Anam Cara - The Blessing
In Corrogue it is frosty.
The ramp into our "acre of diamonds" is now firm underfoot where before it was a sea of mud. Murphy our canine runs excitedly by my side. We're on our approach to launch the chickens from the coop. They are to be fed porridge oats in milk.
Murphy has develop into an honorary chicken. He has been self-appointed. He now eats with the hens and cockerels as I give them their long awaited breakfast. They're now together, canine and birds, loving this life that's secure and satisfying for them.
I am becoming clearer. I am changing into extra built-in and extra know of the flow of this life. I am change into a soul friend. I am turning into what is thought within the Celtic custom an Anam Cara. This interprets as Anam meaning "soul" and Cara that means "friend."
Like our beautiful dog Murphy I am busy rounding up different elements of my much less integrated self. These are items which can be like completely different chickens within a roost. I gently convey them together in love and acceptance. I imagine myself sitting atop a rooster coop with my hen pals and we would debate various life questions.
We'd ask "What does it mean to be a seeker after soul." We might squawk about our inside life. We would peck on the query "is the unexamined life value dwelling?" We'd joke about what happened when the hen crossed the road. More significantly we would scratch within the earth to question that existential query, "What came first - the rooster or the egg?"
One of our favorite hens (and I have to acknowledge I do have favourites) is Boddica. She is fearless. She could be the hen to ask fierce questions. She is the hen equivalent of a soul friend. She probes your knowing and understanding of who you actually are. She may ask, "What does an Anam Cara do?
In answer to Bodica`s query I might humbly reply thus.
An Anam Cara loves your essence.
They see you beyond your mask. That is the masks of persona. This is what you name personality. They see past the fear. They see the absence of love. That is love you withdraw from others and yourself. This is the love that is your real power. This does not imply they've to love YOU. You are the one which will get in the way of soul. You soul is the sunshine of love and it wants light. It needs the lightness of being. An Anam Cara will remind you simply "to be."
An Anam Cara lives close to the land.
They is likely to be found roosting with chickens. They love the elements of fireside, water, earth and air. They're elemental beings although they are more all the way down to earth than mental. Some might take into account they exhibit reverse traits. They love sensuality and sexuality. They love the play of Eros. This takes them on the wing. An Anam Cara will remind you to return to your senses and be sensational.
An Anam Cara guides you to the presence you are.
They are individuals of the silence. They listen. They don't debate. They don't fill you up with knowledge. They transmit the understanding of love. They contact you with beauty. This isn't their magnificence but the beauty of the Beloved. They move in the world as nobodies of import. They do not puff up your ego. They may build your ego up. They achieve this in order that you may disappear. This is in order which you could fly the coop. This is so you'll be able to enter the joy of leaving the jail home of never being enough.
An Anam Cara reminds you of what's important.
They guide you to figuring out who you are. They take you into what are referred to as in Eire "thin places." They take you to the edge. They coax you to the edge. If you end up trusting enough they push you. They know that is the one manner for you to learn to fly. They know you might be an eagle that was brought up in a society of chickens. The Anam Cara will take you soaring. The very air that can take you increased is learning trust and religion in your important goodness.
An Anam Cara takes you to the source. You can be taken past time and area to the very souse of your being. This shall be completed utilizing completely different strategies depending on which Anam Cara you speak with. There will likely be strategies to take you out of the fixed chatter of the coop into the sunshine heartedness of life past the hen wire.
These strategies take you into ease and can help you quit dis-ease.
An Anam Cara will affirm YOU.
You can be instructed that YOU are without end enough. It's because the Anam Cara knows that you're forever enough. They've seen beyond the limitation of the ego. They know the jail home of the little self. They know you hold the key to liberation. Solely they might let you know that the door is always open. It was and by no means shall be shut to you. They have belief that "all is nicely and all manner of things shall be well."
An Anam Cara does not likely care.
They know you might be always held in the hand of the Beloved. They are not right here to do anything for or to you. They are solely there to facilitate your discovery that you're at all times enough. They know that what you need is not more of anything but an incredible big helping of "no thing." This provides your soul true rest. This is where you quit attempting to dwell life and grow to be life abundant. You turn into the movement of the essential. Nothing matters because it all matters. Ultimately they take you to like of soul.
So this is how I would reply my Anam Cara soul hen.
Would she be glad? I'm not sure. I know she would suppose I have prevented the true question. "What comes first? - the hen or the egg." I compensate by tenderly gathering her up in my arms. I stroke her beautiful rooster head. I inform her, "I love you." I inform her, "You're a without end enough hen." She goes off and lays another golden egg.
I go away the coop. I go away this Hen Coop for the Soul and return up the ramp to our cottage. I am gathered in. I leave Murphy to debate the rudiments of flying. He's on the edge. He is excited. One day quickly he too hopes to fly. The query is, "Which soul hen will do the pushing."
Blessings upon you and those you love and don't love.
