My heart has always desired to be known. There have been a few people in my life who  have truly known me, seen me, felt me, understood me. I wouldn’t say any of them are my family…and yet there is understanding in my family. My inner artist most identifies with my brother. His art is freeform…inspired from within. He is a capricorn like me, and  feel like he understands me. I was thinking of him this morning as I sat by the creek and played my recorder. It was what my heart led me to do…but I don’t “play” the recorder…that’s my brother’s thing. Or so I thought…
My sisters both get me…each in different ways. To be known by them and to know them is priceless to me. Not an uncommon sentiment, but it is in my family.
As I experience relationships where I am known and understood, I recognize they are simply a mirror of myself, and the more I interact with them the more I learn of myself. But there is a deeper thought here I had not reached until yesterday when my teacher said it. Yes, everyone is a mirror. Yes, they teach you about yourself. And the desire to be known is, at heart, a desire to know oneself. But of course ☺
So what of relationship? Are they all simply mirrors?
It tweaks my ego. I may be a mirror for you, but what of  me? Am I nothing? Well…yes. I am nothing. And everything. I am nothing but the mirror for you…i have no control over what you see in me. And I am everything…i am the Goddess and I am looking for mirrors so I can see herself in me…recognize her….me. The more I know myself and stand in the Goddess, the clearer channel I become to reflect the Goddess in you. See? We see what we want to see…and spirit guides us to see what we want to see.  No matter what we think we are looking for, we are all really looking for our own divinity. Our own immortality. We all want to believe we are limitless powerful beings. Once we know we are, we will begin to experience it…and see it in others. Once we see it in others, we begin to believe we ourselves can be that powerful.
The trick is to be aware of the moments when the Universe brings us that knowledge…that is the beginning of the cycle. Truly, we are born with it.  But  it is forgotten, cast aside, and has to be reclaimed.  Spirit, though, will not let us forget for long.
So, we are in control. And not. We are always at choice, and yet spirit will have it’s way eventually. We cannot die or fail. Our future is secure…immortality is truly ours, if we understand we are spirits having a human existence, not the other way around.