Hello and welcome to Enchanted Whispers with Aveline Grove.
I am your host Aveline and I am excited to take you on a guided meditation to meet the goddess Eris.
Eris is the goddess of discord and chaos,
But she's so much more than that.
She is from the Greek mythology.
There is a lovely story about her where she was an uninvited guest that showed up at a wedding party and she cast the golden apple that said for the fairest into the crowd where Hera,
Athena,
And Aphrodite fought over this apple to be claimed the fairest and that was actually what sparked the beginning of the Trojan War.
That is obviously a very condensed version of that story,
But what's so interesting about it is that she is named the goddess of discord and chaos,
But all she really did was reveal what was already hidden within.
So as we take this journey to her,
I invite you to find the places where you are holding and what you're holding on to and then you will be invited to release them so that you can move into something new,
Your next step,
Your next path,
Your next way of becoming and or doing that with Eris because she does such a great job at causing that friction and bringing to light the things that are hidden but ready to be revealed.
So without further ado,
Come into a comfortable seat or a lying position of your choice wherever you receive best and close your eyes.
Allow yourself to settle.
Feel yourself being held by the surface beneath you and allow your body to soften and exhale.
Take a deep breath through your nose and sigh it out and do that again.
Inhale.
Next,
He'll release.
Allow the tiny muscles around your eyes to relax and unclench your jaw,
Allowing your tongue to fall away from the roof of your mouth.
Tuck your chin slightly to elongate the back of your neck.
Allow your shoulders to gently relax,
Your hands to rest wherever they feel most comfortable this evening.
Soften through your hips,
Your low back,
All the way down both legs and allow your feet and your ankles to gently fall to either side.
I'm going to count backwards from five to one and as I do,
Allow yourself to be taken deeper and deeper.
Five.
Four.
Two.
Cast yourself out into a field at night.
This is a vast field.
You feel the ground beneath your feet.
You can feel a gentle breeze in the air from the cool night air.
Perhaps you look down and notice what you're wearing.
You notice that the moon is full,
Hanging overhead.
So you cast your eyes up to it,
Taking in the beauty of this moment.
You begin to walk forward and as you do,
You begin to notice that a path barely visible,
But illuminated,
Begins to appear before you.
You continue to move forward,
Venturing very easily down this path and it begins to lead you into a forest.
The only light is that of the moon that's hanging overhead.
You venture deeper and deeper in.
The further you walk,
The darker it becomes.
You notice the ground beneath your feet and eventually you come to a clearing that's lit fully by the moon overhead.
You notice that you are standing in front of an archway,
An old ancient archway that is covered in vines,
Overgrown from years of untending.
As you stand before this archway,
You take in all that you see,
The cracks,
The crevices,
The history.
The air begins to shift around you and you notice a figure approaching you from the shadows.
You're not afraid as she walks over towards you and once she is fully in the moonlight,
You're able to see that it is Eris standing.
She reaches out her hand to you and she asks you what it is that you've been holding.
Perhaps it's something old and ancient buried deep inside.
She simply stands there with you in the silence.
What have you been carrying?
She points down to the earth and you kneel before her and you begin to dig into the earth that is between the two of you.
She stands over you quietly watching and observing.
You continue to dig until you uncover an object.
You retrieve it from the earth in your hands and you rise slowly showing it to her.
She nods in approval and motions for you to step forward,
To follow.
And as you follow her through the archway,
The landscape begins to shift and change around you.
She guides you towards the edge of a cliff overlooking the vast ocean stretching out below.
You take a moment and hold this object in your hand and you lift it towards the sky so that it is fully illuminated in the moonlight once again.
You feel the wind begin to swirl around you and as you do you take a deep breath in and you cast the object out into the ocean.
You watch it as it moves away from you towards the vast endless sea.
You stand in the emptiness free of this weight that you have carried for so long.
You stand in the silence in the emptiness in the void of possibilities.
As you stand in this vast silence you begin to realize that you are not lost,
You are open and from this emptiness you now have a choice.
You get to choose what you will bring forward into your next era of becoming.
You look around and notice the horizon as a new day begins to break through and as you do a symbol begins to appear,
Subtle but it's unmistakable.
You see it and you know without a doubt that it is your next step,
Your next knowing,
Your next becoming,
The signpost that you needed for your next path ahead.
You stay with this knowing carrying back this symbol with you in your mind's eye and when you are ready you begin to return carrying that vision with you back into this moment.
You gently wiggle your fingers and your toes allowing yourself to come back,
Back fully to this present moment,
Back fully to yourself.
I invite you to take time to journal anything that came up for you,
What you were able to release,
What you felt,
What you found in the end.
Have a beautiful rest of your day,
Evening or night.
Blessed be.
