The Spiritual Terrain of Soulmate Relationships by Ariadne Green, published by Palm Leaf Press.
Extract: The meeting of Divine Complements can be a magical event that points a couple directly toward each other’s heart and to the memory of an earlier soul-to-soul connection. The attraction goes beyond a biological urge to mate and procreate and is more than a chemistry of sniffs and smells and sex appeal. It also goes beyond the reasoning “He or she suits me,” in which case we are fulfilling a personal ideal.
Sizing up our soul mate as a potential partner is not an intellectual task. We must succumb to the magnetic attraction, a harmony of spiritual collaboration that is perfectly orchestrated in the moment. This harmony is magnetic, mysterious, entrancing, enchanting and otherworldly. It forces us to take note of the radiant light of the other and the brighter light we create together. We move deeply into a soulful place reminding us of an altogether different place and time, where unity was a given and we were free to dance together in the harmony of God’s love. Though we are still asleep to the details of the real promise and the destiny we co-created long before, for this one moment in time we are awakened to something in our heart that says this is someone special to appreciate. It may even be love at first sight.
From there, hours of conversation may follow, ushering us into familiar places as soul memories trickle in. We may feel that we have known each other’s face, warmth and soul forever. It is true. We are old friends indeed, soulful friends and kindred spirits who waltzed together through many lifetimes. It is likely we shared numerous lifetimes, in which we grew to know each other’s essence more and more intimately. Although our individual personalities are different from one lifetime to the next, the soul of our beloved has a common place in our heart. We have only chosen veils of appearance and personality to hide our identities from each other in this life so we can begin anew the tests of love. Now, only a faint inkling of familiarity remains.
There may be a great deal of serendipity and the magic of synchronicity to convince us that this person is divinely connected to us. Perhaps we lived on the same block or around the corner for the last four years without realizing it and now we meet under a movie marquee that reads “Soul Mate.” The last four digits of our phone numbers may be the same or we may have had the same locker number in high school. One may drive a red Mustang with white interior, while the other drives a white Mustang with red interior. Both our parents might have an aunt in Philadelphia named Mary. We may have twin names like Joe and Josie or Earnest and Ernestine (a phenomenon I have run into more than once). What is even more likely is that we share some of the same interests, complementary talents and visions for the future.
This serendipity may bring us to laughter or to tears, to magical thinking and wondering if God is near. We may consider whether this was “meant to be.” “Am I the one for him, or is she the one for me?” “Where will we go from here?”
Most of the time, these questions can’t be answered with certainty until the heart is secure in knowing that this meeting was definitely meant to be. It may take considerable time, courage, and exploration to affirm the divine connection. For some, the affirmation will come in an instant, and for others the confirmation could take months or years.
Ordinary logic, however, may deny us the opportunity to solidify the synchronicities and serendipity into a meaningful event of lasting significance. It may even dismiss all the magical evidence as sheer coincidence, luck or just plain nonsense. Logic seldom agrees with the heart. In fact, it may chase away the pangs of the heart to maintain some sanity and control. Those who bend to their logical minds may not recognize the spiritual power behind all the miracles that are pulling them toward their Divine Complements. For them, their soul mates remain strangers, just another possibility among thousands.
It is the true spiritual power and combined destiny of Divine Complements that move mountains and clear the path to bring two souls together. Both hearts wish to explore each other as a deeply connected couple, who has reunited after a long absence. The mind will either accept and embrace this profound experience or compromise it by inciting fear, suspicion or denial. It is this push-pull between the mind and the heart that must end in order for the promise between Divine Complements to be fulfilled. The heart must win the battle for love, with the mind surrendering to the knowing that the deliverance of divine complementary partnership was “meant to be.”
I struck up a conversation with a young woman while sipping coffee at Starbucks who shared a dream that shed some light on the authenticity of her soul mate. She and her boyfriend were friends for five years before embarking on a romantic relationship. She told me she wasn’t at all sure that he was the “one” or that she could trust him despite the fact that he had always proved faithful and honest.
In her dream, she was with her spiritual teacher, and another young woman, who appeared to be lost and confused. The perplexed dream character turned out to be confused about what town she was in, though she had some sense that she was in Italy. She asked, “Am I in Rome or somewhere else?” The spiritual teacher showed her on a map that she was in Verona, Italy. She pointed out the streets and sites that surrounded her and commented that they should appear familiar. Both the dreamer and the lost woman exclaimed “Aha!” I asked the dreamer what she associated with Verona and she told me that she had visited there when she was in her 20s and that she considered it romantic and beautiful. She thought that perhaps the dream was pointing to the famous lovers Romeo and Juliet, as Shakespeare’s play is set in Verona. I intuited immediately that her subconscious was letting her know she had found her soul mate. With her mental chatter and doubts, she was denying recognition of the authenticity of their connection. The spiritual guide was pointing to this juncture in her life as an opportunity for commitment between soul-mate lovers who, like Romeo and Juliet, would sacrifice everything to be together. The dream was meant to illuminate her—she just needed some help in understanding what it meant. After I gave her an intuitive reading that revealed why she had delayed recognizing the authenticity of her soulmate, she seemed convinced that less processing and more plunging might be in order.
Author bio: Ariadne Green holds a graduate degree in Educational Psychology from Cal State Hayward and attended Saybrook Institute in San Francisco from 1995-1996 where she pursued a doctoral in Philosophy of Psychology focusing on consciousness studies. She is the author of four books, a dream expert, trained psychotherapist, and spiritual adviser she has awakened hundreds to the mysteries that lie within the labyrinth of their souls so that they might discover their authentic purpose. She can be contacted through her website: http://www.dreamthread.com/dreamthread/free_dream_interpretation.htm
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