A Meditation with Dolphin Calf

I was reading back through my Book of Shadows this morning, and I guess it’s the season for profound messages. Back in June, I did a meditation with Dolphin Calf essence, from the Wild Earth Animal Essences. Dolphin Calf is one of the Wild Child range of essences, which nurture children and also an adult’s inner child who may still be wounded from childhood experience.

This was not an essence I would ordinarily gravitate towards, but as I was in a workshop at the time and we all had to meditate with one of the Wild Child essences, I decided that it would be the best (only?) option and I didn’t want to sit out the experience. I do remember going into the meditation feeling very scared — after all, who wants to deal, head-on, with any unresolved issues regarding a parent’s death? — but it turned out okay.

The thing I love about these essences is that they are so remarkably simple and yet so profound. In my meditation I met up with Dolphin Calf, who had the following wisdom — I love the logic here! — to impart:

“She gave you breath. You can breathe. She has never left you.”

Shortly after this stunner — I’d never considered it this way before — Dolphin Calf left me treading water. I felt very alone then. And suddenly Gaia was there, a very comforting, re-affirming presence. Her words too, were simple: “I am your mother and every mother.”

I returned from the meditation feeling calm, reassured and grateful. Since then, I’ve considered this often and I’m feeling myself heal a little more every time I do. I know the grief and pain over my mother’s death will never fully heal, but every step towards integrating it more fully into myself is a wonderful experience — even if it does not feel like it at the time.