Unbinding Binding

Last weekend I completed an advanced course delving into the extent and deeper history of bindings such as oaths, pacts, promises, curses etc. Ones that are complex or hidden in some way. Often made by ancestors or in past lifes with otherworld beings or spirits. And then the practical of incorporating this material into our current work. It’s powerful stuff.

And so these still unravelled bindings ripple out influencing our current lives.

During times when so much is being unpacked, they may be felt more keenly than before. When we can no longer accept the status quo and start to look behind the veils of ‘The System’, rather than to resist and/or accept It, whether as political or spiritual warriors and researchers - objective observation creates an effect.

With this work on bindings I can see how they converge.

Allegiances bind us not only in the material realms but spiritually and energetically.

Though we may break them formally, legally and clearly in the material world - the energy and entanglement of the original promise, oath or pact still remains in other realms at the level it was made from.

Bindings that we make with someone in this way may have been influenced by a soul aspect in a higher dimension, and so would need to be rescinded there too - otherwise it can keep those involved bound. This can applies to oaths like marriage and divorce, buying and selling a house, closing a business, not fulfilling a dream or project - these all need energetic closure too, to fully retrieve our commitment and therefore our power.

These can also apply to the Land and the Beings that live there. When we are drawn to a place there can be a multitude of reasons for us being there. For example - in the past I know many who came to visit me or were drawn to my work, have a connection to the land here - and knowingly or not have supported the release of the trauma that was still encoded into her, through me. And that may be all that’s needed - connection.

In the 26 years I have lived here, I have spent much time unravelling the commitments and attachments that I have to this place through both my ancestral and past-life lineages. My post on Loch Droma talks a little about this.

And though I have done much work around this and alchemised so much - the subtleties remain like faded, pale, barely there dappled shadows in the sunlight - and they started to rise up again to be seen the closer I came to doing the course.

My working partner found that an Ancestor who was a Viking warrior claimed refuge here in the Northern part of Scotland. Due to the battle filled times he wasn’t trusted … though it was recognised because of his physique he would be useful … and so he swore an oath to the people, to the land - including all his ancestors. Over the weekend those responsible for the oath agreed that it was no longer valid and I, and no doubt all his living ancestors, was released from it.

I can see the parallels between his and my recent experience. Even though he swore an oath he was there as a protector and because no-one trusted him, few had his back. And so he would have been living drawing on his own inner resources. Though obviously he married and had children, so settled into the community - this aloneness and separateness would still be hanging over him.

And this feels like the ache of a familiar thread running through my life … not quite belonging due to an inability to fit in … being seen, but rarely witnessed … with, what has been at times, an uncomfortable gift of holding a mirror up for others. Though largely alchemised into part of my medicine bag, this is what was starting to emerge for me again in the days leading up to the course.

And this is the way it is … no matter how much work we’ve done, there are subtler and subtler layers that come up for clearing when they are ready … though at first this may be frustrating - ‘I’ve done this work!’ - In time it becomes embraced knowing there is an opportunity to alchemise, integrate and expand into more of your personal medicine.

And sometimes we need someone else to help us see, what we cannot.

with much Love
from my Heart to yours.

Tania Aurora White Crow