Trying to come up with helpful content in the past few weeks has been challenging, for a number of reasons. Facing the common uncertainties of life has always been challenging, but now our lives have been interrupted for weeks by COVID-19 and government responses to it. This has piled on even more wounds to our spirits at a level we haven’t seen in at least a few decades. This week, looking for inspiration and advice for my own healing, I reviewed some of my past posts and found some helpful advice in conversations with Apollo.[1]
He began our very first conversation with a cryptic message that has stuck with me over the years:
“Be yourselves golden!”
Confused, I told him, “I’m sorry, but I have no idea what that means.”
“Recognize your divinity, shine like the sun, fulfill your full real potential. Be GOOD to each other!” he replied. “This is what I want everyone to know.”
I think this is an important message for us to remember always, but especially during very challenging times (now certainly counts), when it can be so easy to lose ourselves in darkness and despair.
For those who feel they have not been allowed to shine and should not shine, Apollo provided a reminder that we are fully loved by the Universe, and he urged us to show ourselves some love:
“Embrace yourself! Embrace yourself. No, really, do it now! Wrap your arms around yourself and give yourself a giant hug! I’ll wait.”
I hugged myself, feeling a little foolish, but smiling at the sheer joy coming from him.
“There, isn’t that better? Shine, sweethearts. Shine, humans! Shine.”
I had just posted the energy report for May 2020, which tells us that we should pray for everyone, that prayer is a form of service, so this passage struck me as particularly helpful:
“Put yourself in touch with your own divinity by being kind to others and being of service to others. … Shine brightly like the sun, like God, by embracing that side [of yourself]. You can’t turn away from the darkness, [only] face it and shine.”
Our current challenges are bringing us a lot of opportunity to do what is commonly called “shadow work” in certain spiritual circles. A lot of us shy away from facing those parts of ourselves that we find undesirable, but Apollo reminds us of the value of our shadow.
“Embrace your shadow self, for when you embrace it, you surround it with God’s light. Even the shadow self is God, so embrace it. The two [sides] of you must work together. … Shadow is what occurs when the light and the darkness meet and become fully integrated, neither darkness nor light winning out. It is the ultimate compromise, the ultimate win-win. This is the challenge of life as a human. … [Light and dark] are both part of the same whole.
“Imagine holding in your hand a … glass sphere. You hold it in the darkness. … Now imagine a flashlight being turned on to shine on the sphere. Everything else around you is still dark, but the sphere becomes visible—the contents of it. And you realize that there are swirling gray mists inside. Before the light shone on the ball, it was all dark. Now that the light is shining on the sphere, [you can see the] swirling gray mist [inside]. The contents keep swirling, but they never are replaced with light.
“This is your human experience. You can see light, and you can see dark, but you are still affected by both. You are a mixture of both.”
Then he continued, “These mists are your emotions and experiences, not your whole personhood or soul or identity.”
I have learned that Apollo helps us to heal our physical and emotional wounds by helping to replace unforgiveness with compassion and understanding, both of which were referenced in the May 2020 energy report. Both of these are also an important part of shadow work. Apollo explained how he helps with this task:
“I enter your heart and embrace your heart. I slowly fill your heart space—physical, as well as energetic—with the golden light of the Universe, and I simply radiate that light until it seeps into every open area in that space. And then I wait until the light slowly ‘crowds out’ the darkness.”
Because Apollo is a spirit and we have free will, he can help us with our shadow work, but only if we request the help.
It’s easy to get overwhelmed in trying to resolve our shadow and light sides in even the “easy” times. But in times like the ones we are living through now, with so much uncertainty, we can spiral into panic and feel as if we will never be able to climb out of the pit again. But Apollo had general guidance that is helpful even in this situation:
“Close your eyes. Feel into the panic. … [I]magine the sun rising over the horizon, its rays reaching out and touching that place of panic inside you. This is the light of me, my radiance. Feel its warmth. If [it helps], go stand in the sunshine, or even in front of a really bright light—whatever it takes to help you feel my warmth, the sunshine on your face. Feel the hope that the sunlight can bring like no other light. No matter what your concern, feel it dispelled by this light. Call on me. I can help you with absolutely anything that concerns you. You needn’t have a heavy heart. I can share your burden and make it lighter. It may take some time [for us] to work through a feeling or concern you have, but call on me any time you need me, anywhere.”
For those of us who fear that we don’t have enough energy or strength to make it through the challenges we are facing, Apollo tells us we need only call on him for strength:
“I will embrace you and ‘lend’ you my strength. Truthfully, I’m simply bringing your own strength and the strength of the Universe [for] you [to] draw from. You always have enough strength, mental or physical, for whatever challenges you face, rest assured.”
To conclude our conversation, he parted with these words, which he again stressed are for everyone:
“Be assured, my beloved, that you … can … do this.”
Note
[1] All excerpts in this post are from my blog posts “ ‘Be Yourselves Golden!’: Apollo Encourages Us to Shine When We Feel Surrounded by Darkness” and ” ‘You Can Do This’: Apollo Brings Us More Reassurance.”
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