by Stephanie Leon Neal
Chapter One
Spiritual Shadow Work
“Since once I sat upon a promontory, and heard a Mermaid on a dolphin’s back. Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, that the rude sea grew civil at her song. And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, to hear the sea mist’s music.”
~ William Shakespeare
Water people are now showing their selves, for now is the time to once again, open the next great transformative gates. Therefore compassion, selflessness, and grace will be assets once again while selfishness and greed will be blown away. The water mysteries reveal that up is down and down is up; when philosophies are turned inside out. Most of humanity will not be frightened, and conversely, will be given a grand opportunity to grow into their new expanded consciousness. Some individuals will not be able to receive such a grand notion because they have enjoyed the concept of high and low, saying, "We are higher than them," that only a select few are the "special ones," and that there are only a very few that are truly divine. That concept will be torn asunder because it is a complete untruth and has always been an untruth.
Thus bad news for the arrogant and good news for all humanity. If you think becoming a Sea Priestess is focusing on things of the Sea; you would be incorrect. It is essential, even paramount we start with you and who you are. .You will be untaught and complete much shadow work to earn the title Sea Priestess. You will be surprised how much shadow work is done and in the end you will return from where you began, in the deep waters of the cosmic sea.
Becoming a Sea Priestess/Priest is threefold:
First, Sea Priestess’ students are "untrained." They are turned right side up again, enabling them to uncover all their treasures and tools within. In doing this, we come to the second precept; discovering and identifying all shadowy waters which have clouded our perceptions in the past. When clearing is done, we dig to discover our tools, and our heritage.
Thirdly, we pick up our tools and enter our divine purpose as a Sea Priestess or Sea Priest; fully prepared to work as pioneers, doing our part within the Great Evolution, the Great Work. Some of us will be drawn to set up training groups to help women and men to remember their sea heritage, while others will travel throughout the land and sea to find the others.
When studying the Sea Priestess path, each lesson will include exercises to insure a meaningful journey to our full creature-hood. The exercises also reveal many more lessons. Lessons are not learned through just the written or oral communications.
So called "power" will be laid out for all to see and for all to pick up and utilize for themselves. Ego centered individuals will soundly reject the notion that the Universe has given every one all they need to be whatever they desire, with no middle man. The Universe trusts us to carry out this most sacred task. Some will not want to be untaught, which is their free choice.
Becoming a Sea Priestess is easily reachable, if you have a pure selfless heart and pure motives. That is all which is needed to take this journey across the seas of consciousness.
Becoming a Sea Priestess means you have done extensive spiritual shadow work; while focusing on the positive side of issues, in balance. Balanced to the point that there is no balance because the two will become One. It is important to focus on what you desire, not what you do not desire or hope to obtain someday; someday never comes. Sea Priestess’ are pioneers and un-philosophers; meaning we are brave enough to look at old precepts and turn them upside down, thus becoming a Sea Priestess philosopher.
We will focus on shadow work from the positive view. If we only focus on the so called negative aspect of a problem or try and find the "root" of a shadow, then we gain nothing, except spending more time in shadow. If you like to always focus on the negative side, then these lessons are not for you. If you want to spiritually heal, at soul level, and live a bombastic life, then you will. It is all up to you. Everything is up to you. In other words your life is your responsibility.
Here is the tough part - all outside gifts must be put down. The Tarot, stones, herbs, charts, reference books, everything that has a perceived power over you must be stripped away so that you may discover your own power, your own voice, your own core This freedom enables you to dig for your treasures and cultivate a direct line to all that is. Only after you have experienced and applied your treasures may you pick up all those powers outside yourself and discover that they are more attuned to you, more powerful than before you laid them down.
Stones, charts, herbs and the Tarot have incredible power, a higher self, and an ever expanding consciousness. As you install each helper back into your life, both you and your tools will be more developed and strengthened to hold the mantel and energies of a Sea Priestess, a living spring directly connected to Source, for there was always nothing between us and Source or It.
Yes, you will need to meditate, astral travel, and lucid dream like you have never done before. You are able! Everything is reachable to you!
Rise up, so that you may claim your rightful heritage and help usher in this great work. We will need all hands on deck to turn everything back to right side up again. Sometimes you will think, “What does this have to do with water?” Then other times, while reading about Water, you will think, "What does this have to do with me?”
As you travel across the seas with me, you will see how shadows and water work together unraveling your philosophy, unraveling you back to your very core. Our main focus is you, because everything unfolds from here.
“Gifts from the Sea, I give. Thus says the Sea."
Dive
As you dive into these teachings, know you are entering into another world, a world that has been waiting for you for eons. Each chapter has many levels of communication, deliberately installed. There are also three threads that run throughout all chapters. What you see within these lessons will depend on your perception, your astrological sign, your world view, your mind training, your shadows, and your philosophy. To some extent, this is a fact for everything and any event that comes in contact with you. There are lessons between the lines, under the surface, waiting for you, in every lesson.
As meditation becomes deeper, and you experience your power points, your personal core, you will be ushered into another frequency so that you may see all that has been lovingly placed on these pages, i.e. symbols, pictures, harmonic sounds, and colors that you have never seen within this life. If this sounds impossible, I challenge you to do the exercises and see who you are by the end of these lessons. These lessons will either push you away or draw you near to the water’s edge. I challenge you to do the work and see the changes within you, changes that will reach the farthest four corners of the earth, at the very least. Yet, know that nothing has ever been hidden from you, ever.
You will receive the exact measure of what you put into this journey, no more and no less. These un-lessons ensure that your shadow and your promise will be revealed together, one diminishing while the other flows, if you do the work.
Some statements within these lessons will push many away from this Sea Priestess path because they are not Sea Priestess’, which is excellent. It is good to find out what you are not. I bid a fond farewell and blessing as you find your true journey, your true purpose. Your true purpose may not be here, for only the Sea Priestess will remain in these quiet waters.
Buckle your seats; it is going to be a bumpy ride!
Reading is Not Enough
Reading mere words does not mean you know the precept; there are many hidden lessons that can only be realized when a Sea Priestess enters a pearl precept, and experiences it, for only then will she be able to apply that knowledge. Only then, is the precept genuinely her own. Are you willing to change, to evolve to pure love? Are you willing to experience, not just read the words on these pages and say to yourself, "I know because I have or want to experience what I just read."
To know something is to experience "it" first hand, not receiving information second or third hand, resulting in watered down information. If you are just going to read the words and do not allow the spirit behind the words to enter your heart and life, then you are not willing to do the shadow work and are not willing to experience and apply the pearl precepts. Pearl precepts are transformative believe systems, if applied to one’s life. I hope you enjoy the mere words, as they will become seeds for the future. It is wonderful to "know," however knowing without experiencing is not enough because one misses all the lessons that are within the experience and concept application. There are so many more lessons that can only be revealed through action and application. Reading is not enough.
Unless you have entered into the experience, felt the experience firsthand and applied the water to your life, then you are not an active participant within this circle of water. When you have done this, then you are no longer a spectator, but actively using your life as a transformative force of nature.
As you move through each sentence, feel your very core energy. Receive every ounce of pure love imbued within every pearl precept. This is your time to develop and activate all your senses, all your gifts. You are reading about this subject because you have a deep abiding sense of your purpose, you may or may not know your purposes and found yourself attracted to this subject. By the end of these lessons, you will, without a shadow of a doubt, know what you are capable of, or at the least see everything with new eyes, through the lens of water, through the lens of the sea, through Goddess.
Consider each word a soothing, fragrant sea balm; a love letter written just for you. These words were written just for you. It takes courage to allow yourself to be touched and comforted, maybe for the first time in your life. It may have been a very long time since you were uplifted, or validated in any fashion. Your soul will begin to speak this very moment, saying, "Now is the time to reclaim my purposes and joy!"
Every lesson is a water love letter to you because indeed, you are loved beyond measure. My desire is that you will stand in your full glory by the end of these lessons, because the world is waiting for you, the world is waiting for your gifts. The seas are waiting for you. That is a fact! You are not here by accident. You are here by your design.
If you are reading these words and have judgments, bitterness or unforgiveness in your heart, regain back your authority and power so that you may receive what you need to become sovereign. Though not impossible, it will make self-discovery more difficult to uncover what is rightfully yours, the hidden treasures that lie just below the blue surface.
Warning! If you are reading these lessons for just the purpose of accumulating knowledge, be careful, because you may fall into the water and become more than you could have ever imagined.
Let us end all the outside stimuli, everything robbing us of our time and our power, as we work through this study. Let us put down everything that hinders us from clearly seeing the big picture. End the outside influences, so that we may hear our own inner voice, not someone else’s voice our voice. Stop trying to make ourselves into what a book says; we are not in any book, none. Books are good outside tools, but we cannot find out how we work, from where we came, and who we are within any page. This untraining will push away all outside powers and push us into our power, our gifts that were given directly to us. After you have discovered your own voice, then pick up books and see how much more will be gleaned from them.
Decide right now that no “middle man” shall come between you and your journey.
Once we have found, experienced, and applied our gifts, then as Sea Priestesses we may pick up all our external tools, at which point they will be even stronger and will sing for us louder than they did previously.
Mutterings
“You are safe; you are needed to usher in this great evolution. Nothing will be hidden from you. Enough of humanity is ready to directly hear my voice because you are enough, my pioneers. You are more than enough."
“He who takes his teachings and applies them increases his knowledge.”
~ Hawaiian Proverb
“Only through knowing, does one attain liberation, only through knowing does one come to know oneself, only through knowing is truth revealed.”
~ Taoist saying