{"id":1560,"date":"2019-01-03T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andrewsmith.ie\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2019-01-02T17:02:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T17:02:06","slug":"the-two-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewsmith.ie\/the-two-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The New Moon in Cardinal Earth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Sextile Neptune and located between Saturn and Pluto)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.andrewsmith.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/The-Two-Books-The-New-Moon-in-Cardinal-Earth.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>AUDIO NARRATION<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">The climb to this place, akin to Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee\u2019s assault of Mount Doom in Mordor, has been monumental. After much labouring, ascending many a treacherous track, having explored too many cul de sacs and having had to ford cascading rivers, her legs ached, her chest heaved and her brow glistened, she finally stood before the heavily inscribed oak door. Pausing to catch her breath, her eyes scan the sigils and glyphs carefully etched into the ancient wood, magnetically drawing her hand to touch each as if calling to her to embody their meaning as opposed to dissecting, analysing and rationalising them. \u2018What deep magic lies beyond this door\u2019 she wondered. Stretching out a weary hand Little Spirit reaches for the ornate handle of the heavy oak door. It turned surprisingly freely, the door gently pushing open revealing its guarded secrets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrewsmith.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/dumbledore-office.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrewsmith.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/dumbledore-office.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.andrewsmith.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/dumbledore-office-300x119.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Before her lay a candle lit large and\nbeautiful circular room with two windows, one facing east, the other facing\nwest, both flanked by heavy burgundy tapestry, lined wall to wall with sweet,\nmusky smelling old books. An ornate Victorian gothic panelled oak table lay in\nthe centre. Her eyes drawn to the right hand side of the table by a single beam\nof light streaming in from the western window, a battered well used leather\nbound manuscript lay open, inviting her to read its sOul. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pupils dilated in awe, her jaw dropping slightly, the\ndeep blue ink revealed a memory from her life as a young child. The memory\nflashed before her, as she read the account of this event. Eagerly turning the\npage, enraptured by the unexpected account of this pivotal experience, she read\nanother account of the same event, but this time it was from the perspective of\nher heart, as a detailed synopsis of her inner emotional experiences of the memory\nwas recounted. On a third page, the same experience was retold but this time\nfrom the perspective of her inner mental dialogue, revealing familiar circular\narguments in an attempt to make sense of the \u2018why\u2019 of that experience. Finally,\non page four was a precis of what this experience had yielded in terms of her\nsOul\u2019s journey and her spiritual life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So much in one memory! Intrigued, she read on, turning\nthe leaves to reveal page 5. Another important memory was documented in the\nsame manner. Little Spirit quickly scanned the entire book, page after page. Lists\nof events, experiences with people and circumstances that had an impact on\nshaping her spiritual, mental, emotional and physical life were written down\nfor her to read and dissect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finding it hard to read in black and white, many of the\nmemories now felt embarrassing to recount. How immature she had been, as a\nrepetitious inner monologue and questioning occurred time and time again. She\ncould feel a slight reddening of her checks as it dawned on her just how big\nrole her egO had played in her reactions as she bought into shame, guilt,\nanger, frustration and victim consciousness. How had she not seen that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrewsmith.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Book.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1562\" width=\"312\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrewsmith.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Book.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.andrewsmith.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Book-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>But\nshe found captivating, compelling and poignant the clarity revealed in reading\nhow the differing parts of her sOul interpreted each memory. It was at that\nmoment she started to truly understand the intelligent matrix she was living\nwithin, as all people and circumstances had been drawn into her life to support\na journey that was helping her shed her attachments, to confront those layers\nof personality that she had been encouraged to adopt and to face down sides of\nher sOul that served only to bind her more deeply to the World of Form. She saw\nthat the more she had fought, the more difficult her path had become; yet the\nmore she had found acceptance and listened to her inner vOice, the more she had\nhad grown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She read on, understanding more and more, noticing how many\nreoccurring themes, scripts and patterns, guided her everyday reactions and\nresponses. How little her adult-self had grown since childhood. How well\nreasoned her justifications have become, and deep the binds that held her have\nbeen. She had confused maturity with experience. Something had to give. She\ncould not continue to repeat the familiar. She needed to break free from this Groundhog\nDay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrewsmith.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Quill-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1563\" width=\"277\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrewsmith.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Quill-2.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.andrewsmith.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Quill-2-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Pausing,\nshe looked up from enthrallment and breathing in deeply she noticed how low the\ncandles had burned. A single beam of light started to stream in from the\neastern window, illuminating the left hand side of the table. How had she not\nnoticed another book before?!! Fascinated, despite her exhaustion, she reached towards\nthe book and opened it expecting to see some more ink inscriptions carefully\nquilled into the parchment. She was disappointed and somewhat perplexed when she\nturned over blank page after blank page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As she was thinking and\nprocessing this experience, she noticed that the parchment was miraculously\nfilling up with words. She looked down and read, verbatim, her current line of\nthinking. She turned the page and read more of the deeper implication of this\ncurrent confusion and as she finished reading it, the words disappeared! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her periphery vision she noticed lines of ink were\nfilling the page of the book to her right. Returning to this book, she read\nfrom the fresh ink the past tense of this experience. This time the words\nremained. And then, within the morning light, it dawned on her &#8211; the book that\nhad been written was her life to date; the book unwritten was her life to come!\nA realisation grew in her &#8211; her life was NOT mapped out, even if there was a\n\u2018fate\u2019 in her experiences, after all she has always chosen certain well defined\npathways and no matter how hard she had grown, dealt with things she returned\nto the same scripts. But as she stared into the blank book, she was taken by\nthe unlimited and boundless space that existed therein. Nothing was there to\nguide or dictate to her. Yet she still felt compelled to create as she had\ncreated. But in that nothingness, she was free to make her own choices. It was\nup to her to create her journey ahead, her choices would become part of her\npath and journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closing her eyes in gratitude to this insight, she\nheard a vOice whisper from some indistinct place &#8211; \u201cLittle Spirit, know that\nthat which has been, guides that which that will be. The awareness of that\nwhich has been guides and informs your reactions to that which will be. Heal,\nrelease, let go and be. Heal, release, let go and be\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As she opened her eyes, the crystal beam of light had\nfilled the room. A new dawn, a new day, a fresh start\u2026 All that remained was what\nshe would now create?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that is your question to answer during the first\nNew Moon of the Solar calendar year 2019 in Cardinal Earth on the 6<sup>th<\/sup>\nJanuary &#8211; <strong><em>What will you create afresh? <\/em><\/strong>The slate is clean, the rules no\nlonger apply. The world is finding a new way of being, so too are you. So what\nwill you create now that you are free?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank\nyou for taking time to read what I offer you. Create well, now and throughout\n2019. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>All rights reserved <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Andrew Smith. Completed at 15:19 GMT, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> January 2018.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Moon in Cardinal Earth (Sextile Neptune and located between Saturn and Pluto) The climb to this place, akin to Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee\u2019s assault of Mount Doom in Mordor, has been monumental. 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