Latest Conversation with Covid 19
October 2020
Nudged by an intuitive sensation to listen deeply, I spent some time in meditation this morning and received this image: I see people rappelling on the edge of a cliff. There was a fine web connecting the different people — up, down and across, made of friendship that provided safety. As I looked, I realized there was no judgment about whether the ‘right’ journey was up the rock-face or down into the depths. I realized this was an image of where we are now, collectively.
I did not know which of my guides would give me information to expand on this vision, but as I sat in meditative silence, I realized it was the spirit of the Corona virus itself that wanted to speak. After typing up these notes, I looked up the spelling of the word ‘rappelling’ only to find that the origin of the word means to recall or to ‘pull through.’
Covid 19: I am holding you gently on the rock-face, with barely a foothold for each of you, a place of uncertainty and even terror for many of you but it has come to this. Your body knew that progress as you aspire and dedicate yourself to was an impossible commission. It had a short shelf-life, yet mesmerized, you continued at break-neck speed.
Now you are suspended in a prolonged moment of precise attentiveness on the sheer cliffside. Will you squirm and lose your footing? Will you try to scramble to some unseen ledge? Will you let go in despair? Will you assume that climbing up is the one true way?
This precise moment of indecision is specifically designed to challenge you — individually and collectively. Everything in your life, if you could read that history-book accurately, would reveal your preparedness for this time. You cannot look around you anymore for the pathways or footholds that others have taken in the past or others are faced with on another part of the wall. What you need to know now is immediate, precise, and finely etched in this moment. And the next. And the next…
As a ‘contagion’ I work with each of you in very specific ways, whether I ‘touch’ you physically or not. I am working with the entire fabric of humanity right now, having risen up through the vomiting outrage of the earth, through the violated animal kingdom (your closest and thoroughly abused ‘family’ members) into and through your sophisticated defences. I have total freedom in your human condition. You ignore my will and fight against my kindly, specific presence at your peril.
If you were actually stranded on a cliff-side, elements within you would come to the fore – instincts, visions, inner strengths and intuition that are simply not employed in your daily comforts. This is where we are now in reality, yet your response is to reach for reassurance from the very things that have driven you to this impasse.
I am part of a kind wave of warning to the heart of humanity. I said “Stop.” You barely did, and not without an immense amount of reaction. I said, “Take Care!” Again, you resisted, wanting to go back to safe and normal. Those days are gone. Finished.
Now I say, “Get engaged.” Not in resistance. Not in reaction to me, but within yourself. That is my deepest, most urgent call to you. Get engaged with what has become numb, atrophied, unemployed, buried and forgotten. Quicken the skills that the urgency of the moment call into action within you. Pay attention to the precision of instructions in the moment. Trust what your body speaks – soft or loud, and take that next foothold firmly.
Call out across the airwaves through the heart-threads of friendship. These are the most sturdy and reliable safety measures, beyond your own wise instincts, that you need during these times. Do not trust those who say they ‘know’ because they have been here before. Collectively you have not known the nature of these times. This is a gateway time and there is no reassurance from the past.
What is being written now is of the future. Everything of the past is being eaten and absorbed during this poised entry into the unknowable future.
You do not have an indefinite time to hover in suspense. Take up what is yours to do, now. Honor the specific acts that come from the deepest regions of your body-soul, beneath the fear, beneath the resistance, beneath the distracting pleasures.
Listen with every fibre of your being and feel where you hand should go, where your foot must find its next place. Keep your heart open to the web of love and friendship that keeps you safe and held in place as you move. The entire cliffside is conspiring with you in this, if you can go deep enough to feel and hear its slow wisdom.
This time, what you call Covid time, is sacred time. Remember, I came as an act of Love to mobilize what you have forgotten within you.
This is the time, a brief one, to reclaim what is truly indigenous, both around and within you. The paradox is that you cannot do this alone, and yet you must do it on your own!