 As well as being a co-author of Let the Standing Stones Speak, Natasha Hoffman is an artist, healer and intuitive, using her intuitive skills as a personal counsellor.
Dear Friends,
While writing the book Let the Standing Stones Speak I was clearly 'told' that I had to experience for myself something of what was being written: ‘You are not just writing this for others, you cannot separate yourself from it, you must become a Rainbow Warrior or you cannot help others so to become.’
This was a rather alarming reminder because, as a writer and artist, I have always tended to be an observer, preferring to engage only in the creative expression of what I see or hear. In the past this has led to situations when I let difficulties with other people pass by without making any obvious external reaction, and in attempting to understand it I internalised the problem. I felt that if I could interpret it in my head it would be resolved. On reflection, this was only pushing things under the carpet and I even had a dream about walking on a very bumpy carpet.
Each human being is potentially a Rainbow Warrior, a sacred rainbow radiating the colours of the aura from emotions held within the etheric chakra centres, each of which vibrates with a colour. What so often prevents the human aura from shining like a rainbow is cloudiness, the murkiness of our negative thought-forms. When the aura is clear your intuition will be heightened. When it is not clear you will have difficulty discerning the truth.
There has to be an energy shift to change any situation. Explanations which remain only on a mental level don¹t help. In past situations of conflict I would often prefer to feel hurt myself rather than say something which might cause another person to feel pain. This would have been fine if I had been able to forget matters, but when that didn¹t happen it resulted in a continuing inner dialogue, an inner reaction which only held onto the problem emotionally and mentally, and made me feel victimised.
Through the intuitive readings I have done for clients over the last fifteen years it became evident that nearly everyone experiences hurtful problems with other people at some stage, with an authoritative parent or teacher, perhaps, or with someone who behaves as a tyrant at work, within their family, or in a wider group of friends. The continual presence of an impossible petty tyrant who will not go away is extremely upsetting, and seems to occur frequently to people who soon feel they¹re being victimised. We see this with bullied school-children, with the traditional male domination of women, and we see it in those political actions which lead to war. The past three thousand years of world history have repeatedly demonstrated the tyrant and victim situation, with spectacular examples of reaction and revenge being the order of the day – despite the accepted fact that all our spiritual teachers have advised us to respond with love, and that violent reaction leads to destruction.
I'm beginning to understand that, at the personal level, it is not possible to grow spiritually without meeting a tyrant or two and learning about ourselves from them. They too are teachers, and what we can learn from them is how to shift negative energy and transform it into light; into lightness of being. It is impossible to avoid such people by tiptoeing past them, because they have big ears and will inevitably hear your footsteps.
Last summer I was avoiding someone, a neighbour I found it difficult to be with, only to be confronted by them with anger and accusations. Face to face we managed to resolve things, and it turned out that the resentment was mainly because I had avoided them and not spoken about any of the difficulties that existed between us. However I felt puzzled, even victimised, by the outburst from someone I considered tyrannical, so I asked for insight from the angelic level – the unseen beings who often give help when I need it.
So many people are now opening up to the intuitive aspect of themselves, sometimes in preference to the harsh present realities of the external world, that I wanted to share with you what I was given. I was led to a passage in The Fire From Within [now out of print, Ed.], by Carlos Castaneda, where his teacher don Juan says of the Seers: by understanding the nature of man, they were able to reach the incontestable conclusion that if Seers can hold their own in facing petty tyrants, they can certainly face the unknown with impunity, and then they can even stand in the face of the unknowable. The average man's reaction is to think that the order of the statement should be reversed, he goes on. A seer who can hold his own in the face of the unknown can certainly face petty tyrants, one might think. But that's not so. What destroyed the superb seers of ancient times, says don Juan, was that assumption. We know better now. We know that nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to stand the pressure of the unknowable.
The challenge is to become a warrior and not a victim, and don Juan adds that those who remain as victims eventually become tyrants themselves. He even suggests that if you don't have a tyrant in your life you should go and find one! To me this explains so much about the Piscean age during the past two thousand years or so, and gives meaning, with which one can experiment oneself, to the old scenario of victim and tyrant. Try it next time you meet one or the other. Holding your own means holding onto your own power, not giving it to either tyrant or victim by reacting as they expect you to.
Become a Rainbow Warrior!
Natasha
Text & photographs © Cygnus Books 20-Jun-2006
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