A Timeless Message, Timely for Now
A message from my guide, Iliadne, from December 2008
On the Winter Solstice of 2008, several days before my father’s death, I asked my spirit-guide, Iliadne for some information about the nature of this time, for me personally and for the larger earth elements. I recently found this writing in one of my many journals, and was stunned at how current this information is now. I share the message in its entirety. Some of it is personal to me and my experience, but that does not dismiss its relevance for others, and some of the information feels prophetic, given where we are now collectively.
Iliadne: You are at a definitive crossroad in your life and many factors are involved. Without going into these, for you are aware of most of them already, what is most significant is the shift from middle age to crone. You cannot continue growing, in the sense of being a seeker, aspiring to something beyond you. NOW is the time to stand in who you are, to be yourself without equivocation, and issue from this stance what you alone came here to do.
A great leap is required now and you must know that you are prepared completely for this. The leap involves a pure and simple commitment to let what would come through you to do so. Nothing more, nothing less.
This is different, though related, to the abundant creativity you have done in the past that was largely tinged with the need to be accepted and approved. That time is gone. Now the creative impulse must simply sweep through you on its pure and holy imperative alone. This does not mean you can take on grandiosity, but you must not fumble with uncertainty – about yourself, your work, your words, and particularly, your music.
Part of what you are about to enter is a piercing of some veils of illusion, the ones that have been placed before you. Doing this from a crone stance carries a very different potency than from the middle years, which are primarily a seeking for the one who does the penetrating.
Understanding this is never a black and white demarcation; you will increasingly find it intolerable and inauthentic to conspire with the ‘seeker’ mode. Learn the grace of gravitas, where less is more, and your work moves, in part behind veils of deliberate choice. Not all of what you know can be spoken or shared with everyone. This does not mean it cannot be explored and embodied. Part of a crone’s work is to bring the energies into the atmosphere and simply hold them. And in the holding, others sense this and begin reaching for what they did not know before.
This is part of the shifting times. A whole generation is making this crone shift, entering a time of deep being and knowing. It will completely alter the way you relate to each other, the commerce of thoughts and ideas, and the structure of society — behind the veil. This will be the frustrating part for some who want to see it all present in form and this will mark the distinction between those who aspire to change and those who stand in and are part of the change.
Take a few moments and invite a vision for this time. (I had an image of the Earth with a large + through and beyond it.) Look at this and see what is happening.
This is very strange because what I see is this; instead of rotation around the vertical axis, I’m seeing a North/South rotation, as though the earth is tumbling around the horizontal axis. It almost makes me dizzy looking at it. There is a sense of real chaos.
Keep watching to see what happens next…
It tumbles and then comes to a rest, lying partially on its ‘side’ (if a globe can have a side) and then all action stops.
This is the essence of what needs to be seen.
The world IS NOW in a process of complete upheaval. To think otherwise is utter lunacy. The depth of this upheaval is occurring in every cell of the planet. Nothing is exempt from this vibratory intensity. The question ‘How to ride an earthquake?’ while it may sound extremist and facetious, is exactly what is needed. The understanding of how to be part of the change without being completely devastated.
It will quickly become apparent that the ways of holding back the tide of change are completely ineffectual. This is why a new way of visioning is needed. Also, a new position internally from which to ride the change (rather than detach from and stay safe) is needed. Externally, places of holy stillness – settings where energetic nodal points can be created from which visioning can occur and action perceived will need to be established. Circlework is a rudimentary beginning for this. You can continue studying the deeper dimension of what sacred space needs to be in these times in later writings.
The different chaotic turning you witness and experienced in your meditation is an accurate insight into the erratic, unpredictable nature of this change. The body, everybody’s bodies, and the earth will experience this at different times. Increasingly, pharmaceuticals will be dangerous and ineffectual in counteracting symptoms. Symptoms will become more and more illogical, random and unpredictable. This is because the change, so desperately needed on this earth plane, IS in motion and cannot be stopped. Insisting that things stay in stasis is an insistence on a death process, not the life-force which is powerfully in motion now.
Therefore, upheaval IS the way of these days; the question is ‘How to Be with this’, rather than how to stop it! Each person needs to answer this for him or herself with the kind of vision, breath and third eye, heart, spirit and full embodiment that brings the essential clarity and energy needed.
As each person allows this massive internal change, others will feel the resonant possibility within themselves to make a similar somersault. And what could have been a contraction into paralysis has the possibility to be a radical liberation.
This is enough for now. There are more seed-ideas in this, but at this time, your ability to receive would begin to engage pushing rather than flow. This should always be a sign for you to pause with writings rather than proceed.