You never know what is waiting for you when your life is turned upside-down

I wanted to share a transformation story with all of you.

I hung a painting in my bedroom over my bed when I was married. If you look at it, and
see what the content of it is saying, you will see my relationship mirrored in it. Look at
the figures, they are very telling. I could not see this when I hung it, but it as I stared and
it, I found that it stared back at me. Over time, little by little it revealed its true nature as a
mirror to me. When I saw it, I first disbelieved it. Then I feared it, and wanted to change
it. Then I was angry at it, and wanted to hide it, deep way down, never to see the light of
day. For about 3 years, it has been hidden, waiting for its day of release. There were days
of forgiveness, as it waited patiently until enough time had passed. Until the day the
anger from all the betrayal, all the pain that was inflicted upon me welled up and
wouldn’t be ignored any longer. That day was my birthday. Primer covered the surface
three times, while sealing the painting, the past was being invoked to be sealed and
healed as well. When the primer was dry, the paints called, and the spirits danced with
me, guiding my hand to the paints while I chanted and brought forth the new foundation.
I felt the anger, betrayal and all other feelings course through my brush strokes as I
chanted words not known by my mind, but only my soul knew them as words of
transformation. As I finished I laid down my brush, and with 3 sacred breaths blew all the
inner woundings back to Source to be transmuted into Light. I saw them fly back to the
sky. I felt at peace.

I returned when the paint was dry, sure that I had laid a solid foundation for the painting I
was about to create of the new relationship that I sought to have in my life, filled with
Beauty, Light and Love, created to evoke my Divine Partner…As I looked at the paint I
saw the chaos of brush strokes, symbolic of the chaos I had lived. I placed my hands in
the center, and saw a beautiful heart radiating out One Love. As I prepared to put the
paint on the canvas I was stopped by a voice instructing me to turn it over. I was not
prepared for what I would see. I expected to see much of what I had seen before—
random brush strokes when flipping it, but as I turned it over, I could not help gasping at
the imagery. These were not scribbles of paint, but they were figures—dynamic figures.
The central figure was the divine feminine in myself, solidly standing in her power,
throwing back the unruly fire. My eyes kept darting from brushstroke to brushstroke, at
each moment marveling in the exactness of nuance, each bit was breathtaking—in its
symbology—the young girl just learning how to wield the fire, the more mature one
warming herself by it. All figures, though as one—all connected. It was myself, and my
story represented in each piece, while being the story of all of us at once. The longer I
looked at it the more I saw, and the more I marveled at how when facing one direction,
this painting was just a bunch of messy lines, then simply turned over became figures and
symbols. The turning over in and of itself is the biggest symbol. Sometimes we believe
that life is only one way, until it is turned upside down on us and we see the miracle
happen in the change that could only be if seen in this whole new way.
I took it in my bedroom and put it back in its frame, Right-side up, yet upside down. I
don’t think that I will ever paint over it now, as I have fallen in love with the figures and
their messages to me. I see the etheric connection to my twin flame, and then as I looked
longer I could see his manifestation in form. Again I am taken aback by the complexity
of what is revealed in such a simple manner. How beautiful, and how blessed do I feel to
be taken on a journey through this new upside-down, right side up world!

My love shines out to all of you,

Lisa

PS if the links to the photos don't post, will someone PLEASE help me figure out how to do it from Photobucket?

http://s301.photobucket.com/albums/nn47/sparkklegirl/