Debra Basham

Living and Loving

Tag: Cynthia Bourgeault

  • 12:12 – Ten of Cups

    At 12:12 am she received a Tarot reading video from a friend via Facebook Messenger. Reaching out later that morning, she was told the message had not come from that friend. Having a sense it may have been a message from their friend who had recently died, the following day she shared the video of the Tarot reading with her sister and they made these notes:

    * This person was expecting you to leave, so they left you first.

    * It’s crazy, and they’re embarrassed. They’re embarrassed about the way that they’ve behaved. But they don’t know how to redeem themselves. They don’t know how to come back from it.

    * It’s like you are the sunshine in their life. They may have even said to you they need your energy; like they’ve never met anyone like you before.

    * Your energy is amazing to them, and they’ve never known anyone like that, because you are beautiful on the inside and on the out. This person was shocked to see that, because they’ve never met anyone with pure intentions and pure heart like yours before. They’re hanging around, and they just don’t know how to deal with it.

    The last words her friend had spoken to her were, “I really like you.”

    “I really like you, too,” she had responded sincerely.

    The Rider-Waite Ten of Cups is a highly positive card symbolizing emotional fulfillment, harmony, and the perfection of human love and friendship. It depicts a happy family dancing under a rainbow of ten cups, with a home in the background, representing a state of contentment, shared joy, and a strong family life.

    When reversed, it can signify disharmony, family conflict, or emotional instability, and there was definitely some of this going on for their friend’s family.


    Reading about the Ten of Cups: This card indicates a true emotional fulfillment, one where the lonely self-satisfaction of the Nine of Cups is shared with others to create a true sense of community and family. After learning how to love oneself, the Nine of Cups matured into the Ten of Cups, which at its core is about how true happiness stems from forging authentic bonds and connections with others. This card is most associated with a sense of ‘happily ever after’ – of family, of lasting harmony and peace.

    (While not a Tarot user, “coincidentally” she and her daughter were registered to attend a workshop the following day on working with the Rider-Waite Tarot!)

    Her sister reminded her of the idea of an “Abler Soul” relationship where one person is still in physical form and the other now has an expanded view. This has been articulated beautifully by Cynthia Bourgeault, author of the book Love Is Stronger Than Death. It seemed really important that the message was time-stamped at 12:12 so they looked up that spiritual meaning:

    12:12 is often associated with completeness, divine order, and new beginnings. It is frequently interpreted as an “angel number” or a sign from the universe to have faith, remain optimistic, and focus on your goals. This sequence can signify a divine message of guidance and support for your spiritual path.

    Do not let your hearts be troubled…. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. ~ John 14:1-3

  • A Profound Truth

    She had received an email of condolence following the passing of a friend from heart failure. In her thank-you reply she shared a few more details including that her friend’s younger son had died of a bee sting at the age of 42, leaving her friend truly heart broken.

    “Her son will be thrilled to greet her….”

    Something about this idea did not sit softly so she wrote back, “I wish we didn’t just think of a reunion happening when we lay the body down but more understand the ongoing love across the veil. Do you know the Abler Soul work? I deeply resonate with it.”

    She sent a link to Sounds True Cynthia Bourgeault: When Two Become One: Love Beyond Death.

    https://resources.soundstrue.com/transcript/cynthia-bourgeault-when-two-become-one-love-beyond-death/?print=print

    Early the next morning she opened to the following message from Neale Donald Walsch, author of the Conversations with God series:

    On this day of your life I believe God wants you to know that there is a family reunion awaiting you, and you will be more overjoyed than you can now begin to imagine.

    On the day you leave your body — what I like to call your Continuation Day you will be greeted by everyone you have ever loved in any way for any reason… and, standing in front of the group, every person who has been so very dear to you. It will be a grand and glorious reunion, with joy and laughter and pure wonderment filling every heart and soul!

    This has also been experienced by everyone who has ever left here — all those who have gone before you — of course.

    So do not grieve for them. They are so very happy!

    I’m not sure why you were meant to hear this on this particular day…but I bet you are…

    Oh, yes, totally clear why she was meant to hear it on this particular day. She was having a conversation with God!

    As Niels Bohr said, “The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.”

  • World 24

    My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue,
    An everlasting vision of the everchanging view,
    A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold,
    A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold.

    ~ Carole King

    Today is day five of a five-day workshop that in music might be called the crescendo of the past three years of an intensive spiritual program with Barbara Brodsky called “Dharma Path.”

    The closing ceremony is one in which we are to express our deepest intention for our highest purpose of this human life. I wrote in my journal:

    What is my highest intention for this incarnation?

    1. It is my highest intention in this incarnation to participate fully in what Aaron calls raising earth’s vibration and assisting in it’s becoming positively polarized.
    2. It is my highest intention to know the realms of support for this coming to be.
    3. In the personal realm, that translates to balancing old karma, freedom from habit energy related to that old karma, stabilizing new patterns that activate the highest possible frequency and: Living, encouraging [and enjoying] a conscious spiritual journey.
    4. To respond to reactivity with clarity from this highest intention, I remember the great prayer: May all beings be free from suffering. May all beings feel joy. May all beings realize their intrinsic perfection and find perfect peace.

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    This morning I awoke at 5:00 am and unable to fall back asleep, went into the front bedroom which is simultaneously serving as my meditation hall, office, and guest room. I opened my email to a promotional piece for a book by Cynthia Bourgeault, Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm, and listened to an interview with her as she speaks about the book. Here is a link to the podcast: A Different Way to Live Virtuously, in which she says:

    The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. The opposites tend to play out on our planet.

    These things [fruits of the spirit] aren’t just virtues, they are not just nice little moral qualities, they are not just nouns. They’re actually energy packets, they are food. And they’re nutrients that our planet needs directly because the lack of them causes things to get so harsh and so desiccated and so dry and barren and parched that you can’t stand to live here. Craziness enters….

    We do have something that we have to give back and pay back, and it is not only food for our own realm but for realms above.

    She speaks about George Gurdjieff, Russian philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, and composer of Armenian and Greek descent, who died in 1949. She says her book is mostly about “World 24” – from his metaphorical number system about human consciousness.

    World 24:
    The world of Presence, deep equanimity, of deep mindfulness and of the conscious circle of humanity, the place where we actively receive on this planet assistance from above (from what Christians would call the Saints and the rest of the traditions would call the enlightened ones). Where we hand up our transformed gifts of goodness and love and forbearance and patience and devotion and where we bring down onto our planet the benefits of faith, coherence, temperance, forgiveness, courage. It’s a realm of very active interface between the visible and the invisible, what the senses and reason says is logical and sensible and what the heart knows is good and true.

    World 12, accordingly, for the Christians it is Heart of Christ and for the Buddhist it is the Boddhisatva Consciousness – identical states of consciousness where human beings know we are bound to each other.

    For over ten years now, my signature line on my email is this quotation by Mother Teresa: “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

    I ask you to offer support for my intention, and to craft your own.

    May all beings come to the end of suffering.