Secrets of a Butterfly

Starlight radiance

And when you hold your starlight radiance as tenderly as a swan feather holds a star, you will feel your own light returning, beckoning you, onwards or inwards, the path is the same, the footsteps you are needing to take will always present, and your heart will ever be guiding you.

 

The key is to notice what each feels like and to honour your becoming as unique.

No one can make you You, no one can hurry or hurt the divine essence at your centre.

Your immortal starlight radiance is whole, and ever shining. It sustains you.

You are both You and the one who is becoming You, both. 

~ kathryn 

21.3.23

 

 

Collecting the treasures of yourself.

Go gently upon the earth

 

 

No one has footprints that fall quite like yours, go gently upon the earth, and feel the streams of sunlight that reach towards you, all of nature is woven with silken thread and the way of beauty stretches beneath your feet with gem strewn pathways, 

where the air glistens and the dew delivers medicine. 

You walk upon your ancestors dreams, cast out before you,

cushioning every step with reverence and care. 

 

We lift one another up. 

That those who come after, may have higher vistas and greater fulfilment, each breath a gift to the next soul, willing to walk and dream, be, and give.

 

~ kathryn 

(24.12.22) 

Breath and Balance

Take a breath. Hold. And let it go. Just a moments pause. And again, breathe. Hold. And let go. ⁣

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I drifted away from from remembering how grateful I am for the breath. ⁣

For the gift of breath. ⁣

For the presence within the breath. ⁣

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White flowers, if I pause with them, they can bring me back to a place of awareness with the breath. ⁣

The simplicity. The paired back nature of what is it that we really need most. What truly matters most. ⁣

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A prayer of simple awareness, acknowledging our interdependence, our innate similarities with all kingdoms of life, what it is we all need in order to be here, and how we rely on these shared energies, and all that is interwoven for us to even be here Now. ⁣

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I see you. ⁣

And I thank you.....⁣

Breath, Sun, Water, ⁣

Fire, Night, Day, ⁣

Soul, Soil, Earth, ⁣

Plants, Animals, Mammals, ⁣

Birds, Insects, Air⁣

Energy, colour, light, ⁣

people, connection, touch, ⁣

words, kindness, hope, ⁣

wholeness, joys, smiles, ⁣

purpose, devotion, compassion, ⁣

honesty, togetherness, ⁣

sight, sounds, ⁣

Sky, heaven, hearts, ⁣

lovers, loves, & love. ⁣

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Always love. ⁣

Amen ⁣

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And I thank you. ⁣

For I am only here, because of you all. ⁣

The elements, ⁣

the minerals, ⁣

the plants, ⁣

the air, the birds, ⁣

the insects, the sky, ⁣

the soil. ⁣

The warmth, the sun. ⁣

Nourishment, light. ⁣

The rivers, oceans, deepest seas, ⁣

farthest outreaches, ⁣

& innermost cells, ⁣

dna, water, all within me. ⁣

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What may I offer in return. ⁣

my appreciation. ⁣

My awareness. ⁣

My humility. ⁣

My compassion. ⁣

My truth. ⁣

My longing. ⁣

My intention. ⁣

My creation ⁣

My faith⁣

My service. ⁣

My love. ⁣

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Is this enough? ⁣

I am 🤍 ⁣

& remember...⁣

It is Enough. ⁣

You are Enough.⁣

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Receive. Receive the breath & surrender the breath. Receive the breath & gift the breath. Receive and Give. Give and Receive. ⁣

The balance is innate. The balance is what we already own. The balance cannot be destroyed. Only knocked. Covered. Curtailed. But the balance always responds, recoups, revitalises. Balance is what life knows. It reaches every which way for balance. ⁣

xx ⁣

 

Diamonds in the dust

 

If you have 

Lost your sparkle

Lost your way

That’s okay 

It isn’t a failure 

You aren’t wrong 

To feel parted from

Or apart from 

what You really need

To feel safe

Wanted

Held and 

Loved

 

There isn’t a rule book

That tells you

What is

Or isn’t good enough

In healing or 

In life itself

 

You are going

one step at a time

And 

 

There’s only really 

the voice inside 

your own head 

That speaks to you 

of what you do not know 

or do not try 

or do not succeed 

enough in

 

Every other part

Of the universe

Says to you 

Take a breath

Give yourself time

A break 

A listening ear

 

Soften here 

 

Be kinder 

And quieter

Go off the beaten track 

Find your own path

There’s a way 

That’s carved for you

 

Maybe you’ve travelled it 

Before 

Leaving yourself a trail like breadcrumbs

Maybe the signs

Aren’t just from angels

But your own light 

That you scattered 

like diamonds in the dust

 

To glint and sparkle

And gather you up 

in an embrace

Warmer

Softer 

and gentler

than anything

you had held yourself in

in this life

 

Maybe you knew

Exactly

when the road would get rocky

And the hills steep 

Maybe

you set yourself these

Lights

to find, discover and guide

 

And here you are 

Finding them

Hearing them

and feeling them

In your heart 

 

You’re not so alone 

afterall  

You are there for you

Soften in,  

 

you can feel it 

~ kathryn 

 

You’re always wonderful

 

 

 

Stay wonderful 

And wonderful doesn’t mean perfect,

or together and at your best at all times

Wonderful means,

real, honest, free,

and just being You.

 

That’s when you’re wonderful.

You’re always wonderful you know.

Even in the hard days,

even when you feel less than,

or even when you’re trying

and not getting anywhere. 

You’re still wonderful 

 

You’re always wonderful 

Cause 

To be wonderful 

Is to be full of wonder

Yes?

 

To be full of wonder 

at what you are,

At all that is, 

At who we are,

And at what we can do 

Together

 

I saw the photo on Instagram I liked it but I wondered if by the statement it could engender a pressure, to always be doing ones best. Stay a certain way, be a certain way. So I flipped it. And thought about quite what wonder-full means. And the way words can convey different things to different people. Wonderful is what we just are, it’s innate, it’s like we are made of wonder, made of stars. We shouldn’t need to try to have to be wonderful. 

I just wanted these reflections in my space at Secrets, 

love kathryn 

A little love

 

“Sometimes you feel like you can share with the whole world, all of your heart.

With the stars, the moon, the sea, the mermaids, angels...and every drop of the ocean will hear you.

Other times you cannot tell a single garden bird, a drop about your pain.

Less it makes them turn and fly.” 

~ kathryn 

 

my dad made these biscuits, I think M & L will be wanting some x

Sweet rose

Hey sweet rose 

In the centre of my being 

I can feel you there 

I can sense your beauty

Knowing more than me 

Of who I am 

Of what’s to be 

I sense you as me 

 

Help me sweet rose 

To remember the fragrance 

Of a belonging 

Of a home

Of a reason to open

Once more 

To Love 

 

~ kathryn 

Soften into Love

 

 

Hang on to Love

Give way to Love

Surrender to Love 

Float free in love

Give generously of love

Receive openly from love

Answer always with Love 

And listen intently to Love

It will lead you home 

 

 

words - kathryn

image - Maddy 

 

We cannot be apart from Love

 

Love is us, it is our essence. 
There is nothing that is not Love. 
It only appears so,
to a human mind that believes the possibility
of being apart from all that is. 
That has a notion of sides, of dark light,
love hate, peace war -
and yet there is no such divisions.
There is only one whole,
one love, one light, one peacefulness.

We cannot be apart from Love.
It is everywhere present.
It is the very stuff from which all life is formed
and the very air that all life breathes and shares.

There is no darkness that can overcome the light of Love.
No trouble that the light of Love cannot ease.
No mountain that the strength of love cannot surmount.
 
It is is in reflecting on Love,
that we remember its true nature as our own. 
And then, all we want to do,
is be that love, and share that love.
To honour and be that,
which is the truest expression of our Self.

 - kathryn

my writing here is inspired by the sufi poet Rumi and the book A course in Miracles, i wish to say a thank you for the guidance, light and upliftment they have brought me over the years.

It comes to me...

It comes to me,
that Love is the greatest healer.
And by this i mean the deepest, most pure Love.
That of unconditional nature. 
Where judgement ceases,
where separation is no more
and where there is nothing and no one outside its reach.
 
It comes to me,
that quite often in this little earth journey we are on,
all that we do need to focus on,
despite all the distraction,
is the giving and receiving of Love.
 
The love that is within us all along,
is so often the thing we seek 
to make us feel Right again.

We seek it here, there, everywhere.
We have forgotten that it is already given to us,
that it is free and that it does not have to be sought or hard won.
That we do not have to have or maintain a way of being perfect 
that humanity has devised in order to be loveable.
That our very existence,
is all that we need in order to be deserving
of unconditional loving acceptance, and be valued.
 
Love makes us feel safe. 
When we have love,
when we see we deserve nothing but love,
we are no longer frightened.
All that we are frightened of
is rooted in the absence, or losing of love. 
And this cannot be, 
unless we within, choose to devalue ourselves,
unless we choose to feel not good enough for it,
or somehow not perfect enough for it.
And then we believe something that simply is never true.
 
It comes to me,
that we cannot be other than what we are.
And that is pure love. 
We are perfect in that.  
We were never
and can never be,
cast outside of this great omnipresent love.

kat x