A couple of years ago I was invited by a Greek filmmaker to shoot some dances in Athens. Ever since I was a child something about Greece had called my attention (and heart), thus I took the opportunity as a clear synchronicity. And, in a way, it was: that was the beginning of My Big Fat Greek Adventure.
When searching for inspiration, something kept ringing in my mind: the legend of the Red String of Fate, an Eastern Asian belief which explains the deep connection between two souls as the result of an invisible thread emanating from the heart to the pinkie and projecting from it into the Universe, intertwining with that of our counterpart. From this viewpoint, we are bound by Fate with another person (or significant other), who with we are destined to meet, no matter the circumstances or distance. This string is said to be resistant and unbreakable, even if stretched or tangled.
For some time now, I've been trying to see reality in terms of "and" and not just "or"; meaning: trying to consider multidimensionality and its various (often contradicting) perspectives. After following Magenta Pixie and her channellings from the White Winged Collective Consciousness of Nine (a.k.a. the Nine), my amazing doula and soul sister Ioanna Makri recommended I should watch Demetra Jiova's channel on YouTube, related to timeline jumps and creation of reality. In this sense, we could say that destiny (and the soul contracts it entails) both exists and does not.
Having said that, I must confess I have some romantic tendencies. Maybe my Moon and rising in Pisces, maybe having grown up with Disney, maybe my Tango blood, truth is I have frequently fallen into Latin American Soap Opera meets savior complex dynamics. Today, even if I still deeply believe in Unconditional Love (and consider myself a disciple of Mother Kwan Yin, Chinese Goddess of Compassion), my approach towards relationships (especially "romantic" ones) has had a turning point: I have decided to release traces of co-dependency and karmic ties that serve no good to anyone, especially me.
When searching for inspiration, something kept ringing in my mind: the legend of the Red String of Fate, an Eastern Asian belief which explains the deep connection between two souls as the result of an invisible thread emanating from the heart to the pinkie and projecting from it into the Universe, intertwining with that of our counterpart. From this viewpoint, we are bound by Fate with another person (or significant other), who with we are destined to meet, no matter the circumstances or distance. This string is said to be resistant and unbreakable, even if stretched or tangled.
For some time now, I've been trying to see reality in terms of "and" and not just "or"; meaning: trying to consider multidimensionality and its various (often contradicting) perspectives. After following Magenta Pixie and her channellings from the White Winged Collective Consciousness of Nine (a.k.a. the Nine), my amazing doula and soul sister Ioanna Makri recommended I should watch Demetra Jiova's channel on YouTube, related to timeline jumps and creation of reality. In this sense, we could say that destiny (and the soul contracts it entails) both exists and does not.
Having said that, I must confess I have some romantic tendencies. Maybe my Moon and rising in Pisces, maybe having grown up with Disney, maybe my Tango blood, truth is I have frequently fallen into Latin American Soap Opera meets savior complex dynamics. Today, even if I still deeply believe in Unconditional Love (and consider myself a disciple of Mother Kwan Yin, Chinese Goddess of Compassion), my approach towards relationships (especially "romantic" ones) has had a turning point: I have decided to release traces of co-dependency and karmic ties that serve no good to anyone, especially me.
And now is when my Red String dances appear on stage. Going back to the stills and photographs -plus my body memories of those performances- I can still feel the anxiety and constriction that string provoked me when dancing: I was tied, unable to escape, almost hanging upside down, trying to run away and always held back... Unknowingly, my perspective on love back then was pretty much like that: something one must yearn and struggle for, otherwise meaningless or valueless. Hoisting the flag of Unconditional Love -and overusing my gifts as an empath- I tolerated situations that were toxic enough to lower my self-esteem, self-worth and vibration. In a way, I had manifested that dance into my reality, covered by the veil of magical thinking.
Even if -from one perspective, linear- those encounters were prearranged as soul contracts, even if I thank them for having shaped me into the Woman I have become, even if I have received countless gifts from these connections (especially my blond little gem), I have recently chosen to live love in a different fashion: that is in a creative way. Creation as dancing with the Universe, co-creating and using any threads or strings to weave a loving pattern, instead of allowing them to tie or condition me. Maybe that thread was the silk of my cocoon, so that I could turn into the precious butterfly I have become. Today, I dance my blue butterfly: joyful, bright and free from any conditionings. They say "be careful what you wish for, you may get it", I say "mind what you dance for, for you will create it".
Even if -from one perspective, linear- those encounters were prearranged as soul contracts, even if I thank them for having shaped me into the Woman I have become, even if I have received countless gifts from these connections (especially my blond little gem), I have recently chosen to live love in a different fashion: that is in a creative way. Creation as dancing with the Universe, co-creating and using any threads or strings to weave a loving pattern, instead of allowing them to tie or condition me. Maybe that thread was the silk of my cocoon, so that I could turn into the precious butterfly I have become. Today, I dance my blue butterfly: joyful, bright and free from any conditionings. They say "be careful what you wish for, you may get it", I say "mind what you dance for, for you will create it".