Soul Journey through Egypt

Its been over 2 months now that I returned from my first visit to Egypt in this lifetime and had the time to integrate and reflect.

Though Egypt was one of those places I had always wanted to visit, in previous years all attempts to actually go were diverted for some reason or other. It just hadn't been my time.

Last year in December, I honestly wasn't so keen on ongoing at all. With the war going on in neighbouring Palestine and Israel, over 80 percent of Western travellers had cancelled their travel plans to Egypt. Yet for some reason, Spirit was telling me it was now my time. Everything simply seemed to point me in the direction of booking a flight and going.

It was not for me to be influenced by the news and buy into fear though even some people around me strongly advised me not to go at that time. Yet despite my mounting reluctance, I was now being asked by Spirit to have faith and trust that I was being called to be in Egypt as part of the next stage of my Soul Mission and Soul Purpose blossoming, whatever that would entail. I imagined myself being there, a solo female traveller on her first trip to Egypt, one of perhaps a handful of other courageous souls from the West who decided not to let themselves buy into the fear propagated by the media.

So in mid December I courageously departed for Dahab to visit a Swedish friend preparing to return to her home country for safety reasons due to the pressure mounting on Egypt to open its borders to Palestinians and get involved in the war. It didn't sound so encouraging.

A few days later, just after relaxing into the feeling that it was safe to be there after all, a bomb explosion happened 100km off the coast of Dahab, causing buildings in one particular area to shake. That was all I needed to re-consider the whole idea of coming to Egypt to have been a crazy mistake and misjudgement on my part. I tried rebooking my flight to Cairo only to find out it had already been cancelled. So I just took the next flight I could out of the Sinai peninsula to Cairo just before the Winter Solstice.

On the early morning of the Winter Solstice, I visited the Pyramids of Giza and entered the Kings Chamber in the Great Pyramid, before the crowds arrived. The guard allowed me to lie in the Sacrophagus where I set the intent of experiencing my own Death-Rebirth ritual, releasing all that was no longer aligned with my Soul to make room for that which is.

As I sat and meditated by the Sacrophagus, I entered into an altered state of higher consciousness in which I could feel my higher chakras opening and receiving lightcodes from Sirius. The mind stills and one is simply in a deep state of meditation and higher consciousness awareness.

Beside me sat a woman meditating. We seemed to both be experiencing the same altered state of consciousness in which telepathic communication flows with ease. We never exchanged a spoken word yet smiled with mutual recognition when I got up to leave.

A few days later, I was queing up to board my flight from Cairo to Luxor. Standing a few meters from me in the same queue was the woman I sat meditating beside in the Kings Chamber. We immediately connected and began to talk. She shared with me how during her stay in Cairo, she had connected with 2 other solo women travellers in a similarly synchronous way and that both of them were arriving together in Luxor the next day. As she herself had visited Egypt many times before, she had felt guided to arrange for them to travel together to the Sacred Temples of Abydos, Dendera and of course Karnak and Luxor as well as the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens and asked if I'd like to join them.

It felt like Great Mother Isis was embracing me in her Wings, letting me know that as it was indeed She who had called me to Egypt, it was She who would overlight every detail of my stay....and I would at no point feel alone as I had anticipated I would.

So over the first few days in Luxor, the four of us very unique and different women fulfilled our soul contracts to re-unite in Luxor and go on a sacred pilgrimage to the temples reachable as day trips from Luxor.

After those few days, 2 of the 4 women continued on each their own travel itineries and myself and one of them travelled further south, visiting the temples of Esna, Edfu, Kom Ombo and Philae before returning to Luxor on the 31st December.

By then, my Swedish friend from Dahab whom I first met in Glastonbury last summer, changed her travel plans and was also guided to come to Luxor.

Lo and behold, 5 other people whom I never met before, yet all connected to Glastonbury reached out one way or another to say they too were guided to come to Luxor and wanted to meet up.

By early January, there were 7 of us all connected to Glastonbury in Luxor. It felt like we had all been sent to be there to fulfill and complete something toghether. Though most of us hadn't met one another before, it felt like a kind of Soul Re-Union. We all felt familiar with one another and there was a sense of rapport.

Now in Egypt, the number 7 is very significant. In many of the temples and initiation sites, one will find a repetition of 7: 7 gateways, 7 ankhs, 7 temples along the Nile representing the 7 chakras and 7 levels of consciousness (not that there are only 7 chakras or only 7 levels of consciousness)...all corresponding to the 7 Pleiadians.

Each of us knew innately that we too were being called to visit the sacred sites (temples) of Egypt together as a group of 7 and to anchor and re-embody certain lightcodes, whether we were consciously aware of it or not. Each of us were either gridworkers, lightworkers, shamans, healers, astrologers and/or a combination of these. Either way, we were all priestesses and priests in our own right as well as starseeds and all had lived significant lifetimes of soul mastery in Ancient Egypt.

We each experienced deep Soul healings, Heart and Soul expansions and Heart Re-Unions, supported by the Sacred Land and Energy Grid of Egypt and its Gatekeepers.

So much more happened in Egypt that I will leave for another time.

Yet in this way, Spirit showed me yet again that when I follow the Call of my Soul, the Calling of Spirit, I will always be provided for. All we need to do is show up and take those baby steps, one at a time, into the Unknown, the Great Mystery that is Life and our Soul's Destiny will come to meet us. The greater the leap of Faith, the greater the Rewards of Spirit.

Awakening at Arunachala

I've never been one to follow the crowd. Not for long anyway.

Perhaps it comes from being an Old Soul and Starseed that has never quite fully felt "human" but more Soul.

I'd always be curious as to what more there is beyond the beaten track.

When I was 25, I flew to India on a one way ticket, following the calling of my Soul to begin a pilgrimage journey through sacred sites there I was most drawn to.

It was clear I'd had very many lives in India in different incarnations, mostly as a yogin, sadhu, and the like.

My most powerful experience there happened on what I'd planned to be a only a 3 day visit to the Holy Mountain Arunachala in Tamil Nadu.

Within the first day I made new friends with some amazing souls that felt like old friends. With one of them I agreed to trek up the mountain the following evening to experience spending the night meditating in one of the caves just like many sages and yogis had done (and still do) over centuries.

As we made our way up the mountain while the sun was setting the next day, one of the first things that struck me was the simplicity of the way of life of the Indians. Here we were, 2 Westerners equipped with our trekking shoes and gear hiking up the mountain while the Indians themselves passed us as they swiftly glided up and down the mountain wearing simple sandals. It made me reflect on the extent we in the West are deeply conditioned by our consumerism to believe we need to buy so much more that we truly need.

Once my friend and I found a cave near the top, he chose to go deep into it whereas I chose to stay by the entrance to enjoy the magnificent views of the town and the night sky.

Then suddenly, though I remained fully conscious, I spontaneously entered into a trance meditative state (aka as a type of samadhi) in which I lost all sense of body consciousness and not a single thought stirred in my mind. I do recall there at first feeling a sense of fear but was soon overcome by such immense Love and Bliss beyond what words could describe.

I have no sense of how long any of this lasted, only that then my entire life up until then began shown to me, like a film and I was given information and guidance through a sense of deep inner knowing as to what steps I next needed to take and what my Life Purpose was.

My Life Purpose was simply to Be the Love that I AM, the Love that I experienced myself to be that night and to share that Love with others.

Looking back, I know now that I was connecting directly with my Higher Self/Soul/Future Self (all the same).

After some "time" passed, I observed my mind was again able to form a thought and then slowly I was able to regain a sense of body consciousness and was able to move again.

This was not an experience I had sought for and not one I had again.

That said, though I was able to make it down the mountain, I was barely able to walk for 3 weeks afterwards for reasons that made no sense to me at the time, given how fit I've always kept myself.

Now I know that what can happen when we receive an intense upgrade in Light is that our physical bodies can go through such an intense purging/upgrading process that we can essentially become bedridden for days, weeks or months depending on how much density our cells, muscles and bones hold that need to be cleared.

So far to this day, I've not gone through such an intense process again, though I know of others who have had to several times.

This is quite an unusual sharing for me, but I felt called to write about it this morning when I asked my Higher Self to give me something to share that could assist or support others in some way.

With love,

Jasmin

Learning the Art of Vulnerability

From an early age, I learned to put up a facade of invincible strength, independence, aloofness and perfection. It was my way of coping with the challenges life brought on, without knowing any better. I was pro-actively "protecting" myself from being hurt in some way. Sound familiar? It does to many.

In my case, one of the ways this manifested was by never being comfortable with having more than 100 Facebook friends. Having my posts being seen by that number of people made me feel too exposed to the unknown and vulnerable to what other people would think.

Some years ago, I decided to cut that number by half and make my Facebook friend list private. I even went so far to block so many people, even those I did not know.

Then it occurred to me that I was living in fear, which is the opposite of love. This like any other "protection" mechanism was covering up a fear of being authentic and shining my light, of being vulnerable and seen. It was also preventing me from putting myself out there to fulfill my Soul's purpose and service role as a Wayshower and Guide.

Most significantly, these walls I had put up were blocking the flow of life, love and abundance and keeping me separate from some of the very things I did want in my life. Although my ego could had convinced me it was all for my protection, it was interfering with my growth and expansion as a Soul in human form.

While the ego is concerned with self-identity and self-image, the Soul is our true Self, which is beyond all identification and therefore without any limitations. As we awaken, we begin to transition from identifying with and listening to the voice of our ego (the lower mind/personality aspect) to connecting with our higher Self, which is our Soul.

I had been so comfortable being hidden and playing small, living a contracted life like a caterpillar in it's cocoon, comforted by the familiar, until like a butterfly, it just didn't remain an option to continue living this way.

In essence, there are no "others' - you are me and I am you. The rest is the illusion of separation. When we judge another, it's ourselves we judge and our hearts that close, our life experience that contracts. Who do you feel you need the approval of, aside from your own true Self, your beautiful Soul? To whom are you giving your power away, to decide how it's ok for you to express yourself?

If it's anyone outside yourself, then learning to accept and love yourself exactly as you are is key. When we put up defenses and walls of any kind, we close our hearts - which keeps us contracted and unconsciousness in some area of our lives.

This isn't a unique experience to just a few of us, but is part of the collective unconsciousness of humanity and something many of us wayshowers, lightworkers and guides experience at some point when we realise we have to step up and put ourselves out there, open up and share - for by doing so, we make it easier for others to do the same.

This way we serve humanity - opening up, sharing, loving and having the courage to transcend the familiar voice of the ego, letting go the limiting self-images we've become so habituated to identifying with (unconsciously and without question).

Unity consciousness is about letting go of separation - from ourselves, one another, the planet and all sentient and non-sentient beings. As within, so without.

All is One.

All is Love.

Thank You for reading.

(Artwork by Jean-Luc Bozzoli)