
On wings and waves of Our Oneness, I wish you peace, love & healing.♡
Shannon
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