Sunday Morning Interview with the Animals will be a regular Sunday feature of my blog. The animals have so much to say why not get it straight from the horse, dog, cat, iguana, llama, etc themselves. I will interview one animal per week. If you and your animal would like to be considered for an interview please e-mail me at freedomreins@earthlink.net with information and a photo of your animal. I look forward to speaking to you and your animals.
Today’s interview is with Spirit, Travis, and Joan their care giver. 
Sunday Morning Interview, 3 weeks after the passing of Travis A
Spirit is a 13 year old Morab mare, Trav’s stablemate. Joan is their caregiver.
Joan has supported her mare with the choice to go through this separation with Star of Bethlehem, a Bach flower essence. Spirit is floaty, but it’s a different way for her now—she’s traveling though time. She’s still in her body, attached in a way she wasn’t before. There was a time when that wasn’t safe, but it is now.
Spirit talks about herself:
Trav stayed around right after he left. He’s gone now. I’m more on my own and I get scared and lonely. Then I find Joan and see that she is going through the same thing. I had ignored this at the beginning because his spirit stayed. We both loved him. This gives me comfort. He had prepared me and taught me more—that I am much more than I ever thought I was. I have a purpose and a reason. Through the love Joan gave him he found his way through what wasn’t really important. He found his way to being Travis in all his splendor. Joan always held the door open for him and offered him to go through it, but she didn’t push (at least most of the time he jokes!). He says he had thoughts and emotions and a solid wall to learn to view differently, and to know that they existed at all, before he could grow and meet her where she had already gone. He is telling me that now that I know that my prison doesn’t have walls (it’s the energy that has been a solid block around me, a few feet out from me and connected to me), Joan’s constant love and imperfections are what are real and are a salve to break down the walls.
Travis speaks to Spirit:
I see Joan as perfect. She’s sees herself as flawed. We all have thoughts that don’t take us anywhere. Joan in her own yearning and striving has always used words that hold vibrations and make sense of and re-construct the vibrations that surround her and those she loves. She will never force you. But she will keep looking for words, a feeling, a picture in her heart and mind that offers the transmuting of what you, Spirit view as the world. You are in a self-imposed prison without visible walls and Joan waits patiently even if she doesn’t think so, holding her vision. She offers you building blocks to reconstruct a place filled with love and light and, yes, learning, for she is insatiable that way. She will offer you many tools trying them out, though not changing your world. It is no coincidence you are where you are. But I am handing over the gauntlet. Grieve together. I am still part of the whole, just not one you can see in the construction of your daily lives. It pained me to leave you, even you Spirit. But I remembered where I was going and why. Those reasons are my own, at least for today. Spirit and Joan, look in each other’s eyes. There is a place of deep contact reading in that one gaze. It might help you grieve together. I love everyone there.
Karen talks to Joan in reply to Joan asking what more she can do to help Spirit gain self-knowledge:
Find your core and ask the light to shine from that core. With the intention of bringing clarity and no longer placing pressure on Spirit when she is already having pressure trying to figure something out. She gets overwhelmed. Let go of your expectation of an outcome like you are popping a balloon. Then emanate light without even knowing what it is, maybe not even knowing what that is. Just go with Spirit where you are trying figure out things together. Go to your higher self. Ask it. Bring clarity to yourself and don’t depend on Spirit to be responsible for an outcome. Your higher self will start to communicate with her higher self, and she will grow.
Joan reflects:
I ask myself what is mirrored when Spirit doesn’t seem clear and confident about something, like “going out” for a ride, etc. In what way do I look at Spirit and see something reflected back? Is there a place inside her like me? What place do I go to when I have to step out of myself? Spirit has never known that there is a school of “higher” learning. My heart has wanted some things and my higher self too, yet there’s a fine line between knowing when she wants to do things and when she seems eager but she’s not ready. Soften the expectations. Incorporate the heart and take off the expectations from myself, too. Ask her higher self. Begin to commune the two selves together. T has been saying that she is meeting her higher self but that it’s all new and often scary. I must soften on my in-side or else I will not get past the out-side of her wall. She will soften inside, physically, when her hard mental shell yields.
As with many profound things, this ends with mirth.
Travis concludes, “Do you think it was a coincidence that I lived to roll? You yourself used to joke about that, but it was serious to me. I lived for the relationship with my own body and the earth itself. I rolled to become the earth, to soak it into myself the way my own gravity against the earth was its own perfection. My amazing body, my strength and my (as you know) gifted shoulders toyed with the ground, feeling my weight come down and rebounding up again. You called it dancing, and wasn’t I light on my feet?! But I was all in my feet, and feeling what the ground would give back to me when I touched each moving hoof down. When I knew I had rolled for the last time, when it was clear that if I rolled again I would not rise back to my feet, that’s when I knew that it was time to go INTO the ground. It took me by surprise but once it became the truth, it was all that was left for me to do. Thank you all for listening. Now do you see?”
Ezzy
All my animals remind me every day, to be in the moment. An animal’s sense of living in the moment, can bring lots of laughter and joy. Cleo is laying quietly by my side, as I write today’s blog. The mere thought of a W A L you know what, can bring him into the moment of thinking that is the best things there ever was. Lets go now, lets go now commences. Dog people know why I try not to let my dogs hear me think the word. I couldn’t even spell it out completely or they would go into deep focus mode, and not hear the part about having to wait. Wait, what is that. When we head out for a walk on a windy day like today, and the occasional car goes by, I get very strange looks as I am leaning into 30 mph winds walking down the road with my dogs running through the fields. Of course the wind surfing on the way home can be kind of fun. I think I will try to wait until the wind dies down a bit today.
Both Cleophas’ and Ezzy’s enthusiasm is contagious. We will go and explore territory we walk most every day. For Ezzy and Cleo there is always new found excitement about our activity. I have to admit it is fun and I see different things around me every day through their eyes. Sniffing and rolling in Eau de Cow Plop, is a favorite activity while on our walks, that we do not share. Some things are better from a dog’s perspective. Besides my husband might not appreciate my choice of perfume.
There is nothing like the expression on a dog’s face when they discover the latest and greatest next best thing to be in the moment with. Especially if it smells.
Ezzy very rarely gets board
Cleo is checking out a hole in the ground
Is it time to go now?
Oxalis and Petunia
What if we all grew together? It may look a little different. Yet it holds the potential to change how we see the world.
Oxalis Triangularis
Hamilton Montana
Libby & Q
Hamilton Montana
Crazy Mountains
Big Timber Montana
Many people will experience introspective moments today, around giving thanks. It is nice to have one day dedicated to doing just that with friends, family, and even alone. A day, as a country, we come together to make special, to stand out from the rest.
I am grateful we are all connecting, growing, and giving thanks. Having gratitude every day, contributes to evovling into a more compassionate universe.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Love to All
From the Freedom Reins Family
A pre-turkey eating nap for Q
Since I began this blog, I have simultaneously been doing everything I have been guided to do to build my animal communication business. The process has brought many revelations, new things to learn, and aspects of myself to the forefront, and on occasion found me pounding my head against the nearest block that I perceived stood in my way. Those blocks were merely illusions that I gave substance too, and kept in place with my beliefs.
Today brought an “Ah ha” moment during my early morning time to ponder and observe the thoughts that came through my mind. I realized I had become very good at falling into the trap of believing in a power that is greater than I am in a way that kept me really good in the role many are taught. That role keeps us in a place of always praying to God and believing in God and being stuck, that is our role. Many of us were taught to be in a role of submission by family, religion, government and more. The role we took on made us very good at always wanting but not very good at breaking out of that role to create and receive. An illusion was created, that illusion said, we were never meant to change our beliefs around being powerless. If we remain in that role of being powerless, it keeps others we perceive as in authority in a place of “power.” They make the decisions, they dictate and we accept and learn to tolerate and live what comes along. How many of us have learned to “make the best of it,” no matter what it was. We could pray to God asking for something, but it was reinforced repeatedly we could never receive it. I thought about my belief that God offers us infinite choice, I was choosing to believe in him having limits. That was my choice. He has always offered me the knowledge of whom he is, a God that believes in us and loves us, as a part of himself. We needn’t stay in a role of submitting to non creation, and merely exist.
I am choosing to close the door on those old limiting beliefs. SLAM! Oh that felt good, closing one door and opening another. I have never believed in a God that judged and limited. I had fallen into a bigger trap, the trap of giving a limiting belief power to create.
