April Inspired Message- On Love & Knowledge

April is a “4” month, and 4 represents grounding, manifestation, and stability within Earthly reality. 

The coming of the Christ consciousness means that all will come into a sense of unity, union. That includes the shadow which has been suppressed or fought for millennia. The Christed being is not one who is solely in the light and who battles the darkness, but the one who has synthesized polarity within herself. When we descend into darkness, it is not in vain. It is not a mistake. It is not a sin. Rather, it is an experience that makes us wise, for we come to learn what life is truly about, what love is, and what it means to be spirit incarnated as a human.

The symbol of the cross indicates the intersection of spirit and matter through heart consciousness. It has been common to many indigenous cultures before religion twisted it into an emblem of crucifixion and suffering. The cross points to 4 directions, signifying our earthly existence, which are united in the center point, the Spirit, the heart space which is one and eternal. 

The cross shows us that spiritual awakening is not about going higher from a lowly place, but rather about coming back to this intersection point, the Center, the Divine Origin of our being before all the distortions took place. 

We do not have to hold onto our shadows as a secret; there is no shame in any experience when we reveal it to the eyes of God, who sees all, knows all anyway. Hiding parts of ourselves in the effort to be perfect actually prevents us from coming into wholeness. God is the non-polarized mind; the divine intelligence who witnesses life from the Eagle point of view, from the heart. This is alluded to in the Bible when it says “let thine eye be single,” which means moving away from dualistic thinking, synthesizing the heart and mind as one, and envisioning life in its complete picture: a continuously unfolding mandala that is beyond mental conceptions of good and bad. 

It is time to let the heaviness, the burdens we collectively have been carrying for so long disintegrate like wood meeting the Sacred Fire of life, becoming the ash that returns to Earth to be transformed and re-assimilated. We then rise up and rebirth ourselves as the new self, who from the depth of our experience can now embody even more wisdom and more compassion for all. Do not be mistaken; this is not an easy process and it takes reoccurring commitment and devotion; a sense of Absolute confidence to participate in divine destiny. 

This is what it means to be lion-hearted: animated by the strength of love and fiercely defending life as its guardian rather than letting chaos and heaviness weigh on one’s heart and take away from one’s power to act in the world, in accordance with universal law. 

The power of love is the so-called “Holy Grail” that we cannot lose or forget once received. The holy grail will be offered to those who approach knowledge, as represented by the goddess Sophia, with humility and reverence.

Art by Shiloh Sophia McCloud

There is also a deeper message of the two trees in the Garden of Eden: the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. When the trees are reunited, knowledge is no longer used for egoic purposes that go against Divine Will and bind us to the dualistic paradigm where we "surely die," meaning see physical death at odds with eternal life. When we have recognized love as our source, we can never truly lose the essence of our being, even if we have "fallen." And with love, we can understand polarity, good and evil, in a synthesized way. This is wisdom. 

We have been endowed with the free will choice to go against our real nature. A loving Creator gives us this freedom because we are sovereign beings, not slaves, and because through the experience of separation our love becomes all the more devoted and expanded; more so than if we had never fell. This is the significance of resurrection and redemption. 

So the presence in the heart is the only place where we are “safe” from the fallen state, which is a consciousness, not a location. This planet can be heaven or hell, depending on one's own perspective and commitment to love. 

The heart opens like a bud, the faith blossoms, and knowledge is received. And true knowledge illuminates the way so that we may go beyond karmic situations, which are essentially actions born out of ignorance, and fully live as the Original human beings.  

"The more you move to the center while remaining present in your body, the more you will embody your essential self on Earth." - Pamela Kribbe, Heart Centered Living