Gate: The World

I entered the vision gate and found myself standing beneath the feet of a giant woman.  The earth shook with the power of her steps and the winds blew her hair and robe in a perpetual storm that was centered around her form.  I felt the moment the giant saw me at her feet because the effect of her attention upon my spirit was like a bolt of energy from above. The being bent down as if to speak to me but then, I blinked and I was the giant, looking at myself on the ground, looking up at a primal force of nature.

My focus was drawn from the small seeker near my feet as the storm moving about me gathered into a dark funnel cloud, demanding my attention. “Who are you?” I asked, throwing my voice into the storm. “My name is Heidi and I come seeking your true nature.”

“We are the tunnel to the unconscious mind, the road to the psyche,” roared the winds.  As the storm spoke, the dark cloud changed into moving light and the sound of the blowing winds abated. It shaped its form into a living, breathing path made of light that led to unimaginable and unexplored heights above.

“There is more than one way to avoid the journey inwards,” intoned the path. “Most people use their imagination to construct false realities that they call their lives.  They work jobs, decorate houses, raise families, and all the while shutting their eyes to the meaning behind it all, the reality behind their existence as mortals with bound lifespans upon the earth.”

Within the tunnel of light, I saw my home and all of the things contained within it.  I saw my family and pets and my daily motions through this reality and its material objects.  Then, it was as if I moved back from this vision of the everyday world and saw myself moving on an enormous stage.  The home, family, and other possessions were now part of a larger backdrop that had more potentials than I had ever imagined.  There was a greater reality behind the everyday one and it took my breath away.

I moved into the tunnel and began to walk through the “stage” behind my life, marveling that I could do so by employing a new way of looking at reality.

“How did I not understand this truth before?” I said to myself as I wandered behind the facade of the world I had once known.

“Welcome, Heidi, to a new life,” the path said in response and then the vision dissolved into light.

When I could see again, I found myself moving through clouds in the night sky.  Tiny diamonds glittered in the air around me like stars but so close that I could touch them and perceive the energy they contained as complex prisms that gave off brilliant light. These living intelligences kept me company as I continued through the sky, seemingly alone but never really alone anymore.

Ahead, the moon appeared, nestled in the clouds and much larger than it should be.  As I approached the moon, its form grew and grew so that it filled a large portion of the sky, then shrank into the form of a spirit shaped like a woman.  At first, this woman appeared to be three separate beings but then her bodies fused together and she was one who was once three.  The goddess wore a tri-moon shaped symbol on a circlet over her brow and carried a staff of authority that bore the same.

“Hail, fair Hecate, lady of the moon and mistress of magic,” I said and bowed my head in respect. “It has been long since I walked in your presence. Thank you for revealing yourself to me again.”

“As the moon freely shines down upon the earth, so too do I share my knowledge and wisdom without reservation with those who seek it,” the goddess said. “Why did you come to this place, Heidi?”

“I am trying to connect the awakened energies in my mind, Great One, by opening the paths between the worlds,” I said. “I believe this to be the next step on my journey through the spirit realms and I welcome your advice and assistance with this endeavor.”

“This is a worthy goal,” said Hecate and sat down on a throne that appeared behind her. “Let us consider the best way to continue forward.” As the goddess sat, I saw a child seating herself on Hecate’s left and an elderly woman reclining to her right, but these were momentary glimpses. Now seated comfortably, the goddess was once again one being with a single form.