Because Isolde—also known as Isolt, Isolde, Yseult, Iseult, Iseo, Isode, Isoude, Izolda, Esyllt, and Isotta—is thought of by many as a goddess of love, I sought to connect with her this week, as the energetic theme of February is about deepening our partnerships and we have just come out of Valentine’s Day. She chose to discuss passion—specifically, how to rekindle it.
Watch the video below to see me describe this conversation. (You can also read the written description below the video.)

Here’s a quick guide to reading the “transcripts” of my conversations with guides, spirits, angels, etc: My part of the conversation is shown in normal text. [Words not spoken but added to the text for clarification are shown in square brackets.] The words of the entity with whom I’m speaking are shown in italic. (Description of what was happening during the conversation is shown in parentheses.)

Hello, Isolde. May I speak with you today?

Yes, of course you may! I am so pleased to speak with you. (I hear this in a lovely lilt—almost Southern, but not quite. The “tone” of the “voice” expresses the epitome of hospitality.)

Thank you for speaking with me. Do you have any particular words of wisdom that you would like to share with me or my readers/viewers?

Of course I’m happy to share some knowledge.

(I can hear the smile in her voice, though she is not yet showing herself to me. Rather, she seems to be omnipresent, an energy simply surrounding me like the humidity of a warm summer night in a humid place—close and comfortable, but not suffocating. I can’t seem to not smile.)

This is, of course, February, which is the month dedicated to love—[especially] Cupid, St. Valentine. Of course, it is also a time for ME, as I have come to represent passionate love. But really, it’s playful love. Passion can exist only when a relationship has partners who are willing to be playful. They are two sides of the same coin, passion and love.

Really? That seems an odd notion to me.

I could see how that could be so, with your society’s focus on passion as sex and playfulness as childishness, but even passion has its playful moments, and you can play passionately.

This is interesting to think about. Thank you. Could you tell me, please, why you chose to speak of passion and playfulness in this message, rather than only passion, only playfulness, or the broader topic of romantic love?

Of course! (She shows me images of laughter—of close, intimate laughter, as when two lovers are near each other and laughing with the sheer joy of being with each other, holding hands and spinning each other around like children playing Ring Around the Rosie, even though they are fully grown. Such play and laughter, she gives me to understand, are the the intersection of passion and playfulness, when we do silly things and don’t think of how silly they are, because we simply want to bring joy to the person we are with. It’s a passion for seeing the joy and hearing the laughter of the other person.)

If you really want to experience passion again, find the place of joy in yourself. Then help your partner’s joy come forth. Make yourselves laugh riotously together. That is the place where passion is born. That is where love feeds upon itself and bubbles up constantly.

(She shows me an image of a small brook coming up out of the earth, water simply coming through steadily and quickly—not exactly gushing, but with exuberance.)

Thank you, Isolde, for [providing me with] this understanding. This is so simple [a concept], yet the feelings and understanding are powerful.

Yes. It is easy for humans to forget how simple the solutions to complex problems can be. Romantic love is born out of joy. ALL love between two people is born out of joy. Those who love each other want to see each other happy. They revel in the joy their loved ones feel.

Of course, it’s easy to have your love get imbalanced in its expression—(Here, she shows me images of parents giving their children so much that the children become spoiled and demanding, or of one person in a romantic relationship giving everything to the partner, so that the relationship becomes imbalanced and one is always giving, the other taking.)—but true love is full of joy, and its purest expression is basic, SIMPLE, joy.

That is all you need to remember if you feel you are losing passion in your relationship—(of any sort, not just romantic, she gives me to understand): Focus on the sheer joy you initially felt in the relationship, and ask yourself how you can find that joy again. Usually, it will be as simple as stripping away all of the layers of “stuff” that have accumulated, all the associations that have developed over the course of your relationship. Peel those away, because those are not the real relationship, and they are not the other person in your relationship—they are simply the detritus of … living, the –forgive me for using so loaded a word, but it is effective, for [in spite of] all the meanings it has inherited—karma … that accumulates during a relationship. Go back to the original joy, and you will find your passion again.

(Here, her energy began to withdraw, and I understood that this was all she had to share with me, so I thanked her, knowing our session was done.)

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