IN THE BELLY OF THE WHALE ☼ Sacred Partner SEA Doodles {Art Print}

• Art print with with 1/2" white border 
• Printed with archival inks on sustainably sourced paper
  
• Frame: .88" width, depth; bright colors, frame detail

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In the Belly of the Whale

In the Belly of the Whale is a Sacred Partner Series SEA {Soul Essence Art} Doodle that offers an interpretation of the journey along the path of sacred partnership.  In every dance between those who choose the way of sacred partnership, there are waves and cycles. One of those cycles is gestation.

We are prone to call this the valley of shadow or the dark night of the soul. We have been forced to go deep, to sit in silent honoring of the soul we left behind. Why did we push away our own soul and the soul of our beloved when life’s wave came crashing down.

As if we are in the belly of the whale, we feel isolated, in darkness, forced to face the stench of the lives we have created for ourselves and pretended was all that mattered. Sometimes we are scared, sometimes defiant. Sometimes we just want the whale to spit us out—into the sea, onto the land, into the atmosphere where we think we will breathe and be no more.

But we grow in life’s belly. Seeing with our real eyes, we realize there is another and also many others. There is first the highest, deepest, truest version of who we really are and bear witness to our own rebirth. There is the holy other, whether we have yet to meet them or they are only the seed of a remembrance or imagining. There is life itself and the sea of mystery. There is a sky full of stars that seem closer now as we drift back to life and love.