Moving from desire to divine romance.
On one of my walks around the neighborhood, i wondered, “why can’t i accept that it’s over? What will it take to let go of this romantic dream i am clinging to?” Was i wrong? Was it not a divine romance? Was it just a romantic myth? Deep in thought, i looked up and had to laugh. Once again, the tree poet needed me to see something and had my full attention. Did i know the difference between divine romance and romantic myth? Did i know that the entrance of “Desire” only looks like i am entering the cavern of the heart?
From “Tree Sees With One Eye” by beaMa
Sometimes, desire leads to the heart, when the intention is to discover the other, but often it’s just a spider’s trap; a promise that the other will make one whole and end one’s suffering.
For a moment, i felt like a fly buzzing around…
The entrance drew me in, but then this poem came to me.
“Tree trunk grows a heart
so spider can weave her web.
Beware fly: Wake up!
No need to get caught and die here.”
Working with the image and the poem, bea began to see that her attachment to the romantic myth was a trap. With the idea that “he” was a soul mate, and believing that her life won’t feel whole without him, she had lost sight of soul’s whole-making presence in her life. Realizing this, she could accept that, like others, she is reject-able. No longer in denial now, she could let herself fall again. Like autumn leaves, we are all falling,…unsure whether soul’s hands will actually be there to catch and hold us.
The image “Desire” is used as a teaching tool in Soulful Relating & bea Ma Healing to illustrate the temptation of the fly in our human Psyche to enter the wrong cavern and get tangled with another’s mind and body. Insisting that a soul mate will rescue one from having to grow up and from calming one’s own inner waters and storms will trap one. It will keep you from following the One who is heading toward the Middle of the Tree of Life.
We are leaves and branches of the Tree of Life, Let trees in your neighborhood see, feel, and root your divine light in your body—in Flesh.