The Dazzling Deep

Halloween Oracle ~ Raven's Prophecy Tarot

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us." Marianne Williamson

Graveyard ~ Unnecessary Fears

A perfect quote for this pairing of Graveyard ~ Unnecessary Fears and the Six of Wands with its themes of victory, success and accomplishment. And yet...something doesn't sit right with me about it. At first I thought it was because I intuitively sense that our darkness is as luminous as our light, our light as comingled with the pigment and texture of the manifest as our darkness. They are one sacred body.

But the Ravens wanted more of me than that. And conspiring with the Halloween oracle to take me into the cloud of unknowing...once again...they forced the question upon me, does the above quote hold true for me, does it have wings and heart within me...

does it feather my soul 
with the dark, rainbow 
sheen of Mystery? Does it 
breathe outside the sky 
it arose from?

Later on the ridge, the place where I most frequently see the ravens, I was walking along the top blown about by an incredible wind, watching my little pup's whiskers and fur being pulled backwards until she was all honed with a wild joy. And it suddenly came to me on one of those whirling gusts...

Six of Wands ~ Raven's Prophecy Tarot

It's a fine quote, a great quote but it's only half the story, a partial truth. What it leaves out is integral, what it omits is an awareness that exists beyond ideas of light and darkness, one that moves away from the comforting shore of duality and plunges into the horizonless fact of God. Now that reality is cause for a response so disorienting it might have me running back to grasp the shawl of light and coverlet of darkness like a small child, one who takes delight in the names and forms of her world.

Marianne's lovely words will have to suffice for now because I'm not ready for that kind of ineffability...yet. But know this...each of us has touched the ineffable at some point in our ragged, grace-filled lives whether we know it or not...

we've touched it 

because we're made of it. 
Awakening is cellular.