The Fierce Journey To The Heart Of The Goddess

There are many divine beings around us throughout our lifetime. When I do a reading, a variety of angels, spirit guides, ascended masters, and goddess archetypes may show up to lend their wisdom, love, and guidance to my clients, for whatever situation they are going through.

Not only do we have guardian angels constantly with us, but we also have various ‘inner band’ and ‘outer band’ spirit guides who interchange through different periods and cycles in our lifetime. We also have deities or higher-level beings with us during certain times.

Recently I have had many encounters with the goddess Kuan Yinin during readings. She is the Buddhist bodhisattva associated with compassion and was first known as the ‘goddess of mercy’ among Jesuit missionaries in China. Guanyin, Guan Yin or Kuan Yin, is short for Kuan-shi Yin, meaning she who ‘observes the cries of humanity.’

She is a popular goddess in Chinese folk religion and worshipped in many communities and cultures all over the world. In the mid-17th century outlawed Christians in Japan created statues of the Catholic Virgin Mary disguised as Kuan Yin, known as the ‘Maria Kannon.’

I have always associated her with compassion, kindness, and forgiveness, but I was recently reminded that Kuan Yin rides a dragon! This makes a lot of sense to me, now that I have examined her legend more closely.

Kuan Yin is teaching us by example. To arrive at a place of compassion and kindness, we must first piece through some uncomfortable feelings of anger, sadness, and fear, to arrive at the ‘heart of the goddess.’ Kuan Yin rides her dragon of fierce bravery through stormy waters and scorching fires. She follows through with the journey to a place of completion and does not avoid the challenges that confront her along the way.

Kuan Yin wants me to know that I can have the most divine life imaginable…She’ll be here until the last soul passes off the earth. She remains in deity form to assist people in transcending their materialistic nature, to help them attain their highest spiritual level ~ Hope Bradford

This is something us humans are often guilty of: we don’t always ride our dragon through to the end point. We tend to abort mission in the middle of difficult times and challenging emotions. We easily complain when we feel the seas are a little too rough, or the fire somewhat too hot.

Kuan Yin teaches us that in order to grow and evolve spiritually, we must pierce through the difficult times and complete the work that is needed. Kuan Yin can help us push through those difficult times and emotions, so that we can access a deeper spiritual wisdom and personal truth.

When we finally get to see who we truly are, and the divine power, love and light we carry within us, it makes all of the difficulties we go through pale in comparison to our immense inner light and who we are as spiritual beings in human form deserving of unconditional divine love.

We are all worthy of love, kindness, and healing light. No one is privy to having a divine being show up exclusively in only their reading. We are all created equal.

Kuan Yin has taught me that to get to the unconditional love and compassion, I have to be fierce and self-empowered. I must allow myself and my clients to deal with the more difficult emotions. We must fully feel and process each emotion, for it is part of the landscape we traverse in getting to the heart of the goddess.