Today I was speaking with a friend. We were discussing the current situation around and behind the corona virus scenario. We were talking of how people could unite regardless of our personal views and opinions, of how we might connect soul to soul, not with the sometimes blinded and prejudiced eyes of the ego or personality.
My friend expressed such disappointment and despair about the human species. It was a phone discussion and she said “Look at my Yuki, I know he hasn’t lost it – his connection with soul”. Yuki is her dog and she was looking into his eyes and seeing into his beautiful soul. It has been said by many “the eyes are the window to the soul”. She said that it was because of the animals that she was able to gain a sense of calm and balance in her life, at this time of uncertainty and where fear has become rampant.
The animals and the natural environment can offer us some sense of order and stillness, while we take a break from what we may perceive as the madness of mass consciousness. Perhaps such a break will give us the opportunity to touch base with our own soul, to dig deep, find some inner peace and calm, while we centre ourselves and find our own individual direction.
While the Piscean Age wrestles to hang onto crumbling structures and old authoritarian ways, the Aquarian Age, age of information and self-responsibility, steps in to take its place in our lives. This change-over period can be extremely uncomfortable and worrying, but nevertheless, it is happening.
The animals, large and small, of the land, the air and the waters, are here for us to connect with. The plants and the trees, they all beckon us to reconnect with them, at a deeper level, at a soul level. They are like a doorway, a doorway that sees our plight and continues to accept and have compassion for us.
I recently communicated with a cow who was so thin as she was preparing to give birth to the calf within, any day. She showed me an image of her guardians – their heads were inside blocks, as if they were trapped inside.
I also was shown by dolphins that were kept in manmade pools, a similar scenario. I was asking for their take on that situation and what came to me was that, when they looked at the people around them, they saw people in their own mental prisons, in their minds, prisons that they saw as being more extreme than their own restrictive physical surroundings.
I can relate to these images, as my mind plays over and over various scenarios. Constantly I have to remind myself that I cannot change the world – I can only change myself and the way for me is to continually check in with nature in some form. If I can walk, I walk, if I simply observe the ants going about their daily business, I observe them, if it means watching the birds through the window or watering the plants, that is what I do. Anything to ground me, anything to bring me back to me – I place my hands on my heart and I notice my breathing.
Stroking an animal can release the hormone oxytocin which in turn may comfort us. The opportunity to connect with nature and with our own souls and each other, soul to soul, is too big an invitation to pass up. May we all find our own peace, our own direction and deep and compassionate ways to connect.