Our minds have many abilities that can either empower us or keep us distracted from experiencing our full potential and how extraordinary life really is.
With awareness, we’re able to recognize how our minds benefit our unique paths and know when we can trust them, no matter how bizarre it might seem. The following personal story demonstrates the vast power of our minds in everyday life, governed by the sacred element of Air…
One night, in May of 2007, I had one of those vivid dream experiences that seems more real than “real-life” when you’re not sleeping. I suddenly found myself swimming in the ocean, at great speeds. I was leaping out of the water, using what I realized was a dolphin tail to propel myself! I felt great joy as I leaped high above the waves and dove back into the water. Then, abruptly, I was walking in human form, in a forest of giant evergreen trees, like redwoods, in a community of Native American people. A wise elder was serenely watching me from where he sat. I walked up to him, and he showed me a dolphin tattoo along the inside of his right forearm. It looked like a black line drawing. As he pointed a finger to it, he looked at me and said, “You are of the Dolphin Clan.” Then I woke up.
Months later I had another brief, profound dream experience. This time I found myself floating in the universe. Suddenly, I was in the presence of a radiant, luminescent female star being. She gracefully greeted me, forehead to forehead, and told me simply, “Your star name is Aylani.” and then she vanished. I saw its spelling in my dream and then woke up. I felt guided to research this name on the Internet and was surprised to discover that it did exist on Earth and its origin was Hawaiian. (It was spelled with an i instead of the y that I had seen.) I also discovered that this method of greeting, forehead to forehead, was highly significant among Polynesian cultures. I was in awe.
Our dreams can bring certain things into our conscious awareness. After I had this unusual dream, I began to notice dolphins showing up consistently in my physical environment, in the most unexpected ways. It seemed that everywhere I went, they were there, including on billboards, the sides of transit buses, on magazine covers, on the internet in advertisements, as framed pictures on office walls, on people’s clothing, etc. They were obviously making sure I paid attention.
Months later, I suddenly felt guided one day to research the relationship between dolphins and the star system of Sirius. I had learned to not question my intuitive guidance, no matter how unusual it might seem. As I searched online, I simply allowed myself to go where I felt guided to go, with no conscious navigation. To my surprise, I discovered a woman who lived on the island of Hawai’i and she was organizing two weeks of swimming with wild dolphins in the Caribbean ocean, off a tiny island called Bimini! My soul quickened at the idea of doing this. I knew that if I was meant to go, I would receive clear guidance and everything would work out somehow. And against all odds,… it actually did!
By the winter of that year, it became clear that I had to go. I knew it in my heart and had no doubt in my mind. However, it was understood at the corporate office where I worked that vacation in the summer months was strictly reserved for employees who had seniority of 25 years or more. I had 12 years of service, and since this dolphin experience was scheduled for the end of June and beginning of July, logically I would be completely wasting my money to book this trip. However, I felt strongly that I had to do so, and the dolphins made sure I did.
By this time, they were showing up in my life every day, in every way imaginable. I felt guided one day to look at flights on the Internet and discovered a seat sale—with dolphins advertising something in the sidebar of the website. I booked my flight and then reserved my space for the dolphin journey of two weeks. I had no idea how everything would work out, but I felt so excited!
I had always felt a loving connection with dolphins, and just the thought of seeing wild dolphins in the ocean—never mind swimming freely with them in their natural environment—felt so very special to me. I also appreciated that the organizers were so respectful of these magnificent beings and all ocean life. I was more than happy to support their work.
Then a series of unanticipated events occurred at work, enabling me to apply for a job with the government. Due to jobs being abolished and rearranged within the corporation, I had felt for some time that I would need to change jobs. A woman I knew at the office ended up working in my department for a few weeks to substitute for someone on vacation. She sat only a few desks away from me, and she overheard me mention that I was looking for another job (I wasn’t hiding it). One of her close friends happened to be high up in the government and was looking to fill bilingual positions in her department—which I happened to qualify for! Under regular circumstances, I would never have been able to apply for this job. However, due to my co-worker’s connection and the fact that she knew me personally and liked my personality and work ethics, I was able to easily get around the regulations and submit my resume through her.
I passed all the required tests as well as the extensive interview, and by the beginning of 2008 I was handing in my resignation and starting a new job! I had been a corporate customer service representative and was now going to be a governmental information officer (still working in a downtown office and assisting clients every day). The best part of getting this new job occurred during the hiring process. I mentioned that I had an important trip already booked for the summer and would require those two weeks off. I was granted this request without question! Everything just flowed and worked out so miraculously—better than I could have ever imagined! It was phenomenal to say the least. I was bursting with love and appreciation!
Since I enjoy journalling, I desired a special notebook for this trip. I discovered one on the Internet that had a metallic photograph of the face of a dolphin on it. It was perfect, except for the shipping costs, which were three times more than the journal itself! I felt I just had to notify the company that I loved this journal but wouldn’t purchase it because of the shipping fee. A customer service representative replied to my email and asked for my mailing address, which I provided. Within a week I found this journal in my mailbox as a gift from the company! I expressed my joyful appreciation to them. What a wonderful surprise!
Now I was all set—snorkelling gear, fins, and all. This experience with the wild dolphins was so profound. The first day I went in the ocean I was mesmerized by just how magickal it felt to effortlessly swim with my fins in such buoyant, warm, clear, turquoise-blue water, with no land in sight! It felt as if I were in a universe of crystalline water and sunrays—so awe-inspiring!
As instructed, I swam leisurely near the surface with my arms respectfully to my sides. I was looking through my mask and breathing through my snorkel when I heard the clicks and squeaks of many vocalizing dolphins. One moment I couldn’t see them, and the next moment I was suddenly surrounded by a pod of beautiful Atlantic spotted dolphins!
They swam so close to me, some only inches away, that I felt as if I were part of the pod. They all made eye contact as they slowly and gracefully came from behind and passed me. I was spellbound by their presence and agility. Then the three oldest dolphins of the pod (they had the most spots on them) turned around a few yards away from me and floated motionlessly side by side at the surface, facing me. As they did so, they looked so deeply into my eyes that I felt they were seeing me at the soul level. I felt so much pure love flowing to me from them, it touched me to the core.
Then, one by one, they swam slowly towards me and passed by me again, maintaining eye contact and almost touching me. I felt so honoured, welcomed, and profoundly moved by this experience. My heart burst wide open and overflowed with absolute love for these magnificent beings. I felt my connection with them even more deeply. When I surfaced and pulled off my mask, I realized that my salty tears tasted like the ocean water. We’re all so interconnected.
I made beautiful heart connections not only with the dolphins but also with precious soul family—it felt like a reunion of many. We shared so much laughter, tears and everything in between. I had clearly been meant to go there at that specific time.
At one point I treated myself to one of my favourite pleasures—a full body massage. During this treatment, the practitioner intuitively did some cranial sacral therapy at the base of my skull where she explained there are “memory keys” and I suddenly had an intense experience. I unexpectedly remembered the fall of Atlantis, experiencing it as one who had been there. Instead of drowning, I had actually shape-shifted into a dolphin being and had Dolphin spirit guides with me throughout this vivid memory vision. I suddenly released so much deep grief related to that experience that I hadn’t even known was within me. Bimini is said to be located where Atlantis used to be and its energy is certainly profound. On one of the nights on that small tropical island, I also experienced a very intense thunderstorm, with spectacular lightning. As the group left the island on the last day, I saw a beautiful rainbow (also very significant to me).
My journey there ended up catapulting me into a new level of self-discovery and re-membering, on multiple levels.
Had I dismissed those significant dreams and the intuitive guidance that led me to this experience (which is all too easy to do in our busy everyday lives), my life would have been very different. This opportunity was such a divine gift orchestrated by many, seen and unseen.
When you acknowledge everything about yourself (even the most seemingly “bizarre”) and act according to your personal truth, magick unfolds on your path so you can experience and be everything you’re meant to.
These experiences have shown me, along with countless others throughout my life, just how supported we are on our journeys. Life, seen and unseen, is always fully aware of us, beyond what can be explained or measured. When we open our hearts and minds, fully present to experience and receive, it responds.
It’s so sacred.
Air, the governor of our Mind Body, is the first sacred element featured in my new program “Sacred Alliances for Empowered Living”. Together, they’re an expansively powerful ally on the empowered path of the heart!
Find out more here:
www.SacredEarthConnection.com/heart-empowered
With great love and wonder-filled spirit,
Special thanks: Guy Runco (photographer and director at Bird TLC), Michael Bay (photographer and volunteer at Bird TLC), Lisa Denning (Ocean Eyes Photography: underwater photograph of dolphins with Lucille) Michael Leon Rockwell (Lucille’s beloved husband), Nature & Spirit, and all who’ve contributed in some way to co-create this amazing journey!
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