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Reflections by Olivia Robertson photo © 2009 M.Q.
Friends, like all of us, you must be fascinated by the word "Revelations", so I will share you, some. We, in the Druid Clan of Dana, share our spiritual experiences and I remember listening to AE - alas, he was just talking about the transcendental beauty of skyscrapers, I remember. Perhaps he was right there, but I preferred hearing about Angels, Gods. We weave a magical web of beauty round our earth through these experiences, which link us with heaven. I offer three revelations that I enjoyed, hoping that these will be in harmony with many of you.  Shrine of Dana © Minette Quick The primary inspiration was in 1952, and the Goddess Dana came to me. She brought me a rare and beautiful happiness, like none other that I have known. For me, she is the Divine Mother. I thought it was Demeter, but later she gave the name through John Doran, a Gaelic psychic. The name I was to use was D-A-N-A. I thought that this is all they, the Deities, would honor me with, but not so. Looking back, I realized that I'd been given three revelations, in particular - there'd been others, very seldom, but sometimes - that relate to the three magical drops of the Goddess Cerridwen of Wales, from her magical cauldron. These drops transformed the apprenticed little Gwion into the Welsch bard, Taliesin, who revealed that he had come from the summer stars. That would be Orion, Sirius. On June the 22nd, 2000, I had a vision of the white star that awakens our 3rd eye and the Inner Sun from the solar plexus. On the 6th of September - actually, that time I saw the sun. I was absolutely thrilled. It was floating in my room at midnight. And I was delighted, it was gold and it actually there. I knew some scientist blokes described it in the BBC these things as "gaseous layered plasmic vortices". That's rather long - the sun does for me. And I thought that was utterly wonderful. On the 6th of September - I had a vague idea it was, before I went to sleep - it was there and it woke me up, like a sort of explosion. It came right through me.  Brigid & Yemaya © Minette Quick On Tuesday, the 26th of September, the Goddess Brigid appeared to me. That was this whole cycle - so it started on the Summer Solstice and ended on the Thesmophoria, the Goddess mysteries of the 26th of September. She appeared, made, as it were, of crystallized White Light. She had the most extraordinary hair. It was sort of gold, cut in I thought petals, but later I was told by an occultist that many people in America had seen her and that they call it hearts. Her hair was tucked and back. She appears as a Goddess and as a woman round here and later on as a Nature Spirit with red hair. Anyway, she appeared to me as Goddess. What was interesting was, that on her right was a suspended crystal, and on her left was a very, very large transparent pillar. In the pillar was sort of atoms, I gathered. She struck a silver sound as a wand on the suspended crystal. Now this is what was interesting - I saw her clearly, but even after she vanished, I could hear the sound. And that sound was altering atoms. What I wish to share is that sonics effect our physical bodies. The veil between our world and the etheric realm is being withdrawn. We are advised to watch and listen, especially at dawn and dusk. She came to me as Brigid of Alchemy. Alchemy teaches that we all come from the same Divine Source. Hence, evil can be transmuted into good by inspired intuition. I believe there are no totally evil doers, but evil thoughts and deeds. And this does help one, even in healing. You can say that person did evil, did horrible things, but you don't say they are evil. I found this is a very, very good way of health actually. So you can say I do dislike that person saying horrible things about people, but that person has done me a good deed in some ways. There's always something you can find and that's super for your health. People want to know why I flourish at 91, perhaps that's part of it. Acknowledging evil, but don't accept it. The artist, writer, musician, can strike a Divine chord within any being, so affect transformation. It is a lovely way of alchemy, there are other ways. Good is real. Evil is only the poisonous residue of Cerridwen's cauldron. It's part of our growing up. Remember what she offers - the three - inspiration, prophecy, shapeshifting. The drop of inspiration brings such joy. Not so with the second drop of prophecy. Oh dear, yes, I've always had that. This brings hard-earned wisdom through knowing the shape of things to come. When I want to know anything, I ask, I'm in Historyland - "what did happen?" in ten years ahead. In other words, it's all there, you've just got to remember it. On Tuesday, the 11th of August, 2005, I had a very trying experience. I found myself psychically in our Temple of Isis by the dark mirror of the Mourning Athena and Osiris, where I pray for those in trouble. Suddenly, alarmingly unexpectedly, I was shot out of my body. I saw above me a shelf and on it were three little voodoo dolls made of twigs. I bought two of them in New Orleans. But then on my right, rose a towering figure of a Goddess in black robes. I had the impression of power and Divinity. But this is what's important. She spoke clearly so I registered every word: "I am not an executioner." I came rushing back to my body at once. And when I returned, I was aware of a large volume of a book by the late Dion Fortune, "The Dark Goddess". Now I relate this amazing evocation of the Dark Goddess of the oceans, Morgan la Fey. Later on, I saw her as the Dark Goddess of Africa. In Ireland we call her Morrigan, the Great Queen of all rivers. In Africa they call her Yemaya, the African Goddess of oceans. And because of the voodoo figures, I acknowledged her as the Goddess Yemaya. But, next month Katrina struck. It gave me a shock. I'd always had a prophetic gift. This had a message. This is what's important. It is not the Deities who punish us. We are given free will. We do this ourselves, by our ignorance, greed and cruelty. Who builds on a swamp? But the good news was, the Deities wish us well in our stumbling steps towards discovering our own innate Divinity. It hurts, the path, when we do wrong, and it's lovely when we do well. It's how we learn.  © Pele art by Olivia Robertson, photo by Minette Quick The most recent revelation again, was unexpected, different. I may say with the Goddess Pele, it was the only Polynesian I met on these very touristy islands, at least two of them. When she came to me, I had not the faintest idea of who she was. She, came not on the volcanic big island, which I loved, but on Paradise Island, Kauai, which I found a bit sinister - I don't know why at all. It was she who awakened my crown chakra. It was amazing and I was aware of a woman at dawn, my first night at Kauai. She had very thick black hair, slightly touched with red, pulled back. Very aristocratic, strong features, with a strong chin. I was aware others were with her. But she was a Goddess because she had a body, an energy body, made of bronze-colored Light. And had the presence and being of a Goddess and of Goodness. I did know that somehow she had come to me for a reason. Because she awakened my crown chakra. And I thought I'd always had a crown chakra because I felt my third eye, most of us have, static in your head. But this was, I could feel it above my head. It was like a shining sort of very tidy, dome-shaped structure, with sort of sparks around. I won't repeat what she told me. But she did induce me to do prophecies through a moon mirror, you could say water - fire above water. Later she reinforced her messages through a young girl psychic. I always feel about prophesies just sort of the old advice in scriptures - "watch and pray, but don't run away." (Laughter) I added that bit, "don't run away." Lovely account of Pele shapeshifting, she was always helping people. But I'd like to share, is Pele's immense sense of humor and kindness and her delight in meeting and helping people. There's a message here. She invariably turns up to visitors, who are pretty well off, wearing awful sort of Hawaiian shirts and leys. And she appears to them very dirty, poor old Hawaiian woman - Polynesian - wanting water and a cigarette. When insulted, a lava flow turns up. Or she appears as a barefooted Hawaiian woman, beautiful, poor and vulnerable. And I've become aware that they can be very exploited. Also, it's not recommended to take bits of lava and rocks from the island. Note that these form part of the body of Pele. What anyway are we doing to our own earth, Gaia? I feel that the inspiration I felt with these Divine Beings brings joy and love. Prophecy, wisdom and shapeshifting give us empathy with all that is.  (Ex_Ish4) All Rights Reserved. |
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