#299 The Spirit of the Portuguese Man O’ War

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In today's episode of Gaia Translate the grace of opportune council comes to us from the Great Spirit of the Portuguese Man O' War.

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INTRODUCTION

Welcome friends this is your host Tracy Shoolman with today’s episode of Gaia Translate. Last summer the local news reported “Portuguese Man O' War sightings cause closure of multiple Cape Cod beaches.”  The presence of Portuguese Man O Wars along New England coastlines is unusual in this part of the world. As such, I was drawn to channel the Great Spirit of the Portuguese Man O' War.

https://www.wcvb.com/article/portuguese-man-o-war-cape-cod-beach-closures/4083862

TRANSCRIPT

Great Spirit of the Portuguese Man o’ War: There is power. There is power in the naming of a thing. There is power in the claiming of a thing. Although not, as you may understand, in the naming and claiming of that which is perceived as outside of oneself. The act of the naming is an act of limitation. For one seeks to place all that is of an expression in the tiny container of your word or defining of that which it is and its nature held within.

While this may offer convenience, a shorthand of sorts, in the use of your language between one another of your clan, daughter, it does as great a disservice to your larger comprehension as it does a service to your capacity of communal reference point. We use the name that is commonly associated with our expression as prime example. Are we not that which has and vibrates with that which has been called the Portuguese Man o’ War. This, of course, is quite inaccurate. We are not Portuguese, we are not a ship, and we are not that which has and is designed with the intent to cause harm to other members of our own clan.

There are some aspects of the naming. Those who have sought to bestow it upon us have in a manner that may be lost to them yet claimed an accuracy of our nature. We will elaborate. That which is or was by one or another seen or perceived as similarity of form of that vessel, the ship with sails that was designed and understood as a Portuguese ship or Man of War, is not that which in its singularity may function as an organism of self-sustenance, yes? Does it not require members of your clan to enter into its bowels and to be that which works in concert with its structure in service of the intent of those who have and drive this device, yes? That is, in its way, a greater alignment with the organism of our expression. For while we may appear as a single form of life, yet we are comprised and know our souls as so of distinct aspects of smaller forms of biological energetic expression. Together, we cooperate and serve our community, which, as we have observed, is understood by your species in great measure as a single note rather than that which plays the song of orchestrated knowing.

We seek to offer the blessing to those who are willing to claim it of an alignment of sorts, aspects of our nature that are little understood, although observed. We are not that which has and selects the direction the currents of that which is our destiny may move in. Rather, we are that which has and rests most willingly in the arms of our allowance and our faith and trust, as it were, that which is the greater flow of wisdom, one they may understand in many names, has and will provide as we have and simply are in our expression, all that is required for our need state, as it is that which through the currents have and we glide upon, and that which has and is required for our consumption is brought into our presence and served to us in the blessing of service in alignment with flow.

We are not that which has and struggles against the currents of that which is our present knowing. It is not our nature. Yet it has not been that we have missed or known ourselves in a place of lack to be without. Is it not a blessing? When one has and knows oneself offered the grace of a physical expression, to float with gratitude upon the currents of circumstance rather than to set your sails and to seek to move yourselves against the current in service to what you perceive as your own state of lack and that fear that has and fills the sails of your awareness with such a constant wind, we would observe.

We are not meek, and we are not that which is or seeks to wound with other than simply the intent to meet our own requirements. While we may be potent and wield a powerful expression in service to our own needs state, it is useful, we would offer, to comprehend that while we may sting and wound, while we may take hold of that which is the design of this dimension how we have been constructed, and therefore how we may and know ourselves in continuance, that which is the claiming and consumption of other life forms. For are they not that which is an aspect of energy that we have and may transmute in service to our own flow?

This is a place of high discernment we would serve upon those of your clan, daughter. For while your species also has great stingers, tools, and constructs designed to assist you in the obtaining adequate resource for your own physical well-being, you have and employ these opportunities in a manner that is so often directed not simply to feed yourselves or provide for your family or other members of the community but to simply wound or destroy that which is the flow of life in another organism from a point of malintent.

We are aware that your warring behaviors are not always born from that which is simply the desire to cause harm or destruction to one or another of your own clan or to cause harm or destruction to that which is the Gaia and your constructs that you have placed upon her. And yet many have and seek to direct that which is the sting of your will in unknowing that this stinging, through whatever weaponry or other manner of intent you have so claimed, will cause harm. We are aware often that there is a distortion of perception that has as, if you do not mind us offering, a great virus infected the heart place of your clan. You are infected, we observe, with that which is the virus of fear, the virus of threat, simply by the presence of other members of your own species. We do not deny that when resources are scarce, there may be fewer opportunities to meet the need state of all. And yet this does not deny that there is sufficiency to serve all as we have and know ourselves in flow.

We invite you to embrace the mantle of the Great Spirit of the Portuguese Man o’ War and to understand we are not inviting you to claim alignment or attunement with warring behavior. For are we not that which is named for what is perceived as resemblance to the physical form of a ship that was designed by those in your history at a particular point in your unfoldment?

To claim this alignment is to claim not that which is the malintent, the desire to harm or wound another through one's prowess. Rather, it is, in truth, to claim the blessing of faith in flow, to claim the blessing of that which has and is required, has and will be carried upon the current of all that has and is in flow in this plane to those who have and seek it. This does not suggest there is not labor of a sort, physical, as you understand it, and as is required by those of your physicality, to cultivate and to protect that which is the resource and the conditions in which that which has and would grow, that which you have and seek to consume are protected, are nurtured, and are tended to. Much as one who is a parent tends most willingly to the bedside of a fevered child. The source of the fever is not that which we have and will dwell upon.

We would draw your attention to that which has been, we feel, misplaced of late, the great and essential compassion, respect, and love for that which is the Gaia in awe of her expression. For is this not your home? Is this not the water upon which you have and are carried in this lifetime? Is this not the air you breathe? Is this not that which has and in its great allowance has offered you all that has been in requirement in that which is the grace of bounty in this plane?

It is not, we feel, a logical destination to empty out all that has and would offer us nourishment or nutrient from the soils and then expect the soil to bear the fruits of adequate nutrition for those who seek to consume them. It is confusing to bear witness to that which is the draining of resources from the Great Waters and the concurrent replacing of resource with that which has and taints the waters of potential, has and infuses them with obstruction and toxin that is discharged from your creations. It is further an unusual choice to seek to know yourselves always in the season of fear of lack when you are that which calls the season upon yourself, yes?

For those who do not seek to vibrate deeply in this fear, is it not a simple matter for those of your expression to apply yourselves to the cleansing and the purification to that which is the renourishment of the soils, the allowance through that which we may observe would be a discipline that is little known of late, that has and offers the blessing of that which you would understand as potential foodstuff, and we understand, as fellow members of the community as well as potential resource for our own needs state, to grow in sufficiency without being overfished, as it were, such that they have the clock time required to reach the season of their own fertile expression, such that they have and for their own nature know themselves blessed to be that which calls forth a new generation of their own form.

The point of high discernment that we have, and if no other is consumed, who would tenderly place upon the plate of awareness of those of your clan daughter, is the confusion that when one has and perceives that which is the potential for increasing lack of a particular resource, is it not counterintuitive from our perspective to redouble one's efforts to extract this resource fully such that it is completely erased from the potential of its continuance, its expansion in physical flow? Are you not better served when you feel that which is the poking of your own awareness in truth of reduction of resource both in quantity and quality to redouble one's efforts in a manner that has and seeks to be in allowance and respect for the season of requirement of this or that expression to know itself in the point of its own regeneration of flow? Of course, nothing is held in singularity. All houses and is intertwined. There is relation with that which has and shifts these waters. We speak both physically and metaphorically. The waters of opportunity, the conditions of environments, and ecology that are also required as much as egg and sperm, as much as any other part of the cycle of recreation of life. Nothing has or occurs in what you might express as vacuum. When we speak of vacuum, we speak of that which is isolated and in some manner removed and held apart from the greater organism it is an aspect of. All has and breathes as one. All has and flows as one. All has and grows as one.

To tame the great infection of fear that has and reaches in and through your field as a species, daughter, is to clear the dust of confusion or denial from the eyes of your will, such that you have and align your intent, which we will be so bold as to identify as living in an environment of plenty, of adequate, and continual resource for your expression in this plane. You have the capacity, and now we have and would serve, as we have done, this clarification of what we feel is a great confusion, that the increasing consumption and harvesting of finite resources without, if you will, holding a few seeds aside and soil adequate in which to plant them is a choice of highest discernment.

That which has and will serve you is that which has and you tend to with respect, with gratitude, and as an earnest gardener of that which is the great garden of resource of life that has known itself in the blessing of flow in service to all that are component elements of the Gaia, as you are, as we have known ourselves to be.

And we further would offer this small amusement for your consideration. We ask gently the consideration of the renaming that vessel to bear the name of our expression rather than the other way around. For we have known ourselves sailing upon the sea of an informed life in flow in this dimension for millennia and more prior to that which is the most recent construct of this little vessel upon which members of your clan have sought to ride upon the sea. We have offered that which is the blessing of our mantle as one who is and accepts that we have and are served and through our allowance and gratitude as we have and are carried gently and at times not so upon the Great Waters that have and our home upon the greater waters of knowing and of compassion that have and fill this plane and all others with that which is the wisdom of its light.

It is complete for now. We have and will take our leave as you are so willing to grant it, daughter.

Channel: Blessings be, Great Spirit of the Man o’ War. Thank you for your wisdom and the blessing of your grace.

Great Spirit of the Portuguese Man-o-War: You are welcome, daughter. And so, it is complete.