Hi Deborah, Brilliant, what a fabulous recall of a previous life. Happy anniversary to you both, has your wife ever had any past life recalls, I am figuring you have probably had a few. And I am smiling about the synchronicities. I have just drafting a post about a meditation I had this weekend, where I slipped back onto a past life with John. And I was chatting with a friend to seek her permission, as I have been poked to write about twin flames and soul mates; John the twin and Bron, the mate. The energy and resonance, a wow. 🥰 🙏 🔥
Many thanks, dear Simone! In one of our recent conversations, you suggested I write this past life love story, and I thought - yes, why not? What a unique gift for my wife - the story of that moment during our Reiki attunement when I plunged into a vision. Thanks so much for the gentle nudge! 💜
Lin doesn’t have clear memories like mine, but she carries a deep knowing - an unshakable sense that we have lived many lifetimes together. When we met, she was training as a therapist of the body, and I, of the mind. And together, we knew we would find soul. ✨
Ah, synchronicities abound, don’t they? I love the way we all inspire and encourage one another. I feel blessed to have found a small group of like-minded souls here on Substack. For it’s soul recognition I seek - not buttons or numbers. 💜
I’m already looking forward to your next post, eager to hear your past life memories with John. Soulmates, twin flames, soul family - a gathering of stars. After my last post, I did a small edit and shared a poem that came to me after reading all those soulful replies. ✨
Hi Deborah, Yes, I remember 😊. And a deep knowing is another type of memory ❤️. I feel blessed for the small community and connections here too 🙏. Yes, I did see your poem and will be sure to have another read, I read it on the fly. The Universe is nudging us to make these threads and connections — the synchronicities, so thank you. And fly again I will — dusk is seeping in and this weary little fairy is off for a bite to eat and to edit a draft ... which might not see the light for a few days, a busy week. 🤣. Full moon tomorrow 🧙🏻♀️, so a labyrinth walk has been called with the local witches 🥰 . Have a great day
Oh, that sounds ab-soul-utely magickal! Wishing you and the local witches an enchanting labyrinth walk under Mother Moon. May your spells be potent, your steps be light and your wisdom ancient. And if any broomsticks take flight, I hope they hold good navigation magick! Enjoy your evening, dear Fairy Crone! 🧙♀️✨
You bring a smile on my dial Deborah, I just want you to now how grateful I am for the connection, the encouragement and acceptance. As I sit here having my bite to eat, and staring at the fire, I imagine how fab it would be for those we have connected with to be sitting around the table breaking bread. 🙏 This isn't getting our draft ready, pokes John ... 🤣. He loves it 🍻🎶
Aww, your words warm my heart, Simone! What a beautiful thought for the 'stars' to gather, break bread and 'sing' together. Good luck with your draft. Many years ago I wrote a short poem for my online soul friends which I feel called to share with you. It's titled 'A Nod to All Poets'. This one sleeps and dreams in my first poetry collection 'A Liberated Sheep in a Post Shepherd World' on page 236. I love sharing the page with you. Thank you so much!
ancient memory, beautiful and heartbreaking, and hopegiving, all at the same time.
That Rumi quote! "Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They are in each other all along."
This is what I've experienced too. Before meeting Josh (my now husband, 28 years ago) I received flashes of insight that somewhere there was my 'twin-flame' waiting, yearning, walking, reaching towards me, as I was growing towards him. This is never a one-sided affair... Within a few months from that insight to our first meeting in real spacetime, that's exactly what happened. 🕯️✨ 💗🙏 🕯️
Thank you so much, Veronika, for your love-ly comment! It makes my heart smile to know that you and Josh found each other and that your relationship continues to blossom after all these years. I met my wife twenty-one years ago, and it has been such a beautiful - though at times, challenging - journey together. Within months of meeting, we signed up for Reiki training, where I plunged headfirst into this past life vision. The truth of our relationship shattered me - in the best way - as I opened my eyes and saw her sitting across from me. 🕯️✨ 💗🙏 🕯️
Thanks so much, Maryellen. Love is stronger than death. I love writing stories as presents and gifts to others, weaving memories into words that last. Once I've fully retired at the end of next year, I might even consider commissions - transforming others cherished memories into lasting words for those who wish to preserve them. Just a fleeting thought for now really. 🖊️
What a beautiful story to celebrate your anniversary, thank you for sharing these heartfelt words with us. May you and your wife continue to find each other through all of time and space.
You brought me right into your story with your gorgeous prose.
Aww, that's such a kind and thoughtful response! Thank you so much Sarah for embracing my story with such warmth. Love that transcends time and space is a gift, and I'm so grateful to share it with my eternal twin flame. May your own journeys of the heart be filled with love, connection, purpose and beautiful moments that feel like they've been written in the stars.
I do so love that Rumi quote. Lovely part of the mosaic, Deborah. Tho I have experienced many things during this life I am a blank for the experiences you describe but I know the yearning.
Thank you so much for reading, Charles. This is my eighteenth fragment for my forthcoming mosaic memoir. I’d like to write more stories. Our friend Simone gently nudged me to write this one last week.
In Rumi’s words, 'What you seek is seeking you' - which I’m translating as: our yearning speaks to the depth of our heart. Trust that the universe holds a path for us, and connection may find us in unexpected ways.
Oh my Deborah you paint a soul journey in words! Happy anniversary! Big hugs to both of you! If you get north to Castlerig say hello for me! Your story is familiar. May every day you spend together last a lifetime. 🙏❤️
Aww, many thanks, Jamie! Our big day falls toward the end of May, but since we’ll be away then (more stone circles!), this week was the perfect time to sit and write one of our past life stories. Castlerigg and the Lakes will be a much longer summer visit, but I’ll certainly dance around their stones as well and think of you while we’re up there. 🙏❤️
Thank you, Deborah, for sharing your mosaic pieces and your gift for Lin. Truly precious.
May your 'once more around the sun' with Lin be a time of shared peace and contentment. Take a little of me to your Castlerigg dance. This brings back stone circle memories!
Next week, we’re off to Avebury, then Stonehenge for a few days - I’ll take you there first. Later this summer, when I reach Castlerigg, I’ll dance around the stones for you too. If you’ve read 'Croneology', you’ll know Avebury is the place where Lin and I had our blessed 'Croning' ceremony last year. The most wondrous of occasions! 💜💜
Hmm, all this talk of stone circles has got me thinking - another fragment for my mosaic memoir, still waiting to be written. Thank you so much, dear friend, for the gentle nudge. ✨
Blessed anniversary. I'll have my 57th anniversary with Vic on May 18 but only 40 of those years were embodied. The details differ, but I recognize the power of the knowing and immediate connection to the one who will be your soul partner in life and (for me) after death. I'm still aware of the rich grace of the years I spent with my Victor. He was a gentle man with the heart of a warrior. I love the quote Veronika shared from Rumi: "Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They are in each other all along." Thank you for this piece, Deborah. You are creating a magnificent mosaic.
Dear Elaine, wishing you a blessed 57th wedding anniversary for next Sunday. Our date falls later in the month, but this week offered me the perfect moment to pen this story for Lin.
I’m so thrilled to share that she loved it. Though we had spoken about this vision many times over the years, I had never put the words to paper until now. Reiki showed me its power that day - its healing runs deep, deep, deep. A past life regression was not what I expected, but when I opened my eyes and saw her, my eternal twin flame, my heart and soul pirouetted.
The love and connection you shared with your beloved Vic is so beautiful, and I honour the depth of your knowing - that immediate soul recognition of the one meant to walk beside you. 'The Goddess and Her Green Man' remains on my website. I often reread it at this time of the year. You can also find it in my second collection 'The Shepherd's Daughter' page 106.
Thank you so much for seeing the mosaic I’m creating and for adding to it with your own.
Loving someone so deeply means their absence is felt every day, but finding comfort in knowing they are free from suffering helps ease the weight of grief. Thinking of you my dear friend in this time of the Goddess and Her Green Man. 💚
Thanks so much, Ralph. The day falls toward the end of the month, but since we'll be away for a short break around then, the story had to be written this week. She burst into tears this morning, which means she loved it. Mission not just completed but forever sealed in myth! 🙏🙂
Aww, thank you so much, Kristi! Oh, I'm thrilled to have gently encouraged you to explore your own past life memories. I have to admit, I took a deep breath as my hand trembled over the 'send to everyone' button - but it was worth it to inspire you!
I do hope things are a little calmer for you and your beloved this week after all the fear, worry and upset of the past two weeks. I'm not the praying kind, my dear friend, but you've been in my thoughts so much. No wonder your heart feels inspired. 💕✨💕
Yes things are better, thank you! He is still tired and we are doing lots of follow up appointments but so happy he is home.
Well thank you for sharing this. I have found, I think without exception, that any time I have been nervous to share something personal or vulnerable there is an overwhelming response from readers. I think most of us crave realness and the connection that comes from sharing our deepest thoughts and feelings.
Thank you for your beautifully insightful explanation of love, dear Deborah. It truly resonates with me. Sincerely, your once-lost friend—I'm still alive! 🤗🌹❤️
Thanks so much for reading, Aladin. That moment, opening my eyes and seeing Lin sitting there, was just incredible! So pleased to hear that you're on the mend from last week. 🤗🌹❤️
Lovely!! What a wonderful and beautiful eternal story the two of you share. How blessed you both are to have found each other again and again. Also so marvelous to have a memory of a past life.
Aww, thank you so much, Danielle, for your beautiful, loving reply! Three months into a new relationship and this moment was so confirming. In many ways, I wasn’t prepared - there we were, being attuned together, when suddenly a past life memory rose up as my crown chakra opened. Those copper curls have silvered a little now, but the joy of finding her again remains just as powerful. XO
It's so stunning, you know? The way you are both healers, too - she of body/energy and you of mind and heart. The two of you must be a crazy power couple together. That is absolutely gorgeous and gives me all the girly, sweet feelings about what is like to be with someone you know you were destined for. Lovely, lovely!! Love ya, Sis! XO
That's so love-ly of you to say, Danielle. Thank you so much. Yes, it's true, we both were still in training when we met. And one of the first things I ever said to her was, "well, that's mind and body sorted - together we'll find soul." We never looked back! We met under the arch of a doorway of all places. Big love to you, too! XO
That seems appropriate!! We are all riding thresholds, all the time, making choices that send us one direction or another. But the image, which I'll see forevermore, of the two of you holding hands and so perfectly intertwined there is no way to separate you, taking on whatever comes your way and navigating them together is sweet and beautiful!!! XO
Oh, what a beautiful reflection, that life’s thresholds are ever-shifting! Thank you so much, Danielle. I always thought that a doorway was a magickal place to meet too. XO
I love your story Deborah. Love finding itself, knowing itself, knowing the truth of what is in the eyes of the other. What a beautiful gift to your wife on your anniversary.
And that Rumi quote - ah yes:
"Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They are in each other all along."
Thank you so much, Jo, for seeing the beautiful heart behind my story. I'm so happy to share that she loved it! I heart Rumi! here's the full quote which you may already know. 💜
"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along." 💜
Oh Deborah, I love, love stories -- and especially a love story that stretches as far behind you as it does in front of you. What a beautiful homage to an ever growing, clearly fated, love. Happy Anniversary and much joy to you both.
Dear Stephanie, thank you so much for your kind-hearted and thoughtful reply, and for seeing the depth of my ancient love story. It means so much to know that my 'true' story resonates with you. Wishing you joy and warmth in return! As a poet, I can think of no better way to express my love than through words.
Hi Deborah, Brilliant, what a fabulous recall of a previous life. Happy anniversary to you both, has your wife ever had any past life recalls, I am figuring you have probably had a few. And I am smiling about the synchronicities. I have just drafting a post about a meditation I had this weekend, where I slipped back onto a past life with John. And I was chatting with a friend to seek her permission, as I have been poked to write about twin flames and soul mates; John the twin and Bron, the mate. The energy and resonance, a wow. 🥰 🙏 🔥
Many thanks, dear Simone! In one of our recent conversations, you suggested I write this past life love story, and I thought - yes, why not? What a unique gift for my wife - the story of that moment during our Reiki attunement when I plunged into a vision. Thanks so much for the gentle nudge! 💜
Lin doesn’t have clear memories like mine, but she carries a deep knowing - an unshakable sense that we have lived many lifetimes together. When we met, she was training as a therapist of the body, and I, of the mind. And together, we knew we would find soul. ✨
Ah, synchronicities abound, don’t they? I love the way we all inspire and encourage one another. I feel blessed to have found a small group of like-minded souls here on Substack. For it’s soul recognition I seek - not buttons or numbers. 💜
I’m already looking forward to your next post, eager to hear your past life memories with John. Soulmates, twin flames, soul family - a gathering of stars. After my last post, I did a small edit and shared a poem that came to me after reading all those soulful replies. ✨
Hi Deborah, Yes, I remember 😊. And a deep knowing is another type of memory ❤️. I feel blessed for the small community and connections here too 🙏. Yes, I did see your poem and will be sure to have another read, I read it on the fly. The Universe is nudging us to make these threads and connections — the synchronicities, so thank you. And fly again I will — dusk is seeping in and this weary little fairy is off for a bite to eat and to edit a draft ... which might not see the light for a few days, a busy week. 🤣. Full moon tomorrow 🧙🏻♀️, so a labyrinth walk has been called with the local witches 🥰 . Have a great day
Oh, that sounds ab-soul-utely magickal! Wishing you and the local witches an enchanting labyrinth walk under Mother Moon. May your spells be potent, your steps be light and your wisdom ancient. And if any broomsticks take flight, I hope they hold good navigation magick! Enjoy your evening, dear Fairy Crone! 🧙♀️✨
You bring a smile on my dial Deborah, I just want you to now how grateful I am for the connection, the encouragement and acceptance. As I sit here having my bite to eat, and staring at the fire, I imagine how fab it would be for those we have connected with to be sitting around the table breaking bread. 🙏 This isn't getting our draft ready, pokes John ... 🤣. He loves it 🍻🎶
Aww, your words warm my heart, Simone! What a beautiful thought for the 'stars' to gather, break bread and 'sing' together. Good luck with your draft. Many years ago I wrote a short poem for my online soul friends which I feel called to share with you. It's titled 'A Nod to All Poets'. This one sleeps and dreams in my first poetry collection 'A Liberated Sheep in a Post Shepherd World' on page 236. I love sharing the page with you. Thank you so much!
Our pens scratch
at simple words,
we share them
in everyday silence.
Yet here bread
is still broken,
wine ever spilt,
souls gathered
and poetry made.
✨💛✨
Beautiful, true and gratefully received 🥰. Hand on my heart, I feel
Soul mates keep meeting
life after life after life.
Solos not for long.
Aww, that's so beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing the love, Marisol. 💜🔥💜
ancient memory, beautiful and heartbreaking, and hopegiving, all at the same time.
That Rumi quote! "Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They are in each other all along."
This is what I've experienced too. Before meeting Josh (my now husband, 28 years ago) I received flashes of insight that somewhere there was my 'twin-flame' waiting, yearning, walking, reaching towards me, as I was growing towards him. This is never a one-sided affair... Within a few months from that insight to our first meeting in real spacetime, that's exactly what happened. 🕯️✨ 💗🙏 🕯️
Thank you so much, Veronika, for your love-ly comment! It makes my heart smile to know that you and Josh found each other and that your relationship continues to blossom after all these years. I met my wife twenty-one years ago, and it has been such a beautiful - though at times, challenging - journey together. Within months of meeting, we signed up for Reiki training, where I plunged headfirst into this past life vision. The truth of our relationship shattered me - in the best way - as I opened my eyes and saw her sitting across from me. 🕯️✨ 💗🙏 🕯️
What a powerful story to remind us to trust & love will find a way as it always does. Love is a powerful force.
Thanks so much, Maryellen. Love is stronger than death. I love writing stories as presents and gifts to others, weaving memories into words that last. Once I've fully retired at the end of next year, I might even consider commissions - transforming others cherished memories into lasting words for those who wish to preserve them. Just a fleeting thought for now really. 🖊️
What a beautiful story to celebrate your anniversary, thank you for sharing these heartfelt words with us. May you and your wife continue to find each other through all of time and space.
You brought me right into your story with your gorgeous prose.
Aww, that's such a kind and thoughtful response! Thank you so much Sarah for embracing my story with such warmth. Love that transcends time and space is a gift, and I'm so grateful to share it with my eternal twin flame. May your own journeys of the heart be filled with love, connection, purpose and beautiful moments that feel like they've been written in the stars.
I do so love that Rumi quote. Lovely part of the mosaic, Deborah. Tho I have experienced many things during this life I am a blank for the experiences you describe but I know the yearning.
Thank you so much for reading, Charles. This is my eighteenth fragment for my forthcoming mosaic memoir. I’d like to write more stories. Our friend Simone gently nudged me to write this one last week.
In Rumi’s words, 'What you seek is seeking you' - which I’m translating as: our yearning speaks to the depth of our heart. Trust that the universe holds a path for us, and connection may find us in unexpected ways.
What we seek we see. Maybe what I’m seeking is a path to being. Becoming mapless in a different sense. Keep writing. The stories are beautiful.
Indeed, sometimes, losing the map (or the plot in my case!) is how we eventually find ourselves. Thanks so much for your kind words, Charles.
Oh my Deborah you paint a soul journey in words! Happy anniversary! Big hugs to both of you! If you get north to Castlerig say hello for me! Your story is familiar. May every day you spend together last a lifetime. 🙏❤️
Aww, many thanks, Jamie! Our big day falls toward the end of May, but since we’ll be away then (more stone circles!), this week was the perfect time to sit and write one of our past life stories. Castlerigg and the Lakes will be a much longer summer visit, but I’ll certainly dance around their stones as well and think of you while we’re up there. 🙏❤️
Thank you, Deborah, for sharing your mosaic pieces and your gift for Lin. Truly precious.
May your 'once more around the sun' with Lin be a time of shared peace and contentment. Take a little of me to your Castlerigg dance. This brings back stone circle memories!
Next week, we’re off to Avebury, then Stonehenge for a few days - I’ll take you there first. Later this summer, when I reach Castlerigg, I’ll dance around the stones for you too. If you’ve read 'Croneology', you’ll know Avebury is the place where Lin and I had our blessed 'Croning' ceremony last year. The most wondrous of occasions! 💜💜
Hmm, all this talk of stone circles has got me thinking - another fragment for my mosaic memoir, still waiting to be written. Thank you so much, dear friend, for the gentle nudge. ✨
Blessed anniversary. I'll have my 57th anniversary with Vic on May 18 but only 40 of those years were embodied. The details differ, but I recognize the power of the knowing and immediate connection to the one who will be your soul partner in life and (for me) after death. I'm still aware of the rich grace of the years I spent with my Victor. He was a gentle man with the heart of a warrior. I love the quote Veronika shared from Rumi: "Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They are in each other all along." Thank you for this piece, Deborah. You are creating a magnificent mosaic.
Dear Elaine, wishing you a blessed 57th wedding anniversary for next Sunday. Our date falls later in the month, but this week offered me the perfect moment to pen this story for Lin.
I’m so thrilled to share that she loved it. Though we had spoken about this vision many times over the years, I had never put the words to paper until now. Reiki showed me its power that day - its healing runs deep, deep, deep. A past life regression was not what I expected, but when I opened my eyes and saw her, my eternal twin flame, my heart and soul pirouetted.
The love and connection you shared with your beloved Vic is so beautiful, and I honour the depth of your knowing - that immediate soul recognition of the one meant to walk beside you. 'The Goddess and Her Green Man' remains on my website. I often reread it at this time of the year. You can also find it in my second collection 'The Shepherd's Daughter' page 106.
Thank you so much for seeing the mosaic I’m creating and for adding to it with your own.
I miss my Green Man every day, but it was clear he was too sick to keep living without excessive suffering.
Loving someone so deeply means their absence is felt every day, but finding comfort in knowing they are free from suffering helps ease the weight of grief. Thinking of you my dear friend in this time of the Goddess and Her Green Man. 💚
Ohh I loved this so much!
Thank you so much for reading, Amanda. I'm delighted to share that my story was deeply loved. 💞
I hope you have /have had a blessed anniversary🙏🙂
Thanks so much, Ralph. The day falls toward the end of the month, but since we'll be away for a short break around then, the story had to be written this week. She burst into tears this morning, which means she loved it. Mission not just completed but forever sealed in myth! 🙏🙂
Beautiful Deborah, what a love story💕 And Happy Anniversary! I have two past life memories but have never written about them. You’ve inspired me💕✨💕
Aww, thank you so much, Kristi! Oh, I'm thrilled to have gently encouraged you to explore your own past life memories. I have to admit, I took a deep breath as my hand trembled over the 'send to everyone' button - but it was worth it to inspire you!
I do hope things are a little calmer for you and your beloved this week after all the fear, worry and upset of the past two weeks. I'm not the praying kind, my dear friend, but you've been in my thoughts so much. No wonder your heart feels inspired. 💕✨💕
Yes things are better, thank you! He is still tired and we are doing lots of follow up appointments but so happy he is home.
Well thank you for sharing this. I have found, I think without exception, that any time I have been nervous to share something personal or vulnerable there is an overwhelming response from readers. I think most of us crave realness and the connection that comes from sharing our deepest thoughts and feelings.
Thank you for your beautifully insightful explanation of love, dear Deborah. It truly resonates with me. Sincerely, your once-lost friend—I'm still alive! 🤗🌹❤️
Thanks so much for reading, Aladin. That moment, opening my eyes and seeing Lin sitting there, was just incredible! So pleased to hear that you're on the mend from last week. 🤗🌹❤️
Lovely!! What a wonderful and beautiful eternal story the two of you share. How blessed you both are to have found each other again and again. Also so marvelous to have a memory of a past life.
Thank you for sharing. And Happy Anniversary!! XO
Aww, thank you so much, Danielle, for your beautiful, loving reply! Three months into a new relationship and this moment was so confirming. In many ways, I wasn’t prepared - there we were, being attuned together, when suddenly a past life memory rose up as my crown chakra opened. Those copper curls have silvered a little now, but the joy of finding her again remains just as powerful. XO
It's so stunning, you know? The way you are both healers, too - she of body/energy and you of mind and heart. The two of you must be a crazy power couple together. That is absolutely gorgeous and gives me all the girly, sweet feelings about what is like to be with someone you know you were destined for. Lovely, lovely!! Love ya, Sis! XO
That's so love-ly of you to say, Danielle. Thank you so much. Yes, it's true, we both were still in training when we met. And one of the first things I ever said to her was, "well, that's mind and body sorted - together we'll find soul." We never looked back! We met under the arch of a doorway of all places. Big love to you, too! XO
That seems appropriate!! We are all riding thresholds, all the time, making choices that send us one direction or another. But the image, which I'll see forevermore, of the two of you holding hands and so perfectly intertwined there is no way to separate you, taking on whatever comes your way and navigating them together is sweet and beautiful!!! XO
Oh, what a beautiful reflection, that life’s thresholds are ever-shifting! Thank you so much, Danielle. I always thought that a doorway was a magickal place to meet too. XO
I love your story Deborah. Love finding itself, knowing itself, knowing the truth of what is in the eyes of the other. What a beautiful gift to your wife on your anniversary.
And that Rumi quote - ah yes:
"Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They are in each other all along."
Thank you for sharing. 💜
Thank you so much, Jo, for seeing the beautiful heart behind my story. I'm so happy to share that she loved it! I heart Rumi! here's the full quote which you may already know. 💜
"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along." 💜
Oh Deborah, I love, love stories -- and especially a love story that stretches as far behind you as it does in front of you. What a beautiful homage to an ever growing, clearly fated, love. Happy Anniversary and much joy to you both.
Dear Stephanie, thank you so much for your kind-hearted and thoughtful reply, and for seeing the depth of my ancient love story. It means so much to know that my 'true' story resonates with you. Wishing you joy and warmth in return! As a poet, I can think of no better way to express my love than through words.