“Grandmothers,” I said, “I’m leaving in two weeks to take your message to Lithuania and the Netherlands. Please guide and teach me the highest good for this trip. The Grandmothers replied, “For the women who have been working with us in the Netherlands it will be a great joy to have you there. It will ground them in the work they have been doing. They will then become a core for the body of people who will form around our message in Holland. They will grow in confidence and in personal connection with us. They have already formed a good foundation for this work and your visit will strengthen that and give them more to build with. It’s good. It’s very good.”
I saw the Grandmothers work spreading outward from Delft, spreading at what appeared to be right angles and noticed that the pattern it made was almost architectural. It formed tree shape, but not a natural looking tree. This tree’s branches grew outward at right angles, ran parallel to the ground and then sharply turned upward again. The pattern I was seeing had to do with the way this part of the world is connected. This area of the world is patterned at angles and so the work will spread that way. This is the way information and commerce has always spread here--along the dykes and after the dykes, the roads. It’s a very orderly pattern. “It’s very Dutch,” the Grandmothers said, laughing with enjoyment. They LOVE these women in Delft!
I saw the Grandmothers message reaching throughout the lowland countries—Belgium and beyond, moving through a network bordered by roads and dykes. As I watched it flow, turn sharply and then flow again I felt a sense of contentment. This was how it was in this part of the world and how it should be. “Grandmothers,” I asked, “is there any more you want to tell me about taking your message to Holland?” Smiling, with a knowing look on their faces, they said, “They will bloom.”
Next I asked about Lithuania. “Ahhh, Lithuania,” they said, their words and tone full of love. Immediately I felt how different the energy was in this country. I saw curvaceous lines and an embracing, cupping and lifting movement. “The work here will be easy for you this time,” they said. “All the groundwork has been laid. There are many pathways of love here that you opened when you were here last year. Now these pathways will widen and more love will rush in, soaking this land in love,”
I saw the Great Mother sitting in the land. She was holding the space there and she looked very happy. “This visit to the Netherlands and Lithuania will be a blessing for you and for many,” the Grandmothers said. “Our message will bring more joy and peace to these places. It will seed joy and peace here and in all Grandmothers’ groups everywhere.
“The love is building,” the Grandmothers said. “The Gathering of the Grandmothers that you held on the first weekend in May increased the capacity for love within you and within the earth. Earth is now able to hold more love; she is also able to give forth more love.
“This is what blessing means,” the Grandmothers said, “being filled with and receiving love. The Gathering of the Grandmothers was a blessing for each of you who attended and for everyone. Now let yourselves be carried along on this blessing. There is more love now so it will be easier for everyone to feel and access it. All they need to do is ask for it. Ask for love,” they said, “and we will give it. In any situation, anywhere you are, we will give the blessing of love.”
As the Grandmothers spoke, I feel myself permeated with love, wrapped in and penetrated by it. The love was so huge and I was so expanded, that I no longer wanted to speak. I only wanted to be, to be this love I now recognized as myself. “What you are experiencing at this moment,” they said, “is present in every woman who participated in this gathering. You share this,” they said. “And as you share this experience, you wordlessly pass it on to others. This love is contagious. Because you hold it, now everyone has the opportunity to hold it. This state of consciousness that you are feeling is one of mergence with the Great Mother,” they said, smiling and nodding wisely.
I was so full, so pregnant with love that I not only could I not speak to respond to the Grandmothers, I could hardly think. Still, I was able to hear the truth in their words: whenever I moved into the state of mergence with the Mother, so did others. Because we are all interlinked, this was inevitable. As I observed the world around me I saw that at the same time I was within the body of the Mother and I WAS the body of the Mother. When I looked up at the Grandmothers with a question in my eyes, all they would say to me was, “This will never end.”
It took me a long time to come out of this journey. I couldn’t and didn’t want to move for a long time. I was floating in a huge bathtub of love. After this experience had gone on for a while I asked the Grandmothers to show me how to come out of this state. I couldn’t muster the will to do it myself. Immediately the phone rang and I popped back into ordinary reality. But I have to admit, it doesn’t seem so ordinary anymore.