Soulcraft: Crossing Into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche by Bill Plotkin

Author:Bill Plotkin [Plotkin, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Body; Mind & Spirit, Essays, Inspiration, Nature, Non-Fiction, Personal Growth, Self-Help, Spiritual
ISBN: 9781577313571
Google: Kuy725kczicC
Amazon: B001H0PDLS
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 2010-10-04T23:00:00+00:00

Then Annie realized what she would do next. During the months prior, she had had a recurring image of herself dancing under the moon and stars in a pure-white dress. She had gone to town, found just the right dress, and brought it with her, as ridiculous as it seemed to stuff into a backpack something special and gorgeous and white.

Now, at the edge of the water, she imagined a sacred marriage she would enact while standing in the middle of the shallow lake. She spent the rest of the day in preparation. Circling the lake, she placed in the four quadrants symbols representing the most important men in her life. Trembling with anticipation and gratitude, she sat in a green glade and wrote her wedding vows.

At dusk, I watched the sun's last radiance illuminate the lake — and felt suspended in time. Gazing softly upon the water, I saw the lady, milky white and effervescent, rise up from the lake. I sighed with rapture at her beauty and told her so. At once, another form arose beside her, this one unmistakably masculine. Gasping, I asked, “Are you the Lord of the Lake?” He chortled mischievously.

In the morning, I awoke to clear skies and went down to the lake's edge, where luminous spindrifts of mist glided lazily from one side of the lake to the other. This was my wedding day! But I felt fear too. What if someone were to appear when I was standing in the middle of the lake in my dress? And what if the lake swallowed me up? And who was my groom?

I offered up all these things churning inside me to the Creator, the Spirit that moves in all things.

Taking a container of water up onto the mosses, I gave myself a goddess bath, invoking the image of mystical union. My masculine radiance poured forth and the deep receptivity of my feminine opened wide to receive.

After my hair dried in the sun, I braided it. The dress emerged wrinkle-free from my backpack and I slid on its filmy softness. I placed a circlet of beads and ribbons on my head and added sparkles to my cheeks. I felt beautiful, and the lake and forest were enchanted. I would not have been surprised if unicorns had appeared.

With solemn dignity, I walked slowly down my runway of mosses and out into the lake. I brought gifts for the lady and lord and, by name, invited the feminine role models in my life to be honored witnesses. I cast a length of cord in the direction of each of the men I had symbolically placed on the lake's perimeter. I drew back the cords as I spoke my vows. “Do you, Annie Christine Bloom, joyfully take unto you each of these men with whom you have shared love, laughter, creativity, the pleasure of bodies uniting, mystery, dance, struggle, and the full range of emotions from tenderness to bitterness — the ecstasies as well as the disappointments? Do

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