The day after Christmas, an old friend of mine died. We worked together at Baba Yega Restaurant in the Montrose area of Houston in the early 1980′s. One of the most physically beautiful women I’ve ever known, Madelon was my first friend to dye her hair purple. She left the restaurant to become a hairdresser. She pioneered the “imp cut,” which became my favorite haircut.
When I became a single mother with a young child, I left midwifery for work with regular hours. I worked as a waitress for a couple of years to make ends meet. The women of Baba Yega were a built in support group. Our sisterhood helped through some challenging times.
I left the restaurant after I got licensed as a massage therapist and energy healer. As our lives changed, Maddie and I shared our gifts. Some years, I traded my paintings for her haircuts. Other years, I traded massages.
Eventually, she became a massage therapist. Madelon was by my side at the first training I took to become a Flower Essence practitioner. Together, we learned how to support people emotionally with Bach flower essences.
Death is also Birth
Midwifery is about helping souls transition from pure Spirit, to life in a body. I helped pregnant mothers connect spiritually and energetically with their babies, before, during and after birth. I loved every minute of it.
What I learned as a midwife helped me know how to support souls as they are dying. When a close family member died, I was shown how to help her move on to the Light filled realms. She needed help because she was confused and lost.
The time has come for me to publicly offer to support souls transitioning from life on Earth to the zone between lifetimes. I am available to provide spiritual support for people who are dying and their loved ones, to midwife the passage through the veil.
Bardo is a Sanskrit word that means transitional state, the intermediate state of existence between lifetimes on Earth. Just as every birth is unique and different in it’s subtle qualities, so is every death. Some souls embrace the Bardo and seem to know their way, others cling to the life they have known or get stuck, lingering around their loved ones who are grieving. One reason to help the dying is so they can move on.
To honor and support Madelon’s passage through the Bardo, I was guided to write this prayer. I share it here to spread the peace that comes with dying surrounded by love, surrender and support.
May this prayer be calming and reassuring to whoever reads it. Love, surrender and support do not eliminate the pain of grief. But they do illuminate our capacity to feel both pain and joy as we release our loved ones. We recognize that our loved ones find ultimate peace, and they share that peace with us.
If you feel it would be of service, please share this prayer for Madelon. She would like that.
Prayer for Maddie
“I ask that Madelon recognize that Divine Assistance is here for her. I ask that she receive it, and release her life on Earth to the Infinite and Absolute Love of Source God.
May she leave behind all fear, sorrow, regrets, pain and suffering.
May she know the full power of being loved on Earth and in Heaven.
May she feel complete.
May she rest in the embrace of her Teachers and Guides.
May they tend to her every need.
May they clear her of dense earthly vibrations.
May she surrender to Divine Truth and the Holy Peace that passes all understanding.
May all who love her and whose lives were touched by hers be comforted. May we be fearless and secure, embracing the Universal Truth of Higher Consciousness, which teaches us that all living beings take bodily form and shed bodily form in a sacred circle of birth, life, death and rebirth.
May we who Madelon leaves behind make peace with the knowing that we also are of the nature to age, sicken, decay and die, all in Divine Order.
And so it is.
Blessed Be.
Amen.
We are complete with this prayer and we release it to the Light.
Soon, I will publish the Akashic Blessing I received for Maddie.
Peace, Love and Light,
Nancy
Beautiful. Thank you. May light perpetual shine upon her.
A friend of mine died last night, so to open this and read it this morning is a comfort. Thanks, Nancy.
Nancy, the universe is working for us. Your words of peace and transition are needed. My last parent moved on with peaceful ease. I keep rereading your clear statements to feel the calm and continue to transform. Thank you
The timing is a one of those gifts that helps us remember the mystery. I’m glad it was comforting to you. I know how powerful your love is.
Hi Gail, when you bring in calm and welcome your own transformation, you are in service to the Higher Good of all beings. There is great truth in peace. You become a transmitter. Thank you for your response.
Dear Nancy,
Thank you for your beautiful words. What came to my mind as I read this was the untitled painting that you brought with you to Austin years ago. It received the name Ouroborus and that is what our birth/life/death truly is.
At the time I painted that image, I had never heard of the Ouroboros. But I “knew” it. I felt it in my bodymind. Thank you for making the connection.
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
“The Ouroboros or Uroboros (/jʊərɵˈbɒrəs/; /ɔːˈrɒbɔrəs/, from οὐροβόρος ὄφις tail-devouring snake) is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail.
The Ouroboros often symbolize self-reflexivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself, the eternal return, and other things such as the phoenix which operate in cycles that begin anew as soon as they end. It can also represent the idea of primordial unity related to something existing in or persisting from the beginning with such force or qualities it cannot be extinguished. While first emerging in Ancient Egypt…”
I join my heart to your heart at this time and look forward to creating with you this year Margaret
Lovely to see the dawning of your next chapter of growth, expansion and service, Nancy. Thanks for sharing this.
I loved the analogy we learned in Hospice work, for “midwifing” a soul through the dying process.
The living stand on the “near” shore…reaching out across the ocean with caring; being supportive and witnessing intention. As a loved one sets sail from the shore where we can give them a last physical touch, to a far shore that is too distant for us to see. And as we watch their ship shrink smaller and smaller, our human hearts grieve in tribute, and our human tears flow to merge with the ocean gently lapping around our feet.
Our loving presence intuitively stands for the dying, in a “send off” that holds space for what is on the opposite shore, joyfully, gently calling. Unconditional love waits to welcome that approaching ship, eagerly watching it grow clearer and brighter, until the scene dissolves in an embrace of warmth, comfort, peace and light.
These days, the lines between “journeying” and “home” are wonderfully thin–and we are all the richer for it. You are a gift. I love the thought that this Akashic work is in in service to the dying making their transition, and supports their caretakers.
I see yet another cycle that brings your life “full circle”–making you a morning and an evening midwife. Beautiful.
How beautiful, Ann. Yes, yes, yes. Dying is rich with possibilities for expansion, for the ones dying and the caregivers. You know this so well, and you express it from such deep connection.