Soulmates

…Encountered my soulmate at long last! Tee Hee. See the pic?

Naaah, just joking.

This is one hell of a stereotype of a Druid. Oldish, white hair, sharp blue eyes under stormy eyebrows, bear claw at the neck, and, of course, wooden staff. He´s too Druidy to be true, must be an American…or maybe a film star. Or an “extra” in a BBC documentary on Stonehenge…

Speaking of Druid stereotypes, I know of female Druids of uncertain age, round and funny, and no less authoritative. Well, I must say that I don´t really believe in young Druids, that´s true. To become a counsellor to kings one must have a certain life experience, don´t you agree?

Anyways, the pic was funny. Love the hair, gosh, I would love to have the hair!…

And what about soulmates then?

Soulmates are not necessarily romantic partners. They can be. They can be your daughters, too (in my case, yes, they are!), a very dear friend, or friends, plural,  since soulmates may appear in numbers.

I think their characteristic is that you feel, and they do too, that we have known each other forever. We are “built” the same way, and often have had similar experiences in life. We “resonate”. We “grok” each other.

Soulmates get us closer to the fact that humanity is one Family, that we all come from Olduvai Valley when the real story is finally told. And certainly, we are part of the same Soul, a level of consciousness that the Matrix does its best and its worst to make us forget…

PS.- Note the coordinated colours of gloves and cape ? I´d give half of my hoarded treasures to get my greedy little hands on clothing like that !…

Awen & Nwyfre

(Image, Throne of the Goddess, soul card 80, SG, ’04)

There are two Druidic concepts/experiences that I feel the Western world (=the Matrix) sorely needs at this time : Awen and Nwyfre.

The first, the Awen, is simply inspiration, intuition, particularly poetic, artistic, and also mystical. The Awen defines the Druid. It is the very breath of his/her Druidic presence and role. The Druid “listens” to the voice of the gods, and to the whisperings of the Otherworld, and transmits them as best he/she can to the “ordinary” (=conditioned by the Matrix) world. Besides his other tasks of management, administration, counselling, the Druid is always aware of the finer promptings of his intuition. The Druid is a living Oracle.

All of my art depends on the Awen. I am unable to draw or paint without this inner surge of bliss; I´m really not interest in theories of art or technicalities (I don´t sell my work anyway!) – when the Awen surges I have to leave what I am doing, and go get a piece of cardboard, a white paper, something that I can use, anything, to “take notes”. It is as if I was looking inside my brain! The roof of my brain becomes, at that moment, a rather moved and animated Sixtine Chapel – only with my own images! (I wish I could photograph what I see, since I am self-taught I don´t have the dexterity to reproduce my visions exactly, which is why I admire Alan Lee so much!)

I also know that my soul cards, for example, are inspiring to other people. The Awen gets through the image and sometimes grips a person with a “wow” feeling. I know. This is the feeling that I experienced when I first made the card!…

So I become a sort of willing and very aware channel, or better said, a bridge. That is why my second name is Walker-Between-The-Worlds. A Walker for the Awen.