reading roses
More updates about my experiences at Intuitive Way. I went to the center on Thursday night, both this week and last week. It's a night that we are invited to come and participate in doing readings for other people, people that specifically come to the center to have aura readings.
This was my first time to do this, last week. I was given the role of "reading the rose" of the people that came in. I had only had one other experience of doing this and it was a very short exercise we did in class. I read one of my classmate's roses - there was just enough time to read one of her past lives. My vision was clear and I really believed what I "saw". So that gave me enough confidence to trust that when put on the real role of reading someone else that I'd be able to do it.
The first reading, last Thursday was with someone that has completed all of the training at IW. Not someone I had met before, but his wife is in my class and I heard her talk about him. Strangely, I did not feel intimidated having this knowledge about him.
The reading: I saw two of his past lives, but I questioned myself about whether they were authentically past lives, or if they were multi-dimensional representations of his personality in this lifetime. The first life I saw him in he looked like a Pharoah. I saw him from behind, looking over his shoulder as his appearance became illuminated in a desert-like setting. I struggled to try to identify it as Egypt, but couldn't. It didn't feel like the real world place to me. Structures started to appear, but they were not pyramid shaped. They were large, there were three of them and they formed a semi-circle behind him. They were wedge shaped and were golden. Like really made of gold... I lingered watching this scene waiting to see if it was going to change. It didn't, but that's when I realized what these objects were. They were where he got his power from. Also, he didn't look exactly like a Pharoah, just that he had a regal-ness about him. Oh, and no other people appeared that he could have been related to. (The first reading I did with my classmate, I saw that she had 6 brothers in her past life!)
I then moved on to the second ring on his rose's stem. It started out with me just seeing the color blue. Then the blue took physical form, and I saw it turn into water. There was a large body of water that filled the entire scenery. Then I saw the body of who he was in this past life appear. It was a man that looked exactly like Poseidon to me. He was floating in the water, then began to do the backstroke. He was swimming in circles around the stem of his rose, and he was grinning, then he began laughing. It was an incredible vision and I figured out that this was the aspect of himself that maintained and manifested his amusement energy.
And this is why I was not sure that these were actual past lives but perhaps they were multidimensional representations of his personality - like they were facets of how his higher self-manifests and takes care of him. These beings were archetypal personalities more than they were real world.
The Second Reading; one week later I participated in a reading with a real-life-stranger, someone I had never seen in the center before and had no information about what was going on in her life. She said nothing to us other than to tell us what her name was. And being the rose reader, I was the first one that dived in and said what I saw. I was very excited to have this opportunity, where both the owners of the center AND this client trusted me to be truthful in what I reported on.
Details of her rose: the color of her rose was a creamy peach color and her rose was newly formed and beginning to loosen up on the inside - her petals were ready to start opening up, though none of the outer petals had opened yet. Immediately I saw a very large leaf on the rose's stem - quite close to the top. I chose not to try to read it as it was said that what was more important to pay attention to was the rings, the strength and length of the stem, and the position underneath the sun. -- The stem was quite long and straight and was deeply rooted in the earth. Then I saw that there were two rings on the stem - in the upper quarter, just below the large leaf.
The upper ring was yellow in color with a thin streak of a black ring encircling it. I chose not to pay attention to the black ring (but then later after we finished the first part of the reading, we were told by the advanced student who monitored our reading to deal with that blackness, as it also appeared in two layers of her aura.) After just a few seconds of looking at the yellow ring I started to see a being emerge. It was a young blonde boy that had a dutch-boy haircut. He seemed to be about 4 years of age - and I took a jump in my interpretation and suggested that maybe he was from Holland, or somewhere in Northern Europe. Next, the boy started to draw circles. He first gestured with his arms and drew large circles around himself in the space he was in. Then he looked upwards to the sky, then began to draw the circles on paper... It seemed to me that he had a fascination with the planets in the sky. He was imaginatively drawing what he believed the planets and constellations looked like. It was an obsessive pastime for him, it was all that he liked to do. It was both a creative form of expression for him, but it was also something that he got a spiritual high from - like his mental focus on the planets got into his heart and spirit - it was something that he would only become more and more knowledgeable about as he grew older. And at that point of accomplishment in my understanding I saw him grow into manhood and then old age - where he became an instructor/teacher of (I said astrology aloud during the reading - but I think I actually meant astronomy - but perhaps it started out as an interest in astronomy, then grew into the spiritual knowledge of astrology).. regardless, he was much admired by all who studied beneath him.
Then I saw that vision close and went on to the other ring. This ring's color was a deep lavender (and there was no other sign of any color interfering with it). What then appeared was a very dark space. I waited for a moment for light to brighten up the space but none came. It was like standing in a room with no windows and with all lights turned off. And it did feel like a room. A close space. As my eyes adjusted to looking into the darkness I started to see a figure appear. It was of human shape and I could only see it from the waist upwards. As I gazed upon it, it started to move. The torso began to open up like a book does, and I saw two halves of itself appear. They were still connected to each other but it for a moment looked like there were two parts of the one being. Then the two front sides of the two halves looked at each other and melded into each other, making again, a whole being.. I watched to see if it would separate again and turn inwards on the backside of the figure but it did not. It just merged into itself while it faced itself. Hard to explain this with words (haha when I am in trance and doing the reading I use my hands a lot to gesture what it is I'm seeing - don't know how that works for the readee - can't see their reactions because my eyes are closed the whole time).. I waited a little bit longer to see what else would happen, and a little bit of light began to illuminate the walls of this small room. The walls were lined with bookshelves and were full of books. Everything was still dark/black, and I wondered for a moment if the books might have been on topics of dark or black magick - I spoke aloud that I wondered this, but did not feel inclined to push for her to believe it. It was just a possibility... in closing, i went back to the main vision of the being - that the way it faced itself made me think that it was a life of introspection that was being experienced. That the self was looking at it's self.
Okay that's all I'm going to report on now. The rose reading is only the very first part of the reading, the "center chair" person goes on to read all the layers of the aura. It's too much for me to recall all that she saw.
This was my first time to do this, last week. I was given the role of "reading the rose" of the people that came in. I had only had one other experience of doing this and it was a very short exercise we did in class. I read one of my classmate's roses - there was just enough time to read one of her past lives. My vision was clear and I really believed what I "saw". So that gave me enough confidence to trust that when put on the real role of reading someone else that I'd be able to do it.
The first reading, last Thursday was with someone that has completed all of the training at IW. Not someone I had met before, but his wife is in my class and I heard her talk about him. Strangely, I did not feel intimidated having this knowledge about him.
The reading: I saw two of his past lives, but I questioned myself about whether they were authentically past lives, or if they were multi-dimensional representations of his personality in this lifetime. The first life I saw him in he looked like a Pharoah. I saw him from behind, looking over his shoulder as his appearance became illuminated in a desert-like setting. I struggled to try to identify it as Egypt, but couldn't. It didn't feel like the real world place to me. Structures started to appear, but they were not pyramid shaped. They were large, there were three of them and they formed a semi-circle behind him. They were wedge shaped and were golden. Like really made of gold... I lingered watching this scene waiting to see if it was going to change. It didn't, but that's when I realized what these objects were. They were where he got his power from. Also, he didn't look exactly like a Pharoah, just that he had a regal-ness about him. Oh, and no other people appeared that he could have been related to. (The first reading I did with my classmate, I saw that she had 6 brothers in her past life!)
I then moved on to the second ring on his rose's stem. It started out with me just seeing the color blue. Then the blue took physical form, and I saw it turn into water. There was a large body of water that filled the entire scenery. Then I saw the body of who he was in this past life appear. It was a man that looked exactly like Poseidon to me. He was floating in the water, then began to do the backstroke. He was swimming in circles around the stem of his rose, and he was grinning, then he began laughing. It was an incredible vision and I figured out that this was the aspect of himself that maintained and manifested his amusement energy.
And this is why I was not sure that these were actual past lives but perhaps they were multidimensional representations of his personality - like they were facets of how his higher self-manifests and takes care of him. These beings were archetypal personalities more than they were real world.
The Second Reading; one week later I participated in a reading with a real-life-stranger, someone I had never seen in the center before and had no information about what was going on in her life. She said nothing to us other than to tell us what her name was. And being the rose reader, I was the first one that dived in and said what I saw. I was very excited to have this opportunity, where both the owners of the center AND this client trusted me to be truthful in what I reported on.
Details of her rose: the color of her rose was a creamy peach color and her rose was newly formed and beginning to loosen up on the inside - her petals were ready to start opening up, though none of the outer petals had opened yet. Immediately I saw a very large leaf on the rose's stem - quite close to the top. I chose not to try to read it as it was said that what was more important to pay attention to was the rings, the strength and length of the stem, and the position underneath the sun. -- The stem was quite long and straight and was deeply rooted in the earth. Then I saw that there were two rings on the stem - in the upper quarter, just below the large leaf.
The upper ring was yellow in color with a thin streak of a black ring encircling it. I chose not to pay attention to the black ring (but then later after we finished the first part of the reading, we were told by the advanced student who monitored our reading to deal with that blackness, as it also appeared in two layers of her aura.) After just a few seconds of looking at the yellow ring I started to see a being emerge. It was a young blonde boy that had a dutch-boy haircut. He seemed to be about 4 years of age - and I took a jump in my interpretation and suggested that maybe he was from Holland, or somewhere in Northern Europe. Next, the boy started to draw circles. He first gestured with his arms and drew large circles around himself in the space he was in. Then he looked upwards to the sky, then began to draw the circles on paper... It seemed to me that he had a fascination with the planets in the sky. He was imaginatively drawing what he believed the planets and constellations looked like. It was an obsessive pastime for him, it was all that he liked to do. It was both a creative form of expression for him, but it was also something that he got a spiritual high from - like his mental focus on the planets got into his heart and spirit - it was something that he would only become more and more knowledgeable about as he grew older. And at that point of accomplishment in my understanding I saw him grow into manhood and then old age - where he became an instructor/teacher of (I said astrology aloud during the reading - but I think I actually meant astronomy - but perhaps it started out as an interest in astronomy, then grew into the spiritual knowledge of astrology).. regardless, he was much admired by all who studied beneath him.
Then I saw that vision close and went on to the other ring. This ring's color was a deep lavender (and there was no other sign of any color interfering with it). What then appeared was a very dark space. I waited for a moment for light to brighten up the space but none came. It was like standing in a room with no windows and with all lights turned off. And it did feel like a room. A close space. As my eyes adjusted to looking into the darkness I started to see a figure appear. It was of human shape and I could only see it from the waist upwards. As I gazed upon it, it started to move. The torso began to open up like a book does, and I saw two halves of itself appear. They were still connected to each other but it for a moment looked like there were two parts of the one being. Then the two front sides of the two halves looked at each other and melded into each other, making again, a whole being.. I watched to see if it would separate again and turn inwards on the backside of the figure but it did not. It just merged into itself while it faced itself. Hard to explain this with words (haha when I am in trance and doing the reading I use my hands a lot to gesture what it is I'm seeing - don't know how that works for the readee - can't see their reactions because my eyes are closed the whole time).. I waited a little bit longer to see what else would happen, and a little bit of light began to illuminate the walls of this small room. The walls were lined with bookshelves and were full of books. Everything was still dark/black, and I wondered for a moment if the books might have been on topics of dark or black magick - I spoke aloud that I wondered this, but did not feel inclined to push for her to believe it. It was just a possibility... in closing, i went back to the main vision of the being - that the way it faced itself made me think that it was a life of introspection that was being experienced. That the self was looking at it's self.
Okay that's all I'm going to report on now. The rose reading is only the very first part of the reading, the "center chair" person goes on to read all the layers of the aura. It's too much for me to recall all that she saw.
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