A Fish IN Water Story: Honoring Soul Contracts

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All blog postings are channeled information, guidance, and resources from both the animals and a collective of soul guides. Every message is communicated with great earnestness and compassionate wisdom for all of us. When they really want to emphasize something, it is repeated or in bold or all caps. They are often very straightforward and have a sense of urgency in sharing and connecting with us. It is always communicated with deep compassion and want of helping us to remember and connect with all of our soul truths - and filled with a lot of heart, humor, and possibility.

My friend and I were taking a sunset stroll along the bay recently and came upon a catfish who had been washed up. She appeared to be dead from a distance, but as with all animals I always check to be sure that they have passed or if they are in need of emergency care. The tide was high and the waves were strong that evening, so she kept getting pushed further up onto the sand. When we reached her she was indeed still alive, barely, with her mouth and gills opening, unable to right herself, and getting beat up by the waves. Having done animal rescue work for almost 30 years, my mind and body jumped into rescue mode, my rescue mode, instead of tuning in directly to her first thing. I had no supplies with me to help her (as I do in my car and home), nowhere to take her for urgent care, and no time as she was suffocating.

Then a thought dropped into my anxious mind - the best I can do is to get her back into the water so that she can breathe. Not an easy thought for me to follow because I was worried about what would happen to her, would she make it, I wouldn’t be able to see her out there, would someone attack and eat her, etc. It felt like I was just leaving her. But, I heard that directive again - “get me back into my water”- and knew it was from her. So, we gently righted her and walked her and ourselves, shoes and all, into the water. We tried to support her gently from the bottom to allow the water to flow over her gills, but the waves were so strong that they kept pushing us all back. We did this together several times until we were waist deep and finally a calm spot in the water opened up. The waves finally drew her out further into the water, her water. We watched for several minutes to be sure that the waves did not push her back up to the shore. I hoped for the best for her and said a little prayer of gratitude for finding her, for the synchronicity of being there at that exact time that she was, for being able to hear and follow her guidance, and to do something to help her.

As we were walking home over the dunes and looking back at the water, I kept hearing over and over, “You just had to get me back into my water, that’s what I needed. I just needed to be back in my water.” Her message was very clear and certain, and I felt great certainty from her that we had helped her in the way she needed and the best way that we could at that time. The next day I was still thinking about her and sat down to do a session with her. I just connected with her and opened to what she wanted to share, teach, and what I could do for her. Animals are multi-sensory communicators, so the information I receive from them is a combination of visuals, words, and feelings. Right away I saw and felt this image of her swooshing into the water and turning into long sparkling rays of light out into the water, like watery lightening. A visual and feeling of being pulled back and down into the water and the light emanating out in all directions from her. She showed me herself facing the shore and having all of that drawn away, all of the physical, and allowing her to be, to be seen as all light, with a feeling of great relief and joy and power in that.

She said, “It was just that drawing away of the physical that I needed, and needed your help with. It’s that fear of not being seen as you are, right? And you saw me and see me now as totally different from that, from just the physical. So, you will again and again in those situations, rescue, urgency, etc. Remember to tune into that first and it will all be clearer - what is actually happening, what is needed, and what to do, even if you don’t think it’s what it is/should be. We're all going to help you with that.”

“Fish energy. It’s a flow and we need to “be in our water” and you do too. In our/your water - it is the same, that flow. That is where you belong and are supported and have community and know how and where to navigate. Your/our water provides all : breath, food, community, internal compass, knowing and seeing who others are clearly, all of our purposes and placements, it all flows together. This whole massive underwater world and how it functions and supports. THIS IS BIG. Look at the power of water energy in you and on the planet. A greater percentage of water than anything else, right? In you, in us, in and on and of the whole planet. And you were just thinking the other day about how much you love swimming and being in the water, yet you haven’t recently. So, we gave you a chance to get in there yesterday ;)” (They have a great sense of humor, along with their deep wisdom)

I said, yes, thank you, but what about the suffering, your suffering? She replied, “Well, as we told you before, suffering is just the absence of creator/creative/light, right?" (All of the animals I communicate with speak about this absence and presence of the creator/creative/light, and when there is absence that is suffering - in all ways, shapes, and forms,) You brought the presence to me, to the situation, to the suffering by helping and that dissolves all of the fear too. And if you communicate with us more clearly right away you will feel it and know it and see it more too. It will change your approach and your understanding.” I said, thank you and I’m so sorry you were alone on the shore and gasping and that I didn't really know how to best help you, or if I hurt you or made anything worse. She said, “I needed your presence, YOUR presence, and you needed it too - the presence of the creator/creative/light and me in the presence, so it’s a win-win. We don’t think of it that way. That beating yourself up if you think you made something worse when you wanted to help so much. It’s the intention and what I needed at the time that matters, okay?”

Yes, thank you, were you suffering? “I was scared being out of the water, out of MY WATER - the absence creates the fear, just like you feel, right? When you are out of your water, out of your element, out of your soul, right? That's where all of the fear is - that’s it, that’s the same thing. And that is our lesson to you. To notice and take action when you are out of your water/your element/your soul and when others are. Have great respect for that and acknowledgement in how it supports you and us and others. That’s why I kept telling you, I just needed to be back in my water. That’s the important part, not what happens after, or everything you imagine it to be, how it to be, might be, etc. Because it’s all there, right? All of the support and my beingness, that’s where I get to BE and that’s what is so important for you all too! So, that will allow what is to happen FROM THAT SPACE. And from that space, it’s all good. Because I know where and who I am, and you do too - with me, with us, and with yourselves in your water. Being in my water/you being in your water/the soul flow allows all transition and expansion. So, that’s how I see myself - expanded. Like that light visual I gave you earlier. That’s me, that’s me, not that physical body. But that too will serve others in my community.”

“We are all there to serve each other and we do not separate that out between the physical and the soul as you might. We all have soul contracts with each other - us with each other, you with each other, us with you, and you with us. It’s all service, it’s ALL SERVICE. So, this is another dimension for you to understand, for you to get. Not just physical and spirit planes of existence, but within the actual physical and soul of each being, of each entity, of each individual. We don’t separate that out either, as you might. You are a soul and you have a body, they are one, no separation. You can't separate your physical needs from your soul needs, nor your soul needs from your physical needs. You can’t box them out and compartmentalize them like that. THEY ARE NOT SEPARATE, because you are not separate(d) in this way, nor from us or others. And you have to get this in yourselves first, right? To understand this greater separation myth. Within your own physical soul construct, as it is right now, as others are right now, as we are right now. I think that’s very important for you to get, and for others, and for you to explain it to them. The physical is just energy to us and that is our “service contract” with each other.”

I also received this same information from other prey and predator animals and that we define them this way, but that they don’t. Now, this doesn’t mean that I don’t still have that natural reflex to intervene based on what I think I know about them. As I did recently when a falcon visited my bird feeder and had his eye on a dove. I did try to connect with him first to ask why and got the same explanation of it all being energy to them. But, when I tried to connect with the dove my anxiety for her overrode my ability to hear her clearly. This exchange resulted in me trying to tempt him with some homemade peanut butter suet, him declining immediately, and then throwing open the window to clap his attention away. So, I'm constantly learning and trying to tune into them more and more, even in these urgent situations. And to understand their truth and not my own about them.

She continued, “Now of course this becomes different when it comes to domestication and those of us who are in relationship with you in this way, right? There is a chink in the connection between us animals with you in the mix, so you have to assist us with this service. And that’s where problems come in, right? It’s not a direct contract/agreement, so it gets muddied and unclear. And where things are muddied and unclear, that’s where light is not, cannot fully get in, cannot fully illuminate, you see? So, you're uncertain about what to do. And this is where cruelty and suffering steps in, instead of the service contracts we know and have with each other and are understood and respected in a different way. And the same with you and us. That is not our service contract with you, this “food service” contract. That’s why all of the abuse and suffering, why it’s not healthy or good for you or others, or the whole planet. That is outside of our service contract with you - which is to lead you back to your knowingness, your anima/soul knowingness, that’s why we are here for you and with you. That’s why you have that unconditional feeling/connection with us. And all that that brings, reawakens, clarifies, directs, and guides in you. We're here to help you remember and move forward in that. That is our most important contract with you and your most important contract with us and with each other. It is, without a doubt. Ours with ours is different."

“And all of this, all of the food stuff, you got so off track when people started separating and competing. You became separate from us too, and desperate, so desperate. We saw it in you. You started attacking and using each other and us, and us. You disconnected from us and that’s how domestication came in too. We saw such great need in you that we contracted with you to help you reconnect, to un-separate. Even when you couldn't see the whole picture, we needed to be there. THAT IS IT - THE DOMESTICATION. THAT IS YOUR BIGGEST PROOF THAT THAT IS OUR MOST IMPORTANT CONTRACT AND PURPOSE WITH YOU. THAT’S HOW WE ARE TO HELP YOU AND BE OF SERVICE AND YOU OF SERVICE TO US, SEE? That’s the service contract we have with you - that kind of service. That’s your proof and explanation of why and how we are here, and here with you, and to help you. That is how you, you personally as your activist self but all of you, that is how you understand and explain it - the not eating us, using us for entertainment, sport, clothes, drug, medical, chemical testing that harms you too, etc. All of our suffering and injustices are yours too. None are sustainable because they are without the light.”

“And we saw it and continue to see it, this separation fall out. We in the water, we’ve been here the longest and we’re everywhere, covering most of the planet, “our water” is. Our water is your water and we want you to get that and respect it and recognize it - physical water and water/flow of the soul. This separation brought in a lot of fear about sustenance, how to sustain yourselves and it got way off track, off kilter. It’s the separation that does it, all of it, all of this, okay? Every single piece of it can be drawn back to this. This will help you better understand it and how to explain it to others, in a way they will get and understand. Understanding what service is and what each and all of our capacities are in it. This is it, this is how to get it, to explain it, and to move forward in it. This is our truth to you. We are the truth tellers."

"Just like how you all have learned to take care of yourselves with plants and herbs by observing us and what we use, you do that now, with all of us, for air, water, and soil quality, etc. We're all indicators of these and where you are - in the physical and the spiritual because IT IS ALL ONE. That’s very important to understand and to help others understand. A lot of healing and light and illumination, great illumination will come from this, does come from this. This separation myth is crumbling more and more, faster and faster with people’s willingness - with will power, right? And we’re making it easier and easier for you to see and connect to, to all of it, to all of us. And especially us in the water. It’s why a lot of you are drawn to those areas, where we are. We’ve been around the longest. You probably didn’t think of it that way before, right? All of us who are there? There are so many of us and all of our energy! That’s part of the draw, the magnetic attraction for you to our areas. There are more of us than any being and more water than any substance. It allows for grand reawakening and possibility - as deep and vast as the sea. There is more, so keep going, talk to us, and flow into the deep with us - deep knowing, deep presence, deep connection, deep joy. This depths of this are limitless.”

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