Magic Realism
How the creative journey is an exhilarating path,
veering close to insanity and steering back towards bliss
Do you believe in Magic?
I do believe in magic but sometimes it is harder to see. What happens when belief becomes challenged? Things become dark when wonder is suspended and the colour seeps away. We are left with duller perceptions in our days.
This can be triggered by a traumatic incidence, shocking news, or an overwhelm of emotions. Our means of cognition is shaken and the formed edges, the conditions, we have spent our lives learning begin to unravel. Sometimes it is our current reality that seems crazier than anything made up.
Is it a strange question to ask if you believe in magic? I cannot help thinking that no matter the topic; scientifically proven or whatever level of acceptance reached by the status quo there is always that element where the questions teeter off towards this unsaid thing, a greater knowing… Politics, religion, any expert in their field can be debated on the limits of their scope.
Magic is outside of that. It connects us to everything, the question and the answer.
I do value how investigation and research are necessary tools and I have studied a myriad of courses (most recently Dip in Remedial Massage -yay!) and appreciate the systemic ways of learning. But I crave so much more!
Connection to the earth, remembering to feel into our bodies, sharing moments of ease with cups of tea seem so much more important to me. This to me is magic!
There is a childish connotation and a faraway feeling about it’s existence. But I want to feel into its power as often as I possibly can. It is a dance with Spirit. With each character and plot twist leading to a discovery, an endless movement both fast and slow.
Magic shows itself in its exuberance when a myriad of the mundane and the mystical collide. Sometimes it can be in the most fleeting of moments. Sometimes it is when you are watching a live concert of one of your favourite bands and the words and tone feel like they are directly guided to your soul. I am reminded how it is in the darkness the greatest light can shine. The synchronicity of hearing Eddie Vedder’s (Pearl Jam) lyrical, passionate outburst at a time of personal crux felt like a message from the universe. Equal parts compassion and invigoration. I felt like I was being held and also allowed to surrender and release.
And though I have loved this song for over 30 years I did not truly understand its relevance until now. Eddie speaks to his dead father. Beautiful article that depicts its power here.
And another article propels me further into the healing powers of music ‘this isn’t just a song, but a sonic landscape carved out of Vedder’s very soul.’
‘Quite possibly the most paradoxical and piercing lines in the song, ‘I’ll hold the pain, release me’ is a testament to the dualities of human experience. It conveys the notion that in order to be freed from suffering, one must first fully embrace it and recognize its presence.’ -
Pearl Jam’s ‘Release Me’ song has an energy that feels like a powerful spiritual command. Press to Listen to ‘Release ME’
It is through music that we can feel into the pace of magic, as it seeks balance through rhythm and flow, silence and space.
The throat is located in the higher dantian and is associated with masculine energy
It holds truth, integrity, lies, deceit, sound, expression, release, clarity & confusion
It is a gateway for breath
It is air and tunes us in to music
It projects energy out into the world, creating warmth and heat
It is blue
It is magic
‘Beyond the grasp of its lyrical profundity, ‘Release’ harbors a deeper, almost ethereal message—a certain catharsis that unfolds as the track progresses. It suggests that finding release is not just a matter of intellectual understanding, but an immersive experience that engages every fiber of being.
In befriending the pain, Vedder takes us through an auditory cleansing, one that offers not just solace, but the promise of reclamation. It’s a subtle reminder that music, and ‘Release’ in particular, is a formidable vessel for healing.’
Throat is an access point
Throat Release
‘Samuel Taylor Coleridge also referred to this concept as "poetic faith", citing the concept as a feeling analogous to the supernatural, which stimulates the mind's faculties regardless of the irrationality of what is being understood.’
-wikipedia
Through sound, through stories, with words and howls…I release
Where does that line of motivation lie between the imaginative exercise of bringing a fictional character to life versus painfully trying to understand the atrocities to basic human rights that are still evident throughout the world? It is times like these that my reality feels twisted, cheated and inconceivable.
Throat holds our voice and questions our truth.
What is your capacity for belief?
I am currently studying about Clairaudience, where our throat chakra is housed. This is a spiritual tool to further enhance my Reiki engagement.
It feels like a game of magic, being invited into the darkness and silence and seeking access to tuning in. There are secrets we can hear with deep listening.
I feel like a clumsy fairy has accidentally sneezed her dust on me at some point in my life. I have been slowly trying to relax more into my inner magical explorer for years. I have been gathering my essentials for this journey and it is finally starting to take a bit of shape through these Oracle card designs.
(a wee self-reflection, when magic wants to be captured, momentarily)
How can we gain a greater perspective than to suspend our ability to receive!?
Truth is also accessed through the Divine Feminine.
The Divine Feminine is beautifully described by Gabi Kovalenko
